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Bloo Balls Custom PC Case Mod is a Whole New Kind of Punk

This custom case mod made for Bit-Tech is just eye-grabbingly bizarre… from the outside alone. Built by a guy called Craig, Bloo Balls was over a year in the making, which included and a whole lot of careful design, redesign and fabrication. There’s a mass of careful plexiglass-carving in there, including a hand-made, custom-crafted liquid…

Gadgets Kit Eaton

Sony Ericsson’s TM506 3G Handset on T-Mobile is Official

At the start of last month we mentioned that Sony Ericsson’s TM506 would be coming to T-Mobile as the first HSDPA handset, and now it’s official. Out early September at “select T-Mobile retail stores and online.” Price still to be announced. [SonyEricsson]

Gadgets Kit Eaton

Tomtom’s Pro 4000 and 8000 GPS Units Come with Support Package

Tomtom has just come up with a suite of GPS systems for the “mobile workforce” dubbed the Pro series. The first units are the Pro 4000 and Pro 8000, and while the hardware is essentially unchanged from non-Pro models, there are a few tweaks. Firstly the software has a “menu lock” option, that’s supposed to…

Gadgets Kit Eaton

KDDI’s Concept Cellphone is Half Transformer, Half Musical Box

The KDDI AU Design Project bunch over in Japan have stumped up with this latest concept phone for music cellphones of the future. And it blends two things we like a Giz: funky cellphone tech and Transformers. In fact Box To Play is less “robot in disguise,” and more “hi-fi in disguise” because when it’s…

Gadgets Kit Eaton

NYC Testing Out Beautiful LED Streetlights

New York City is testing a small batch of LED streetlights that redesign not only the light, but the entire lamppost as well. With current bulbs rated for about 24,000 hours, the new LED models, which rate for between 50,000 and 70,000 hours, would be a huge improvement. In addition to lasting longer, the LEDs…

Gadgets Adam Frucci

Boynq Swing USB Hub Inspired By Newton’s Cradle

You don’t know what happens on your desk when you are out of the office. What if your 4-port USB hub is carrying on a torrid affair with your Newton’s cradle? Well, the cat will be out of the bag if you show up to work one day and find a Boynq Swing USB hub…

Gadgets Sean Fallon

Spy Camera Watch Looks Like it May Actually Be Good For Spying

Forget those naff spy pens: This spy camera watch from Brando may actually be a decent spying gizmo. For example… can you see the camera in the photo of it? It’s in the whorl of the numeral 2, and the watch is pretty convincing. It only shoots 352 x 288 pixel AVIs, but it does…

Gadgets Kit Eaton

BlackBerry 8210 and 8820 Flip Phones Leaked by Web Retailer

A tiny mistake by online retailer Expansys has revealed two new quad-band BlackBerry clamshell phones. Some info on the 8220 has surfaced before, but the 8210 seems new. The phones are apparently very similar, with both having a 2.6-inch internal 240x 320 pixel screen, a small 160 x 128 external screen, and clamshell format. Both…

Gadgets Kit Eaton

Kurage Fiber-Optic Chandelier Adjusts Brightness By Tweaking its Curves

This chandelier-ish lighting design, dubbed Kurage3, allows you to change its level of illumination by changing how curved a shape it makes. Simple science really: If you make it curve past the critical angle for the 1.5-mm fiber-optic, instead of shooting through the tube of glass, the light from an LED light source leaks out…

Gadgets Kit Eaton

Intel Spills More Beans on Nehalem Microarchitecture at IDF

At the Intel Developers Forum Intel itself is turning the spotlight on the upcoming Nehalem chip microarchitecture. The chips will have integrated memory controllers built directly into the processor, as we mentioned before, which will allow three-times faster memory read-write speeds than previous generations. https://gizmodo.com/intels-six-core-dunnington-and-nehalem-microarchitectur-369076 The chips also feature a “turbo mode” design that dynamically…

Gadgets Kit Eaton

Muwi Concept Lawnmower Turns Waste Grass into Playthings

The electric-sheep lawnmower may have tickled your fancy, but this Muwi concept mower from designer Yuli Sung will have you scratching your head. The concept’s roughly the same as the sheep: It automatically assesses the grassy areas, and then cuts the lawn without supervision required. Cunningly, it grabs the grass cuttings inside where they won’t…

Gadgets Kit Eaton

Info on Intel’s Dual-Core Atom 330 Processor Hits Internets

Last we’d heard about dual-core version of Intel’s tiny Atom processor it was delayed through supply problems… but now info on Intel’s Atom 330 dual-core has arrived. It’s a desktop chip, with a 533MHz frontside bus and based on the 45nm process, though there’s no info on its clock speeds yet. It’ll be compatible with…

Gadgets Kit Eaton

Fujitsu’s iMac-Alike FMV Desktop Gets Upgrade, Bigger 19-Inch Version

We’d already drawn comparisons between Fujitsu’s all-in one FMV F-A50 desktop PC and the design aesthetic of the iMac, and now Fujitsu has upgraded the range and added a 19-inch version to the range. The F-B70T even features a bigger “chin” beneath the 1440 x 900 screen, alongside a Intel Core 2 Duo P8400 running…

