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Solar Parking Meters Invade NYC

Reproducing in front of our eyes are solar-powered parking meters in New York City, requiring only ambient light to charge up their trusty old-school non-exploding sealed lead acid batteries inside. What better application of solar energy than a parking meter? But then, didn’t parking meters work well enough as mechanical devices before? Well, these are…

Gadgets Charlie White Nov 21

Etymotic ety8s Reviewed: Mullet Required

We’ve already given you our take on Etymotic’s forthcoming ety8 Bluetooth earbuds, and now the folks at Laptop mag have taken the chunky cans for a spin. The earbuds are connected to each other via a behind-the-head wire and can be paired with your iPod ($299 with adapter) or with any Bluetooth-enabled device ($199 without…

Gadgets Louis Ramirez Nov 21

Full Page Illuminator for Late-Night Page Turners

What you furtively read under the covers at night is your business, and you can keep it that way with this Full Page Illuminator with a flat lens that reflects a battery-powered LED, evenly lighting the page. Yes, a page, in a book. You remember books, don’t you? If you’re not reading undercover, it keeps…

Gadgets Charlie White Nov 21

iBeam Speaker Dock Makes Your iPod Look Like a Car

Few iPod docks resemble the front bumper of a car, yet that’s exactly what Shaper Image’s iBeam Speaker Dock manages to do. It connects with any dockable iPod and uses SRS WOW technology to deliver surround sound. On board you get everything you’d expect from a speaker dock like an AM/FM radio, a backlit LCD,…

Gadgets Louis Ramirez Nov 21

3D Modeling for the Tragically Untalented

If you want to start doing 3D design but are just too damned lazy to actually learn how to create 3D models, you’ve got a couple of options. You could drop $40,000 on the Z Scanner (from Z Corp, natch), or you could get the Scene-Scanner from Industrial Research in New Zealand for an unspecified…

Gadgets Adam Frucci Nov 20

Fat Legged Table Routes Wires

Although this would work better in a desk instead of a square dining room-like table, the idea is still sound. The table features one fat leg with holes in the top and bottom so you can route your various computer, monitor, and USB wires through without cluttering up your workspace. Very useful if you or…

Gadgets Jason Chen Nov 20

AirPod Cleans Air; No iPod Dock Included, Won’t Sell Well

This here AirPod might look like an iPod and have a stupid prefix-Pod name, but it really has nothing to do with the ubiquitous music player. It’s actually a pretty nice looking air purifying device for cleaning the air of all the bacteria, pit stink, and Cheetos dust that fills your room after a long…

Gadgets Adam Frucci Nov 20

Smart Finder Gadget Locator Finds Lost Stuff: Welcome To Senility

People lose stuff and the time then spent umpteen hours searching for their misplaced treasures. To prevent this from happening in the future, might you consider investing in the Smart Finder? It consists of a small remote control-like device and little color-coded receivers. Basically, you lose your junk, hit the button on the remote and…

Gadgets Nicholas Deleon Nov 20

Poop Soap

Fun for both kids and the demented, this soap may be shaped like poo, but unlike real poo, it cleans your hands instead of dirtying them. It took me eight years of my life to learn this concept. And it wasn’t even the first eight years! “Nope It’s Soap” is coffee scented and can even…

Gadgets Jason Chen Nov 20

Thanko USB Face and Ass Warmer

It’s been a long, cold month for all your gadget lovers. If you weren’t out in the rain waiting for your PS3, chances are you spent the weekend braving the cold just to snatch a Wii. Now that you’re back indoors, what better way to pamper yourself than with Thanko’s USB warmers. First up is…

Gadgets Louis Ramirez Nov 20

trioBike Does a Three-Way

Here’s a versatile conveyance called the trioBike that can function as either a bicycle alone, a stroller, or a combination of the two. You can drop your kids off at day care, leave the stroller there and ride your bicycle away. We were completely sold on this idea until we discovered that the complete system…

Gadgets Charlie White Nov 20

No-Contact Jacket: Clothing as Weapon

Now the lovely ladies can fend off those miscreants, or even their favorite misogynistic Gizmodo editor with the No-Contact Jacket, part of a line of clothing-as-weapons for women. A mere 9-volt battery keeps those creeps at bay with 80,000 volts of Taser-like electricity. Hit the switch and teach that Neanderthal to keep his hands off…

