Gadgets

DIY Mini-Segway Shows Dean Kamen Isn’t All That Clever

OK, OK… so Dean Kamen actually dreamed up the Segway in the first place and other amazing things, so he’s pretty clever. But then so is the guy who’s put together this Arduway out of an Arduino controller board and some Lego Mindstorms motors. It senses its position with a gyro, and balances pretty much…

Gadgets Kit Eaton Oct 2

Dancing Keepon Robot Goes On Sale For Researchers, Cheap Version Soon

Keepon has been robotically dancing his way into our souls for quite a while, though until now he’s been pretty much a hand-crafted one-off. But now his creators have started a company—BeatBots—to manufacture clones of the little guy. Keepon Pro will be the first product, weighing in with a hefty price tag of about $30,000,…

Gadgets Kit Eaton Oct 2

Bathroom Sink Aquarium May Not Be the Best Place to Show Off Your Fish

Why put your very expensive aquarium out in the living room where everyone can see it? That’s just silly. What you should do is stick it in the backroom so you can admire it while you’re sitting on the toilet or brushing your teeth. That makes much more sense! Especially for $4,700, which is how…

Gadgets Adam Frucci Oct 1

Handheld Device to Diagnose Many Diseases in Under 15 Minutes

Worried that you might have Multiple Sclerosis but are too lazy to go to the doctor to check and see? Well, you’re an idiot, but your laziness may soon be, if not rewarded, at least not punished thanks to the work of some researchers at the University of Leeds. They’ve developed new biosensor technology that…

Gadgets Adam Frucci Oct 1

Major Studios Helping to Pay For Huge Digital Projector Upgrade in Theaters

Next year, you can expect your local theater to get a bunch more digital projectors, upgrading from the trusty old film-based projectors of old. They’ll be doing this thanks in part to the major studios, who are helping foot the bill for several thousand $70,000 digital projectors in Regal, AMC and Cinemark theaters. The five…

Gadgets Adam Frucci Oct 1

Shocking News: Dudes Like the Internet More Than Ladies

A new study on the “Happiness Index” polled 8,500 Australians aged 18-64, and it found that for men, they were happiest while on the internet. For women, on the other hand, they were made the most happy while spending quality time with the family. I can’t see how the discrepancy could cause any relationship problems.…

Gadgets Adam Frucci Oct 1

LG’s HS102 Projector Has Divx Player Aboard, 2-Hour Battery

Projectors, unless they’re of the mini- or HD-kind tend to have me thinking “meh…” apart from LG’s new HS102. ‘Cause though it has just 800 x 600 native resolution with switchable 4:3/16:9 ratios, it’s got Phlatlight LED illumination tech that gives it a 2,000:1 contrast ratio and 150 lumen brightness and it’s got a Divx…

Gadgets Kit Eaton Oct 1

Poufman Luxury Leather Seats Are Like Pac-Man Biting Your Bum

Pac-Man-like padded seats, kitted out in leather and with accompanying power-pill-like stools…sounds like a fabulously retro way to pay furniture-y homage to the ’80s arcade game. The Poufman seating sets come in a bunch of colors, but retro gamers keen to dot them about their homes had better have made lots of dollars in the…

Gadgets Kit Eaton Oct 1

Samsung Pixon 8MP Camera Phone Gets Groped

Over at Phonearena they’ve got their hands on one of those 8-megapixel Samsung M8800 Pixons, and they’ve given it a good preview prodding. In general the phone went down well: though it’s a slightly fat device, the 8-megapixel camera (which shares an identical interface to the Omnia) impressed them particularly in terms of speed, and…

Gadgets Kit Eaton Oct 1

PS3 Eye Hacked into Decent Windows-Compatible Webcam

A bunch of programmer/hackers have come up with a driver solution that’ll get your PS3 Eye off its lazy ass and functioning as a webcam for your PC. Why’s this interesting? Because it’s relatively cheap, and actually pretty high-spec’d: it can deliver VGA video at 60fps over USB2, which makes for neat webcam action. It’s…

Gadgets Kit Eaton Oct 1

WaterMill Automagically Pulls Clean Drinking Water from Thin Air

A bit like Dean Kamen’s miraculous water distiller, only not quite so fancy or miraculous, is the WaterMill drinking water collector. It’s basically a clever dehumidifier that collects airborne water and filters and purifies it with an ultraviolet sterilizer, providing you with up to 3.2 gallons of water per day. And before you start thinking…

Gadgets Kit Eaton Oct 1

Xohm Tested Out in Baltimore: Beats EVDO, Unsurprisingly

Laptopmag went ahead and tested out Xohm WiMax goodness, now that it’s live in Baltimore. They jammed an ExpressCard Xohm into a Sony Vaio laptop, and compared it to a Kyocera EVDO card running on Verizon, at a spot where both signals were strong. The conclusion? Xohm beats EVDO for speed when doing intensive downloading,…

Gadgets Kit Eaton Oct 1

Mobile Broadband Finally Gets a Logo, But Is It a Cloud Or Seagulls?

