Gadgets

Garmin StreetPilot c550, c510

Garmin’s new StreetPIlot c550 adds Bluetooth to the c series, as well as a built-in TMC traffic receiver. (Most other Garmin navigation units require you to purchase the TMC hardware separately [not to mention pay a monthly fee for TMC data].) The StreetPIlot c550 also offers full Europe or United States map coverage, voice notification,…

Gadgets Joel Mar 8

Garmin Mobile 20: Smartphone Car Mount with Built-In GPS

Garmin is showing off the Garmin Mobile 20 platform, essentially a car mount with built-in GPS receiver that works with software available for most Nokia and Windows Mobile phones, as well as the Treo 650, to turn them into full-blown GPS navigation systems. The Garmin Mobile 20 also has built-in Bluetooth speaker and microphones, which…

Gadgets Joel Mar 8

Garmin Announces nüvi 360, 310

Garmin has announced a bushel of new products at this year’s CeBIT, included updates to the nüvi line of “pocket-sized” GPS units. Both the nüvi 360 and the nüvi 310 now have built-in Bluetooth wireless, which allows hands-free mobile calling, among other phone-related tricks. That’s handy if you’re using the nüvi in a car-mount, but…

Gadgets Joel Mar 8

Sony SNC-CS50P Intelligent IP-based Surveillance Camera

Sony recently launched the SNC-CS50P, an intelligent Internet Protocol (IP) based network camera. This device is the first in a new generation of Sony cameras to do their image processing within the camera itself. The “intelligent” in the description refers to that, as well as its two main features: Intelligent Motion Detection and Intelligent Object…

Gadgets Gizmodo.com Mar 8

Inline Skate Speedometer Watch

From the busy labs of Hammacher comes a wristwatch-looking gadget designed to help inline skaters (rollerbladers, for the cool kids reading) keep track of their travels. The Inline Skate Speedometer wirelessly communicates with a special wheel on the skate, measuring speed and distance traveled. The package comes with an adapter to ensure that the included…

Gadgets Gizloco Mar 8

Alesis Fusion: The Keyboard That Records Your Band

Will keyboard players finally get some love from their bandmates if they can record them in multitrack splendor? Alesis has built a high-end hard disk recorder right into the Alesis Fusion keyboard synth. They’re certainly not the first to do that, but what they’ve done is remove the sticker shock: this instrument was already a…

Gadgets Joel Mar 8

APT Electronics Petito USB Drive is Scarcely Larger Than A Quarter

Just when you thought USB drives were as small as they could get, along comes the ATP Electronics Petito USB 2.0 drive that gives new meaning to the word tiny. To be offered in capacities up to a gigabyte, the thing even has a hook on the top, where you could thread a chain through…

Gadgets Charlie White Mar 8

UltraCell Demos XX25 Micro Fuel Cell

The day where you can say goodbye to lame laptop batteries draws near, as a preproduction unit of the UltraCell XX25 micro fuel cell system was demonstrated at the Intel Developer Forum. The power source s methanol fuel can keep a laptop going for two days. These fuel cells are hot-swappable, too, so they could…

Gadgets Charlie White Mar 8

Drink Holdem

If you’ve spilled one too many brewskis all over the poker table, you need the Drink Hold em, a better way to keep that drink out of harm’s way while you bluff that sucker across the table. It has an adjustable sleeve to accommodate a variety of sizes of cans, bottles glasses and cups. This…

Gadgets Charlie White Mar 8

Mental Typewriter? Really?

No kidding, this brain-to-computer interface will be shown at CeBIT this week, and it uses 128 electrodes placed on the scalp to translate thoughts into cursor movements on a computer screen. The project is being run by the Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Architecture and Software Technology in Berlin. The concept is still in its infancy,…

Gadgets Charlie White Mar 8

Memory Ball Alarm and Radio

The Memory Ball Alarm and Radio from Uncommon Goods lets you change stations by moving a metal ball onto different sections of the grid on top. You can program nine FM stations and nine AM stations on its grid, and it either uses batteries or you can plug it in. Now if they could just…

Gadgets Charlie White Mar 8

180S JVC Tec Fleece Earwarmer Headphone

It’s been so bright and sunny outside the past few days that you’d think the winter was completely done with NYC—or at least you would until you step outside at night without a hat and have your poor ears nearly freeze off. So maybe it’s not surprise that JVC’s $29.99 Tec Fleece Earwarmer Headphones seem…