Gadgets Charlie White Nov 20

Netoy Tries to Kick Nabaztag to the Curb

That floppy eared desktop bunny, Nabaztag, is trying to be dethroned by another completely pointless desktop-widget device. Enter the Netoy. Netoy is an 802.11g-compatible device with a small 1.8-inch screen. He can display music track information, read news, weather, e-books arms and being an overall general nuisance all while flailing its arms. Netoy WiFI robot…

Gadgets Travis Hudson Nov 20

Wrist PDA Gives You the Magic Touch

I’ve never been a big fan of wearable tech and the mere thought of strapping a PDA this big onto my wrist ain’t helping, but fortunately this PDA comes with a twist. It creates a body area network (BAN) that lets you communicate with other peripherals by touching them. So for example, you could print…

Gadgets Louis Ramirez Nov 20

Put Blockbuster Out of Business with Flic Scanner, Software

This could be the perfect gift this holiday season for that person obsessed with DVDs. Flic is a barcode scanner and software inventory logger that allows persons to keep track of DVDs, CDs and books with ease. Best of all, the software includes a logger—kind of like a checkout service— so you can easily keep…

Gadgets Travis Hudson Nov 20

Paintball Minigun Guarantees Pain and Victory

You can wear all the field armor you want, chances are if you get shot with one of these you’re going down for the count. The paintball minigun has six triggers and delivers 1,200 psi (pounds per square inch) of pressure, which means you’ll be rolling on the ground in agony after being shot with…

Gadgets Louis Ramirez Nov 20

CNN’s Guide To Innovative Tech: DVRs, Cellphones, the Wheel and Movable Type

Last week, CNN expertly told us why the Microsoft Zune sucks (hint: it doesn’t get e-mail—wtf? neither does my ball point pen…) and this week they show us some of the hottest technologies to be on the lookout for. You see, this is what happens when reporters try to go beyond their beat. Up next,…

Gadgets Nicholas Deleon Nov 20

ADS InstantVideo To-Go Accelerates iPod and PSP Video Encoding

ADS announced InstantVideo To-Go, a nifty little $79.95 widget that supercharges compression of video into that oh-so-sweet H.264 format. The company calls it the first hardware-based H.264 conversion device for PCs. This little USB key is a video transfer accelerator that lets you convert any video into that butta-smooth format specifically for playback on an…

Gadgets Charlie White Nov 20

Neko Stone Mouse: Flintstones Peripheral

Neko, a design studio out of Russia, created/dug up this stone mouse. MAKE believes the stone pieces were cut and then glued to a shell, which while probably the case, disappoints our fantasy of using the mouse while munching a pterodactyl wing. Against the creamish background the mouse doesn’t appear very attractive. But on a…

Gadgets Mark Wilson Nov 19

Dear All Manufacturers,

We know that you enjoy making products pink, like this LCD/DVD player combo. And we entirely realize that for too long, most electronics have come in black and black, or silver and black. No one craves color more than you good friends at Gizmodo. But do all these colors need to come in the form…

Gadgets Mark Wilson Nov 19

Solar Parking Meters Invade NYC

Etymotic ety8s Reviewed: Mullet Required

Full Page Illuminator for Late-Night Page Turners

iBeam Speaker Dock Makes Your iPod Look Like a Car

3D Modeling for the Tragically Untalented

Fat Legged Table Routes Wires

AirPod Cleans Air; No iPod Dock Included, Won’t Sell Well

Smart Finder Gadget Locator Finds Lost Stuff: Welcome To Senility

Poop Soap

Thanko USB Face and Ass Warmer

trioBike Does a Three-Way

No-Contact Jacket: Clothing as Weapon

Netoy Tries to Kick Nabaztag to the Curb

Wrist PDA Gives You the Magic Touch

Put Blockbuster Out of Business with Flic Scanner, Software

Paintball Minigun Guarantees Pain and Victory

CNN’s Guide To Innovative Tech: DVRs, Cellphones, the Wheel and Movable Type

ADS InstantVideo To-Go Accelerates iPod and PSP Video Encoding

Neko Stone Mouse: Flintstones Peripheral

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