Gadgets

Cargo Scooter Concept is Moped With a Hole

“Oh!” you may say, thinking the Cargo scooter/moped concept by designer Elliot Ortiz is craziness exemplified. But listen: mopeds are a good solution in many places across the world, taking up less road space than cars and being cheap to run. One thing they lack is load-bearing abilities, and that’s what Elliot’s design is supposed…

Gadgets Kit Eaton

Bandage That Electrocutes Your Wounds Is Much Better Than It Sounds

Mixing water and electricity is never a good thing, unless it’s in the style of the new “CMB Antimicrobial Wound Dressing with PROSIT” bandage. When you wet it, it generates a small voltage which prevents pesky microbes, fungus, mold and yeast from getting through its treated polyester fibers. Good news if you’ve got an open…

Gadgets Kit Eaton

PCs Get Wiimote-esque Motion Controller: The Stix

Motion-controller fans who don’t want to get into Wiimote modding now have a way of playing interactive internet games on their PCs with the Stix. No, not the ’70s band…it’s a new and very Wiimote-esque controller from GoLive2, touch sensitive and launched with a companion website that has hundreds of “free Web-based games,” whatever they…

Gadgets Kit Eaton

Sanwa CD-RE1AT Puts Shine Back on Scuffed-Up CDs, Automagically

CDs and DVDs tend not to last long in my house… but since I just fling them in a pile in the cupboard, that’s entirely my fault. The Sanwa CD-RE1AT might be just the ticket, though: it works on 8cm or 12cm CDs, DVDs and BDs. With a push of a button it removes dust,…

Gadgets Kit Eaton

BBG Perfect Gadget List Shows That Tech Can’t Improve Everything

BBG has done an impressive thing: It came up with a list of 10 perfect gadgets, unchanged by time or tech. No need to build the better mousetrap, because the tried and true mousetrap made the list. So did the wristwatch, the toilet and scissors. I don’t agree with the inclusion of the toaster (I…

Gadgets Benny Goldman

Amphibious RV is the Perfect Vehicle for, uh, Somebody, I’m Sure

Attention, rich jackasses! Do I have the vehicle for you: a million-dollar RV that doubles as a boat. Yes, that’s right, it’s an RV that’s designed to drive right into a lake and keep on going. It’s designed for a very specific level of rich person; you’ve got to be rich enough to drop a…

Gadgets Adam Frucci

$20,000 Spy Camera Disguised as Garbage Thrown Out With The Trash

A spy camera hidden in a black bag beside a notorious UK “fly-tipping” (or illegal waste dumping in the King’s English) hot spot was recently thrown out by local workers with the other garbage. Apparently, this operation was so top secret that the workers in question did not need to know the details before being…

Gadgets Sean Fallon

Wired’s Summer Gear Test Issue

The folks at Wired have put together their Summer Test roundup for 2008-a guide that brings you the best (and the worst) gear that money can buy for outdoor fun. Everything from campstoves to putters to ultralight notebooks are covered, so hit the link to find out what you should be picking up this year.…

Gadgets Sean Fallon

AT&T 2008 Smartphone Roadmap Leaked

Believe it or not, AT&T actually does have other smartphones coming this year besides the iPhone 3G and BlackBerry Bold. Four sequel-y Windows Mobile phones all slated for winter, and 6.1 updates for existing ones. Besides the Pantech Tech Duo 2, there’s the BlackJack 3 (with a better cam and a little faster hardware), Tilt…

Gadgets Matt Buchanan

Frellstedt Light-Up Bench: Illumination For Bums

Kind of the inverse of the psychedelic LED effects we showed you earlier, this relaxing Light Bench is maker Frellstedt’s idea of the future of seating. You know, the future where even garden furniture uses up electricity and contributes to global warming. Okay, it’s stuffed with LEDs, so it only consumes 95W, but you know…

Gadgets Kit Eaton

AMK is Lego-Like Digital Instrument For Your Kids, Ear-Ache For You

The AMK (that’s Alle Meine Klänge) looks something like the bastard offspring of Lego and a Guitar-Hero controller, with a few extra digital sprinklings thrown in. The idea is that its different modules can be plugged together in many ways to produce music: some have sound effects, others record incoming sounds and replay them and…

Gadgets Kit Eaton

Sub-$500 128GB Drive from OCZ May be the SSD You’ve Been Saving For

OCZ’s new Core Series SSD’s are designed to be large and affordable. So the new 2.5-inch SATA II flash drives are coming in 128GB, 64GB and 32GB sizes at $479, $259 and $169 respectively. They don’t match up to the 200Mbps read speeds Samsung has promised-managing 135Mbs- but that price point is pretty low. And…

Gadgets Kit Eaton

Loud Enough Earphones: Ultimate Ears For Your Kids

It’s been a while since we brought you some news from Ultimate Ears (the cat eating through the cable to my UE Super.Fi’s doesn’t count, sadly). But now UE has released its newest offering, and it’s for the kids: the Loud Enough earphones. “They’ve gone barking mad!” you might say, citing expense and the potential…

