Gadgets

Better Batteries for Hybrid Vehicles on the Way

MIT researchers have figured out a way to make a better battery for hybrid cars. They’re using lithium nickel manganese oxide instead of the nickel metal hydride that s used in batteries powering today’s hybrid vehicles. These new batteries can charge up ten times faster than current batteries, which means they can be ready to…

Gadgets Charlie White Feb 17

Clear Audio Master Reference Turntable

For those well-heeled folks who just can’t seem to shake off the idea of using an analog turntable, Clear Audio offers its Master Reference Turntable, a $19,000 precision instrument handmade in Germany. Let’s face it: If it doesn’t sound good on this turntable, it doesn’t sound good anywhere. The unit has three separate motors that…

Gadgets Charlie White Feb 17

Promise Lip Balm Claims to Curb Appetite

For those who are forever searching for effective yet effortless ways to lose weight, Omega Tech Labs is now pushing Promise, an alleged appetite suppressant disguised as lip balm. A month s supply will cost you between four and five bucks, and claims to not only slow down that ravenous appetite but it’s also supposed…

Gadgets Charlie White Feb 17

Netherlands Debuts Video Stamp

The Netherlands has issued a lenticular video stamp, using a special printing process on a stamp-sized piece of plastic. Each stamp sells for .39 (46 cents US), and before you think that’s crazy, keep in mind that these are not flat panel displays that we’re talking about. How does this work, you might ask? The…

Gadgets Charlie White Feb 17

Transition Personal Air Vehicle to Fly by 2009?

A group of MIT graduate student/wonks are saying they could have a flying car on the market within three years. Jalopnik relays the story of start-up called Terrafugia which has released some fascinating artwork of an SUV that flies. The Transition Personal Air Vehicle will allegedly be a car/aircraft designed for 100-to 500-mile jaunts, and…

Gadgets Charlie White Feb 17

Pac-Man Ghost Pendant: For the One You Love

Can’t get the high score on that 1984 Pac-Man game out of your head? Here’s a way to keep those memories close to your heart. Check out Tiny Amour’s Ghost Pendant in silver or gold. We’re not sure which ghost it is, but we believe you can use your imagination and make it any one…

Gadgets Tgrumet Feb 17

Teac SL-D900 CD Player/Clock Radio

Teac Japan goes retro with the SL-D900 CD player/clock radio, available in six colors for $210. Its best feature is the USB port where you can plug in your thumb drive and play MP3s. It hopefully sounds good, too, with its 2.1 speaker system with built-in sub. It’s cranking out 15 watts—not bad for a…

Gadgets Charlie White Feb 16

Water-Pressure Powered Light-up Shower

We’ve talked about showers that light up many times, but this shower is different. You see, it’s powered by the water coming through the head and changes color in response to the water temperature. No wires to run, no batteries to change—just sweet LED light bathing you while you bathe. It’s about $105 in Japan,…

Gadgets Johnb Feb 16

Size Doesnt Matter for Swedish Wi-Fi

Nanoradio AB has revealed their ultra-small Wi-Fi chipset today. The NRX700 chip measures 20mm2. Additionally this Wi-Fi chipset is claiming to have the lowest power consumption for a Wi-Fi chip. Nanoradio would ideally like to see their chipset in all of the next-generation mobiles device such as phones, media players and PDAs. Nanoradio, the Swedish…

Gadgets Travis Hudson Feb 16

OpenX Hands On

Just got an OpenX plastic container opener and thus far it’s been an interesting and useful tool. It is especially great for zipping open DVDs and CDs. Essentially, it’s a fork-looking thing with a blade between the two front tines and a small retractable blade on the bottom. The MO is simple—cut a small hole…

Gadgets Johnb Feb 16

Soul Ash Solace: Go Out In Style

Here’s a great way to go out in style, with Soul Ash Solace by Maximal Design, a combination cremation coffin and urn that will make you the envy of all of your morgue mates. The body is placed in this coffin made of eco-friendly corrugated board, papier-m ch and wood, and on top of the…

