Gadgets

Relieve Stress With The Sound of Cracking Knuckles

Like other Japanese “infinite toys”, this gadget simulates a mundane but strangely satisfying experience in order to relieve stress. Every time you bend it you are treated to the sound of cracking knuckles. https://gizmodo.com/10-gadgets-that-provide-perpetual-pleasure-5068177 The gadget also features various spikes that can be used to stimulate pressure points. That’s all well and good, but isn’t…

Gadgets Sean Fallon

Update Classic TV Shows for the 21st Century

For this week’s Photoshop Contest, I want you to take classic TV shows from the past and bring them into the 21st century. Insert gadgets, change their locations, add characters; do whatever you want to give them an update. Send your best work to me at [email protected] with “Classic TV” in the subject line. Name…

Gadgets Adam Frucci

Samsung’s 240Hz HDTV Is the Best LCD Around

HD Guru just scored the first review with the $3,200 46-inch Samsung UN46B8000. It’s an LED-backlit LCD that measures just over an inch thick and refreshes images at 240Hz. HD Guru loved the display, calling it the best LCD ever. The full motion resolution and overall excellent performance places the UN46B8000 at the top of…

Gadgets Mark Wilson

Light-Up Rubik’s Cube Tries to Fix Something That Ain’t Broke

The Rubik’s Cube is a classic puzzle, one that’s tough to improve upon. This electronic version tries, but it doesn’t look like it succeeds on adding much value to the original. Rather than twisting the sides around, on this version you push buttons and have the lights move. How unnecessary! What this does add is…

Gadgets Adam Frucci

Silverlit Kazoo Electric Indoor “Kite” Completely Misses The Point

Isn’t flying a kite about skillfully utilizing the wind to keep a cloth contraption aloft? Sure, there are high tech indoor kites, but the Silverlit Kazoo completely breaks with convention by using an electric motor. https://gizmodo.com/biokite-is-flying-a-kite-indoors-weird-333841 In fact, the only justification for calling this thing a “kite” and not an R/C aircraft is the fact…

Gadgets Sean Fallon

Samsung N310 Viral Video Is All Gumby and Looney Tunes

If you enjoy the squishy clay-ness of Gumby and the brutal violence of Looney Tunes, you will enjoy the latest viral video for the 10-inch N310 (or NC310) netbook from Samsung. So what is the message being sent here? The N310 has a colorful exterior? Or is it that visitors to Samsung trade show booths…

Gadgets Sean Fallon

Insert Gadgets Into Iconic and Famous Photographs

For this week’s Photoshop Contest, I want you to take iconic, historic or famous photos and insert gadgets into them where they clearly don’t belong. You can find a lot of good source images here, but please don’t use the more gory or NSFW ones. I won’t include them in the gallery, so don’t waste…

Gadgets Adam Frucci

Sony Ericsson Patent Chooses Music Based On Your Facial Expression, Which Will Mostly Be Annoyed

Sony Ericsson has just patented a system that allows a phone or PMP to choose music for you to listen to based on your facial expression. My, how unnecessarily complicated and impractical! Just look at how the patent, entitled “Generating music playlist based on facial expression,” says the system would work: “FIG. 8 [shown above]…

Gadgets Adam Frucci

So Long, Stupid Media Streaming Boxes, You Sucked

They were basically obsolete from the beginning: Massive plastic coffins that beamed media from your PC to your TV. That’s it. For $400. And now they’re returning to the abyss, where they belong. https://gizmodo.com/hp-confirms-discontinuation-of-mediasmart-tv-and-connec-5259923 Besides HP killing their Smart TVs and Connect Media receivers, Linksys’s DMA2100 and DMA2100 are listed as “discontinued” at B&H, Niveus…

Gadgets Matt Buchanan

The Lolaloo Rocks Your Baby To Sleep So You Don’t Have To

Who knew that having a baby meant so much work and sacrifice? Fortunately, there is a way to get around this problem without doing any work at all—it’s called the Lolaloo. The device attaches to your baby’s stroller with velcro straps and gently rocks the carriage using a weight that slides back and forth inside…

Gadgets Sean Fallon

Doraemon Gadgets

Boing Boing Gadgets has six of the hundreds of thousands of gadgets Doraemon—the Japanese anime gadget cat—pulled out of his magic pouch over the years. Above: the Polaroid-esque Voodoo Camera. [Boing Boing Gadgets]

Gadgets Jason Chen

Your Gadgets Don’t Break As Soon As Your Warranty’s Expired – Your Brain Is Just Wrong

Wired takes a look at the “phenomenon” of your gadgets breaking just after the warranty on them expire. A conspiracy? No. There are two components to this. One, manufacturers calculate with extreme thoroughness how long to make their warranties so they don’t have to repair a bunch of products for free. Two, it’s your brain…

Gadgets Jason Chen

Blu-ray Is Killing Itself

I love a good high-def movie, and Blu-ray players are sweet. Only they’re so feature rich, the discs themselves are an afterthought—DOA or relegated to a niche format reserved for the finest films. https://gizmodo.com/lg-bd390-wi-fi-blu-ray-player-review-so-packed-youll-f-5255151 Oh, come on—you can’t tell me you don’t see where this is going. Even though the format has grown 72% in…

