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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

Force Feedback Gaming Vest Uses Compressed Air to Mimic Pain

Also known as the 3rd Space Vest, the Force Feedback gaming vest from TMgames is filled with compressed air pouches in order for you to feel the pain when you’re hooked up to your console and having your butt kicked by scary aliens. Compatible with around a dozen games, including Call of Duty, Doom 3,…

Gadgets AddyDugdale

Steampunk Artist Mods Vintage Headphones into Gadget-Compatible Cans

Molly porkshanks Friedrich is the creator of these retrofuture headphones, made from an old-ass headset found in a thrift store, and some Panasonic cans that she bought on Amazon for a buck. What is cool about them—apart from the fact that they work a treat with MP3 players—is that Molly has not over-egged the Steampunk…

Gadgets AddyDugdale

Hammerite Metalmaster Makes Painting Even Easier: Both Sides at Once

Hammerite’s new Metalmaster system speeds up the whole process of painting metal stuff by spraying all sides of an object at the same time. You just clip the gun to the object with a wire, and electrostatic charging means that the thing you’re painting actually attracts the paint particles. This means no brush marks, as…

Gadgets Kit Eaton

Limited-Edition DS a-Go-Go as Bathing Ape Gives the Lite a Caselift

Yesterday’s matte black limited-edition DS has been superseded by a Louie Vouie-esque design from cult Japanese fashion line Bathing Ape. Available in either white or a rather dingy gold, the case is stamped with Mario and Bape faces, with the Mario star thrown in for good measure. Available in Japan from April 1, expect this…

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WiiMote Lighsaber Add-on Possible For Xbox 360, PS3?

Kotaku found this InterSense technology demo down at the Game Developers Conference, which seems to do what Nintendo and LucasArts will not: a 1 to 1 mapping of a gesture controller to a lightsaber on screen. These guys are more of a technology company rather than a peripheral company like Novint, so they’re aiming at…

Gadgets Jason Chen

DARPA Robot Crusher Truck Earns Its Name

There isn’t anyone inside this six-and-half-ton beast, getting off on smashing through crappy 80s cars. No, the Army’s latest baby, built by Carnegie Mellon’s Robotics Engineering Center, is a robot. The Crusher navigates (and destroys) autonomously and will climb four-foot “steps” as easy as it tears up a hill. Apparently other vehicles in their Future…

Gadgets Matt Buchanan

Gasoline-Powered 25-inch Desk Cannon Shows Your Cube Mates Who’s Boss

USB Missiles are fun (I shot Dvorak in the chest with one once, it did not induce a heart attack as I had hoped), but actual cannons are even more fun. This 25-inch field cannon is the closest you’ll get to having a Civil War cannon in your office—unless you’re the undersecretary of Civil War…

Gadgets Jason Chen

Hands On chumby Wi-Fi Widget Beanbag (Cuddly in More Ways Than One)

After about an hour of playtime with the final version of the squishable $180 Wi-Fi widget ball chumby, I want one on my desk. Is it essential gadgetry? No. It’s not meant to be. Until you’re addicted to it. If you’re not familiar with the basic premise, chumby is a Wi-Fi gadget with a touchscreen…

Gadgets Matt Buchanan

Show’s Over Folks, Paramount Officially Goes Blu

Paramount’s PR department is slower than the rest of the industry. They’re officially Blu-ray as of today. So now it’s totally and completely finished: All of the major studios, Wal-Mart, Amazon, Best Buy and Netflix are full steam ahead on Blu-ray. If you haven’t digested the fact that HD DVD is gone by now, maybe…

Gadgets Matt Buchanan

Optimus Maximus Keyboard Now Shipping (At Last!)

It’s a day some of us never thought would come. Art Lebedev’s Optimus Maximus OLED keyboard is finally shipping to everyone who pre-ordered it. Icing on the OLED cake, the Configuator software is available now, too. If you bought one w/ passive keys, you’ve still got another month though. [Optimus Project]

Gadgets Matt Buchanan

MAKE Round-Up of 2008 Toy Fair

The guys over at MAKE had a great time at the 2008 Toy Fair, and their round-up post links to all the weird and wonderful things they found there. We’ve had a look, and collected some of their findings into a gallery. Check it out and you’ll find matchstick architecture, VEX robotic bugs, 3D mazes,…

Gadgets Kit Eaton

Toshiba Thinking About Blu-ray for Laptops

While Toshiba said they had no plans to produce a Blu-ray player when they killed HD DVD, it turns they’re at least considering Blu drives for their notebooks. Next question: Who would they buy them from? Surely not Sony…. [Pocket Lint] https://gizmodo.com/toshiba-kills-hd-dvd-official-357957

