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Massage Pants Soothe the Parts Other Pants Just Can’t Reach

Here’s a product for those of you whose desk-bound working life puts a strain on your posterior: massage pants. Ohoho yes. They’ve got seven massage units arranged in a “a scientific and rational allocation” to best soothe your (ahem) parts, a number of different vibration modes and an exciting-sounding 20-minute automatic mode for handsfreeness. I’ll…

Gadgets Kit Eaton

Self-Stirring Cup of Tea Puts My Left Hand Out of a Job

In GizmodoWorld, no one loves a cuppa quite like I do—although the amount of times I go to the kettle each day is giving me RSI. Anyways, two French guys have designed a cup of tea that stirs itself. Simple in its design, all you need do for it to work is channel your inner…

Gadgets AddyDugdale

Guy Trapped in Elevator: 41 Hour Ordeal Caught On Tape

A quick cigarette break by Business Week employee Nicholas White turned into a nightmare when his elevator stopped dead in its shaft and trapped him there for a crazy 41 hours—all of it caught on a security camera. It seems like all of the technological developments in elevator design, from Archimedes through Otis’ security brake…

Gadgets Kit Eaton

Mobile Term Madness: LTE, WiMax, EV-DO and More Explained

We’ve been talking a lot about emerging mobile tech lately, tossing around crazy acronyms and words like WiMax, LTE, 3G, G-Spot, EDGE and whatnot. A lot of you probably already know this stuff cold, but in case you don’t, here’s the quick and dirty guide to what you need to know. GSM is the most…

Gadgets Matt Buchanan

C1 Tourbillon Watch Has 18th Century Tech to Correct for Gravity

We’ve shown you some beautiful retro-digital watches recently, but this timepiece takes the prize for integrating real old technology: a tourbillon escapement. Invented in 1795, this type of escapement actually rotates inside its frame and was designed to counteract lop-sided gravity effects caused by the vertical position gentlemen’s pocket watches usually sat in. Concord’s C1…

Gadgets Kit Eaton

GeeWhiz Condom Catheter Still Gives Me the Willies

You know why I never wanna have a heart attack or prostate problems? The catheter. You know which one I’m talking about. Just the thought makes my junk burn. Enter this year’s truly deserving Medical Design Excellence award winner, the GeeWhiz Condom Catheter. No more tubes twisted and crammed into tiny holes they don’t belong…

Gadgets Matt Buchanan

50-Year-Old Basement Organ is Real-esizer, Not Synthesizer

You’ve got to admire the passion of this guy who put a whole special effects organ in his basement some 50 or so years ago. It reminds us a lot of the recent Absolut Machine. Leon Berry’s music organ earned itself the nickname “Beast in the Basement,” and it even had wind effects, Tommy-gun sounds,…

Gadgets Kit Eaton

radJacket CHARGE Case Keeps iPod Touch Juiced, Protected

Gnarly, 80s surf name aside, the radJacket CHARGE (not my capitalizing) is pretty cool, as iPod cases go. As well as keeping your Pretty safe from keys, bag- and pocket-umska, the case acts as a charger, giving your iPod Touch a whopping 46 hours of music, 12 of video and 10 of web browsing, on…

Gadgets AddyDugdale

The Official Caddyshack Putter Just Slays The Golphers

Some see Caddyshack as the ultimate ’80s comedy. The more enlightened have realized its truer potential as the greatest golf (and life) instructional video of all time. Now, for the low price of $249, you can take Ty Webb’s (Chevy Chase’s) putting philosophy to the green with the Official Caddyshack Putter. Every time you remove…

Gadgets Mark Wilson

Parrot PARTY Black Edition Speakers Do Use Near Field Connection

Parrot has come up with a new Black Edition of their PARTY speaker which uses Near Field Communications to connect to audio sources, claiming it’s the first commercial speaker system to do this. Basically you don’t have to do any complicated Bluetooth paring, just tap your cellphone to the speaker and away you go. It…

Gadgets Kit Eaton

200MPH Nitro-Powered RC Car Opens Time-Space Portal

So, this is what 200 miles per hour looks like on a small scale. And what this RC-controlled car sounds like is a gazillion very angry bees all chasing after Michael Caine. Powered by nitromethane, the car is attached via cable to a pole situated in the middle of a circular track. Round and round…

Gadgets AddyDugdale

Brando’s Jaw-Tastic Solar Charger Will Power All Your Gizmos

This mashup from Brando takes some of Thanko’s electric vampire universal charger idea and the “survival” solar charger and mixes them into one multi-purpose device. Its adjustable contact teeth mean its jaw can grab onto and charge a wide range of batteries, it’s got a set of adaptors to suit different cellphones and has a…