Gadgets Wilson Rothman

Samsung Micro-Shutter Means Better Phone Cameras, Someday

Minuscule sensors and crappy fixed lenses are only partly responsible for cellphone cameras taking such terrible photos; that they tend not to have proper shutters is a huge factor. Samsung wants to fix this. Most phone cameras don’t have shutters for the simple reason that there isn’t any room. Instead of relying on a traditional…

Gadgets John Herrman

Sony Discontinues Rolly in the US (Actually No)

Nooooo! Sony, why would you go and discontinue the Rolly! I think it was just about to catch on. I mean, when’s a better time for a near-useless $600 MP3 player than during a recession? Updated https://gizmodo.com/sony-rolly-rollies-into-us-391976 OK, so maybe it’s not that surprising that the Rolly got shown the door here only a year…

Gadgets Adam Frucci

Samsung Jack Completes BlackJack Windows Mobile Trilogy for $99

If you thought the Epix was the BlackJack III, nope. Meet the Jack. It’s a pretty standard Windows Mobile 6.1, 3G and Wi-Fi deal, and it compels copywriters to make lame playing card puns: https://gizmodo.com/samsung-epix-aka-blackjack-iii-first-smartphone-with-5066527 AT&T COMPLETES ITS FULL HOUSE OF SMART DEVICES WITH THE NEW SAMSUNG JACK™ Compact, Elegant Handset is Powered by Windows…

Gadgets Matt Buchanan

Samsung Ships First 32GB moviNAND Chips (Translation: More Storage In Your Pocket, Sooner)

They’re not the first major manufacturer to ship 32-gigabit NAND chips, nor are they the first to sell 32-gigabyte embedded cards. But they are the biggest, which means this step could have huge, fantastic consequences. https://gizmodo.com/toshiba-flash-chips-doubled-to-32gb-good-for-pmps-cel-5034627 Papa Samsung does have a legitimate FIRST!! claim here, in that these moviNAND cards are the only ones to…

Gadgets John Herrman

Death of Plasma? Panasonic, LG and Samsung Defend the Technology

What do Panasonic, LG and Samsung think about the notion that plasma flat-panel TVs are on their way out? Gary at HD Guru went to the source to find out. Tim Alessi, LG’s director of product development stated that his company is still committed to the format claiming that “LG will include some of our…

Gadgets Sean Fallon

Samsung ‘Popcorn’ U5 Wants to See You Sweaty and Hungry

Samsung’s Yepp flash MP3 players have been around, not really making any waves, for plenty of years now. But their latest model adds two universally handy functions: A pedometer and a really adorable name. https://gizmodo.com/samsung-yepp-ypc-c1-yp-f1-38013 Tracking both walking and biking, the Popcorn’s most attractive feature may be that super contrasty black and white (OLED probably)…

Gadgets Mark Wilson

Denon’s DBP-2010CI and DBP-1610CI Blu-ray Players: Pay More for Less

Denon’s DBP-2010CI and DBP-1610CI Blu-ray players are made with high-end components, but at $700 and $500 respectively, they are missing perks found in much cheaper players. They both have what pretty much every $300 Blu-ray player from Samsung, LG, Sony or Panasonic has: • An Ethernet port for BD-Live and firmware updates • DivX and…

Gadgets Wilson Rothman

Relieve Stress With The Sound of Cracking Knuckles

Update Classic TV Shows for the 21st Century

Samsung’s 240Hz HDTV Is the Best LCD Around

Light-Up Rubik’s Cube Tries to Fix Something That Ain’t Broke

Silverlit Kazoo Electric Indoor “Kite” Completely Misses The Point

Samsung N310 Viral Video Is All Gumby and Looney Tunes

Insert Gadgets Into Iconic and Famous Photographs

Sony Ericsson Patent Chooses Music Based On Your Facial Expression, Which Will Mostly Be Annoyed

So Long, Stupid Media Streaming Boxes, You Sucked

The Lolaloo Rocks Your Baby To Sleep So You Don’t Have To

Doraemon Gadgets

Your Gadgets Don’t Break As Soon As Your Warranty’s Expired – Your Brain Is Just Wrong

Blu-ray Is Killing Itself

Samsung Micro-Shutter Means Better Phone Cameras, Someday

Sony Discontinues Rolly in the US (Actually No)

Samsung Jack Completes BlackJack Windows Mobile Trilogy for $99

Samsung Ships First 32GB moviNAND Chips (Translation: More Storage In Your Pocket, Sooner)

Death of Plasma? Panasonic, LG and Samsung Defend the Technology

Samsung ‘Popcorn’ U5 Wants to See You Sweaty and Hungry

Denon’s DBP-2010CI and DBP-1610CI Blu-ray Players: Pay More for Less

Fitbit Versa 4 Drops to a Record Low as Google Makes Another Push into Fitness Smartwatches Following the Pixel Watch

JBL Boombox 4 Speaker Didn’t Stay at Full Price for Long as Amazon’s Spring Sale Pushes It Close to Used Pricing

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C-3PO’s Head From ‘Empire Strikes Back’ Sold for a Cool Million

T-Mobile 5G Home Internet Delivers Fast Speeds, Low Monthly Prices and Cash Back

Trump Says He’ll Sign Order to Pay TSA

Deadpool Will Deface ‘Magic: The Gathering’ Classics for a New Secret Lair

Apple’s Siri Isn’t Just Going to Use One Chatbot. It’s Going to Use All of Them

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

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