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Boeing 747-8: Redesigned Workhorse

The Boeing 747, workhorse of the jumbo jet fleet since 1968, has undergone a radical redesign from Boeing, giving it these odd-looking bowed wings that add to its aerodynamic efficiency. The updated plane is dubbed the 747-8, represented here in these 3D renderings from Boeing. The upturned wings resemble those of Boeing’s upcoming 787 Dreamliner,…

Gadgets Charlie White Jul 12

USB Powered Virtual R/C Car

No matter how long I sit here, pondering this gadget, I still don’t know whether it is cool or completely useless. It is really pretty simple. It is just a basic R/C car controller complete with the trigger and turn-y wheel. Plug it into a USB port, install the game and have a good ‘ole…

Gadgets Travis Hudson Jul 12

Boom Bag Portable Speaker Prototype

The Boom Bag is a nifty pre-production unit that combines all the fun of bags and bag carrying with iPods and iPod listening. A “full range” speaker is located on the inside of the bag, as is a rechargeable battery. An iPod is then hooked up to the speaker; music then plays from said speaker.…

Gadgets Nicholas Deleon Jul 12

Netac Technology OnlyDisk U220: World’s Smallest Secure USB Drive?

Now we’re getting really little, where Netac Technology says its OnlyDisk U220 is the world’s smallest USB flash drive with built-in security. And they’re not kidding about that claim of smallness, it weighs a half an ounce and it’s just 2 inches tall, yet the highest-capacity OnlyDisk stores 2GB of your most important locked-up stuff.…

Gadgets Charlie White Jul 12

Spy Camera Sunglasses Records What You See

It’s amazing to see the lengths that people will go to snoop on their fellow man. These sunglasses promise to record exactly what you’re looking at thanks to a built-in video camera. The camera, which uses MPEG4 to encode video, has a 92-degree field-of-view. In practical terms, that means you don’t even have to look…

Gadgets Nicholas Deleon Jul 12

Mickey Dee’s Harnesses McSun for Chicago Billboard

We once knew a girl whose face was so ugly it could stop a sundial, so if she lives near Wrigley Field in Chicago, she won’t have any way of knowing that it’s time to stop eating Egg McMuffins and start digging into Big Macs. Ad agency Leo Burnett dreamed up this idea for a…

Gadgets Charlie White Jul 12

Two Second Self-Pitching Tent

This two second self-pitching tent takes the theory of those car window shades that are so hard to close and expands, dramatically. Quechua’s tent comes folded up, but when you toss it into the air—preferably not straight up—it deploys into full tent form before it hits the ground. All you need to do is stake…

Gadgets Jason Chen Jul 11

Wide-mouth Bottle Lantern

I’ll be the first to admit that I am a huge fanboy of those wide-mouth 32-ounce Nalgene-style bottles. They are large, hold a lot of liquid, damn near indestructible and perfect for measuring out Kool-Aid. The Firefly is a little gadget that can make these bottles even more useful. The Firefly turns any wide-mouth bottle…

Gadgets Travis Hudson Jul 11

Bizarre Fish-Themed Technology

Do you feel attached to your carp? Perhaps you’d like to dip it in ink, rub it on paper, and create a special “memento” of your fish. If so, the Japanese performance-art-manufacturing group maywa denki has the complete kit for you. They’ve also applied their fish obsession to musical instruments, with a carp-shaped glass armonica…

Gadgets Peter Kirn Jul 11

ArchPort Sandals, Instead of Pockets

Summer’s here, and a lot of the shorts you might be wearing these days don’t have any pockets. But you probably still want to carry sufficient bucks around for those inevitable eventualities. Now you can stash anything in these ArchPort sandals, where there’s a fitted insert nestled in the arch of each of these pedestrian-looking…

Gadgets Charlie White Jul 11

Trigger Optics Headache-Preventing Sunglasses

So the gods have cursed you with headaches your whole life. Now, you can either suck it up and take the pain, pop pills every now and then or buy this pair of sunglasses that promise to “eliminate your headache pain immediately or even prevent it from starting.” That’s a pretty bold statement. Too bad…