Gadgets Charlie White Feb 16

P2POD: A P2P Media Streaming Box

Though not the first of its kind, the P2POD box is a neat idea from Holland-based AHT International. The Delft University of Technology developed the software and will show the box at this year’s CeBIT. The box allows content distribution as well as love video streaming over peer-to-peer networks. So, every time you add a…

Gadgets Tgrumet Feb 16

Sanyo to Ship Voice-Navigated Range

Sanyo will soon begin shipping an induction cooktop range that features voice navigation and downloadable ringtones that let you know when dinner is done. The range is not exactly one of those Internet-connected appliances we’ve been hearing so much about—it works via old-fashioned infrared, where you download sounds from the Internet via cellphone and then…

Gadgets Charlie White Feb 16

Alarmingly Mysterious Wooden Clock

This wooden clock has numerals that mysteriously appear on its surface, as if they were being projected. It works with a thin layer of wood over the numerals, so they can shine through. But until those numbers appear, it looks exactly like a Scandinavian-designed, well-sanded 10-inch-long block of teakwood. There are no buttons to be…

Gadgets Charlie White Feb 16

New Flexible Ski ‘Armor’ Hardens On Impact

This came out a while back but this is the first time we’ve seen it in the wild. The US and Canadian ski teams are sporting a new garb that they now supposedly refuse to ski without: a lightweight material in their body suits that hardens in less than a thousandth of a second, then…

Gadgets Travis Hudson Feb 16

Star Wars Battleship Game

That old favorite Battleship has been updated, but Hammacher Schlemmer has substituted a fleet of Star Wars cruisers for the old gray battlewagons, and livened things up with digitized voice commands and sound effects from the Star Wars movies. In addition to playing against an opponent, you can play the game solo or in two…

Gadgets Charlie White Feb 16

So Many Flavors, So Little Time

Forget toothpaste. Now it’s time to put some flavor in your life with Breath Palette. At $161 for a kit of all 31 flavors, who could resist? Looks like an all-natural idea for packaging toothpaste and then selling it for hundreds of times more than was spent to manufacture it. You didn’t realize you needed…

Gadgets Charlie White Feb 16

Look Ahead: Here’s Your Washer, Shoes and Fridge in 2020

Think ahead 14 years and imagine your home in 2020. That’s what the Electrolux DesignLab competition asked designers to do in the Imagine the Home in 2020 design competition. The first prize winner was Air Wash, a waterless washing machine that does its work with negative ions, antibacterial deodorant, and a lot of hot air.…

Gadgets Charlie White Feb 16

Sanyo Announces Two MP3 Voice Recorders

Sanyo has introduced the latest additions to its Diply line of voice recorders, and both have a rather odd look with their stalk-like external microphones attached up top. The behemoth of the bunch is the ICR-S340RM (left), which holds a gigabyte worth of sounds—that’s good for 140 hours of voice recording. If that’s not enough,…

Gadgets Charlie White Feb 15

LED Throwies: Harmless Way to Make Your Mark

LED technology is so cheap that now you can throw it away. So the Graffiti Research Lab has dreamed up LED Throwies, colorful little LED markers you can make yourself. They require a 10mm LED and a button-size lithium battery and are taped together with a rare earth magnet for superior stickage. Each “Throwie” costs…

Gadgets Charlie White Feb 15

Better Batteries for Hybrid Vehicles on the Way

Clear Audio Master Reference Turntable

Promise Lip Balm Claims to Curb Appetite

Netherlands Debuts Video Stamp

Transition Personal Air Vehicle to Fly by 2009?

Pac-Man Ghost Pendant: For the One You Love

Teac SL-D900 CD Player/Clock Radio

Water-Pressure Powered Light-up Shower

Size Doesnt Matter for Swedish Wi-Fi

OpenX Hands On

Soul Ash Solace: Go Out In Style

P2POD: A P2P Media Streaming Box

Sanyo to Ship Voice-Navigated Range

Alarmingly Mysterious Wooden Clock

New Flexible Ski ‘Armor’ Hardens On Impact

Star Wars Battleship Game

So Many Flavors, So Little Time

Look Ahead: Here’s Your Washer, Shoes and Fridge in 2020

Sanyo Announces Two MP3 Voice Recorders

LED Throwies: Harmless Way to Make Your Mark

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