Gadgets Gizmodo.com Mar 7

ProductDose’s Top 10 Geek Watches

ProductDose has a fun collection of ‘Top 10 Geek Watches,’ including some you’ve seen on Gizmodo before, but quite a few that you haven’t. We’re particularly fond of the styling of the Nixon Dictator Watch [pictured], which records up to 3.5 minutes worth of sound to be played back at pre-defined intervals. Yes, 3.5 minutes…

Gadgets Joel Mar 7

Global Pet Finder GPS For Dogs

If Buster likes to run away fairly often, perhaps a GPS device for pets like the Global Pet Finder is something you should invest in. After fastening it to your dog’s collar, you can go onto their website and define a safe area in which your dog can roam freely without triggering an alert. If…

Gadgets Gizmodo.com Mar 7

Augmented Reality on a Cellphone

Viennese computer scientist Daniel Wagner has figured out a way to show a virtual character on an i-mate SP5 cellphone, and when you move around with the cellphone, it appears that you’re floating around this virtual character in 3D. Other people with cellphones can also see this character from their points of view. Augmented reality,…

Gadgets Charlie White Mar 7

Dry Your Hands in Six Seconds With the Jet Towel

One of Mitsubishi s more interesting products is finally making its way stateside. Available in Japan for nearly a decade, the Jet Towel is a hand dryer that not only dries your hands in double-quick time (about five to six seconds), but actually helps the environment, too. It eliminates the need for wasteful paper towels,…

Gadgets Gizloco Mar 7

Reveal Watch Reviewed (Verdict: Design-y)

Got a chance to review the Reveal watch for another blog, so head on over and take a look. Essentially, this is a very cool quartz watch that looks great on the ladies. While it’s definitely not for everyone, it’s an interesting idea and a great design. https://gizmodo.com/reveal-watch-153530 Review: Reveal Watch [WristWatchReview]

Reviews Johnb Mar 6

The Great Space Elevator

There are startups and then there are startups. Web 2.0 is all fine and dandy and I love AJAX as much as the next person but let’s face it, as amazing as Flickr, del.icio.us and MeasureMap are, they and the rest of the new web apps combined and taken to the tenth power aren’t even…

Space & Spaceflight Gizmodo.com Mar 6

Glass With Bottle Opener

If you’re always misplacing your bottle opener, perhaps you should save yourself the effort of searching over and over again and just buy a few of these nifty glasses with bottle openers in their bottoms. You can get your choice of blue, yellow or orange openers. $12 per piece is a little pricey for plastic…

Gadgets Gizmodo.com Mar 6

Road ID Personal Identification Gear

In the comments for yesterday’s post about the unconcious jogger identified by her iPod, deeddawg pointed us to a company called Road ID. Founded by father and son team Edward and Mike Wimmer after dad asked his marathon-running son what would happen if he had an accident on the road, they make wearable IDs you…

Gadgets Gizmodo.com Mar 6

Garmin StreetPilot c550, c510

Garmin Mobile 20: Smartphone Car Mount with Built-In GPS

Garmin Announces nüvi 360, 310

Sony SNC-CS50P Intelligent IP-based Surveillance Camera

Inline Skate Speedometer Watch

Alesis Fusion: The Keyboard That Records Your Band

APT Electronics Petito USB Drive is Scarcely Larger Than A Quarter

UltraCell Demos XX25 Micro Fuel Cell

Drink Holdem

Mental Typewriter? Really?

Memory Ball Alarm and Radio

180S JVC Tec Fleece Earwarmer Headphone

ProductDose’s Top 10 Geek Watches

Global Pet Finder GPS For Dogs

Augmented Reality on a Cellphone

Dry Your Hands in Six Seconds With the Jet Towel

Reveal Watch Reviewed (Verdict: Design-y)

The Great Space Elevator

Glass With Bottle Opener

Road ID Personal Identification Gear

The World Is Basically Begging for Another iPod

Anker’s EufyMake E1 Finally Brings Printers Out of the Dark Ages

OpenAI Says Elon Musk Is ‘Injecting Chaos’ with Recent Legal Maneuver

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