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Tank Forcefield

Developed by various defense companies, the Trophy system is basically an active forcefield around a tank or an armored vehicle to defend against RPG rounds. It’s not an actual forcefield like the USS Enterprise, it’s a system that detects when a round is incoming and shoots out a projectile to eliminate the threat. Best of…

Gadgets Jason Chen Oct 16

Vector Holder Charts My Imaginary Demise

Gizmodo loves charts. This stuff holder from Artemy Lebedev, makers of the Optimus keyboard, looks like a chart of the gradually increasing diameter of my gut, from age 20-29, when you face its green side towards you. Flip it around to see the… the red side of the chart, downward, as if it were mapping…

Gadgets Brian Lam Oct 16

Insanity: Four GPS Navs Shouting From One Dashboard

The voices in Charlie’s head are nothing compared to the cacophony coming from his dashboard. Take a look at this video, where you can hear the voices of four GPS units as he test which tell us to turn soonest. The smooth-sounding male voice is that of the Honda Civic Hybrid’s built-in GPS unit, the…

Gadgets Brian Lam Oct 16

Fujitsu P1610 Gives Laptops Across the World Weight Complex

Fujitsu may call it a mini laptop, but we all know the P1610 is the illegitimate love child of a UMPC, ultraportable, Tablet PC threesome. It’s got a swiveling 8.9-inch display, an 80GB hard drive, and built-in Wi-Fi/Bluetooth. There’s no dual-core love here though. Instead it’s powered by a 1.2GHz Intel Core Solo processor. The…

Gadgets Louis Ramirez Oct 16

GPS Gang Bang: Garmin, Mio, Cobra and Honda

GPS navigation systems are getting more affordable every day, with powerful but basic units such as the Garmin StreetPilot c320 selling for scarcely more than $300. We got four higher-end GPS units together in the same place, taking them out of the road and comparing their capabilities. The crazy thing is, we liked them all.…

Gadgets Charlie White Oct 16

World Record Beer-Opening Helicopter

I don’t know whether to be impressed or frightened. This video is courtesy of our lovers over at Dethroner. It is a 10-minute long video of some guy piloting a small helicopter and opening beer bottles with said helicopter. If I understand correctly, this guy set a world record for shortest amount of time spent…

Gadgets Travis Hudson Oct 16

M-Audio’s X-Session Pro Lets DJs Rock On

Digital DJs have one more way to keep the floor-filling beats going thanks to the X-Session Pro. The USB-powered controller fuses the standard controls of a two-channel DJ mixer with the transport and pitch controls of a turntable. It may not be not be suitable for pros, but it’ll let you control volume, pitch, EQ,…

Gadgets Louis Ramirez Oct 16

Bubble Helmet Makes You Look Like Bigger Dork Than You Really Are

We’re all for enhancing our TV-viewing experience, but this 6-pound helmet looks more like a prop from SpaceBalls than something we’d wanna wear. Still, Toshiba claims the helmet will give its wearer a 360-degree panorama when watching TV or playing games. Personally, we’d rather use it to scare small children. The Raw Feed via Daily…

Gadgets Louis Ramirez Oct 16

What If All Humans Vanished?

Our recent ruminations about nuclear weapons and who’s got ’em/who doesn’t got us to thinking about apocalypse. It’s the stuff of science fiction, but what would happen if all of a sudden there were no people on Earth? The Times of London put together a timeline of what the Earth would look like 20 years…

Gadgets Charlie White Oct 16

USB Air Purifier, Clock

This clock is actually labeled as a USB Digital Thermo Clock Air Purifier. Odd name, yes, but it accurately describes everything that this little USB device does. It can purify the air around you (probably not much, though), and tell you the time, temperature and date all while glowing. It is available through Brando for…

Gadgets Travis Hudson Oct 16

TokyoFlash LED Watch Sheds Weight, Still Impossible to Read

If you’ve always wanted an LED watch, but were never quite into the whole cyborg look, TokyoFlash’s new Retsu model can satisfy your craving without swallowing your entire wrist. The new Retsu watch is just 8mm thin (or 0.31 inches) and weighs 40 grams (just over an ounce). It’s still impossible for mere mortals to…

Gadgets Louis Ramirez Oct 16

Pandigital Releases Video-Friendly Digital Photo Frames

Pandigital has released a 5.6-inch, 7-inch, 8-inch and 9.2-inch digital photo frame. What makes these frames different than the average bear is the ability to play video. In addition to the usual flavor of image files supports, this frame will also play back video from MPEG for AVI formats. Media can be loaded onto the…

Gadgets Travis Hudson Oct 16

Honda GPS Adds Weather Conditions, Social Networking

Honda takes GPS navigation to the next level, planning to add weather data and social networking to its upcoming factory-installed car navi systems. It connects to the Japanese InterNavi Premium Club, showing you what the weather is like wherever you are, and what it will be like on your proposed route. There’s also a social…

