Gadgets

Rumor Smashed: Microsoft Not Selling Fuel Cell Chargers

Ignore that rumor about Microsoft making fuel cell rechargers for the Zune. The company’s just said they’re only ordering these things to give away at events such as CES, CTIA and AVN. What, you didn’t see Microsoft’s booth at AVN? It was pure debauchery. https://gizmodo.com/microsoft-ordering-fuel-cell-rechargers-for-the-zune-252497 Microsoft Denies it Will Sell Fuel Cells [PC World]

Tech News Jason Chen Apr 18

Digital Pill Box Uses the Net to Help the Highly Medicated

The Med-eMonitor System is an internet-enabled digital pill box that costs $60 per month to use. Sound like a waste? It shouldn’t, because older folks with medical conditions can have upwards of 20 different pills to take per day and the slightest mistake could be fatal. The Med-eMonitor is fully programmable and will beep when…

Health Travis Hudson Apr 18

A Moment of Reflection

Not to bum everyone out or anything—this is a gadget blog after all—but here’s a comic titled “The History of Technology” on No Exit by Andy Singer. It’s pretty much self-explanatory, so we’ll just pose this question to our readers: Do you think all the gadgets we’ve amassed are making us more happy, less happy,…

Gadgets Jason Chen Apr 18

Hands-On With Kangaroom’s Cable Organizers

We’ve covered Kangaroom’s organizers a bit before, but for the uninitiated, they specialize in making organizers that either hide or arrange your cables and gadgets in a neat way. https://gizmodo.com/kangaroom-power-strip-organizer-hides-your-shame-246597 We’ve got the Cellphone Charging Station, the Phone/PDA Charging Station, the Divided Cord Storage & Organizer, and the Travel Cord Storage & Charger Storage. If…

Gadgets Jason Chen Apr 18

A Geek’s Guide to Marathon Training

Marathon season is in session—the Boston Marathon recently finished up with many more to come, and for those aspiring marathoners there are a lot of gadgets out there that won’t make your run less painful, but definitely make it more interesting. John Biggs of CrunchGear fame is running the 26 mile San Diego Rock ‘n’…

Gadgets Travis Hudson Apr 18

Desktop Trebuchet for Old School Cubicle Warfare

If the USB missile launcher is a little too new-school for you, the desktop trebuchet may be the perfect addition to that arsenal of cubical warfare weapons. It is available for $30 and assembly is required. https://gizmodo.com/striker-ii-usb-laser-guided-missile-launcher-217162 Product Page [Via nerdapproved]

Gadgets Travis Hudson Apr 18

Frankenreview: Ten Takes on the Sandisk Sansa Connect

There’s a new kid on the MP3 block, and just like the Zune, it’s a player sporting Wi-Fi. The $250 4GB Sandisk Sansa Connect not only allows you to share your torrid musical preferences with dirty strangers on the subway, it also enables you to download unlimited Yahoo! music for $15 without the cords. So…

Gadgets Mark Wilson Apr 18

Adjustable Breast Implants for the Indecisive

Too big or too small breast implants getting you down? Cheer up, Sally or Jimmy (soon to be Jane). The adjustable breast augmentation will ensure that you and your loved ones are completely satisfied with your new chest addition. These breast implants have a port where a control pump can be plugged. Pump up the…

Health Travis Hudson Apr 18

Boy Jailed over Daylight Saving Time Mix-up

Cory Webb, 15-year-old kid from Pittsburgh, spent a super-fun-happy 12 days in jail over something he had no control over: daylight saving time. He was arrested last month after calling into a school phone hotline. A non-related bomb threat was also called into the phone hotline one hour before Webb’s call was made and the…

Gadgets Travis Hudson Apr 18

Robust Surface Navigation Fills GPS’s Gaps

GPS is great, but it isn’t always accurate. It’s susceptible to interference, especially in urban settings, which is why Boeing is working on a new system to fill the holes that GPS has when it’s really needed. The objective of the Robust Surface Navigation (RSN) program is to develop technologies that can exploit various “signals…

Gadgets Adam Frucci Apr 18

Sony Clock Radio has Integrated Spy Cam

Got the voyeur itch? Scratch it with this Sony-branded clock radio that has been modified to include a full-color camera and microphone. The camera and microphone are attached to a wireless transmitter that can shoot the information to a receiver up to 100 meters away for viewing and listening. The clock radio itself isn’t too…

