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WowWee Rovio, Everything the Aibo Should Be

WowWee, makers of such fine products as cat-hunting dragonflies, have unveiled a new, fairly badass three-wheeling robot for home use that’s not all the different from the specs we’ve seen in Sony’s new rumored AIBO. A webcam-enabled robot featuring a Northstar GPS system, you can spy on anyone in your house from anywhere in the…

Gadgets Mark Wilson

CES Separates the Wheat From the Chaff with Blogger and Press Badges

High drama at CES! Instead of all of us being united under the umbrella of “press,” some of us were arbitrarily deemed “bloggers” and others “press.” I’m press, but Chen is a blogger. We aren’t sure exactly what the difference is, but I assume that the CES admins will force Chen to wait for me…

Gadgets Adam Frucci

Bug Labs Open Source Do-It-Yourself Gadget Gets a Hacking I/O Module, Pricing

Those Bug Labs open source modular gadgets—the ones that you can buy in pieces and build your own gadget with—have just gotten pricing and availability details. They’re also announcing a Von Hippel module, which allows an I/O interface so you can “further” hack your BUG. If you buy the modules in the first 60 days,…

Gadgets Jason Chen

Salute Our Brave Gizmodians as They Fly Off to CES

So, here I am, on my own in the Giz office. The door has just closed behind the last one (Benny the Intern, struggling under the weight of Our Dear Leader’s cases—a different outfit every day, I believe, and 17 brand-new batteries for his MacBook Pro) and it’s just me here. Everyone’s gone to Vegas…

Gadgets AddyDugdale

Digital Foci Pocket OLED Photo Frames

The Basics: OLED Picture frames! The 2.8-inch screen has a wrist strap, and works as an alarm clock and calendar. The 1.5-inch version has a keychain. They hold 3000 and 120 photos, and have 10000:1 and 1000:1 contrast ratios, respectively. Rechargeable. The Catch: The $50 1.5-inch screen form factor is the one I want, but…

Gadgets Brian Lam

Toshiba Is “Quite Surprised” Warner Left Them for That Blu-ray Hussy

Tipped to this during the call with Warner, Toshiba—one of HD DVD‘s daddies—has released their statement on Warner’s Blu-ray defection. It reads like a letter from a jilted lover: “We have long maintained a close partnership with Warner Bros” and “Toshiba is quite surprised by Warner Bros.’ decision to abandon HD DVD in favor of…

Gadgets Matt Buchanan

Night Vision For Any Car: FLIR PathfindIR

The Bottom line: Remember that urban tale of the drug running lambo doing 200mph runs using merely night vision? FLIR, used to making commercial nightvision systems for law enforcement, marine, and airborne vehicle has trickled the tech into civilian hands. The PathfindIR is their first infrared night vision adaptable for any car, although they’ll be…

Gadgets Brian Lam

iLuv i1255 Desktop iPod Dock/DVD Player Hybrid Is Simple Convergence

The Skinny: The iLuv i1255 is a basically a DVD player with an iPod dock slapped on top. It plays DVDs, VCDs and CDs plus puts media from the iPod on your TV, a common trick nowadays. Basically if you’re in the market for both a bare-bones DVD player and iPod dock and wanna save…

Gadgets Matt Buchanan

Ass/Boobs-Shaped Airbag Turns Car Accidents Into Even More Shameful Experiences

This Takata airbag design is… interesting. Essentially, if you get in a car accident your face will be thrust quickly between two giant, inflatable ass cheeks. Or are they giant breasts? Depending on what you’re in to, you could see it either way. In any case, I can certainly see how it would be more…

Gadgets Adam Frucci

XYXX Condom Case Almost Makes Using a Condom Sexy

I’ve always been kind of jealous at the array of attractive birth control cases exes have had to tote around their anti-baby pills. Condoms typically come in boxes and wrappers that are clumsy and ugly (exception). The XYXX condom case wants to change all that with a package you actually want to keep in your…

Gadgets Matt Buchanan

OLPC Slaps Back at Intel: “You Have No Heart and Don’t Care About the Children”

Last night, Intel pulled out of OLPC, citing founder Nicholas Negroponte’s serious jealousy issues with other low-cost computers stealing XO’s thunder in more ways than one. Today, OLPC slaps back, claws out: “We’re totally better off without you since it was all for show and you never really loved us (or the kids) in the…

Gadgets Matt Buchanan

DRM Officially Dead: Last Major Label Sony BMG Plans to Finally Drop DRM

It’s over. The last major label to hold out on selling DRM-free MP3s, Sony BMG, is “finalizing plans” to sell music not locked down with DRM. It’ll be available sometime in the first quarter, apparently in time to get in on Amazon and Pepsi’s 1 billion song giveaway, which now looks like it’ll have tracks…

Gadgets Matt Buchanan

Wheelchair Backflip Makes Truck Backflip Seem Less ‘Extreme’

