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Gadget Deals of the Day

Feeling the economic pinch at work? Not to worry—today’s Dealzmodo Roundup is choc-full of office-bound bargains like a Pagepro printer for $330 (down from $1082) and a comfortable-looking Tillman leather executive chair for $190 (down from $280). We even threw in a $170 Sharp Blu-ray player and an $80 iGroove speaker system to help you…

Gadgets Sean Fallon Oct 30

Air Force Wants Bat-Senses In Micro Spy Drones For “Urban Combat”

We’ve seen bat-like drones, and even heard of genuine bat weaponry, but now the Pentagon is after micro UAVs with genuine echolocation bat-senses, for real. The Air Force has just awarded a new contract to develop swarms of micro drones that use bat-inspired echolocation for navigation through the complex airspace in urban environments cluttered with…

Gadgets Kit Eaton Oct 30

NASA-TV Streams HD Film to Celebrate 50 Years in Space

50 years ago this month NASA rocketed into existence, and to celebrate this fact NASA-TV is streaming its special retrospective show “50 Years of Exploration: The Golden Anniversary of NASA” in HD format today at 1pm and 8pm EDT (and again tomorrow at 10am and 2pm). Check it out: it’s presented by none other than…

Space & Spaceflight Kit Eaton Oct 30

Sauna Gondola Car is Perfect Mix of Snow, Skiing and Nudity

Screw jacuzzi-ing on top of Mont Blanc, or shrinking your unmentionables in a freezing ice sauna, this is the best kind of winter sport relaxation: a ski gondola has been converted into a sauna. Ohboy yes, you can dangle free and naked over a snowy mountain in the Lapland resort of Ylläs. Après-ski? Nah… with…

Gadgets Kit Eaton Oct 30

Nokia N96 Media-Cameraphone Lands at Best Buy For $800

News of the European debut and pricing of Nokia’s anticipated N96 slider cellphone stirred up debate about its cost: but now it’s nearly here in Best Buy and yes, that $800 price tag is intact. That’s clearly just for the phone, naked and un-contracted to a provider, but it’s a massive amount of cash—half as…

Gadgets Kit Eaton Oct 30

Cara Lamp is Crystal-Like LED and Silver Circuit-Board Beauty

Those little interlaced blades of ice you sometimes get on the edge of ultra-cold things in wet air: that’s the image that popped into my head on seeing the Cara lamp. It’s by designer Andreas Ostwald and that fragile crystal-like shape is composed of interlocked flat white circuit boards with silver tracks, sprinkled with 70…

Gadgets Kit Eaton Oct 30

Truly Scare Neighbour Kids with CNC-Carved Geek-o-Lantern

With just one day to go, the novelty Halloween pumpkins have been slowly building up: but I say none of them, none, have the scariness factor of this. It’s a geek head pumpkin, geekily precision-carved using a geekily cool open-source DIY CNC machine into a genuine geek pumpkin. OK, so the last part is a…

Gadgets Kit Eaton Oct 30

Japanese iPhones Getting TV

Softbank’s just stumped-up with this interesting mobile TV add-on for Japanese iPhone users: it’s a separate unit with tuner and aerial that retransmits the signal over Wi-fi to the phone. The rechargeable device will give about three hours of TV oggling, and connects to a special iPhone app that’ll be distributed free when the device…

Tech News Kit Eaton Oct 30

New Tech Brings Augmented Reality, 3D Models to Books

A German company called Metaio is developing a new system that turns regular old books into reality-augmented 3D objects, with models of things like globes sprouting off of the pages. All you need to get it working is a webcam, the software and a book designed for the system and you’ll be checking out things…

Gadgets Adam Frucci Oct 29

IDEO Sets Up Ridiculously Large, Continent-Spanning Rube Goldberg Device

Sure, we’ve seen a number of fun Rube Goldberg devices in our day, but none with the scale and ambition of this one made by IDEO. I mean, how can you argue with a statement like this: Even Jon Kaplan, the IDEO veteran behind the effort, had moments of doubt. But more than that, he…

Gadgets Adam Frucci Oct 29

Amazing Fly Stick Levitating Toy Doesn’t Need Spells, Just Static Electricity

“Wow!” was basically my reaction to this video of the Fly Stick levitating toy in action, followed by the realization that this is about as near as you’ll ever get to really playing with magic (or the Force, my inner geek reminded me). Of course the forces it uses are all very real: it’s a…

Gadgets Kit Eaton Oct 29

We Help Out a Failing Circuit City in with Some Smartass Fake Ads

For this week’s Photoshop Contest, we had some fun with the imminent demise of Circuit City by making some fake CC ads. Oh, the puns! If you’re a fan of puns, specifically puns relating to the name of the aforementioned big box electronics retailer, welcome to paradise. Hit the jump for your top three winners…

Gadgets Adam Frucci Oct 29

Robotic Insects Could Build Human Habitats on Mars Before We Arrive

Move over bristlebot: Europe’s I-SWARM program is developing some similarly small but much smarter micro ‘bots that could be used to build human colonies on Mars. The tiny machines would be dispersed in huge numbers, working automatically and independently, and also collaborating together to form larger compound ‘bots able to do physical stuff like moving…

Gadgets Kit Eaton Oct 29

Contest Reminder: Win a WowWee Rovio

Just a quick reminder that there is only two days left to design the ultimate productivity gadget and win a Rovio from WowWee. Hit the contest page for all the details.

