Gadgets

Watch Where Your Gadgets Go When They Die

I know where my black MacBook is going after I swap it for one of those new Airs (you owe me, Mum and Dad!), but what happens after? Luckily MIT is sticking GPS trackers on gadgets, following their eventual conclusions. https://gizmodo.com/new-macbook-airs-get-hit-with-a-thunderbolt-5822966 Run by MIT’s SENSEable City Lab, the Backtalk project will culminate in an exhibition…

Gadgets Kat Hannaford

Panasonic’s DMC-FZ47 Has Manual Control When Shooting Video, and a Faux-3D Photo Mode

Falling into that grey “bridge” area of cameras, Panasonic’s Lumix DMC-FZ47 (or FZ48 in Europe) has a massive 24x optical zoom, and a 25mm wide-angle lens which records 1080i video. So far, so goodish. When shooting video on the FZ47, users will have full manual control over the options, thanks to the new Creative Control…

Gadgets Kat Hannaford

Chuck Norris Would Use a Titanium Straw, How ‘Bout You?

Are you man (or woman) enough to handle a titanium drinking straw? It takes some compromises. You can’t bend it and you have to wash it after every use. But you would look very herculean sipping that frozen margarita. Besides its metallic good looks, the titanium straw has some decided advantages over a plastic straw.…

Gadgets Kelly

Sonos’ Play:3 All-in-One Speaker Is Their Cheapest Box of Awesome Yet

At $300, the Play:3 all-in-one speaker is the cheapest box Sonos has put out—something to be happy about. https://gizmodo.com/lifechanger-happiness-is-a-loaded-sonos-5691889 One of its killer features is an orientation sensor that determines whether the box is horizontal or upright. When it’s horizontal, it provides a stereo spread, but turn it vertically, and it switches to a focused…

Gadgets Kyle Wagner

Kaleidescape M700 Disc Vault Is a $6,000 Media Jukebox

DVDs, CDs and Blue-Ray discs are a royal pain. They take up space, are difficult to organize and time consuming to rip. This why we need the Kaleidescape M700 Disc Vault, a 320-disc monster that organizes your collection for you. The M700 accepts your CDs and DVDs and copies their content to its internal file…

Gadgets Kelly

My Car Wants a Rearview Mirror with OnStar Agents Inside It

The OnStar FMV mirror gives you the benefit of their famous emergency response without buying a new car. It’s like they’re staring right back at you, keeping you safe. Creepy, sure, but effective. The add-on device provides automatic crash response, turn-by-turn navigation, hands-free calling, and the amenities OnStar has been offering up to now including…

Gadgets Kwame Opam

MP3 Players That Look Like Bullet Shells

These cylindrical, bullet shell looking like device is actually an mp3 player that can double as a speaker. It’s about 3 inches tall, 1.3 inches in diameter, supports microSD and plays MP3, WMA, APE, etc. The speakers that come in the Singbox SV-606 are just mono, so you’re not going to get any real punch…

Gadgets Casey Chan

The FireText Could Save Your Life While Terrifying Your Friends

Just admit it. You suck at cooking. Therefore, that annoying little fire alarm over your head has probably saved your life a few times. So an alarm that sends out texts to emergency contacts sounds amazing right? The FireText does just that. It’s has a GSM SIM card on its underside that allows you to…

Gadgets Kwame Opam

“Halp, I’m Stuck In My PC!” And Other Fun Transparent-Gadget Hacks

I know, I know—another weekend stretches before us, a weekend full of twiddling thumbs and watching paint dry before work begins yet again on Monday. So why not make your gadgets transparent? Seriously. Photojojo has a great tutorial, which works on computers, laptops, iPads, TVs…[Photojojo]

Gadgets Kat Hannaford

Tools That Will Let You Read Someone’s Emotions

Imagine how much easier life would be if we knew when we were being a jerk or annoying someone with our idle conversation. It’s sounds like something out of Star Trek, but this technology is right around the corner. Rosalind Picard of MIT and Rana el Kaliouby at the University of Cambridge, UK worked together…

Gadgets Kelly

The Best Gadgets (So Far)

The year’s half over and summer is upon us. That can only mean one thing: it’s time for the young among us to sit in a dark room and stare at a backlit screen for 18-20 hours a day (and for the rest of us to be jealous of them). Here’s the newest batch of…

Gadgets Kyle Wagner

HP Thinks About Putting WebOS on Samsung Phones

Looking to expand the reach of the WebOS platform, HP CEO Leo Apotheker says the company is in talks with multiple companies to put the smartphone OS smartphone platform on third-party handsets. From the Bloomberg report: “We are talking to a number of companies,” Apotheker said in Beijing, declining to elaborate on details. “I can…

Gadgets Adrian Covert

Why Old Gadgets Look Like Your Dog Peed on Them

Your Commodore 64 may be aging like a fine wine, but it probably doesn’t look like it. And that weird brownish-yellow hue it’s taken on over the years isn’t from all the Marlboros you went through in the 80s. As Tested explains, The plastic used in most old electronics, acrylonitrile butadiene styrene (ABS), is flammable…

Gadgets Lily Hay Newman

This Mermaid Swims Through Your Digestive Tract

Say hello to the Mermaid, a self-propelled endoscopy device used to photograph your digestive tract. The Mermaid was created by a team of researchers from Ryukoku University and Osaka Medical College in Japan. Not only is it kinda cute in a medical device sort of way, the Mermaid is a testament to Japanese engineering. It’s…

