Gadgets

SlingMedia Shows Off Apple TV

About a week after our own Gizmodo cult leader editor Brian Lam tested out Apple TV over a Slingbox, Slingmedia posted their own demo on YouTube. They demonstrate the MotoQ streaming at a tolerable framerate via EVDO, and then show their client running on a PC complete with faux, “how hasn’t Jobs eaten them yet?”…

Tech News Mark Wilson May 12

Solar Powered Lighter—Wait, What?

A Portugal-based company has reinvented the wheel and created fire from the sun, kind of. This solar-powered lighter doesn’t actually create an open flame, but it does create a series of sparks that should be capable of lighting a BBQ grill. So in all reality, it is the environment-friendly lazy man’s flint or sparker. The…

Gadgets Travis Hudson May 11

Renova Black Toilet Paper Now Comes in Green, Orange and Red

Black toilet paper was weird enough, but wiping your ass with green, orange, or red gets even weirder. Although you can now see whether you’re “clean” with the new colors, it just feels mentally odd to us to see our poo smeared across anything but clean white sheets. Call us old-fashioned. https://gizmodo.com/black-toilet-paper-128466 Product Page [Giftmonger]

Gadgets Jason Chen May 11

I Really Don’t Need a Cowboy Hard Hat

If there was ever a product not designed for my needs, this is it. Let’s see… a city-dwelling, inactive, desk-incarcerated tech blogging northeasterner? Yeah, I don’t need a hard hat shaped like a cowboy hat. The closest I get to constructing anything is making myself a peanut butter and jelly in my underwear. But hey,…

Gadgets Adam Frucci May 11

World’s Highest Swing Looks Terrifying

Click to viewYou think you aren’t afraid of heights? Well then, tough guy, why don’t you hop on this swing and allow yourself to fly over the edge of a TV tower 1,100 feet off the ground? It’s the world’s highest swing, aptly dubbed the “Game for Brave People,” and just thinking about it makes…

Gadgets Adam Frucci May 11

Up Close and Personal with Krell’s $1,200 iPod Dock

Looking for a way to pamper your iPod? Audio giant Krell showed off its first ever iPod dock at the Home Entertainment Show 2007 in New York today. The $1,200 dock (which is the most expensive iPod accessory out there) was just finished yesterday. Krell reps affectionately call it “The Kid.” To serious audiophiles who…

Gadgets Louis Ramirez May 11

AquaSkipper Lets You Bounce Across the Water

Yesterday, in addition of chillin’ with Woz, we checked out some inventions from the Modern Marvels Invent Now Challenge that he was there to judge. One of the ones that caught our eye was the AquaSkipper, a sweet, human-powered water vehicle. Simply hop up and down and get propelled across the water like some sort…

Gadgets Adam Frucci with video by Richard Blakeley May 11

Woz Explains Apple Fanboyism

Here’s another clip from my interview with Steve Wozniak yesterday. This time, he’s talking about what about Apple makes people so fanatical. Sure, I could have asked Blam, but he looks so cute sleeping in his Apple pajamas that I couldn’t bear to wake him up. Anyways, Woz is a greater authority on the subject…

Tech News Adam Frucci with video by Richard Blakeley May 11

Vending Machine Gives Out Free Drinks for Watching Ads

Thirsty? Out of cash? Don’t worry, if you’re near one of these Japanese MediCafe vending machines, it’ll give you a drink for free. Not because you’ve got a pretty face, because you don’t. No, it doles out free drinks as a reward for you watching an advertisement on its built-in video screen. Now I hate…

Gadgets Adam Frucci May 11

Special Software Has the Brains to Piece Back Shredded Files

Researchers in Germany have developed a software program that can re-assemble shredded documents. The software relies on special algorithms to help piece everything back together as it scans and analyses documents based on their color, shape, handwriting, texture and typeface. The software can even piece together files shredded by machines, which I find both cool…

Gadgets Louis Ramirez May 11

Zenum Smartphone Slated to Debut This Month

The sexy Zenum Opus smartphone has been making its way around the Interwebs for quite some time, and today it’s finally getting a release date. According to the gang at Unwired (who checked in with Zenum), the smartphone will be out later this month. It’ll come with a 2-megapixel camera, Windows Mobile 6, a 2.5-inch…