While recently a daredevil was forced to cancel a backflip in a truck because he broke his back doing some practice runs, this daredevil already has a broken back. Aaron Fotheringham was born partially paralyzed from the waist down. I guess he figured risking being fully paralyzed from the waist down wasn’t all that big…

Gadgets Adam Frucci

PSP Solar Charger Misses the Point

When we first laid eyes on this PSP solar charger, we thought it looked pretty sweet. Seemingly attaching to the outside casing of your PSP, two solar panels could recharge our handhelds while we played endlessly on sunny days as we wasted our life away in hammock bliss. For $28.76, that deal didn’t sound bad…

Gadgets Mark Wilson

CompactFlash Meets SATA Speeds

CompactFlash is going SATA-compatible through new CFast connectors. Why does this matter to you? Various electronics that use CompactFlash, like digital cameras, are now stuck in PATA (parallel ATA speeds) that can check out data around 133MB per second. New SATA (serial ATA) implementation will boost this rate to 3GB/second. While CompactFlash will still have…

Gadgets Mark Wilson

Strawberries That Taste Like Chocolate

In the future, no natural food will taste as you remember it now. Because face it: fruits and vegetables are great. But if turnips tasted like Doritos, America wouldn’t be so fat that our continent occasionally dips into the ocean, like arm floaties on a grown man. Tokyo company FCOM is learning how to change…

Gadgets Mark Wilson

Quizmodo: The Answers

Here are the answers to our Quizmodo feature that we put up on New Year’s Day. Most of you knew your onions, but there were a couple of glaring errors. There is, as far as I know, no such thing as a USB Log Cabin, although, if any one would like to build one for…

Gadgets AddyDugdale

Mobiado Introduces Its Stealth Cellphone, Er, Stealthily

Made from a block of aircraft aluminum, Mobiado’s black Stealth Mobile is inspired by the bomber of the same name. Only 1200 will be made, so I expect the price, while not quite as expensive as a B-2 Spirit, should hit you in the pocket. Full specs of the small-buttoned beauty are below. Band GSM…

Gadgets AddyDugdale

Callpod Phoenix Provides Bluetooth Conferencing With Headsets

We talked about this briefly in our review of Callpod’s Dragon Bluetooth headset, but the company (who also brought you the Chargepod) is coming out with a conferencing solution as well. Instead of hooking up two Dragon headsets directly to each other, you can connect a bunch of them through a Phoenix, which serves as…

Gadgets Jason Chen

Hitachi Maxell Adds SRS WOW HD Bluetooth to iPods

Hitachi Maxell has announced two new products today that combine Bluetooth transmission with higher-end stereo technology and shove it in all in an iPod. The Hitachi Maxell Audio Transmitter/Dongle fits in Apple’s proprietary DIN port and transmits beefed-up SRS WOW HD encoded music to any Bluetooth device. The other new announcement, a Bluetooth v2.0 stereo…

Gadgets Mark Wilson

WowWee Rovio, Everything the Aibo Should Be

CES Separates the Wheat From the Chaff with Blogger and Press Badges

Bug Labs Open Source Do-It-Yourself Gadget Gets a Hacking I/O Module, Pricing

Salute Our Brave Gizmodians as They Fly Off to CES

Digital Foci Pocket OLED Photo Frames

Toshiba Is “Quite Surprised” Warner Left Them for That Blu-ray Hussy

Night Vision For Any Car: FLIR PathfindIR

iLuv i1255 Desktop iPod Dock/DVD Player Hybrid Is Simple Convergence

Ass/Boobs-Shaped Airbag Turns Car Accidents Into Even More Shameful Experiences

XYXX Condom Case Almost Makes Using a Condom Sexy

OLPC Slaps Back at Intel: “You Have No Heart and Don’t Care About the Children”

DRM Officially Dead: Last Major Label Sony BMG Plans to Finally Drop DRM

Wheelchair Backflip Makes Truck Backflip Seem Less ‘Extreme’

PSP Solar Charger Misses the Point

CompactFlash Meets SATA Speeds

Strawberries That Taste Like Chocolate

Quizmodo: The Answers

Mobiado Introduces Its Stealth Cellphone, Er, Stealthily

Callpod Phoenix Provides Bluetooth Conferencing With Headsets

Hitachi Maxell Adds SRS WOW HD Bluetooth to iPods

Elon Musk’s Lawyer Claims Jury’s 420 ‘Joke’ Proves He Didn’t Receive a Fair Trial

‘Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice’ Is a Genre Blending Delight

Leaked Anthropic Model Presents ‘Unprecedented Cybersecurity Risks,’ Much to Pentagon’s Pleasure

Don’t miss out: Bitdefender, One of the World’s Best Antiviruses, Is Now on Sale

The Secret to Better Sperm? It’s Probably Already on Your Schedule

Lego Is Leaning Into Your Marvel Memories With a New Helicarrier Set

Toshiba’s 65-inch Smart Fire TV Now Matches 43-Inch Pricing After 44% Drop on Amazon

Kash Patel’s Email Account Hacked, Iran-Linked Group Takes Credit

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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