Gadgets

Toshiba Satellite A300/P300 To Include Penryn Chips, Windex-able Surfaces

Toshiba’s releasing two new laptops incorporating Intel’s Penryn mobile processors and, judging from the pictures, they’re both going to be big and very, very glossy. The smaller of the duo, the Satellite A300, features a 15.4-inch display, Harman Kardon speakers, a built-in fingerprint reader, and a 1.3-megapixel integrated webcam. €999 ($1,480) will get you 2GB…

Gadgets Mark Wilson

Loremo Gives You Side Of Electric With Your Diesel

German start-up Loremo, of the 157 mpg diesel-powered car that showed up at the Frankfurt Auto Show last October, is now introducing a second eco-friendly flavor to their lineup—an electric version named the oh so clever… wait for it… E-Loremo. The E-Loremo features a 20KW electric engine, with short-term bursts of 40kw possible. The company…

Gadgets Mark Wilson

AutoPulse Makes CPR Hands-Free

The AutoPulse by Zoll is an automated CPR device that can not only replace someone performing life-saving chest compressions, but that can actually implement these compressions more effectively than human hands. Essentially a battery-operated band that wraps around the chest of a patient, by squeezing a larger area the AutoPulse can circulate blood better than…

Gadgets Mark Wilson

Zero-G Defy Xtreme Stealth Watch Had Better Get You Noticed

The Zero-G Defy Xtreme Stealth by elite watchmaker Zenith is one of the most lust-worthy timepieces we’ve seen in recent history. Modeled after the famous Stealth Bomber, this blackened titanium watch (utilizing a PVD coating process) is specially crafted to keep time without extreme gravity throwing off your appointments. Featuring a titanium strap with Kevlar…

Gadgets Mark Wilson

Future Sony LCDs to be Sharp-Powered

There’s a rumor going around the tech finance pubs about Sony using Sharp panels in its future Large LCDs. Seems to make sense, considering that Sharp’s had the lead in big LCD making, based on the 108-inch champ from last year’s CES. This affects you in a few ways: Sony LCDs have long worked with…

Gadgets Brian Lam

Elmo Doll Wants To Kill Child, We Still Want To Kill Elmo

This 2-year-old boy loves his Elmo, but the feeling isn’t mutual. After replacing the batteries of his PC-syncing Elmo Knows Your Name toy, it awoke with a new vocabulary: the phrase, “Kill James?” So what was the child’s reaction? He repeats it, getting an enviable early start on his life of self-loathing awaiting ahead. As…

Gadgets Mark Wilson

Homemade 400mm Binoscope Gives Your Binoculars Lens Envy

We love us some big ass glass. Here’s an amazing set of the homemade variety, a 400mm binoscope (a honkin’ set of binoculars basically) painstakingly hand-crafted over the course of three years by a hardcore French dude. The detail on it really makes this thing a DIY engineering marvel. [MAKE]

Gadgets Matt Buchanan

Sharper Image Suspends Gift Card Redemption

As a result of Sharper Image’s bankruptcy filing earlier this week, the company’s decided to stop accepting gift cards until they can get their finances in order. That really sucks for you if you just received a Sharper Image gift card for Christmas ’07, but it really sucks for people who returned merchandise and could…

Gadgets Jason Chen

Samsung Planning on 256GB SSDs, Huge Price Drops by End of the Year

I told you SSDs would be plummeting in price this year, and here’s Samsung coming along making me look like some sort of genius for finding an article that said that and then writing about it. I rule! Anyhow, Samsung is looking to double the size of its SSDs not once this year, but twice,…

Gadgets Adam Frucci

10 Feasible Concepts We Wish You Could Actually Buy

Concept gadgets are great because they offer a possible vision of our future while showcasing the potential of outside of the box thinking. The one problem is that many of the designers out there are not even on the same planet as the box. The trick is to come up with an interesting, marketable idea…

Gadgets Sean Fallon

Airport Tunnel of Truth Peers Into Your Soul (But Not Your Sneakers)

Waiting in line at the airport sucks. Especially with people who act all surprised when they get to the scanners and suddenly bust babies, knives, lighters and giant sports bottles of water out of their pocket. Well, Transportation Security Laboratory Director Susan Hallowell wants to combine the harrowing misery of an airport line with the…

Gadgets Matt Buchanan

Be a Walking Wikipedia With the Handheld Looking Glass Computer

There’s no better way to annoy your travel companions than to take something like this handheld-computer design wherever you go. Not only can you hold it up to buildings and get the address, history and architectural schematics (you know, for a heist), but it also supposedly hooks up with your personal organizer, a dictionary and…

Gadgets Jason Chen

Han Solo Frozen in Carbonite Desk Reminds You That Someone Has it Worse

Hate doing your taxes? Balancing your checkbook? Grinding for loot in World of Warcraft? Just take a look at Han’s face to know that someone has it even worse than you. As painful as it is to look through all your receipts from the last year, it’s much worse to have all the cells in…