Gadgets Louis Ramirez May 11

Digital LED Fan Isn’t any Colder than a Normal Fan

This fan uses LEDs to display the temperature on its whirring blades. That way you can look over at it and realize just how hot it is and that you should have bought air conditioning instead of a gimmicky fan. Nice work, idiot. Product Page [via Book of Joe]

Gadgets Adam Frucci May 10

New BlackBerry Product Line

With the speed new gadgets come out, their clever names like RTU-4789r and the ever-dwindling time we have to keep up, we can all use a refresher course once in a while. So today we’re giving you a cheat sheet for the updated BlackBerry line. Once upon a time, you just owned one kind of…

Gadgets Mark Wilson May 10

Wattson Wireless Power Meter In Action

Here’s a clip of a Reuters reporter interviewing Richard Woods, one of the designers of the Wattson energy meter. It’s still not clear when Woods’ firm DIY Kyoto will be mass producing them for the US market (we introduced you to a $600 handmade original over a year ago), but in these Gore-y times, it’s…

Gadgets Wilson Rothman May 10

RTX Cooling Glove Cools, in a Different Way

This is the RTX (Rapid Thermal Exchange) glove. It may look like a kinky fetish toy, but it is actually a pretty unique way to cool the body. It doesn’t necessarily cool the body like the way a good fan does, but rather it utilizes the key radiator zone (the hands) and draws out heat…

Health Travis Hudson May 10

Doggie Gadget Roundup

It is getting close to summer, which inevitably means it is time to pull that old dog out of the closet, dust her off and take her for a stroll. Wired has a roundup of some of the best gear for the gadget-addicted dogs. The list includes dog pedometers, treadmills cellphones, PDAs, GPS units, social…

Gadgets Travis Hudson May 10

Tips for Defeating Shutter Lag

Looking for a speedy camera that can keep up with your fast-paced shots. The folks at the New York Times have some tips for snagging a camera with little shutter lag. Shutter lag is basically the amount of time it takes your camera to snap a photo. As the NYT points out, there’s no standard…

Gadgets Louis Ramirez May 10

Low End Theory: Talk is Cheap

By Brendan I. Koerner I can definitely see the wisdom in having excised negotiation from most of our daily commerce. Imagine if every time you had to buy a roll of toilet paper from CVS, the cashier tried to highball you: “That’ll be $3.99, sir…What? You don’t want to pay that much? Okay, gimme two…

Gadgets Brendan I. Koerner May 10

First Creative Zen Stone Video Review

Still curious about Creative’s new Zen Stone player? The folks at GenerationMP3 put the tiny player behind the camera for a thorough unboxing/review. It looks a little chunky when they compare it to the nano (although its real competition is the shuffle, which it also beats in size). Still, $39 for a 1GB player ain’t…

Gadgets Louis Ramirez May 10

Next Gen iPod Patent Has “Touch Surface” On Back

Click to view The newest iPod patent says that the “touch” and the “screen” don’t have to go together. The next gen iPod will have a normal display covering the front, and a separate touch surface on the back. Here’s how it’ll work. The front screen of the iPod or iPod nano shows everything, but…

Tech News Louis Ramirez May 10

SlingMedia Shows Off Apple TV

Solar Powered Lighter—Wait, What?

Renova Black Toilet Paper Now Comes in Green, Orange and Red

I Really Don’t Need a Cowboy Hard Hat

World’s Highest Swing Looks Terrifying

Up Close and Personal with Krell’s $1,200 iPod Dock

AquaSkipper Lets You Bounce Across the Water

Woz Explains Apple Fanboyism

Vending Machine Gives Out Free Drinks for Watching Ads

Special Software Has the Brains to Piece Back Shredded Files

Zenum Smartphone Slated to Debut This Month

Digital LED Fan Isn’t any Colder than a Normal Fan

New BlackBerry Product Line

Wattson Wireless Power Meter In Action

RTX Cooling Glove Cools, in a Different Way

Doggie Gadget Roundup

Tips for Defeating Shutter Lag

Low End Theory: Talk is Cheap

First Creative Zen Stone Video Review

Next Gen iPod Patent Has “Touch Surface” On Back

Waymo Has Stopped Testing Its Robotaxis in New York City and No One Knows What Happens Next

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