Gadgets

Panasonic HDTV Photo Player: Slideshows Galore

Panasonic’s upcoming DMW-SDP1 is an SDHC card reader that’s designed to hook up to HDTVs, where your digital pictures will then be displayed in popular slideshow format. Joy to the world. Should you desire to, you can zoom in up to 16X on your pictures. Additionally, there’s a port that allows you to connect the…

Gadgets Nicholas Deleon Jul 25

Design Concept: Illume Display Shelf

Chris Owens, an enterprising design student from North Carolina State University, created a shelf that’s lit from beneath by LEDs. Pressure-sensitive switches embedded in the shelf turn on those lights when you place an object on them. Take a look at the video to see the design prototype in action. Wouldn’t this be great to…

Gadgets Charlie White Jul 25

Sony Reader Hands-On

We first heard word of the Sony Reader back in January when it made its triumphant debut at CES 2006. Patrick Norton at PC Mag recently gave the Sony Reader a nice little hands-on. Like most of the other pre-reviews we have seen, people are wowed by how nice the e-ink looks and how easy…

Gadgets Travis Hudson Jul 25

Buddy On Demand: You Never Have to be Alone, Sorta

A women’s car insurance firm from Australia called Sheila’s Wheels (those Aussies like to call all women “Sheilas”) have an idea for timid ladies who are afraid to drive alone at night, and they’re calling it Buddy On Demand, a life-size blow-up male passenger doll that will make it appear that they’re not unaccompanied. Nothing…

Gadgets Charlie White Jul 25

Bring 2D Pictures Into the Third Dimension With The EZ3D Picture Frame

It used to be that you’d be burned at the stake if you tried to perform such brazen acts of witchcraft, but since that is no longer the case, feel free to give the EZ3D Picture Frame from DigiGear a try. The picture frame works in conjunction with DigiGear’s software that plays dress up with…

Gadgets Nicholas Deleon Jul 25

Temperature, Time and USB Air Purifier, All In One

The casual observer would never suspect that we’ve seen an unusually high number of USB powered air purifiers in these parts, where there have been units for the office, for the car, and even for the soul, but now the USB air purifier has been teamed up with the digital temperature alarm clock, in a…

Gadgets Charlie White Jul 25

Slim Devices Transporter: Exclusive First Look At the Ultimate Audio Streamer

Alright sound geeks, put on your bibs before you read any further. Slim Devices is soon to release this $1999 Mega-Super-Duper networked streamer that is chock full of audiophile goodness. The Transporter – no affiliation with crappy films – is loaded with what they claim is the best digital analog converter available, the cleanest power…

Gadgets Brian Lam Jul 24

Morph Pad

Two types of phone calls in the office bore people to tears: conference calls and nagging-wife calls. For these circumstances, there’s the Morph Pad, a writing pad that you can mold and shape to all kinds of different designs. You can make a wavy sideways structure, a curvy vertical statue, or some kinda fanned out…

Gadgets Jason Chen Jul 24

Stowaway Guitar

No longer will you be ridiculed for being a dirty hippie carrying around a guitar and playing for spare change. No, no. The Stowaway Guitar can pack up into a classy briefcase and make you look like a dirty hippie oddly carrying around a nice briefcase. It uses a clip-joint neck connection system—whatever the hell…

Gadgets Travis Hudson Jul 24

Sanyo MAJ-U4CT1: A Little Boombox That Rips

This boombox plays CDs, Tapes, and MP3s from SD cards. But it can also swap music between those sources. It rips MP3s to flash memory, sure. More surprisingly, it can record MP3s to cassettes. We’re talking about nothing less than the automated rebirth of the mix tape. Yeaaaa…no thanks. (Thirty-something Gizmodo readers everywhere are recalling…

Gadgets Brian Lam Jul 24

Water Writing With Waves: We Wonder Why

Japanese researches in Akishima Laboratories working with Osaka University made great strides in the field of writing on water. Why would someone want to do this? Why ask Why? Try Bud Dry. Theme parks and hotels like the Bellagio would use this to make water shows to entertain their patrons. The device consists of 50…

Gadgets Jason Chen Jul 24

Monopoly Replaces Cash With Debit Card

By replacing the cash in Monopoly with a Visa debit card in all future editions of Monopoly, Hasbro puts an end to almost a century of “Monopoly money” jokes and wasted minutes waiting for your sister to dole out $50 because she’s the chairman of the board. Instead of divvying up paper 500, 100s and…

