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Outdoor Air Conditioner: For Those Who Actually Do Want to Pay to Cool the Outdoors

If there was ever an invention out there destined to piss off fathers everywhere, it’s this. It’s an outdoor air conditioner. Yeah, you heard that right. Perhaps the most wasteful and idiotic product I’ve ever seen, this thing is designed to make those hot summer days a bit more comfortable. I mean, hey, we all…

Gadgets Adam Frucci

Laptop Underwear Serves Surprisingly Practical Purpose

Originally when our eyes beheld this Boratesque laptop under garment, we figured it was only good for a quick chuckle and, if we were lucky, maybe a crude tire tracks reference. But when we read more about this amazing piece of cloth, we learned that it was one loving mother’s solution to a child’s broken…

Gadgets Mark Wilson

Homemade Electric Motocycle Gets 300mpg

Yes, this homemade electric motorcycle gets the gas price equivalent of 300 miles per gallon. Yes, its speeds hit 40mph within its modest 15 mile range. And yes, the engine runs silently with zero vibration. But don’t blame the auto companies. They work really hard. And besides, with their limited resources, how can they be…

Gadgets Mark Wilson

Nextar I4-BC, a GPS and Reversing Camera System Combo

Nextar’s I4-BC device wraps up a widescreen GPS system and one of those neat reversing cameras in one gizmo. Great: more family rows averted, with no getting lost en route and no backing into the gatepost as you leave. You hook up the camera on your vehicle, and when you start backing up its display…

Gadgets Kit Eaton

Viruses and Malware to Hit One Million Mark

According to Sophos computer security, there will be one million distinct viruses and malware by the end of 2008. But 25% of that malware has been produced just in the last six months. Luckily, not all the stats published by PC World are that troubling…but it’s not all roses and daffodils either. • Security companies…

Gadgets Mark Wilson

Modern Hang-Ups: A Magnetic Stick-Up For Your Stuff

This new design looks to replace all that messing around with pins and Scotch tape that happens when you try to stick stuff up on your walls or bulletin board. Modern Hang-ups is a simply an adhesive-backed strip of steel that comes with powerful magnetic “tacks.” You just unroll however much you want, cut it,…

Gadgets Kit Eaton

Fi-Hi Speaker Bags: Boombox Backpack Made Real

Remember we laughed at the concept Reppo2 boombox backpack, and its ability to aurally assault those you walk past with your choice of tunes? Well, yes: something similar is now real, courtesy of these Fi-Hi novelty bags with built-in speakers and amp. What’s there to say? Well, we don’t know how powerful the audio system…

Gadgets Kit Eaton

LG’s New Black Label Cellphone: First Look

LG is following up the love-it or hate-it Chocolate, and the Shine, with its third “Black Label” device: the as-yet unnamed cellphone you can see here. It looks a more serious and slender beast than the first two, and sports a five megapixel camera, tempered glass and a carbon-fiber finish. Other than that we can’t…

Gadgets Kit Eaton

Seekway 3D LED Cube Amazes in Glorious Color Phasing Fashion

Seekway has put together this spectacular 3D LED display, which is capable of displaying images in full 3D (duh) at an amazing, 30 fps. The prototype consists of a 16 x 16 x 16 grid of interconnected color LEDs and if our mathematics doesn’t fail us, that’s 4096 individual diodes. We’re sure you’ll agree; it…

Gadgets Haroon Malik

Triforce Touchscreen Pointer Combines Tchotchke With Surprising Functionality

The Triforce Touchscreen Pointer is a marketing ploy destined for swag-bag oblivion, but it could also be a rare case where functionality and tchotchke coalesce into something genuinely useful. First, the lanyard-pointer from Specialdesign eliminates the act of fumbling with your PDA’s lanky stylus. Second, the lanyard means no more dropped devices. Finally, when Specialdesign…

Gadgets Jack Loftus

CardioArm Surgical Snake Will Worm its Way Into Your Heart

Just last year, we showed you the concept i-Snake medical robot, and now a different team actually has a similar device for real: the CardioArm. This little robo-tentacle is being developed partly at Carnegie Mellon University, and is apparently the most flexible endoscope ever that follows its own camera-head in a snake-like way through your…

Gadgets Kit Eaton

Talking Tissue Box Doubles Your Pain

When you’re ill, sneezing all about the place and with enough mucus in your esophagus to grow a bacterial colony big enough to take over the world, the last thing you need is the Talking Tissue Box. Why? Well, all it does is either cough or sneeze each time you reach out for a tissue.…

