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Hands On Skyfire Windows Mobile Browser: It Definitely Doesn’t Suck

During our brief hands on with the Skyfire mobile browser at CTIA, it actually lived up to most of its claims, and we walked away fairly impressed. We saw it on two different devices, though most of our time was on a Sprint HTC Mogul. Besides rendering media-heavy Giz with surprising snap (a feat that…

Gadgets Matt Buchanan

Oral Hygiene Game Maps Mouth, Makes Kids Brush Better

As a guy with pretty horrible teeth, I can only wish that this computerized toothbrush was invented decades ago when I was a kid. When children brush using the system, the toothbrush’s LEDs get mapped via webcam onto a representation of a mouth, which then shows kids which teeth have already been brushed and which…

Gadgets Jason Chen

Guy Collects 5000 Cellphones, Creates Art Show

If you’re in Boston and really like looking at cellphones, a guy called Rob Pettit collected 5,000 of them and created an art show. Hit the link to see where and when it is, and be thankful that Rob’s collecting them instead of poisoning little kids. [Rob Pettit] https://gizmodo.com/chinas-e-waste-problem-poisons-children-destroys-citie-376201

Gadgets Jason Chen

Adobe Relinquishes Ownership of Photos Uploaded to Photoshop Express

So, one of the big sniggles about Photoshop Express, Adobe’s free online photo tweaker and sorta-kinda Flickr clone, is that using the service basically gave full control of your photos to Adobe. No more! They just emailed us that as of April 10, they’re only claiming “those limited rights that allow us to operate the…

Gadgets Matt Buchanan

NASA’s ATHLETE Hex-Legged Lunar Robots Now Work in Pairs

We’ve shown you NASA’s neat ATHLETE robots before and it looks like the little hexapod machines have been getting more sophisticated. This vid of two ATHLETEs collaborating to lift a heavy habitat load onto the ground sent faint Matrix-esque shivers down my spine. NASA is taking development of the robots seriously, as it turns out…

Gadgets Kit Eaton

UFO Cap Makes You Look Like Spin Top, Repels Rain and Women

Sure, you could wear a raincoat if you don’t feel like carrying an umbrella, but does it really keep you dry? I didn’t think so. And are raincoats “the wings for your arms”? No. UFO Cap does all of that and more, like keep away pesky girls asking you out for drinks. Sadly, it’s Korea-only…

Gadgets Matt Buchanan

China’s E-Waste Problem Poisons Children, Destroys Cities

Since the 1980s, cities like Guiyu, China, have been taking in electronic waste from other countries for dismantlement and processing. It’s great for other countries, but takes a huge toll on the people managing the effort because of the “metal extraction of circuit boards” and “open dumping of waste and ash residue into open water”.…

Gadgets Jason Chen

The Running-Powered Bike is Pure Ludicrousness

Oh… oh my. This is a running-powered bicycle (although technically, it’s a tricycle, which gives it even less dignity). There are no pedals; instead, you run with the seat jammed up in your crotch and hop on the foot holds when you get enough speed going to coast. It is amazingly ridiculous, and it only…

Gadgets Adam Frucci

Interactive Textiles Make Your Lack of Basketball Skills More Audible

At first glance, interactive textiles that memorize the motions of a perfect shot in basketball seem like they’d be amazingly beneficial. I mean, hey, if I could wear some fancy shirt that would force my arm to always shoot well, I’d be in the NBA! Unfortunately, the interactive textiles that were developed in Australia for…

Gadgets Adam Frucci

Bulbdial Clock Sundial Concept Makes a Lot of Sense

David from Ironic Sans came up with this Bulbdial clock, a marriage of lamps and sundials that makes an incredible amount of sense to us. It’s not real in the sense that your mortgage is real, but it is a nice design that takes the best of electricity and the best of shadows and makes…

Gadgets Jason Chen

Verizon’s $9.36 Billion 700MHz Plans: High-Speed 4G LTE Network Up and Running Before AT&T

Not that it wasn’t obvious, but Verizon’s 700MHz plans look a lot like AT&T’s. It’ll be using the spectrum as the core of their high-speed 4G LTE network. Verizon paid $9.36 billion total, including $4.7 billion for the open access C Block (apparently, it let Google sweat a bit before actually plunking down their bid).…

Gadgets Matt Buchanan

Senisphere Round Gesture Screen Is Round, Spherical

For times when you don’t want a standard 2D display, students at the University of Augsburg developed the Senisphere. A hemispherical display, the Senisphere is like a round take of the Microsoft Surface, with a bit less functionality and a bit more nautical, porthole styling. But from the looks of it, nobody beats the Senisphere…

