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Conceptual “Wiimote in 2010” Mixes Fantasy with More Fantasy

This concept for a Wiimote of the future is showing over at T3, and yes… I know what you’re thinking. I do. Honest. But my real problem with the design is that it’s for just two years away, and do we really think Nintendo is going to redevelop things so radically by then? I’m sure…

Gadgets Kit Eaton

Nokia Helps Buys Symbian, Turns it Open Source

After a long hardware-software partnership, Nokia’s just announced it’s buying out all the remaining shares in Symbian it doesn’t already own. The purchase amounts to a whopping $410 million, and is actually part of a deal between Nokia, AT&T, LG Electronics, Motorola, NTT DOCOMO, Samsung, Sony Ericsson, STMicroelectronics, Texas Instruments and Vodafone to form what’s…

Gadgets Kit Eaton

Panasonic to Have 37-Inch OLED Panels on Sale By 2011?

Adding to the rumors we brought you a few months ago, the Sankei Shimbun daily newspaper is reporting that Panasonic is planning on having 37-inch OLED screens on sale within three years. And there’s more: they’ll be setting up a production line in the IPS Alpha Technology factory in Chiba Prefecture, intend to overtake their…

Gadgets Kit Eaton

Readybot is a Robot Maid for Cleaning Your Stuff, Version 0.1

It’s hard not to watch this video of DIY robot Readybot and think "sweet… what’s the next version like?" Looking like everyone’s favorite trashcan-shaped sci-fi droid has collided with a dishwasher, Readybot’s intended to be a home-assistant ‘bot doing a maid’s job, cleaning your house. It may be slow and primitive now, but it looks…

Gadgets Kit Eaton

The Gizmodo Water Gun Battlemodo Royale: Our Slo-Mo Trailer

This past Saturday, Matt, Benny, Summer Intern Dan, Wilson and I gathered at Wilson’s idyllic upstate New York home to test out five of this summer’s top water guns via an epic battle. The results and full testing breakdown will be coming later this week, but here’s a little taste of what water guns, a…

Gadgets Adam Frucci

Laser Surveillance Defeater Hides Your Least Important Non-Secrets

While most of us aren’t important/good looking enough for anyone to spy on, the Laser Surveillance Defeater allows us to at least pretend for a moment or two. While much of audio surveillance functions by picking up voices through windows, the $70 Surveillance Defeater can jam these signals. Sticking to your window of choice via…

Gadgets Mark Wilson

Photographer Puts 189 Non-Existent Spy Satellites on Show

“Yesterday up in the air I snapped a sat that wasn’t there”— so might photographer Trevor Paglen say about his show at the University of California at Berkeley Art Museum. It’s a series of photos of 189 secret satellites: the ones that officially “don’t exist.” Dubbed The Other Night Sky the photos are time-lapse images…

Gadgets Kit Eaton

Daft Punk’s Designer Shows DIY Glowing Outfit Tricks

Almost as famous as Daft Punk‘s electro-tunes are their glowing electro-outfits. And now, thanks to the chap who made clothes for their 2007 Alive tour, and an Instructables DIY page you too could don glowing gear. It looks fairly easy, as long as you’re nifty with a needle and thread: the hardest part seems to…

Gadgets Kit Eaton

SPult Universal Remote is Sleekly Simple by Ditching Most Buttons

Designer Yurii Smitana Perfilov clearly took a look at the chaotic button-fest that is the usual universal remote and thought “uuuugleee.” So the first thing you notice about the sPult remote is its gorgeousness, like a retro-futuristic digital dagger. The second thing is the lack of buttons: that scroll wheel does volume or channels, selected…

Gadgets Kit Eaton

LiveLuggage Power-Assisted Suitcase Lightens the Load for Travellers

The motors inside LiveLuggage’s ingenious power-assisted suitcase can turn a 65-pound load into something one-tenth of the size. With an anti-gravity handle and force sensors in the wheels, LiveLuggage is hack- and thief-proof and, once charged, the battery will run for a couple of hours. Costing $1,300, I’m tempted to try one of these just…

Gadgets AddyDugdale

Brando’s Portable Disco Lights Do it Psychedelically with Lasers

Laser beams plus funky light patterns plus party: sounds like a winning combo. It certainly looks that way for this Brando gadget: the green laser light spewing from it can be tweaked into a number of impressive patterns (diffraction grating, anyone?) And though it doesn’t look like it reacts to music, the shifting, changing light-show…