Gadgets Kelly

Shopobot Tracks Gadgets’ Prices and Tells You When to Leap On Them

The only complaint I have about Shopobot is that it doesn’t track eBay prices, but other than that it’s a very handy site that will tell you when the best time to purchase a tech item is. So far it’s only tracking gadgets and games, but over time I can see Shopobot adding a whole…

Gadgets Kat Hannaford

A Samsung Galaxy Tab For American Airlines’ First-Class Bourgeoisie

Not only is American Airlines offering in-flight streaming on passengers’ devices, they’re also stocking the first class cabin with 6,000 10-inch Samsung Galaxy Tab tablets in total. https://gizmodo.com/american-airlines-to-offer-in-flight-streaming-to-your-5798288 Only 757 routes between LA and NY, SF and NY, LA and Miami, and Boston and LA will receive them, plus a few Euro and South American…

Gadgets Kat Hannaford

Colorfly Pocket HiFi C4 Pro is a Media Player For The Steampunk Music Connoisseur

The Pocket HiFi C4 Pro media player from Colorfly has an engraved wood backing and retro brassy front that gives the player a distinctive look, but for the audiophile, it’s the quality under the hood that counts. The Colorfly is as beautiful on the inside as it is on the outside. The media player includes…

Gadgets Kelly

Gas Powered Battery Could Fuel Your Gadgets

Your gadgets suck down serious energy. And you know what’s a more energy dense source of power than a battery? Gasoline. Or Kerosine. Or pretty much any hydrocarbon. Which is why Clarian Labs came up with this gas-powered gadget charger. The hybrid “battery” is actually wee rotary piston generator, originally developed for the Department of…

Gadgets Mat Honan

Why Does Samsung Want to Build a Cylindrical AMOLED Screen?

Next year we could be seeing cellphones with round displays, if Samsung has anything to say about it. The first thing that springs to mind is that it might be for some kind of wearable cellphone, wrapping around a wrist. Samsung’s already shown off a prototype 4.5-inch flexible AMOLED display, which could be used in…

Gadgets Kat Hannaford

Samsung’s 9mm 1TB Drive Is the First That Will Fit Most Laptops

But as one of our interns put it, “what kind of jerk would put a HDD in an ultraportable though?” That pair of 500GB platters will be a nice upgrade though, if you fork out $129 for it. [Engadget]

Gadgets Kat Hannaford

Watch Where Your Gadgets Go When They Die

Panasonic’s DMC-FZ47 Has Manual Control When Shooting Video, and a Faux-3D Photo Mode

Chuck Norris Would Use a Titanium Straw, How ‘Bout You?

Sonos’ Play:3 All-in-One Speaker Is Their Cheapest Box of Awesome Yet

Kaleidescape M700 Disc Vault Is a $6,000 Media Jukebox

My Car Wants a Rearview Mirror with OnStar Agents Inside It

MP3 Players That Look Like Bullet Shells

The FireText Could Save Your Life While Terrifying Your Friends

“Halp, I’m Stuck In My PC!” And Other Fun Transparent-Gadget Hacks

Tools That Will Let You Read Someone’s Emotions

The Best Gadgets (So Far)

HP Thinks About Putting WebOS on Samsung Phones

Why Old Gadgets Look Like Your Dog Peed on Them

This Mermaid Swims Through Your Digestive Tract

Shopobot Tracks Gadgets’ Prices and Tells You When to Leap On Them

A Samsung Galaxy Tab For American Airlines’ First-Class Bourgeoisie

Colorfly Pocket HiFi C4 Pro is a Media Player For The Steampunk Music Connoisseur

Gas Powered Battery Could Fuel Your Gadgets

Why Does Samsung Want to Build a Cylindrical AMOLED Screen?

Samsung’s 9mm 1TB Drive Is the First That Will Fit Most Laptops

Roku’s 2025 Streaming Stick HD Is 40% Off to Compete With Amazon Fire TV Stick During Spring Sale

Epstein Victims Sue Google, Claim AI Mode Exposed Personal Information

‘Wicked Spot’ Is a Fun, Sapphic Rom-Com That Yeets a Witch Into the Magical World of Influencer Culture

Anthropic and OpenAI Just Gave Us a Glimpse Into the Future of Model Pricing

Amazon Slashes 63% Off Acer Aspire Desktop for a Limited-Time Spring Sale, With Keyboard and Mouse Included

Smart Glasses Now Have One of the Vision Pro’s Best Features

Marvel Just Put ‘Daredevil: Born Again’ Season 2 in a Very Weird Place in the MCU Timeline

Trump Drops $1B to Kill 2 Wind Farms, Then Watches a Bigger One Go Online

Sonos Play Review: Call It a Comeback

Sonos Era 100 SL Review: The Cheapest Way Into Wired Sonos Sound

Asus ROG’s Massive Swift OLED Gaming Monitor Epitomizes Excess in the Best Way

The Ikea Varmblixt Smart Lamp Fills a Donut Hole in My Life

Nothing Headphone A vs. Headphone 1: Which Pair of ANC Wireless Headphones Wins?

Asus ROG’s Cetra Open Wireless Gaming Earbuds Might Be Better Than Wearing a Headset

Nintendo’s Talking Flower Is Annoying as Hell. I Love It

Level Lock Pro Review: As Good as a Secret Smart Lock Gets

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