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XR-3 Hybrid: 225 mpg Electric/Diesel Available in May?

There’s a hybrid hoedown happening, with innovative ideas for efficient vehicles zipping around left and right, but this XR-3 Hybrid is different: It might actually find its way to the reality-based world as soon as two months from now. This diesel/electric hybrid is an odd-looking three-wheeler with a 40-mile range when it’s running on just…

Gadgets Charlie White Mar 21

Motorola To Win the Bid for Palm?

We’ve been keeping a steady eye on all of the Palm buyout rumors and the latest whispers from CNBC have Motorola at the head of the race. If united, the two might have a better chance of taking on Apple’s almighty iPhone. Think about it. Moto makes some nice phones, but their OS has always…

Gadgets Louis Ramirez Mar 21

Shocking Alarm Clock

We’ve featured a bunch of alarm clocks over the years, but this one seems to be one that’ll either wake you up fast or you’ll smash it against the wall on the second day. On the surface it looks like a regular old school alarm clock, but when you reach over to shut it off…

Gadgets Jason Chen Mar 21

TabletKiosk Builds UMPC with Linux Support

Linux fans listen up. Next month TabletKiosk is debuting the TufTab, one of the first UMPCs that’ll let you ditch Windows for Linux. The 2-lb UMPC will be semi-rugged (thanks to a rubberized case) and for all you security freaks, it’ll come with a built-in fingerprint reader. There’s no WWAN, but you do get Wi-Fi,…

Gadgets Louis Ramirez Mar 21

World’s Fastest Recharging Shaver Means You’ll Never be Late Again

Despite having a two-week battery life, it seems our razors always seem to run out of juice just when we need to run somewhere. With Sanyo’s “world’s fastest recharging shaver,” which gives you a week of shaving in only nine minutes (or one minute if you’re just going for that single shave), you’ll also be…

Gadgets Jason Chen Mar 21

Rumor: Google Hires Sidekick Team to Work on GPhone [Updated to Smash]

[ED: Google’s had the Sidekick team for quite some time, says this August 2005 article in BusinessWeek. Thanks Andrew K.]So the latest GPhone rumor has the boys in California hiring T-Mobile’s Danger’s Sidekick team to work on the alleged GPhone. Word has it they’ve also been courting a few mobile operators (whether it’s for software…

Tech News Louis Ramirez Mar 21

Proximity Sensing Watercooler Knows When You’re Thirsty

Phileo has just developed a watercooler with “human sensor functionality,” which can automatically turn on when it detects that someone’s within a 3-meter radius. We’re not sure what needs to be turned on in a watercooler other than the heating and cooling—which needs to be on all the time—so we’re a bit confused at the…

Gadgets Jason Chen Mar 21

Ricavision Vista Remote with Sideshow

If you’re not familiar with Sideshow, it’s one of Windows Vista’s features that lets you display gadgets and view photos and music on devices connected to the PC. In this case, the RICAVISION remote, which we looked at before uses Bluetooth to pipe Sideshow information from your Vista Media Center onto the display itself. It…

Gadgets Jason Chen Mar 21

Beatles Album Covers, Starring Lego

You don’t have to be a Lego fan to love the creativity and pure genius of the artist who calls himself Digger Digger Dogstar, re-creating Beatles album covers starring Lego and Dogstar’s excellent Photoshop skills. Digger Digger Dogstar’s photos [Flickr, via Neatorama]

Gadgets Charlie White Mar 21

Solar Wii Makes Sunlight Less Terrifying

Despite the fact that the Wii and the sun aren’t exactly the best of friends, a couple of enterprising modders from Tom’s Hardware went and built themselves a solar-powered Wii to waste their upcoming summer days with. https://gizmodo.com/sun-2-wii-sensor-bar-1-207226 In fact, it uses sunlight to juice up not only the Wii, but a TV and speakers…

Gadgets Adam Frucci Mar 21

Can’t Sleep? Love Yourself With Aromahand

Attention one-handed typists: Put the Aromahand on that all-important non-typing hand, and it’s certain to smell a whole lot better than that tube sock you’ve been using. Aromahand’s makers have a more serious purpose, citing the benefits of aromatherapy as a basis for the effectiveness of this special glove stuffed with lavender, sage, organic blends,…

Gadgets Charlie White Mar 21

Solar-powered Air Conditioner Keeps You Cool During Blackouts

Summer’s just 2 months away, and what better way to keep cool than with SolCool’s solar-powered air conditioner, the Millenia. Theoretically, it makes sense. Not only will it help cut down your electric bill, but it’ll keep you cool even when the lights go out. And should the blackout occur at night, the AC can…