Gadgets Matt Buchanan

Don’t Blow Up Satellites, Catch Them in Gigantic Blankets

Sure, explosions are great and everything, but isn’t there a more gentle way to catch errant satellites and missiles? There sure is, according to a recent patent from SVC solutions. Rather than blow them up, we can just wrap them in a giant blanket and parachute them to Earth! Yes, it’s so stupid it comes…

Gadgets Adam Frucci

New Camera Chip Design Can Take Photos in 3D

A new camera chip design from scientists at Stanford University has opened up the possibility of 3D photos. The chip has stacked 16 x 16 pixel arrays and a host of micro-lenses, much like a fly’s eye, enabling the whole chip to “see” in three dimensions, unlike a normal 2D pixel array digital camera sensor.…

Gadgets Kit Eaton

Italian Perv Professor Claims Ultrasound Can Hunt Out the G-Spot

A professor from the University of L’Aquila in Italy says has discovered a clue which may point the way to the fabled G-Spot—or at least prove that some lucky ladies have it, while others don’t. Emmanuele Janini’s findings (he scanned 20 women, 11 who experienced vaginal orgasms and nine who didn’t, with a vaginal ultrasound)…

Gadgets AddyDugdale

Elastico: Bookshelf Meets Elastic Band, Has Useful Offspring

Designed by Arianna Vivenzio, the Elastico concept is basically an elastic band stretched around a stout pair of metal posts mounted on your wall. Tension in the band keeps your various books standing in place, and you could even insert box-shaped structures for trinkets and the like. Presumably, to avoid sagging it couldn’t carry too…

Gadgets Kit Eaton

Home-Made Alarm Clock Beeps Until You Solve a Mathematical Problem

I tend to have a cup of tea and some cereal before I do anything in the morning, but Nicholas Paul Johnson swears by his Turing alarm clock. Powered by an PIC16 microcontroller, Johnson used a four-buck LCD display and has, very sweetly, made the whole thing free and open-source. [cheaphack via MAKE]

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J-Tas Surveillance System Has GPS, Thermal Imaging, Hunts Predators

From next year UK armed forces will be using a new “Surveillance System and Range Finder” which will allow soldiers to quickly spot and locate enemy positions up to 3 miles away, and call in the artillery using precisely-derived GPS coordinates. The new all-weather, day-and-night hand-held J-Tas devices are an improvement on older in-service versions…

Gadgets Kit Eaton

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

Electroscape LED Fireplace Brings the Aurora Borealis to Your Crib

Force Feedback Gaming Vest Uses Compressed Air to Mimic Pain

Steampunk Artist Mods Vintage Headphones into Gadget-Compatible Cans

Hammerite Metalmaster Makes Painting Even Easier: Both Sides at Once

Limited-Edition DS a-Go-Go as Bathing Ape Gives the Lite a Caselift

WiiMote Lighsaber Add-on Possible For Xbox 360, PS3?

DARPA Robot Crusher Truck Earns Its Name

Gasoline-Powered 25-inch Desk Cannon Shows Your Cube Mates Who’s Boss

Hands On chumby Wi-Fi Widget Beanbag (Cuddly in More Ways Than One)

Show’s Over Folks, Paramount Officially Goes Blu

Optimus Maximus Keyboard Now Shipping (At Last!)

MAKE Round-Up of 2008 Toy Fair

Toshiba Thinking About Blu-ray for Laptops

Don’t Blow Up Satellites, Catch Them in Gigantic Blankets

New Camera Chip Design Can Take Photos in 3D

Italian Perv Professor Claims Ultrasound Can Hunt Out the G-Spot

Elastico: Bookshelf Meets Elastic Band, Has Useful Offspring

Home-Made Alarm Clock Beeps Until You Solve a Mathematical Problem

J-Tas Surveillance System Has GPS, Thermal Imaging, Hunts Predators

Apple Requires Device-Level Age Verification in the UK Now. Could the US Be Next?

Astronomers Say Recent Rash of Meteor Sightings ‘Warrants Serious Investigation’

Did AMD Just Make the Best CPU for Gamers and Creators?

AI Just One-Shotted Another CEO

6 Magic School Anime and Manga to Discover Instead of Thinking About ‘Harry Potter’ Ever Again

Unprecedented Images Show Sperm Whales Acting as Midwives to Help a Mom Give Birth

‘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

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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