Relax, people who’ve been using mobile broadband internet: your scarily unbranded ‘net surfing days are over. The GSM Association has coordinated 3 Group, Asus, Dell, ECS, Ericsson, Gemalto, Lenovo, Microsoft, Orange, Qualcomm, Telefónica Europe, Telecom Italia, TeliaSonera, T-Mobile, Toshiba and Vodafone among others to create the “Mobile Broadband service mark.” It’s a logo designed to…

Gadgets Kit Eaton Sep 30

Bullet-Shaped Bollinger Champagne Cooler, For 007’s Giant Gun

A giant gun that fires bullets containing chilled bottles of Bollinger…sounds like a psychedelic James Bond-theme dream. But at least the bullet bit is nearly a reality. Bollinger has come up with this 007-themed champagne bottle cooler in time for Quantum of Solace that actually is bullet-shaped, though there’s no giant Walther PPK to fire…

Gadgets Kit Eaton Sep 30

USB Volcano May Be Best, Most Useless USB Gizmo Yet

The humble USB socket has provided power for some weird gizmos, but I think this might just take the biscuit: it’s a USB-powered volcano. A fake one (duh!) in fact, with plastic lava beads that erupt out of the volcano in a water-filled desktop toy. Awesome—the mega-destructive and impressive power of nature reduced to one…

Gadgets Kit Eaton Sep 30

Targus’s Mice for Macs First to Have 4-Way Touch Scrolling

Targus has been making peripherals since before sliced bread was invented, but as part of its first line of notebook accessories specifically designed for Macs it’s come up with two mice that are the only ones to have four-way touch scroll controls for Macs. They’re ergonomic, and both have 1200 dpi sensitivity: the wireless version…

Gadgets Kit Eaton Sep 30

Targus’ Chill Mat For Macs Designed to Keep Your MacBook and Knees Cool

Generally I think “laptop coolers… meh” when I come across them, but the new Chill Mat from Targus—part of the new range for Macs—is actually a fairly sweet device. Mainly because it’s just a simple mesh-top gizmo, that tilts your Mac to a more wrist-friendly position and it looks like it’d sit quite well, stylistically…

Gadgets Kit Eaton Sep 30

Carbon Nanotube Manufacturing Breakthrough Could Mean Bye-Bye Steel

Carbon nanotubes have been popping on Giz for a while, touted as one of the next wonder-materials—but a new development in their manufacture means they may not remain “future technology” for long. In fact the work of a team at CSIRO and the University of Texas at Dallas means that commercial-scale production of sheets of…

Physics & Chemistry Kit Eaton Sep 30

Fujitsu Siemens ST6012 Tablet PC Quietly Hits, Looks the Biz

Last we heard from Fujitsu it was updating its iMac-alike desktop PC, but the company has also just snuck out the ST6012 tablet PC very quietly. Running an Intel Core2 Duo beneath a 12.1-inch 1280 × 800-pixel touchscreen, the machine also packs 2GB of RAM, Intel GS45 integrated graphics, up to a 320GB HDD or…

Gadgets Kit Eaton Sep 30

Virgin Galactic Will Help Monitor Climate As Well As Fly You to Space

Virgin Galactic’s WhiteKnightTwo and SpaceShipTwo aircraft will be doing the world a favor when they start flying paying passengers into space: they’ll be carrying sensors aboard to monitor greenhouse gases at a little-monitored altitude. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has just signed a deal with Virgin to let it install sensors on the two…

Space & Spaceflight Kit Eaton Sep 30

DIY Mini-Segway Shows Dean Kamen Isn’t All That Clever

Dancing Keepon Robot Goes On Sale For Researchers, Cheap Version Soon

Bathroom Sink Aquarium May Not Be the Best Place to Show Off Your Fish

Handheld Device to Diagnose Many Diseases in Under 15 Minutes

Major Studios Helping to Pay For Huge Digital Projector Upgrade in Theaters

Shocking News: Dudes Like the Internet More Than Ladies

LG’s HS102 Projector Has Divx Player Aboard, 2-Hour Battery

Poufman Luxury Leather Seats Are Like Pac-Man Biting Your Bum

Samsung Pixon 8MP Camera Phone Gets Groped

PS3 Eye Hacked into Decent Windows-Compatible Webcam

WaterMill Automagically Pulls Clean Drinking Water from Thin Air

Xohm Tested Out in Baltimore: Beats EVDO, Unsurprisingly

Mobile Broadband Finally Gets a Logo, But Is It a Cloud Or Seagulls?

Bullet-Shaped Bollinger Champagne Cooler, For 007’s Giant Gun

USB Volcano May Be Best, Most Useless USB Gizmo Yet

Targus’s Mice for Macs First to Have 4-Way Touch Scrolling

Targus’ Chill Mat For Macs Designed to Keep Your MacBook and Knees Cool

Carbon Nanotube Manufacturing Breakthrough Could Mean Bye-Bye Steel

Fujitsu Siemens ST6012 Tablet PC Quietly Hits, Looks the Biz

Virgin Galactic Will Help Monitor Climate As Well As Fly You to Space

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