Gadgets Louis Ramirez Mar 21

SpaceX Launches Falcon 1 Into Space, Deemed 95% Successful

Private citizens from space exploration company Space Exploration Technologies Corporation (SpaceX) sent a rocket into space yesterday. The Falcon 1 lifted off the launch pad at 6:10pm California time, and flew 200 miles into space before a malfunction in the second stage sent the spacecraft into a spin. Take a look at the launch from…

Gadgets Charlie White Mar 21

OCZ’s Neural Impulse Actuator Lets You Play Games with Your Mind

Like Emotiv’s Project Epoc, OCZ’s Neural Impulse Actuator turns your brain into a video game controller. The headband’s neural sensors are located up front, reading your neural activity the same way that an electrocardiograph reads your heart (though fortunately the NIA doesn’t require you to lube up before putting the headband on). OCZ claims the…

Gadgets Louis Ramirez Mar 21

1-Year Review with Scooba: Thumbs Down

I like Joel’s 1-year review of the Scooba — Roomba’s wash and dry mopping bot. For cleaning his Brooklyn pad, he finds the charging, refilling of cleaning fluids, initial outlay of $200, and maintenance of the bot to be more work and expense than it’s worth. Mopping up by bucket and mop and human-being is…

Gadgets Brian Lam Mar 21

Chapit Domestic Robot: Looks ‘Armless, May Deny you Your Greatest Pleasures

I don’t want to bust a robot’s balls on his first day in civilization, but the Chapit could be removing one of the greatest pleasures that we gadget monkeys have – namely, turning our gizmos on and off. The sensation I get from sticking my finger on the ‘Power’ putton and applying gentle pressure makes…

Gadgets Ad Dugdale Mar 21

The Ultimate Keychain/Rape Whistle

If you were to ask us to design an ultimate keychain, we’d probably shove RFID, Bluetooth, USB, and some flash memory in there. If you asked a crazy person to design a keychain, you’d get the Power Whistle. This “keychain” has a rape whistle, an LED light, a compass, and a thermometer, for the times…

Gadgets Jason Chen Mar 20

SilverBrook Designing World’s Fastest Printer

SilverBrook may be a no-name in the world of tech (they’ve never released a single product), but all that can change if this baby comes to fruition—it’s a super-fast "memjet" printer capable of shooting out two pages per second. Memjet refers to the technology behind the printer, which is a cousin of the inkjet. The…

Gadgets Louis Ramirez Mar 20

Ad Watch: 1975’s Ball Buster

There’s only a few of us Gizmodo writers who were even alive when this thing came out, which makes us all the more appreciative that we have PS3s and Xbox 360s to play on now. Seriously, Ball Buster? That wife’s surely a ball buster, alright. Meow! Thanks Ray!

Gadgets Jason Chen Mar 20

Interactive Mirrors Debuting at Bloomingdales

With a little bit of technology, everyone around you will be able to judge your fashion sense, thanks to Nanette Lepore and her department in the New York City Bloomingdales. Lepore has installed and began testing interactive projection mirrors. They work by projecting a picture of said piece of clothing and allows the person to…

Gadgets Travis Hudson Mar 20

XR-3 Hybrid: 225 mpg Electric/Diesel Available in May?

Motorola To Win the Bid for Palm?

Shocking Alarm Clock

TabletKiosk Builds UMPC with Linux Support

World’s Fastest Recharging Shaver Means You’ll Never be Late Again

Rumor: Google Hires Sidekick Team to Work on GPhone [Updated to Smash]

Proximity Sensing Watercooler Knows When You’re Thirsty

Ricavision Vista Remote with Sideshow

Beatles Album Covers, Starring Lego

Solar Wii Makes Sunlight Less Terrifying

Can’t Sleep? Love Yourself With Aromahand

Solar-powered Air Conditioner Keeps You Cool During Blackouts

SpaceX Launches Falcon 1 Into Space, Deemed 95% Successful

OCZ’s Neural Impulse Actuator Lets You Play Games with Your Mind

1-Year Review with Scooba: Thumbs Down

Chapit Domestic Robot: Looks ‘Armless, May Deny you Your Greatest Pleasures

The Ultimate Keychain/Rape Whistle

SilverBrook Designing World’s Fastest Printer

Ad Watch: 1975’s Ball Buster

Interactive Mirrors Debuting at Bloomingdales

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

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