Gadgets

Secret Agent Spy Ear for Eavesdroppers, Snoops and Busybodies

If you’d like to hear those mice crawling around in the walls, the Rechargeable M-7 Secret Agent Spy Ear is for you. Its earpiece is designed for stealth, letting you listen in on conversations across the room undetected. Just pop the wireless device into your ear and somehow you can hear better than ever. Perhaps…

Gadgets Charlie White Feb 20

XM-Sirius Merger Update: Price Increases, No Content Mix Yet, Joe Consumer in Danger?

As you no doubt already know by now, XM and Sirius announced plans yesterday to merge, pending the approval of the relevant regulatory agencies. The top suits of both companies just held a conference call to present their case to the people that matter most: investors. Oh, and I guess consumers could also listen to…

Gadgets Nicholas Deleon Feb 20

Gazillion Fetch a Bubble Machine Drives Dogs Wild

For our doggy friends, there are few tastes (short of another dog’s ass) that are as alluring as chicken, or as hypnotic as bubbles. Now chicken and bubbles have been combined to drive dogs wild. The Gazillion Fetch a Bubble Machine cranks out thousands of chicken-scented bubbles, giving the critters a double-whammy of temptation for…

Gadgets Charlie White Feb 20

Ford SYNUS Concept is Perfect for Your Vacation to Baghdad

How’s this for some ominous copy: “As the population shifts back to the big cities, you’ll need a rolling urban command center.” Yes, after the fallout we need to reclaim our metropolises from the mutant hobo zombie hordes, and Ford has got our backs. Their SYNUS (quite possibly the worst vehicle name ever) is a…

Gadgets Adam Frucci Feb 20

Cingular BlackBerry 8800 in Stores

If the Boy Genius is right, it looks like RIM’s newly minted BlackBerry 8800 will be in Cingular stores across the country any second now. BG has a full unboxing up at his site along with a few notes on the device’s performance. I gotta say, I never considered myself a BlackBerry kinda guy, buy…

Gadgets Louis Ramirez Feb 20

Forbes Managing Editor Attempts Techno-Cold Turkey for a Week on NBC

When good-sport Forbes managing editor Dennis Kneale let NBC take away his cellphone, Blackberry and email for a week for the Today show special segment entitled "Could You Do Without?", little did Kneale realize he would end up in tears. What an excellent segment! It’s a testament to the techno-addiction to which few of us…

Gadgets Charlie White Feb 20

Mobile Fragfest: Gamers Safely Cram Xbox Live into Their Ride?

You love late night trips to the drive-thru at In and Out. You love your Xbox 360 with all the peripherals. And you most certainly love your online 16-man sessions of Lost Planet. Why not safely unsafely combine these three for pure gamer euphoria? These guys over in Google’s hometown of Mountain View use the…

Tech News Alexander Yoon Feb 20

Google Teaches Us Five Things About Hard Drive Death

Robin over at StorageMojo waded thought Google’s “Failure Trends in a Large Disk Population,” a document that details the search engine’s first hand experience with hard drive failure rates by way of polling 100,000 of their own drives. •First of all, Mean Time Between Failure rates mean nothing. •Secondly, SMART hardware monitoring missed 36% of…

Tech News Alexander Yoon Feb 19

RUMOR: Black Xbox 360 on May 1st

Late last week, retailer Game Crazy’s POS (point of sale) system had an sku listed for a black, 120GB Xbox 360. The retail price was S479.99 and it was scheduled for release May 1st. That much is fact. Whether or not there is an actual product to accompany the sku is fiction rumor. Such a…

Tech News Mark Wilson Feb 19

Worst Company in America: Comcast vs. Sony

Consumerist has its annual Worst Company in America contest going on now, and today’s round of voting has a special place in hearts of Gizmodo readers. They’re trying to decide which one of the two—Comcast or Sony—advances to the next round. Although they both provide services/products we want and need, they’ve really screwed with its…

Gadgets Jason Chen Feb 19

Gizmodo How To: Recreate Britney’s Head-Shaving Weekend Meltdown

Click to viewIn case you missed the tabloids this weekend, Britney Spear committed the most pathetic of self mutilation acts, the spontaneous, emotionally-driven head shaving, quickly followed up with a bit of tattoo parlor action. Here’s the right combination of gadgetry so you can meltdown just like America’s favorite fallen idol. Wahl “Balder” Ultra-Close Haircut…