Gadgets Kit Eaton

Voyeur Security Drone is For Spying At Sea, Not at Your Neighbors

This helicopter mini-drone has been developed by the Navy to help it counter water-borne threats, despite its provocatively lurid name. Made by Lite Machines, the battery-powered Voyeur weighs just four pounds, stands 27-inches high and is actually designed to be suicidal. It’s meant to hop out of sonobuoy tubes, patrol for threats for a while…

Gadgets Kit Eaton

Sprint Airave Femtocell Launching Nationwide July 15

It’s been a while since we’ve heard about Sprint’s Airave femtocell-basically a little box connects to your router and sends your calls over the internet so you have cell service even where you don’t-but it looks like it’s finally set to launch nation-wide, maybe as early as July 15. (It’s been (in Denver and Indianapolis…

Gadgets Matt Buchanan

Chronotopic Anamorphosis: a Fancy Name for a Trippy Video Effect

This crazy video is the test of some new video software that had a clip “digitally manipulated by fragmenting it into horizontal lines and then combining lines from different frames in the display. The result is a distortion of the figures caused by their motion in time, or, as Brazilian researcher Arlindo Machado calls it:…

Gadgets Adam Frucci

The Today Show Has Seen the Future of Gadgetry, and It’s Idiotic

You’ve gotta feel sort of bad for people who get all of their gadget news from places like the Today Show. I mean, they did a section on future gadgets this morning, and what did it feature? A $700 doorbell! A $430 water filter! A $1,200 microwave that cooks entire turkeys! Nothing any sane person…

Gadgets Adam Frucci

GLaDOS GPS Voice Might Make You Think the Directions are a Lie

Sure, a Knight Rider GPS system is cool if you’re in your 40s and remember watching the show when it was first on, but what about people looking for a GPS navigator with a more contemporary cultural reference? How about GLaDOS from Portal, one of the best games of the last few years? https://gizmodo.com/knight-rider-gps-with-kitts-voice-5018469 Sure,…

Gadgets Adam Frucci

Maxx Portable DVD Looks Like Future PSP on Steroids

The Maxx Digital PDV-8500BLK is a) a portable DVD with a 8.5″ TFT screen with all kinds of format support on both disk and flash cards, b) PSP’s dumb older brother, c) a future PSP on steroids, or d) all of the above. Features DVD, DVD+/-R, DVD+/-RW, CD, CD-R/RW, VCD, SVCD, JPEG and MP3 playback…

Gadgets Jesus Diaz

Verizon Gets Rhapsody Subscriptions, DRM-Free Downloads

Verizon customers with certain VCAST phones have some new options for buying music, thanks to Rhapsody. First off, the $15 per month, all-the-songs-you-can-guzzle subscription service is offered on LG’s Decoy and Dare, Moto’s W755 and Samsung’s SCH-u550, Glyde, and Juke, and will be available for the Chocolate 3 when it’s out. Also, $2 over-the-air download…

Gadgets Benny Goldman

Cargo Scooter Concept is Moped With a Hole

Bandage That Electrocutes Your Wounds Is Much Better Than It Sounds

PCs Get Wiimote-esque Motion Controller: The Stix

Sanwa CD-RE1AT Puts Shine Back on Scuffed-Up CDs, Automagically

BBG Perfect Gadget List Shows That Tech Can’t Improve Everything

Amphibious RV is the Perfect Vehicle for, uh, Somebody, I’m Sure

$20,000 Spy Camera Disguised as Garbage Thrown Out With The Trash

Wired’s Summer Gear Test Issue

AT&T 2008 Smartphone Roadmap Leaked

Frellstedt Light-Up Bench: Illumination For Bums

AMK is Lego-Like Digital Instrument For Your Kids, Ear-Ache For You

Sub-$500 128GB Drive from OCZ May be the SSD You’ve Been Saving For

Loud Enough Earphones: Ultimate Ears For Your Kids

Voyeur Security Drone is For Spying At Sea, Not at Your Neighbors

Sprint Airave Femtocell Launching Nationwide July 15

Chronotopic Anamorphosis: a Fancy Name for a Trippy Video Effect

The Today Show Has Seen the Future of Gadgetry, and It’s Idiotic

GLaDOS GPS Voice Might Make You Think the Directions are a Lie

Maxx Portable DVD Looks Like Future PSP on Steroids

Verizon Gets Rhapsody Subscriptions, DRM-Free Downloads

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

Why ‘For All Mankind’ Season 5 Is the Key to the Rest of the Series

ASUS ZenScreen 15.6-Inch Portable Monitor Is Now Cheaper Than Black Friday in Amazon’s Big Spring Sale

Early Wildfires Are Surging Across the US—and Trump’s New Fire Agency Isn’t Ready

INIU Brings Another Power Bank to the Spring Sale as SnapGo Keychain Portable Charger Drops to Its Lowest Price

Attorney Hit With Historic Fine for Citing AI-Generated Cases

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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