Gadgets

Siafu Computer Brings Eyes To Hands

As our monitors eat away more at our retinas every day, we’re increasingly interested in computers for the blind. “Siafu” is a concept by Jonathan Lucas that combines a dynamic Braille surface with tactile control. Aside from clicking on the words that your hands read, photos could also be displayed on the same surface, protruding…

Gadgets Mark Wilson Feb 29

Heated Sleep Suit Uses Same Technology as Spacesuits, for Insomniacs, Not Astronauts

Dutch researchers have come up with a heated sleep suit that could help insomniacs and older people who suffer from disturbed sleeping patterns. A system of micropipes filled with water warms the patient, increasing their body temperature by just 0.4 degrees Celsius. At 35.4ºC, the body shifts from nocturnal wakefulness to a deeper sleep because,…

Gadgets AddyDugdale Feb 29

Exercising Dog Returns Some Dignity to Animated USB Toys

Our friend the animated USB dog has returned, this time with more of a healthy G- rather than a rampant R-rating. Just plug him in, and watch him do sit-ups all day long. It may inspire you to head down to your gym, or perhaps find a bar because the sight of all that abdominal…

Gadgets Kit Eaton Feb 29

iView Concept Gives iMac a Curvaceous Bod and Second Screen on Backside

Designer Nuno Teixeira has redesigned the iMac, giving it a curved screen, second display at the back (not sure what that’s good for—educating the mice who live behind the skirting board in the office, perhaps?) and a second webcam. Apparently, he was inspired by the wraparound Cinerama screens from the ’50s. [Yanko]

Tech News AddyDugdale Feb 29

Brando USB Hub has Multicolor Moodlight For Desktop Cheeriness

I nearly labelled this four-port USB hub with digital alarm and seven-colour moodlight “just another boring Brando USB gadget.” But on second thought, I decided I actually like it: if you’re going to have a USB hub on your desk, why not combine it with some multicolored LED goodness? Brighten up your dreary cubicle with…

Gadgets Kit Eaton Feb 29

Yamaha’s 63 Series Home Theater Receivers iPod- and Bluetooth-Compatible

Yamaha has brought out its 63 Series, five receivers for Home Theater setups ranging in price from the $229 RX-V363 to the RX-V863, which costs just under a grand. All of them (the other three are the RX-V463, the RX-V563 and the RX-V663) are iPod- and Bluetooth-compatible, and some of them have on-screen menu display,…

Gadgets AddyDugdale Feb 29

Sega Body Trainer: A Digital Excerise Coach for Your Medical Entertainment

Sega Toy’s new Body Trainer is a “medical entertainment” product, we kid you not, designed to guide you through your exercise regime. Taking account of your age, weight and so on, it advises you with spoken prompts along the lines of “Let’s start warming up.” It actually measures your heart rate with an earlobe clip,…

Gadgets Kit Eaton Feb 29

Paramount Kills Entire HD DVD Release Schedule, But No Blu Flicks ‘Til Summer

There won’t be a soft transition to Blu-ray for Paramount—they’re dropping their whole HD DVD release slate right this second. Their last two movies on the dead format hit Tuesday, even though we won’t see Blu titles from them until this summer—that’s months of lost $$$. https://gizmodo.com/shows-over-folks-paramount-officially-goes-blu-359326 Interestingly, Dreamworks’ sole upcoming HD DVD release has…

Gadgets Matt Buchanan Feb 29

The Kiddo Kidkeeper Keeps Your Child on a Digital Leash

Smart Target’s Kiddo Kidkeeper Proximity alarm helps bring peace of mind to the parents of adventurous children using a wearable wireless transmitter. When a child has wandered out of a pre-set range, the transmitter will trigger a visual and audible alarm on the parent’s receiver, prompting them to reel the kid back in. The device…

Gadgets Sean Fallon Feb 28

Dealzmodo: Lite-On PC Blu-ray Drive $130

While we think you should wait to buy a standalone Blu-ray player until the 2.0 (“full profile”) spec hits to get interactivity and picture-in-picture, there’s no reason to wait for a PC drive, except for the price to drop. Newegg has a 12X Blu-ray drive from Lite-on for a pretty cheapo $130. Just remember you…

Gadgets Matt Buchanan Feb 28

NASA to Intentionally Smash Two Spacecraft Into the Moon

NASA is planning to intentionally smash two spacecraft into the surface of the moon, hoping to reveal some water ice under the surface of the moon’s south pole. Hey, where’d they get this idea? Hmm, it seems pretty familiar… Regardless of whether or not NASA is now taking cues from my favorite sketch comedy show,…

Space & Spaceflight Adam Frucci Feb 28

NSA Gets the Best AT&T Coverage Around

Yes, this is real, and spectacular. The Billboard Liberation Front has launched an “improvement” campaign on AT&T billboards in the SF area “to promote and celebrate the innovative collaboration of these two global communications giants” with their massive warrantless domestic spying program (explained by a cute bear). We’re waiting for some “Yes, the NSA can…

