Gadgets

Dual Gooseneck Sat-Nav and Cellphone Holder: One Big Blind Spot

In an effort to make driving as dangerous as possible, a UK company called Santok has developed this hideous two headed freak of a gadget holder. The dual gooseneck design makes it easy to stick your sat-nav and your cellphone to the windshield, and it seems to do a fine job of creating a massive…

Gadgets Sean Fallon

Emperor Throne Only Lacks Button to Fire Death Star Laser

From the guys who created the Han Solo Carbonite Desk, here comes the Galactic Emperor Throne. It’s a limited edition of five units, which means it’s almost expensive as the Carbonite Desk itself. The chair will set you back a whopping $5,000, but that’s the price you pay to rule the Galaxy and say classic,…

Gadgets Jesus Diaz

Use Photoshop to Create Some Really Awkward Gadget Cross-Promotions

Sometimes, two companies decide that it would be advantageous to them both to release a product together. Sometimes it works well, like when Nike and Apple teamed up. Sometimes, it’s a bit more awkward. For this week’s Photoshop Contest, I want to see some really awkward cross-promotions. You know, like a Jimmy Dean Sausage Nintendo…

Gadgets Adam Frucci

Miss IFA Shows Us Her Jewels, and Her Philips and Swarovski Crystals Too

Ah Miss IFA, Miss IFA… Miss IFA with your-fake-red hair, Miss IFA with your-real-long legs, Miss IFA with your really big Philips and Swarovski Active Crystals… how much do we love thee? Let me count the ways. Click to viewOne, because you put the “Miss” in IFA. Two, because of the way your sweet voice…

Gadgets Jesus Diaz

Samsung BD-P2500 Blu-ray Player Is Today and Future Proof

With Samsung’s BD-P2500, we see that Blu-ray players are finally shedding that first-gen baby weight. Sized to fit in a normal dress, Samsung’s latest supports all current Blu-ray spec right out of the box and is prepared for expansion through its ethernet, 1GB of onboard memory and USB. In terms of audio, the system can…

Gadgets Mark Wilson

Philips Cinema One Squeezes Home Theater System into Tiny Round Box

As mentioned in the liveblog, Philips has stumped up a new home theater system that’s as small, and almost as round as, a soccer ball—for those of us bored of boring, standard rectangular entertainment gadgets. Though it’s tiny, it fits in an iPod dock, a five-channel amp, six speakers and a subwoofer built into the…

Gadgets Kit Eaton

BlackBerry Storm Has Multiple Personalities: is BlackBerry Thunder

So after much to-ing and fro-ing, it looks like BlackBerry Storms are BlackBerry Thunders (“…and violets are blue, I’m schizophrenic, and so am I” as a schoolyard song used to go.) The same device will bear two names: Storm for Verizon, Thunder for others like Rogers and Vodafone. It seems like there’ll be an 8GB…

Gadgets Kit Eaton

Toshiba’s Regza ZF HDTVs Do Their Own Cell-Processor Upscaling

Toshiba’s new Regza ZF HDTVs don’t upscale your DVDs to HD resolution with any old chipset or engine: they do it with a Cell-processor based system. Bonkers! It’s the first TV to upscale with a Cell, and according to its European executive vice president, Toshiba’s future “does not involve Blu-ray disc” but will use this…

Gadgets Kit Eaton

Sony’s Cybershot T500 Digital Camera Shoots HD Video Too

As we saw in the Sony IFA 2008 Liveblog, these new Sony Cybershot digital 10.1 megapixel cameras also shoot HD video (720p, though that’s not mentioned in the press release.) The T500 has a Carl Zeiss Vario-Tessar lens with 5x optical zoom, 3.5-inch touchscreen, eight-person face tracking, and something called “Double Anti-blur” technology which combines…

Gadgets Kit Eaton

Philips Makes Pronto Home Control Mega-Remote More Mega: TSU9800

It’s been a long while since we mentioned Philips range of Pronto home-control remote systems, but Philips hasn’t forgotten them: it’s been making the mega-remotes even more mega with the upcoming TSU9800. With a bigger touchscreen (6.4-inches, folks), and an dock that also does ambient lighting, it can also be mounted on the wall of…

Gadgets Kit Eaton

Sony Shows Bravia TVs with 1,000,000:1 Contrast, Due in October

As well as crazy thinness, Sony’s other upcoming TV releases include crazy contrast: one million to one. The XR1 series of Bravia’s will be 1920 x 1080 pixel full-HD models, featuring tri-color RGB LED backlighting for an improved color gamut, and dynamic switching backlighting tech to generate that enormous contrast ratio (it’s about 3,000:1 in…

Gadgets Kit Eaton

3-Channel Black Stealth R/C Chopper For $30

The guys at Think Geek are bringing R/C junkies one of the cheapest 3-channel mini choppers on the market with the new “Black Stealth.” Unlike dinky 2-channel versions, the Black Stealth can handle forward flight with ease—or so they claim. In fact, Think Geek goes so far as to say that it is the easiest…

Gadgets Sean Fallon

Question of the Day: How Many USB Ports Are You Using?