Gadgets Kit Eaton

Mystery Intel Tablet is Panasonic Toughbook for Medical Types

That mystery tablet PC that appeared at the end of Intel’s presentation at IDF last night is no Classmate, or super-powered Speak&Spell either: It’s a Panasonic Toughbook-alike tablet. More specifically it’s a “Mobile Clinical Assistant” device, aimed at doctors and nurses who are under an increasing burden of digital data and imagery nowadays, though there’s…

Gadgets Kit Eaton

Cox Communications Getting Into The Wireless Business

Cox communications, one of the top three cable companies in the US, is planning on making a foray into the wireless business with an offering that integrates all of their services into one device. Cox president Patrick Esser explained saying: “I won’t divulge too many secrets here, but we’ll focus on providing simple calling plans,…

Gadgets Sean Fallon

Kite Surfer Goes Out During Tropical Storm, Learns Valuable Lesson About the Power of Nature

Kite surfing is a fun sport that involves using a large kite and a surfboard to get a lot of speed up on the water. It’s like wakeboarding without a boat. Naturally, you need a decent amount of wind for it to work properly. There’s a limit to how much wind you should use, however,…

Gadgets Adam Frucci

UK Gov’t Creating Centralized Snooping Silo to Monitor all Calls, Texts, Emails, IMs and Surf Histories

The UK government has decided to spend hundreds of millions of pounds (gajillions of dollars in US currency) on a huge central silo for all of the country’s communications data. What’ll that entail? Well, apparently “the one-stop-shop database will retain details of all calls, texts, emails, instant messenger conversations and websites accessed in the UK…

Gadgets Adam Frucci

The Most Inventive Ways to Void Your Gadget Warranties

For this week’s contest, we took a little break from the Photoshopping. Instead, I asked you to submit photos of gadgets being used in ways other than originally intended. Below the jump, you’ll find a bunch of photos of people getting pretty creative with their toys (and breaking some warranties along the way). Hit the…

Gadgets Adam Frucci

Low-Tech Bluetooth Hack Puts Callers to Your Cellphone On Infinite hold

This video demos what an Instructables team call a “quick down and dirty hack” that uses a Bluetooth headset to prank callers to your cellphone with an infinite hold pattern. It involves nothing more sophisticated than a cheapo Bluetooth headset, a few components, a modicum of soldering, and some amusing tunes and message creation. Your…

Gadgets Kit Eaton

Animated Waterdrop Sculpture May Amaze, Make You Seasick

Less spine-tinglingly freaky than the eerie-eyeballed Opto-Isolator animated sculpture, the upcoming Waterdrop sculpture by Héctor Serrano Studio for Roca may have a different side-effect: seasickness. It’s made of hundreds of moving vertical bars, each with a glowing tip, driven by motors to mimic in large scale the surface of a puddle after a water drop…

Gadgets Kit Eaton

Bloo Balls Custom PC Case Mod is a Whole New Kind of Punk

Sony Ericsson’s TM506 3G Handset on T-Mobile is Official

Tomtom’s Pro 4000 and 8000 GPS Units Come with Support Package

KDDI’s Concept Cellphone is Half Transformer, Half Musical Box

NYC Testing Out Beautiful LED Streetlights

Boynq Swing USB Hub Inspired By Newton’s Cradle

Spy Camera Watch Looks Like it May Actually Be Good For Spying

BlackBerry 8210 and 8820 Flip Phones Leaked by Web Retailer

Kurage Fiber-Optic Chandelier Adjusts Brightness By Tweaking its Curves

Intel Spills More Beans on Nehalem Microarchitecture at IDF

Muwi Concept Lawnmower Turns Waste Grass into Playthings

Info on Intel’s Dual-Core Atom 330 Processor Hits Internets

Fujitsu’s iMac-Alike FMV Desktop Gets Upgrade, Bigger 19-Inch Version

Mystery Intel Tablet is Panasonic Toughbook for Medical Types

Cox Communications Getting Into The Wireless Business

Kite Surfer Goes Out During Tropical Storm, Learns Valuable Lesson About the Power of Nature

UK Gov’t Creating Centralized Snooping Silo to Monitor all Calls, Texts, Emails, IMs and Surf Histories

The Most Inventive Ways to Void Your Gadget Warranties

Low-Tech Bluetooth Hack Puts Callers to Your Cellphone On Infinite hold

Animated Waterdrop Sculpture May Amaze, Make You Seasick

6 Magic School Anime and Manga to Discover Instead of Thinking About ‘Harry Potter’ Ever Again

Unprecedented Images Show Sperm Whales Acting as Midwives to Help a Mom Give Birth

‘Butt Birth’-ing Rhinoceros from Ace Ventura Sequel Sold at Auction for a Whopping $60,000

The Ryan Gosling Sci-Fi Streak Will Continue Until Morale Improves

Study Challenges Popular Theory on Why Primordial Bugs Were So Darn Huge

Ewan McGregor and Anne Hathaway’s Mystery’s Sci-Fi Film Has Its First Trailer

Scientists Just Found the Salt Limit That Pushes Your Heart to the Breaking Point

White House Social Media Just Had Its Covfefe Moment

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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