Gadgets Kit Eaton

Urinals Coming to Airplanes, Beware the Golden Shower Turbulence

This is a pic of the urinals at Stockholm’s Arlanda airport, courtesy of urinal.net, but if a German design company has its way, pissoirs will soon be a feature of passenger jets. Dassler Interiors has designed one-man urinals designed to stand alongside (sorry) the existing cubicle toilets on planes—let’s just hope that they come with…

Gadgets AddyDugdale

Astronomer’s Watch Tells Best Time to Watch the Skies

At first glance this watch looks pretty ordinary, until you notice the lack of minute hands and the 24-hour dial around the edge. It’s actually designed to help amateur astronomers work out the best conditions for sky-watching, so it tracks sunset and sunrise, moon phase and moonrise/set times. All you have to do is tap…

Gadgets Kit Eaton

WirePod Power Strip is Curly-Wurly Piece of Kit

Designed for US firm Artechnica, Joris Laarman’s power pod truly is a thing of beauty. Designed for people who don’t want heavy-duty power strips—the kind you might find in MacGyver’s tool box—it’s made of thermoplastic rubber and has four sockets on it. The aim is, apparently, to turn power cords from “concealed, passive objects into…

Gadgets AddyDugdale

Asus EEE 900 Gets 20GB Linux version, Some Launch Dates

We’d heard the upcoming EEE PC 900 was going to have 12GB of flash, but Asus has just stumped up some more data. 4GB of that is permanent with the remaining 8GB being slot-loaded. That’s for the XP version— the Linux edition will have a whopping 16GB of slot-loaded storage. The diminutive machine will apparently…

Gadgets Kit Eaton

Comcast Wants a P2P Bill of Rights: Should You Be Excited or Afraid?

Comcast officially loves P2P as much as George Washington loves freedom. It’s calling for an industry-wide P2P bill of rights and responsibilities that would cover ISPs and users and “clarify what choices and controls consumers should have…as well as what processes and practices ISPs should use to manage P2P applications.” Furthermore, as they stated earlier,…

Gadgets Matt Buchanan

Bazooka-Like Wi-Fi Predator Snags Distant Wi-Fi Signals

The Wi-Fi Predator is like a Wi-Fi swiping sniper rifle, capturing distant ethereal Wi-Fi signals for your internets. Basically it tosses a directional antenna with the relatively easy (and awesome) DD-WRT router firmware hack, which will let you boost your router’s power to 200dB and set it to feed off other wireless signals. The instructions…

Gadgets Matt Buchanan

Russian Scientist Proposes Domed Cities to Protect from Nukes

Russian scientist Alexander Bolonkin has a way to protect our cities from nuclear attacks: just slap a gigantic dome over it. Of course! As an added bonus, we’ll also protect ourselves from inclement weather and the annoying tourists that airplanes bring with them when they land. When can construction start?? So wait a second, how…

Gadgets Adam Frucci

Blue Jeans Cable Calls BS on Monster Cable Patent Suit, Vows to Fight to Bloody Death

Bullshit patent suits are annoying when it’s a do-nothing patent holder trying to extract cash from fat corporate wallets, but even more so when it’s a bigger company trying to muscle over little ones. Like Monster Cable suing Blue Jeans Cable for having connectors that looked like theirs. Blue Jeans’ CEO, a former evil lawyer,…

Gadgets Matt Buchanan

Massage Pants Soothe the Parts Other Pants Just Can’t Reach

Self-Stirring Cup of Tea Puts My Left Hand Out of a Job

Guy Trapped in Elevator: 41 Hour Ordeal Caught On Tape

Mobile Term Madness: LTE, WiMax, EV-DO and More Explained

C1 Tourbillon Watch Has 18th Century Tech to Correct for Gravity

GeeWhiz Condom Catheter Still Gives Me the Willies

50-Year-Old Basement Organ is Real-esizer, Not Synthesizer

radJacket CHARGE Case Keeps iPod Touch Juiced, Protected

The Official Caddyshack Putter Just Slays The Golphers

Parrot PARTY Black Edition Speakers Do Use Near Field Connection

200MPH Nitro-Powered RC Car Opens Time-Space Portal

Brando’s Jaw-Tastic Solar Charger Will Power All Your Gizmos

Urinals Coming to Airplanes, Beware the Golden Shower Turbulence

Astronomer’s Watch Tells Best Time to Watch the Skies

WirePod Power Strip is Curly-Wurly Piece of Kit

Asus EEE 900 Gets 20GB Linux version, Some Launch Dates

Comcast Wants a P2P Bill of Rights: Should You Be Excited or Afraid?

Bazooka-Like Wi-Fi Predator Snags Distant Wi-Fi Signals

Russian Scientist Proposes Domed Cities to Protect from Nukes

Blue Jeans Cable Calls BS on Monster Cable Patent Suit, Vows to Fight to Bloody Death

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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