Gadgets Sean Fallon Oct 29

UK Trains Get Quieter As Window Film Blocks Cellphone Signals

UK train operator C2C has taken the neat step of actually enforcing its “quiet zone” train carriages with a system than blocks cellphone signals. It’s a technique borrowed from the defense industry where a transparent conductive film is placed over windows to stop electronic signals from sensitive equipment “leaking” out (it’s dubbed TEMPEST). Basically C2C…

Gadgets Kit Eaton Oct 29

Gadget Deals of the Day

We’ve got some pretty nice deals in today’s Dealzmodo Roundup, including a way for you to snag a $10 Best Buy gift card and 1600 MS points when you preorder Gears of War 2, a $135 iPod nano and a deal to get $100 off a Blu-ray player when you snag some movies along with…

Gadgets Adam Frucci Oct 29

Even Chuck is Too Cool for the Zune

On last night’s episode of NBC’s nerd-action show Chuck, the titular hero needed a way to transport some data. So he asked one of his questionably-attractive fellow tech geeks what he had. A Zune? Cha right! Poor Microsoft, always the butt of the jokes.

Tech News Adam Frucci Oct 29

USB Hub, Speaker, Clock Gizmo Looks Like Bad Sci-Fi Prop

Check out this all-in-one USB gadget: it wraps up a 4-way USB hub, speakers and digital alarm clock in one box. In one big, ugly, LED-laden, stolen from a bad B-grade sci-fi TV show set box. It’s even battery powered for when your PC’s off. It’s so very, very bad, it goes roaring out the…

Gadgets Kit Eaton Oct 29

Zacuto Kit Turns Video DSLRs Into Cheapo Movie Steadicams

Redrock’s “cinematizing” kit stirred up some attention last week with its bolt-on professional movie-camera-alike zoom controls and lens hoods for video DLSRs, and now Zacuto has something similar to offer. The camera sits up front in this rig, with the same kind of light controlling barn doors, fine focus and zoom controls, but this system…

Gadgets Kit Eaton Oct 29

Artificial Heart Developed, Beats Almost Exactly Like Real Thing

Artificial heart technology has been around a while, but this new invention by European scientists is so convincing in its emulation of a real heart’s action that if you plot its output blood flow and show “the graphs to a cardiac surgeon, he will say it’s a human heart” apparently. It also beats previous designs…

Health Kit Eaton Oct 29

Gadget Deals of the Day

Air Force Wants Bat-Senses In Micro Spy Drones For “Urban Combat”

NASA-TV Streams HD Film to Celebrate 50 Years in Space

Sauna Gondola Car is Perfect Mix of Snow, Skiing and Nudity

Nokia N96 Media-Cameraphone Lands at Best Buy For $800

Cara Lamp is Crystal-Like LED and Silver Circuit-Board Beauty

Truly Scare Neighbour Kids with CNC-Carved Geek-o-Lantern

Japanese iPhones Getting TV

New Tech Brings Augmented Reality, 3D Models to Books

IDEO Sets Up Ridiculously Large, Continent-Spanning Rube Goldberg Device

Amazing Fly Stick Levitating Toy Doesn’t Need Spells, Just Static Electricity

We Help Out a Failing Circuit City in with Some Smartass Fake Ads

Robotic Insects Could Build Human Habitats on Mars Before We Arrive

Contest Reminder: Win a WowWee Rovio

UK Trains Get Quieter As Window Film Blocks Cellphone Signals

Gadget Deals of the Day

Even Chuck is Too Cool for the Zune

USB Hub, Speaker, Clock Gizmo Looks Like Bad Sci-Fi Prop

Zacuto Kit Turns Video DSLRs Into Cheapo Movie Steadicams

Artificial Heart Developed, Beats Almost Exactly Like Real Thing

Amazon Is Sticking With ‘Rings of Power’ to the End

Trump Is Reportedly Going Full Steam Ahead with the Golden Dome

‘Kamen Rider’ Is Ready to Take on the World

Twitter Just Can’t Stop Leaking Movies

The ‘Mass Effect’ Show is Getting Rewritten to Get Greenlit

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