Gadgets Nicholas Deleon Jul 11

Hyanide Snow Bike Mobile Concept

This conceptual design easily falls into the category of coolest damn thing of the year. This motorcycle is equipped with tank-esque treads to turn it into an all-terrain mobile. This design was created by Germans, Oliver Keller and Tillamn Schlootz, for the 2006 Michelin Challenge Design. The Hyanide is also capable of making sharp and…

Gadgets Travis Hudson Jul 11

BMW Makes Self-Parking Car

Well, here’s another job made obsolete by man’s technological march forward, that of the car parking guy. BMW says that it will have developed a fully automated, self-parking car within the next three years. The system draws on components already found in some of BMW’s current models, including its fancy pants 7 series, and augments…

Gadgets Gizloco Jul 11

LG’s Finger Mouse: And There Was Much Rejoicing

What’s not to love about LG’s upcoming Finger Mouse? Doesn’t manipulating your computer’s GUI with a one-fingered mouse sound appealing, if not terribly comfortable? Just look at its shiny chrome shell, perfect for picking up your cheetos-encrusted fingerprints. Why, there’s even a tiny scroll wheel on its side for all your scrolling needs. Of course,…

Gadgets Nicholas Deleon Jul 11

Brain-Computer Typing

A new project somewhere—readers, can you fill us in if you know—allows two users to type in a computer screen using only the power of their minds. The participants, Heath Ledger and some lady, are navigating possible letters by just thinking about the choices. Interesting research if we can develop this further. At the level…

Gadgets Jason Chen Jul 11

Heat-Changing Paint

Reader Jason sends in this heat-changing paint from Alsa Corp. By applying a certain type of Eclipse paint, the finish will change from one color to another—white to blue, black to green, black to Apple Red Candy—whenever heat is applied. Splashing this on your shirt and re-living the late ’80s aside, the paint has a…

Gadgets Jason Chen Jul 10

Knock Knock Door Chime

To both confuse and punish your visitors, the Knock Knock Door Chime rings a door chime whenever someone knocks. Wha? Yes, you read that right. One end of the wireless door chime attaches to the inside of the door, while the other attaches anywhere up to 100 feet away in your house. When someone knocks,…

Gadgets Jason Chen Jul 10

The Red Phone

Do you take jokes and grind it into the ground? Then this red phone is for you. The old school red “Hotline to the Kremlin” style phone acts as a handset for your cellphone. When you get a call, you pull out the red phone and everyone can have a good laugh at your dry,…

Gadgets Jason Chen Jul 10

ESPYs Gift Bag Make Us Almost Want To Exercise

If we had practiced sports like our parents encouraged us to when we were kids, we might just be on stage presenting at the ESPYs this year. What would we get for our troubles? How about a metric arseload of awesome gifts in the grab bag. Here’s just a taste: Archos Gemini 402 Camcorder, iGroove…

Gadgets Jason Chen Jul 10

10 Terrible Technologies of Q2 2006

We’re already well into July, meaning that 2006 is slowly approaching its glorious end. More importantly, that also means that we’ve had more time to see what terrible gadgets, gizmos and other technological toys companies have come up with. The crack staff at CNET have come up with a list of 10 of the worst…

Gadgets Nicholas Deleon Jul 10

Boeing 747-8: Redesigned Workhorse

USB Powered Virtual R/C Car

Boom Bag Portable Speaker Prototype

Netac Technology OnlyDisk U220: World’s Smallest Secure USB Drive?

Spy Camera Sunglasses Records What You See

Mickey Dee’s Harnesses McSun for Chicago Billboard

Two Second Self-Pitching Tent

Wide-mouth Bottle Lantern

Bizarre Fish-Themed Technology

ArchPort Sandals, Instead of Pockets

Trigger Optics Headache-Preventing Sunglasses

Hyanide Snow Bike Mobile Concept

BMW Makes Self-Parking Car

LG’s Finger Mouse: And There Was Much Rejoicing

Brain-Computer Typing

Heat-Changing Paint

Knock Knock Door Chime

The Red Phone

ESPYs Gift Bag Make Us Almost Want To Exercise

10 Terrible Technologies of Q2 2006

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