Gadgets Travis Hudson Apr 18

Obelisk Transformer Chairs, From Patio Furniture to Phat Phallus In No Time Flat

These Obelisk Chairs, made of woven polyethylene with a powder-coated aluminum frame, fit together into such a perfect phallic-shaped bulbous rocket ship thing that your neighbors will wonder WTF is that? Designed by Janus et Cie, with their white cushions they look like they could actually be comfortable either inside or out. Too bad you’ll…

Gadgets Charlie White Apr 18

Hotdoll: The Sex Doll for Dogs

Click to viewIs your dog in heat and humping anything it can wrap its horny little legs around? Are you constantly having to pry your promiscuous pooch off the legs of guests, parents and members of your church? Protect your leg from a hump attack by getting Scruffy a Hotdoll. Yes, it’s a sex doll…

Gadgets Adam Frucci Apr 18

Toshiba Develops 16GB Flash Chips

Toshiba has unveiled their new 16GB flash memory chips, the largest available so far. Designed for use in phones and music players, it’s yet another step toward hard drive based players such as the Video iPod going bye-bye. It’s awesome to see this type of thing being developed, and I for one can’t wait till…

Gadgets Adam Frucci Apr 18

Inventions That Never Quite Made It: Sun Pod, No; Babe Inside, Yesssss

The Sun Pod was an invention that never quite made it past the concept stage, but we’re still enjoying its conceptualization. If you can get past the alluring sunbather pictured reclining in this ’80s prototype, you’ll notice a fan on the side for ventilation. But on a hot summer day this Sun Pod would obviously…

Gadgets Charlie White Apr 18

Swarms of Magic Smart Dust to Explore Other Planets

Nanotech scientists at the University of Glasgow are figuring out how to use smart dust to explore planets. Each piece of dust would be about a millimeter wide, and would have a processor, sensors, a generator and digital communications gear on board. It would be covered with a shape-shifting plastic sheath that would allow it…

Gadgets Charlie White Apr 18

Tesla Roadster Won’t Meet Original Range Promises

Aw, shucks. The Tesla Roadster, everyone’s favorite electric sports car, isn’t going to be quite as impressive as the initial stats claimed. While the first announcements about the car said it would have a 250 mile range, a letter that was sent out to the first 380+ people who’ve ordered one let them know that,…

Gadgets Adam Frucci Apr 18

Tiny Sega Toys Miniature Grand Piano, For a Little Night Music

This tiny grand piano from Sega Toys is only about a foot long, and each of its 88 miniature keys are only 4mm wide. But when you press down on a key with, say, a toothpick, it plays that note through its speaker. It’s also an electronic player piano that cranks out more than 100…

Gadgets Charlie White Apr 18

First Shots of the Sony Ericsson P700i Smartphone

Thanks to a mysterious user by the name of deuxani, we now have a better look at Sony Ericsson‘s forthcoming P700i smartphone. The phone will come with a 2.6-inch QVGA screen and 3.2-megapixel camera with duplex LED light. It’ll have three flavors of wireless including 3G, Wi-Fi, and Bluetooth. As you can tell by the…

Gadgets Louis Ramirez Apr 18

Subtitle-Reading Glasses Make Cinema-Going for the Hard of Hearing Less, um, Hard

Here’s something that could be a godsend for the hard of hearing who feel they are not getting their money’s worth in the movie theater. A nifty little idea thought up by some clever people at Madrid’s Carlos III University for the Spanish Center for Subtitles and Closed Captions, this gadget fixes onto a person’s…

Gadgets Ad Dugdale Apr 18

Rumor Smashed: Microsoft Not Selling Fuel Cell Chargers

Digital Pill Box Uses the Net to Help the Highly Medicated

A Moment of Reflection

Hands-On With Kangaroom’s Cable Organizers

A Geek’s Guide to Marathon Training

Desktop Trebuchet for Old School Cubicle Warfare

Frankenreview: Ten Takes on the Sandisk Sansa Connect

Adjustable Breast Implants for the Indecisive

Boy Jailed over Daylight Saving Time Mix-up

Robust Surface Navigation Fills GPS’s Gaps

Sony Clock Radio has Integrated Spy Cam

Obelisk Transformer Chairs, From Patio Furniture to Phat Phallus In No Time Flat

Hotdoll: The Sex Doll for Dogs

Toshiba Develops 16GB Flash Chips

Inventions That Never Quite Made It: Sun Pod, No; Babe Inside, Yesssss

Swarms of Magic Smart Dust to Explore Other Planets

Tesla Roadster Won’t Meet Original Range Promises

Tiny Sega Toys Miniature Grand Piano, For a Little Night Music

First Shots of the Sony Ericsson P700i Smartphone

Subtitle-Reading Glasses Make Cinema-Going for the Hard of Hearing Less, um, Hard

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

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