Gadgets Charlie White Oct 16

Mickey, Minnie Mouse Hump Your Screen, Eliminate Finger Grease

In all reality this product could just be a shipment of little, plush stuffed characters that fell off the truck and were hocked as screen cleaners, but I’m pretty sold on ’em. Mickey and Minnie’s stomachs are actually soft, optical grade fabric cloth that can clean your screen by humping the shit out of it.…

Gadgets Travis Hudson Oct 16

Victoria’s Secret Hocks $6.5 Million Bra, Babe Not Included

Because of our No Bra Left Behind policy here at the Giz, we’re compelled to show you this year’s fantasy getup from Victoria’s Secret, this time tipping the bank account south by $6.5 million. The Hearts on Fire Diamond Fantasy Bra has a total of 800 carats—more than 2000 round diamonds—spread out across both breasts…

Gadgets Charlie White Oct 16

Roomba Monkey – The Missing Link in your Living Room

Unequivocal proof that humans evolved from Roombas. Or wait – was it the other way around? Just when you thought that man could not love an automatic vacuum at any greater capacity, it goes all Every Which Way But Loose on us. Tune in this Tuesday for my Frankenreview – see you next weekend. https://gizmodo.com/gizmodo-frankenreview-sony-laptop-battery-recalls-206687

Gadgets Mark Wilson Oct 15

AuraOrb: Socially Aware, But Still Doesn’t Care About Your Problems

The AuraOrb is a notification device without the fine woodworking of other gadgets we’ve talked about lately. https://gizmodo.com/the-device-patented-process-indicating-apparatus-eno-207681 Its specialty is to use social awareness cues, such as eye contact, to determine when it should light up its 360-degree display with your latest information updates. Touching the orb transfers messages directly to your computer screen.…

Gadgets Mark Wilson Oct 15

iPod Nano From Hell?

This from reader/Satan-worshipper David: “Hey guys, I’m a worker at Staples-Business Depot in Canada , and we just started carying iPods. Funny little thing, in our inventory program, for every iPod the SKU starts with 666! For exapme the ipod Nano is 666 268. Coincidence? I think not. iPods must be from from hell.” Hmm. Did…

Gadgets Mark Wilson Oct 15

Wii Programming: Can You Chicken Dance?

Here is video that’s been floating around a bit, showing just how simple it is to program wiimote movements through the dev tool LiveMove. We’ll admit it – this is a boring video about a cool topic, but we cracked up about halfway when he says, “Imagine me as a cowboy…I’m lassoing a steer…” And…

Gadgets Mark Wilson Oct 15

Motorola Q Pro Early 2007?

According to one report from Gartner Symposium ITxpo, the Motorola Q Pro is confirmed for launch in the first quarter of 2007. Aside from unspecific hardware upgrades, the Moto Q Pro will come in black (the new black) and sport the Motorola MOTOPRO Mobility Suite – allowing remote device and application management along the ability…

Gadgets Mark Wilson Oct 15

Tank Forcefield

Vector Holder Charts My Imaginary Demise

Insanity: Four GPS Navs Shouting From One Dashboard

Fujitsu P1610 Gives Laptops Across the World Weight Complex

GPS Gang Bang: Garmin, Mio, Cobra and Honda

World Record Beer-Opening Helicopter

M-Audio’s X-Session Pro Lets DJs Rock On

Bubble Helmet Makes You Look Like Bigger Dork Than You Really Are

What If All Humans Vanished?

USB Air Purifier, Clock

TokyoFlash LED Watch Sheds Weight, Still Impossible to Read

Pandigital Releases Video-Friendly Digital Photo Frames

Honda GPS Adds Weather Conditions, Social Networking

Mickey, Minnie Mouse Hump Your Screen, Eliminate Finger Grease

Victoria’s Secret Hocks $6.5 Million Bra, Babe Not Included

Roomba Monkey – The Missing Link in your Living Room

AuraOrb: Socially Aware, But Still Doesn’t Care About Your Problems

iPod Nano From Hell?

Wii Programming: Can You Chicken Dance?

Motorola Q Pro Early 2007?

Samsung Drops Galaxy S25 FE to Its Lowest Price Yet to Clear Out 2025 Smartphone Lineup

Skyscanner Offers Summer of Soccer Travel Deals, Book Now and Avoid Overpaying

Absolute Robin Is a Giant Goddamn Robot

Apple Watch Ultra 3 Hits Record Low in Its First Big Price Cut of the Year Amid 2025 Smartwatch Clearance

ICE Reportedly Acknowledges Its Use of Notorious Graphite Spyware

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