Gadgets Haroon Malik

Pencil-Pushing Census Bureau Dumps Portable Tech for Pencils

To our friends at Treehugger, please look away as we report that the Census Bureau is ditching plans to go digital and will return to its sinful pencil-pushing, paper-crazy roots. Originally, the Bureau planned for workers to use 500,000 wireless handheld devices from Harris Corp. as a replacement for the paperwork used to collect information…

Gadgets Jack Loftus

Purdue’s 156-Step Burger Maker Wins Rube Goldberg Contest

We’ve brought you Rube Goldberg-style clocks and toys, but none of them are a match for the 156-step device that’s just won the annual Rube Goldberg Machine Contest. This year’s challenge was to assemble a burger with vegetables, condiments and two bun halves. The meat was pre-cooked… a sensible idea to avoid fires and explosions:…

Gadgets Kit Eaton

Smart Green Cell Station Makes Africa a Cleaner Place To Ask “Can You Hear Me Now?”

In an effort to clean up Africa’s dirty and diesel-reliant mobile network, Swedish start up Flexenclosure has designed a green version of a cellular base station. Called the E-site, it runs primarily on wind and solar power and utilizes an intelligent operating system that adapts to local conditions. The new design comes at the request…

Gadgets Elaine Chow

Man Sells Pizza.com Domain Name for Serious Dough

A 43-year-old man from Maryland has sold the domain name pizza.com for almost 10,000 times the price he paid for it. Chris Clark registered the name pizza.com in 1994 for just $20, and continued to pay the annual registration fee until January of this year, when he heard the domain name vodka.com had gone for…

Gadgets AddyDugdale

Seiko Spring Drive Spacewalk Watch Brings Out Your Inner Space Cowboy

Just 100 of Seiko’s Spring Drive Spacewalk watches, space-proof wristwatches being developed with a little help from the Russian Federal Space Agency, are expected to be made. Designed for Richard Garriott, the video-game honcho-turned-future space tourist, the titanium-encased timepiece weighs just 92.5 grams and is airtight, and waterproof to 100 meters. Seiko has developed a…

Gadgets AddyDugdale

Asus R50 to Be Reincarnated With Keyboard Later This Year

The Asus R50 UMPC is already being updated—even though Mark 1 has yet to be released. Digitimes reports that the handheld with GPS and 3.5G connectivity, due out in June, will be sporting a keyboard come November of this year. As well as running Linux and Vista, the R50 has a webcam and TV tuner…

Gadgets AddyDugdale

Hookah Table Not What It Sounds Like, Thank Gawd

Not something that you frak your lady of the night on top of, nor anything to do with William Shatner, Adrian Zmed and Heather Locklear, the Hookah Table is a customized table that you can get high on, as well as under. Costing around $600 bucks, there’s a bowl on top, which I guess you…

Gadgets AddyDugdale

FLX USB Drive Is Uncircumcised, Convenient

The FLX USB drive prototype, designed by Jacek Ryn, while convenient, is not actually flexible. It’s got an accordion-like sheath covering it that pushes back to reveal the plug when you shove it into the USB port, and snaps back when you pull it out. Kind of like an uncircumcised, um, you know. And that…

Gadgets Matt Buchanan

Outdoor Air Conditioner: For Those Who Actually Do Want to Pay to Cool the Outdoors

Laptop Underwear Serves Surprisingly Practical Purpose

Homemade Electric Motocycle Gets 300mpg

Nextar I4-BC, a GPS and Reversing Camera System Combo

Viruses and Malware to Hit One Million Mark

Modern Hang-Ups: A Magnetic Stick-Up For Your Stuff

Fi-Hi Speaker Bags: Boombox Backpack Made Real

LG’s New Black Label Cellphone: First Look

Seekway 3D LED Cube Amazes in Glorious Color Phasing Fashion

Triforce Touchscreen Pointer Combines Tchotchke With Surprising Functionality

CardioArm Surgical Snake Will Worm its Way Into Your Heart

Talking Tissue Box Doubles Your Pain

Pencil-Pushing Census Bureau Dumps Portable Tech for Pencils

Purdue’s 156-Step Burger Maker Wins Rube Goldberg Contest

Smart Green Cell Station Makes Africa a Cleaner Place To Ask “Can You Hear Me Now?”

Man Sells Pizza.com Domain Name for Serious Dough

Seiko Spring Drive Spacewalk Watch Brings Out Your Inner Space Cowboy

Asus R50 to Be Reincarnated With Keyboard Later This Year

Hookah Table Not What It Sounds Like, Thank Gawd

FLX USB Drive Is Uncircumcised, Convenient

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

Travelers Experiencing the Longest Security Lines in TSA History

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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