Gadgets Brian Lam Feb 19

Breaking: ABC News Confirms Sirius and XM Merger

It looks like ABC News has confirmed that Sirius and XM will merge today, and that Mel Karmazin will run the combined companies. In case you didn’t believe it when the NY Post said it, here’s a more reputable source. https://gizmodo.com/ny-post-sez-xm-and-sirius-to-merge-no-really-237830 Merger Merger Merger [ABCNews]

Gadgets Jason Chen Feb 19

Presidents Day: Gadgets They Knew and Loved

Happy Presidents Day, where we honor our first president, George Washington, born in 1732, and our 16th president, Abraham Lincoln, born in 1809. What does this have to do with gadgets? Well, there were plenty of techno-devices in the lives of these presidents, and some of them were precursors to those we worship today. Just…

Gadgets Charlie White Feb 19

Tele-Safe II Makes Sure Your Calls Are Private

If you’re paranoid about people listening in on your phone calls, the Tele-Safe II should provide you with some peace of mind. It can detect wiretaps and keep them from hearing anything, but let’s be honest — no one is going to tap your phone to listen in on you ordering pizza. More usefully, it…

Gadgets Adam Frucci Feb 19

FaceSCAN III Makes 3D Modeling Child’s Play

Why does making a 3D model have to be so hard? You’ve got to learn how to use complex software and then, on top of it all, you need to develop some sort of artistic eye! No thanks, that all sounds like too much work for me. I prefer to have machines to the heavy…

Gadgets Adam Frucci Feb 19

Shotgunator is a Binge Drinkers Best Friend

Any good college student can tell you that shotgunning a beer is one of the quicker ways to get inebriated while also covering yourself with beer. Sure, there are also keg stands, the ice luge, and power hours, but none are as simple and elegant as poking a hole in the side of a beer…

Gadgets Adam Frucci Feb 19

Teclast T59: Like Blending a K3 with an LG Prada

So what we have here is Telcast’s shiny new mobile, the T59. It has a nice 3.5-inch screen, runs Windows CE, and can do everything else that all these fancy new phones can do. Add to that Wi-Fi and built-in GPS, and you got yourself a pretty nice mobile. The question is, will it follow…

Gadgets Louis Ramirez Feb 19

Japanese Eye Massager Does Everything But Gouge

OK, let’s play a game here. Which of the following phrases is not a claim made by this Japanese Automatic Eye Massager? No cheating! A) Prevents computer syndrome. B) Produces a gasification barometric pressure massage eye flesh. C) Removes baggy eyes and black eyes. D) Relaxes nerves and improves microcirculation for healthy eyes. Give up?…

Gadgets Adam Frucci Feb 19

Just A Moment Clock: Take Time to Read the Time

Making it harder to figure out what time it is seems to be the latest trend in the fast-paced, take-no-prisoners world of clock design. I’m not sure what’s wrong with the tried and true analog and digital clock designs, but if you’re too edgy for something as boring as that, perhaps you’ll apprciate the Just…

Gadgets Adam Frucci Feb 19

Mexican Airliner Rents iPods for 50 Pesos

Having just returned from an 8-hour flight, I gotta say this a cool idea. For about $5, Mexican airliner Volaris is renting 30GB iPods to its customers. The iPods come pre-loaded with Mexican TV shows, music, and whatnot. Pretty cool considering United and Delta have yet to fill their promises on those iPod seat connections.…

Tech News Louis Ramirez Feb 19

Secret Agent Spy Ear for Eavesdroppers, Snoops and Busybodies

XM-Sirius Merger Update: Price Increases, No Content Mix Yet, Joe Consumer in Danger?

Gazillion Fetch a Bubble Machine Drives Dogs Wild

Ford SYNUS Concept is Perfect for Your Vacation to Baghdad

Cingular BlackBerry 8800 in Stores

Forbes Managing Editor Attempts Techno-Cold Turkey for a Week on NBC

Mobile Fragfest: Gamers Safely Cram Xbox Live into Their Ride?

Google Teaches Us Five Things About Hard Drive Death

RUMOR: Black Xbox 360 on May 1st

Worst Company in America: Comcast vs. Sony

Gizmodo How To: Recreate Britney’s Head-Shaving Weekend Meltdown

Breaking: ABC News Confirms Sirius and XM Merger

Presidents Day: Gadgets They Knew and Loved

Tele-Safe II Makes Sure Your Calls Are Private

FaceSCAN III Makes 3D Modeling Child’s Play

Shotgunator is a Binge Drinkers Best Friend

Teclast T59: Like Blending a K3 with an LG Prada

Japanese Eye Massager Does Everything But Gouge

Just A Moment Clock: Take Time to Read the Time

Mexican Airliner Rents iPods for 50 Pesos

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