Gadgets Jason Chen Jul 24

Sun Photo Binoculars With Built-in Digital Camera

Yeah, this can only have noble uses. This I am absolutely sure of. From Korea comes a pair of Sun Photo binoculars with a 2 megapixel digital camera built-in. Why would you need a pair of binoculars with a digital camera? Perhaps all those birdies you’re looking at just want their picture taken? Yeah, that…

Gadgets Nicholas Deleon Jul 24

Car Turntable: No More Backing Out

Our mechanically-minded second cousins at Jalopnik have found a vehicle turntable from Hovair that floats on air bearings, turning that car around in your driveway so you’re always ready to make a quick getaway. Then you can drive straight in, and the next morning, drive straight out. This might be perfect for someone on a…

Gadgets Charlie White Jul 24

Freedom From Wires: Mustek MBT-D120 Bluetooth Dongle

If you have Bluetooth devices and you’re getting sick and tired of all those cables making a spaghetti bowl behind your monitor and under your desk, $25 buys you the Mustek MBT-D120 Bluetooth Dongle, ridding you of many of those wires once and for all. It’s a thumb-sized USB device that you plug in and…

Gadgets Charlie White Jul 24

AddMirror: Ads in Bathroom Mirrors Are Coming

The last bastion of privacy and repose is slowly being eroded, where first we heard about advertisements over urinals, and now enterprising ideapeople at Addirect have figured out how to hide ads behind mirrors. The company plans to roll out AddMirror around the world starting this month, which it test marketed in 300 fancy-schmancy bars…

Gadgets Charlie White Jul 24

The Love Toaster Induces Giggles, Scorn

Since we Gizmodoites are all bacon and toast lovers, we’re always interested in the latest toaster ideas, even it’s just a vacuous concept, or if it’s just plain cutesy like The Love Toaster. https://gizmodo.com/transparent-toaster-concept-171315 Of course, at first glance the crunchy products of the Love Toaster might elicit a smile, and might just thrill a…

Gadgets Charlie White Jul 24

The Cone: One More Reason Why Women Don’t Need Men

Isn’t this a fine-looking device? The Cone is designed to give the ladies such a wild ride, they’ll never need a man again. It’s a hands-free design with 16 different vibrating speeds, and when the time is right, there’s a handy orgasm button that takes the rider to that sometimes-illusive Higher Plane. With its pretty…

Gadgets Charlie White Jul 24

Fishing Parachute: Tire ‘Em Out, Reel ‘Em In

A fishing parachute? Yes, but not the kind of parachute you might be thinking of—this one works under water. It doesn’t actually exist yet, but it’s a patent for a device that tires out fish. When a fish is hooked and starts pulling on the fishing line, the chute opens, creating lots of drag as…

Gadgets Charlie White Jul 24

Intimate Partner Violence Clothing

This line of IPV clothing is the work of Adam Whiton and Yolita Nugent. The clothing is made of pressure sensitive fabric that can detect and measure impact to that clothing, or body underneath. It will then relay the data and information to a remote server where it can be accessed by authorities or archived…

Gadgets Travis Hudson Jul 24

Panasonic HDTV Photo Player: Slideshows Galore

Design Concept: Illume Display Shelf

Sony Reader Hands-On

Buddy On Demand: You Never Have to be Alone, Sorta

Bring 2D Pictures Into the Third Dimension With The EZ3D Picture Frame

Temperature, Time and USB Air Purifier, All In One

Slim Devices Transporter: Exclusive First Look At the Ultimate Audio Streamer

Morph Pad

Stowaway Guitar

Sanyo MAJ-U4CT1: A Little Boombox That Rips

Water Writing With Waves: We Wonder Why

Monopoly Replaces Cash With Debit Card

Sun Photo Binoculars With Built-in Digital Camera

Car Turntable: No More Backing Out

Freedom From Wires: Mustek MBT-D120 Bluetooth Dongle

AddMirror: Ads in Bathroom Mirrors Are Coming

The Love Toaster Induces Giggles, Scorn

The Cone: One More Reason Why Women Don’t Need Men

Fishing Parachute: Tire ‘Em Out, Reel ‘Em In

Intimate Partner Violence Clothing

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