Gadgets Jason Chen

Apple TV Web Browser Safari HD Rechristened “Couch Surfer”

That awesome little native web browser for Apple TV, Safari HD, is no more. It emerges from the crucible of Apple Legal as Couch Surfer—as we like to say, more original, more better. [Apple TV Hacks] https://gizmodo.com/web-browse-on-apple-tv-with-safari-hd-out-now-357626

Gadgets Matt Buchanan

Antique R2-D2 Comes from an Era of Beer Baron Space Pirates

This Antique D2 project is a homemade, one-of-a-kind R2-D2, if R2 was made in an era when barrels were used as bodies for helper robots. Which is to say in an era that never existed, but I suppose that’s what makes it fun, right? The detail on the model is really what makes this project…

Gadgets Adam Frucci

Toilet Lighter Showcases Your Emotional Maturity to All Who See It

As any six-year-old can tell you, there ain’t nothing funnier than toilet humor. This toilet lighter is sure to impress your nephew, if not any women your own age, with its hilarious combo of a lighter and a tiny toilet. It might be an awkward shape that won’t fit well in your pocket, but it’s…

Gadgets Adam Frucci

USB Card Reader Squeezes in a Thermometer and Digital Clock Too

This gadget from Polar is a multifunction card reader that distinguishes itself from all the others with a dust-proof sliding lid and a built-in clock (wow!) and thermometer. It is an analog thermometer, but what the heck: everything else is digital nowadays, so its nice to see some cheapo mashup analogness. The reader supports SD,…

Gadgets Kit Eaton

Knitted Gas Mask Helps Cyclists Avoid Cotton-Wool Smog

For those who are about to knit, we salute you—especially if you make woolly hat ‘n’ gas mask combos for your friends to wear on their bike ride to work. Not sure whether it would work in the event of a mustard gas attack, but it works for me. File this alongside the R2-D2 beanie…

Gadgets AddyDugdale

Bandai’s Mirai Scope is Your Pocket Digital Fortune Teller (Gold Earring Not Included)

Sure, automated fortune tellers aren’t new, but Bandai’s new Mirai Scope may just be the first personal Zoltar you can fit in your pocket. It even comes with a hint of scientific mumbojumbo, since it asks you fifty questions about your life to assess your personality digitally. Once it’s singled out your type from the…

Gadgets Kit Eaton

Electroscape LED Fireplace Brings the Aurora Borealis to Your Crib

The Electroscape fireplace from Platonics has a remote-controlled LED lighting system built in. Ahh—nothing warms you up on a frosty 21st Century morn better than some funky LED lights that you can mix, from single color to multicolored, from the cozy comfort of your armchair. You can even specify what arty “fire” objects are displayed…

Gadgets Kit Eaton

Toshiba Satellite A300/P300 To Include Penryn Chips, Windex-able Surfaces

Loremo Gives You Side Of Electric With Your Diesel

AutoPulse Makes CPR Hands-Free

Zero-G Defy Xtreme Stealth Watch Had Better Get You Noticed

Future Sony LCDs to be Sharp-Powered

Elmo Doll Wants To Kill Child, We Still Want To Kill Elmo

Homemade 400mm Binoscope Gives Your Binoculars Lens Envy

Sharper Image Suspends Gift Card Redemption

Samsung Planning on 256GB SSDs, Huge Price Drops by End of the Year

10 Feasible Concepts We Wish You Could Actually Buy

Airport Tunnel of Truth Peers Into Your Soul (But Not Your Sneakers)

Be a Walking Wikipedia With the Handheld Looking Glass Computer

Han Solo Frozen in Carbonite Desk Reminds You That Someone Has it Worse

Apple TV Web Browser Safari HD Rechristened “Couch Surfer”

Antique R2-D2 Comes from an Era of Beer Baron Space Pirates

Toilet Lighter Showcases Your Emotional Maturity to All Who See It

USB Card Reader Squeezes in a Thermometer and Digital Clock Too

Knitted Gas Mask Helps Cyclists Avoid Cotton-Wool Smog

Bandai’s Mirai Scope is Your Pocket Digital Fortune Teller (Gold Earring Not Included)

Electroscape LED Fireplace Brings the Aurora Borealis to Your Crib

‘Butt Birth’-ing Rhinoceros from Ace Ventura Sequel Sold at Auction for a Whopping $60,000

The Ryan Gosling Sci-Fi Streak Will Continue Until Morale Improves

Study Challenges Popular Theory on Why Primordial Bugs Were So Darn Huge

Ewan McGregor and Anne Hathaway’s Mystery’s Sci-Fi Film Has Its First Trailer

Scientists Just Found the Salt Limit That Pushes Your Heart to the Breaking Point

White House Social Media Just Had Its Covfefe Moment

Roborock F25 Ultra Steam Wet Dry Vacuum Is Now at Its Lowest Price, but Only During the Spring Sale Window

This $450 Semi-Dumb Phone Is Barely Even a Phone

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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