Gadgets Mark Wilson

Playboy Cellphone Needs Some Internal Beauty

At least some of you are reading this article because of the word “Playboy” in the headline, but unfortunately, the product isn’t all that provocative. By Alcatel, the Playboy-branded OT-V770A features a 1.3MP camera, 10MB of on-board memory, microSD support and, here’s the kicker, a Playboy bunny logo. We just can’t believe that a cellphone…

Gadgets Mark Wilson

DIY Alphanumeric Password Generator. Verdict: Pretty 4UC387G Useful

How secure are your passwords? Probably not very. The guys over at Popsci have a neat partial solution to that problem: a DIY alphanumeric random password generator. Made with an Olimex AVR development board and some custom software, the gizmo produces 16-character passcodes on its LCD at the press of a button. No dictionary words,…

Gadgets Kit Eaton

Crutch Chair Design Transforms for Impromptu Sitting

Ever broken a leg? Know how much hassle it is to stumble around in crutches? Designer Yong-Rok Kim’s Crutch Chair is intended to be a partial solution to the problem of knackering yourself out when walking like this. The two halves of his design snap together to form a neat seat-like thing so you can…

Gadgets Kit Eaton

Phone Retailer Talks About Giving Away Free Laptops With Mobile Internet Service

Laptops could be the next thing to be given away for free, according to the boss of UK phone giant Carphone Warehouse. Andrew Harrison, the firm’s chief executive, reckons that mobile internet providers will be chucking portables at everyone in an attempt to sign people up to their services. Carphone Warehouse has its own telecoms…

Gadgets AddyDugdale

Stylophone, Scourge of Seventies Britain, is Back, Back, BACK!

Rather like the kazoo, the Stylophone is what you might term a “musical” “instrument.” The farty-bontempi sound was a feature of school playgrounds up and down the land—and even David Bowie used one on Space Oddity. And then, suddenly, rather like white dog poo, and “I choked Linda Lovelace” T-shirts, the Stylophone disappeared from view.…

Gadgets AddyDugdale

MartinLogan Spire Speakers— $8,500 of Electrostatic Sound

These new electrostatic speakers from MartinLogan have some fancy-sounding tech built in, and are hand built too. There’s the ultra-rigid “AirFrame™” Curvilinear Line Source XStat audio transducer, and a selectable 35Hz equalization option— to better suit your room acoustics. The cabinets come in a variety of woods including maple, wenge, and rotary-cut bubinga. It’s a…

Gadgets Kit Eaton

Samsung Luce Lock is the iPhone of Doorware, Apparently

Fans of Jonathan Ive’s work may find the EZON SHS-5200 lock, aka Luce, from Samsung just a little bit crispy. Built to US standards, and with an emergency keyhole, this slimline digital door fastening has been hailed as being better-looking than the iPhone. Made of aluminum, its tempered-glass, touchscreen pad only lights up when you…

Gadgets AddyDugdale

Senslux SLD Desklamps Try to See Off Your Winter Blues, Acne

Senslux’s new SLD range of desk lamps will light your stuff with LEDs for low power-consumption eco-friendliness, and come in three types. The SG-1500 model appears to be just a plain ol’ desk lamp, but the SF is apparently a “full spectrum” lamp, presumably to give more natural light to combat the dim winter sun.…

Gadgets Kit Eaton

Hands On Skyfire Windows Mobile Browser: It Definitely Doesn’t Suck

Oral Hygiene Game Maps Mouth, Makes Kids Brush Better

Guy Collects 5000 Cellphones, Creates Art Show

Adobe Relinquishes Ownership of Photos Uploaded to Photoshop Express

NASA’s ATHLETE Hex-Legged Lunar Robots Now Work in Pairs

UFO Cap Makes You Look Like Spin Top, Repels Rain and Women

China’s E-Waste Problem Poisons Children, Destroys Cities

The Running-Powered Bike is Pure Ludicrousness

Interactive Textiles Make Your Lack of Basketball Skills More Audible

Bulbdial Clock Sundial Concept Makes a Lot of Sense

Verizon’s $9.36 Billion 700MHz Plans: High-Speed 4G LTE Network Up and Running Before AT&T

Senisphere Round Gesture Screen Is Round, Spherical

Playboy Cellphone Needs Some Internal Beauty

DIY Alphanumeric Password Generator. Verdict: Pretty 4UC387G Useful

Crutch Chair Design Transforms for Impromptu Sitting

Phone Retailer Talks About Giving Away Free Laptops With Mobile Internet Service

Stylophone, Scourge of Seventies Britain, is Back, Back, BACK!

MartinLogan Spire Speakers— $8,500 of Electrostatic Sound

Samsung Luce Lock is the iPhone of Doorware, Apparently

Senslux SLD Desklamps Try to See Off Your Winter Blues, Acne

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

Could There Be a ‘Project Hail Mary’ Sequel?

Meta Has More Smart Glasses Coming Whether You Want Them or Not

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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