If you are anything like me, you have waaaay too many gadgets plugged into your USB ports. I have a hub of course, but it is still hard to keep up with the insane amount of stuff you can plug in these days. That having been said, I am curious to know how bad things…

Gadgets Sean Fallon

Samsung’s Black Edition Credit-Card Sized 1.8-inch HDs Are Tiny, Shiny

Samsung’s taking its large-capacity 1.8-inch HDs (found inside the Macbook Air, iPod, etc) and throwing them into this sleek bus-powered credit-card-sized casing, which looks to be about as small a form factor we’re going to see for a 1.8-inch drive. They’re only available in Asia at the moment, and on the high end (120GB) they’re…

Gadgets John Mahoney

Samsung A837 Details Hit: Tough to Military Specs, Star Trek-Alike Grill

Over at BoyGeniusReports they’ve got hold of images and specs of Samsung’s upcoming A837 cellphone, due on AT&T, and it’s a gruff one indeed. It’s a quad-band, HSDPA-enabled phone, with push-to-talk, aGPS, MP3 player, Bluetooth and a 1.3-megapixel cam. Its military-spec design and toughness make it stand out from similar phones, but not as much…

Gadgets Kit Eaton

Scientists Work Out Way to Capture 3D Texture Info in a Flash

Click to viewSome scientists at University of Manchester in the UK and Dolby Canada in Vancouver have worked out a way to capture 3D info of complex-textured objects really simply with a camera flash. You should care about this because it’s likely to make the textures applied to characters and objects in computer games way…

Gadgets Kit Eaton

DLO’s Homedock Pro Adds 1080i HD Output to Your iPod

It was way back in February when we first alerted you to DLO’s upcoming Homedock, but now there’s more info available. The Homedock HD Pro is an upscaler dock that can add 1080i or 720p output to your iPod through an HDMI cable to your TV, and it’s going to be demoed at the upcoming…

Gadgets Kit Eaton

Sandisk Exreme III SDHC Cards Blaze Along at 30MBps, 50% Faster than Before

Sandisk previously popped new Extreme III versions of its Memory Stick lineup, and now it’s extended the tech to SDHC. The new family of cards can cope with 30MBps read/write data rates, a 50% speed boost over previous versions and a “new speed record” according to Sandisk. They’re designed for digital cameras that have a…

Gadgets Kit Eaton

Epson Adds Moviemate 55 to Projector Lineup, 3LCD Tech, Built-in DVD

Epson’s just added to its Moviemate lineup of digital projectors with the 55 model. It uses a three-chip 3LCD system for high image quality, a new E-TORL lamp that can blaze up to 1,200 lumens, and has a built-in stereo speakers and DVD player. That’s where its interesting though, since that player is just standard…

Gadgets Kit Eaton

Headless Teddy Bear USB Drive Combines Kiddy Nightmares, Storage in One

Ages ago we showed you a DIY version, but now the removable-head Teddy Bear USB drive is a real product, ready to trigger-off those childhood nightmares all over again. The little guy is around 3 x 3.75 inches, is USB 2.0, stores 1GB inside its teddy guts, and costs $17. Not much else to say.…

Gadgets Kit Eaton

Dual Gooseneck Sat-Nav and Cellphone Holder: One Big Blind Spot

Emperor Throne Only Lacks Button to Fire Death Star Laser

Use Photoshop to Create Some Really Awkward Gadget Cross-Promotions

Miss IFA Shows Us Her Jewels, and Her Philips and Swarovski Crystals Too

Samsung BD-P2500 Blu-ray Player Is Today and Future Proof

Philips Cinema One Squeezes Home Theater System into Tiny Round Box

BlackBerry Storm Has Multiple Personalities: is BlackBerry Thunder

Toshiba’s Regza ZF HDTVs Do Their Own Cell-Processor Upscaling

Sony’s Cybershot T500 Digital Camera Shoots HD Video Too

Philips Makes Pronto Home Control Mega-Remote More Mega: TSU9800

Sony Shows Bravia TVs with 1,000,000:1 Contrast, Due in October

3-Channel Black Stealth R/C Chopper For $30

Question of the Day: How Many USB Ports Are You Using?

Samsung’s Black Edition Credit-Card Sized 1.8-inch HDs Are Tiny, Shiny

Samsung A837 Details Hit: Tough to Military Specs, Star Trek-Alike Grill

Scientists Work Out Way to Capture 3D Texture Info in a Flash

DLO’s Homedock Pro Adds 1080i HD Output to Your iPod

Sandisk Exreme III SDHC Cards Blaze Along at 30MBps, 50% Faster than Before

Epson Adds Moviemate 55 to Projector Lineup, 3LCD Tech, Built-in DVD

Headless Teddy Bear USB Drive Combines Kiddy Nightmares, Storage in One

INIU Portable Power Bank Is Small in Size and Smaller in Price for Amazon’s Big Spring Sale (45W, 10,000mAh)

Humans Were Already Dog People 16,000 Years Ago, DNA Suggests

California Regulator Says Tesla’s ‘Robotaxis’ Are More Like a Limo in the Eyes of the Law

Dyson Airwrap Falls to an All-Time Low in Amazon’s Spring Sale, Lowering the Barrier for This Premium Multi-Styler

The ‘Tales from ’85’ Trailer Wants You Back in ‘Stranger Things’ Already

Forget Ray-Ban Meta, XREAL 1S AR/XR Virtual Screen Smart Glasses Drop to Record Low on Amazon

Pixel Buds Pro 2 Hit Record Low as Google Continues Its Clearance-Like Price Cuts Following Smartphone Deals

DJI Now Has a Cheaper 360 Drone Than Insta360, but the U.S. Won’t Get It

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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