Gadgets Matt Buchanan Feb 28

USB Speedometer Measures WPM From Super Slow to Court Reporter Speed

We can see this USB typing Speedometer being extremely useful for young typists who want to improve their speed, or Brian Lam if he ever wants to type faster than three words per minute, but it’s a USB gadget that plugs into your computer and tells you how fast you’re typing. If you want to…

Gadgets Jason Chen Feb 28

Diebold Accidentally Leaks 2008 Election Results Early

Diebold, the company run by unscrupulous Republicans that manufactures crappy, easily-hacked voting machines, has done a bang-up job of pretty much destroying many people’s confidence in the legitimacy of the democratic process. No one is better at calling out such depressing aspects of our country with biting humor like The Onion, who here tell us…

Gadgets Adam Frucci Feb 28

What Went Wrong With Sharper Image

Now that Sharper Image declared bankruptcy and plans to close down 90 out of its 180 stores, us (vibrating) armchair quarterbacks are all trying to figure out why the store shut down. The Washington Post explores, and says that the chain’s downfall came because it remained the same—stainless steel tools that streamlined “your life by…

Gadgets Jason Chen Feb 28

DORmino Mouse Feeds on Laptop Heat for Power

Designers really are exploring every corner of the laws of physics to bring you eco-friendly products nowadays— this latest design even makes use of the waste heat kicked out by a laptop. The DORmino concept uses an oversized mousepad to soak up the warmth, which embedded electronics convert and transmit to power a wireless mouse.…

Gadgets Kit Eaton Feb 28

SatNav system for Zimmer Frames for Those Senior Moments

So, gadgeteers, this is what we will be reduced to riding around on by the year 2080. Developed by the University of Arnhem-Nijmegen in Holland, the Zimmer SatNav is for either olds, amnesiacs or for people whose sense of direction is so poor that they get lost on their way to the bathroom. It’s Luddite-friendly,…

Gadgets AddyDugdale Feb 28

Researchers Transmit Optical Data at 16.4 Tbps Over 1,500 Miles

FiOS, you ain’t got nothing on this: Alcatel-Lucent researchers in France have successfully transmitted optical data at an absolutely blazing speed of 16.4 Tbps over a distance of over 1,500 miles. The transmission was done with the goal of achieving a 100 Gbps Ethernet connection, which, as I’m sure you’d agree, is a goal we…

Gadgets Adam Frucci Feb 28

Mythbusters’ Kari Byron Chops Down Trees with a Gatling Gun in 45 Seconds

Click to viewGirls and guns: discuss. Kari Byron and a Dillon M-134D minigun—wowzers. The Mythbusters presenter aimed at a tree with the weapon (3,000 rounds per minute, or 50 per second) and flipped the switch. Watching the cartridge shells pour out of the gun as she thfrpfttttts away at the tree is like watching a…

Gadgets AddyDugdale Feb 28

Banpresto Skyrium Lamp Brings Northern Lights, Psychedelia to Your Living Room

Banpresto’s new Skyrium lamp might be just the ticket for those who like to enhance their trips to psychedelic dreamland with some whacky ambient lighting. Its diffusing lens and nine multicolored LEDs project ethereal cloud patterns onto walls and ceilings, with selectable themes to match your drug of choice mood. The whole thing can be…

Gadgets Kit Eaton Feb 28

Siafu Computer Brings Eyes To Hands

Heated Sleep Suit Uses Same Technology as Spacesuits, for Insomniacs, Not Astronauts

Exercising Dog Returns Some Dignity to Animated USB Toys

iView Concept Gives iMac a Curvaceous Bod and Second Screen on Backside

Brando USB Hub has Multicolor Moodlight For Desktop Cheeriness

Yamaha’s 63 Series Home Theater Receivers iPod- and Bluetooth-Compatible

Sega Body Trainer: A Digital Excerise Coach for Your Medical Entertainment

Paramount Kills Entire HD DVD Release Schedule, But No Blu Flicks ‘Til Summer

The Kiddo Kidkeeper Keeps Your Child on a Digital Leash

Dealzmodo: Lite-On PC Blu-ray Drive $130

NASA to Intentionally Smash Two Spacecraft Into the Moon

NSA Gets the Best AT&T Coverage Around

USB Speedometer Measures WPM From Super Slow to Court Reporter Speed

Diebold Accidentally Leaks 2008 Election Results Early

What Went Wrong With Sharper Image

DORmino Mouse Feeds on Laptop Heat for Power

SatNav system for Zimmer Frames for Those Senior Moments

Researchers Transmit Optical Data at 16.4 Tbps Over 1,500 Miles

Mythbusters’ Kari Byron Chops Down Trees with a Gatling Gun in 45 Seconds

Banpresto Skyrium Lamp Brings Northern Lights, Psychedelia to Your Living Room

‘Good Omens’ Season 3 Is Still Just One Episode, Despite Being Called That

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