Gadgets Kit Eaton

AD88 From Alfred Dunhill a Pointless Waste of Piano-Black Finish

Whenever I see some high-end retailer flogging non-core business objects, I wrinkle up my nose in disgust. Chanel, of the non-Cylon No. 5, has been the most visible company to do this with its bikes, skis, and now fishing gear, and this is British gentleman’s outfitters, Dunhill’s, take on it. The AD88. Not only does…

Gadgets AddyDugdale

Greenhouse’s New Headphones, For the “Pig Crashed Through Your Brain” Look

This strange product from Greenhouse is worth talking about, if only so I could share that headline with you. In case you’re wondering, the pig is in soft silicon… to reproduce the texture of a real pig. After that news, you won’t care these weird ‘phones have a 20Hz to 20kHz frequency range, multi-sized silicon…

Gadgets Kit Eaton

Motozine ZN5 Camera Phone Now Official

We’ve been talking about this cellphone for a while, but today Motorola and Kodak officially spilled the beans. As we thought, the ZN5’s a phone that’s as much camera as phone, with a 5-megapixel Kodak unit on its back. This is quick-launched by sliding the lens cover, and has a Xenon flash, auto-focus and even…

Gadgets Kit Eaton

10 Gadgets For Air-Conditioned Summer Survival

For many of us, the first day of summer starts just before midnight tonight. That means it is time to start thinking about how to beat the heat when the temperatures soar and the air conditioning unit in your home or office inevitably breaks down. In this scenario, survival means being prepared for anything. The…

Gadgets Sean Fallon

World’s Largest Cruise Ship Let the Suburbs Travel With You

Royal Caribbean‘s new boat is big. Really big. The “Project Genesis” cruise liner, currently being constructed, will be 43% larger than the Queen Mary II, currently the world’s largest ship. 1,180 feet long and weighing 220,000 tons, it’ll be able to carry more people from New Jersey down to the Caribbean than any ship before…

Gadgets Adam Frucci

Stealth Figher Design Cues In The Kinzo Air Office Desk

The Kinzo Air from Kinzo Architecture might make working in a proper office bearable. Although with its Stealth-fighter design cues, a guy wearing a HUD helmet with oxygen might be more at home behind it than an accountant. It looks like its perched on the ground momentarily, ready to speed off— in fact I’m sure…

Gadgets Kit Eaton

$130 Samsung Instinct Out Now on Sprint

The Samsung Instinct, the iCloniest touchscreen smartphone of them all, is out today. $130 after 2 year Sprint contract and $100 rebate. [Sprint] https://gizmodo.com/iphone-clone-battlemodo-which-one-is-the-iphoniest-5017957

Gadgets Benny Goldman

Get Around the Time with Lexon Around Clock

Minimalist clocks pop up from time to time, and while sometimes they’re just good enough for you to know it’s “three-ish,” the Around clock can actually let you know it’s “three fifteenish.” It’s about as simple design as you can get: with a rotating dial and a red wire that tells you the time. From…

Gadgets Kit Eaton

Air-Conditioned Tie 2.0 From Thanko Knot Very Fabulous, Really

Those egg-heads from Thanko have spent the best part of a year banging their large, domed cerebelli together, tackling what is without doubt the biggest question that the human race faces this millennium: how to upgrade their air-conditioned tie. And this is what they came up with—hiding the fan grille behind the fabric. Let us…

Gadgets AddyDugdale

Conceptual “Wiimote in 2010” Mixes Fantasy with More Fantasy

Nokia Helps Buys Symbian, Turns it Open Source

Panasonic to Have 37-Inch OLED Panels on Sale By 2011?

Readybot is a Robot Maid for Cleaning Your Stuff, Version 0.1

The Gizmodo Water Gun Battlemodo Royale: Our Slo-Mo Trailer

Laser Surveillance Defeater Hides Your Least Important Non-Secrets

Photographer Puts 189 Non-Existent Spy Satellites on Show

Daft Punk’s Designer Shows DIY Glowing Outfit Tricks

SPult Universal Remote is Sleekly Simple by Ditching Most Buttons

LiveLuggage Power-Assisted Suitcase Lightens the Load for Travellers

Brando’s Portable Disco Lights Do it Psychedelically with Lasers

AD88 From Alfred Dunhill a Pointless Waste of Piano-Black Finish

Greenhouse’s New Headphones, For the “Pig Crashed Through Your Brain” Look

Motozine ZN5 Camera Phone Now Official

10 Gadgets For Air-Conditioned Summer Survival

World’s Largest Cruise Ship Let the Suburbs Travel With You

Stealth Figher Design Cues In The Kinzo Air Office Desk

$130 Samsung Instinct Out Now on Sprint

Get Around the Time with Lexon Around Clock

Air-Conditioned Tie 2.0 From Thanko Knot Very Fabulous, Really

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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