Gadgets

The Fuzz Have a New Way to Bust Your Drunken Ass

You can chew all of the gum you want, but it won’t save you from the latest weapon in the police arsenal against individuals driving under the influence. A new device dubbed the “Hawkeye,” can record your eye movements/pupil size and accurately determine whether or not you are impared—regardless of the substance used. The device…

Gadgets Sean Fallon

Garmin Colorado 300, 400i, 400t, 400c GPSes Saves Lost Hikers, Fishers and Voyeurs

The Skinny: This walkie-talkie shaped Garmin Colorado GPS unit is meant to be used when you’re out in the wilderness (hiking or fishing) and need to know details like how high the terrain is and whether you’re in water or not. It’s got a 3-inch screen, and has different versions for different needs. The 400t…

Gadgets Jason Chen

Garmin Juices Up nuvi Line With New Voice Control on 880, Fatter Screen for 260w

What’s What: Updates all along the nuvi line. The top-of-the-line 880’s big gun is new speech recognition with a steering wheel-mounted push-to-walk remote, and burnt coffee lovers can bark out commands like “find nearest Starbucks.” The Catch:Voice controlled GPS means you gotta turn the radio down to command, no? The 260w adds almost another inch…

Gadgets Matt Buchanan

Garmin Mobile PC and GPS 20x Dongle Turns Your Laptop into a Garmin GPS

The Skinny: Garmin’s Mobile PC, a software suite that provides Garmin’s GPS capabilities on your laptop with any GPS receiver. It’s available by itself for $59, but if you want a more integrated approach, you can buy it with the Garmin GPS 20x sensor (USB dongle) for $99. Both will be available in April. Both…

Gadgets Jason Chen

Garmin nuvi 5000 Has Hummer-Sized Screen

The SkinnyThe nuvi 5000 is a truck-sized navigator, for well, trucks and SUVs on the higher end of the nuvi line. It has a 5.2-inch touchscreen, stores 10 routes, has a digital elevation map and an MSN Direct option for traffic, gas and weather. Media-wise it’ll display analog video from a backup cam or something,…

Gadgets Matt Buchanan

Motorola Readies Up MPEG-4-Ready Next-Generation Set-Top Box Army Led by DCX3400

The Scratch: Motorola is launching a new line of MPEG-4 set-tops designed for HD video and surround sound—DCX. They all rock 1GHz tuners (good for bandwidth-binging HD and VOD) and support whole home networking, which is useful for sharing DVR goodness. The DCX3400 (picture) is a dual-tuner HD DVR, while the DCX3200 is a single-tuner…

Gadgets Matt Buchanan

Powramid Power Strip Lifts, Separates Your AC Adapters

Although this Powramid looks quite similar to the flying saucer surge protector we saw last month, this looks a bit more refined in terms of not looking like some guy made it in his garage. The Powramid has the same six outlets that the flying saucer had, but has their outlets facing right side up,…

Gadgets Jason Chen

World’s Tallest Elevator Tower Opens in Japan to Much Polite Applause, Bowing

The world’s tallest elevator testing tower has just opened in Inazawa City, Japan, and is named Solae. Why would you build a tower just to test elevators? Because the world’s tallest buildings (including Taipei 101, which I rode in last year) have a need to install elevators that take you from floor 1 to floor…

Gadgets Jason Chen

Corsair Brings 32GB Flash Drives, College Students Get Excited

We’ve been using an 8GB to tote around our critical data (Futurama episodes), but Corsair’s 32GB USB flash drives can carry four times as much Fry and Bender on the go. The two drives, Voyager and Survivor, will be retailing for $229 and $249 each—not a bad price for this much storage. The Voyager is…

Gadgets Jason Chen

Belkin RockStar Shares Your Music With Five Friends (Now We Need Five Friends)

We seldom have the need to share what we’re listening to on our iPods with more than one other person, but if you’re having some sort of “party” that “people” are “attending,” this Belkin RockStar might be good. It’s just $20 and offers six ports—one input and five outputs—so you can split one signal to…

Gadgets Jason Chen

BlueAnt V1 Bluetooth Headset First Ever With True Voice User Interface

The Deal: BlueAnt, who we’ve seen some Bluetoothiness from before, is introing “the first ever Bluetooth headset with a true voice user interface,” the BlueAnt V1. The VUI is powered by BlueGenie, which is the first time it’s been used on a headset. Other than the big ant-stamped button, it should be pretty hands-free, with…

Gadgets Matt Buchanan

Motorola DH01 Mobile Video Player Does Live TV and DVR Clips, Hopes Mobile TV Will Get Better

The Skinny: The DH01 has a 4.3-inch screen (but how thin is it?), a five-minute memory buffer for pausing live mobile TV, DVR playback from SD or MultiMediaCard cards and four hours of playback time. The Catch: It’s dedicated—who’s gonna carry around a separate player if they can probably get the same live TV on…

Gadgets Matt Buchanan

Motion-Sensing, Money-Eating Piggy Bank: A Haiku

Just like your ex-wife This pig eats all your money. I’ll be here all week. [Product Page]

Gadgets Adam Frucci

1981 Atari Handheld Breakout Game Prototype Up on eBay

Sure, you may have heard of Atari’s less-than-stellar handheld offerings such as the Lynx and the Touch Me, but my guess is that you’ve never seen this, a prototype for a handheld breakout game that was never released. In fact, only two of these prototypes exist in the world. If you’re a mad breakout fan,…

Gadgets Adam Frucci

Pinnacle Video Transfer, Analog to Digital in Your Pocket

The Pinnacle Video Transfer is one of the best-looking solutions for analog to digital file conversion we’ve seen in a long time. A pocketable 4.8″ x 2.6″ x 0.9″ device, the Video Transfer converts video from analog composite and S-Video through the H.264 codec to MPEG4…wait for it…through USB to iPods, PSPs or flash drives.…

Gadgets Mark Wilson

Exploding Nano-Wires Create Maybe the Coolest Picture We’ve Ever Seen

Our newest family member, the slick sci-fi culture blog io9, has been around for about a day now and is already pumping out the hits. Just take a look at this photo of exploding nano-wires they posted. Yes, those are the tiniest explosions you’ve ever seen. Taken with an electron scanning micrograph by Fanny Beron…

Gadgets Adam Frucci

Germ Guardian Air Sanitizer Scares You Well

We’re not germophobes here at Gizmodo—not necessarily because we aren’t afraid of tiny sickness-inducing attack—but because we’re too lazy to dust let alone sterilize. But the Germ Guardian Air Sanitizer offers a lifestyle of sloth paranoia we could live with. Using UV-C rays (like similar models on the market), the device kills 99.9% of airborne…

Gadgets Mark Wilson

Dell Inspiron 1525 Is a Whole Lotta Laptop for Less than a Grand

Dell’s Inspiron 1525 gives you a lot for your $999. With a 15.4-inch high-res screen, 2-GHz Intel Core 2 Duo T7250 processor, built-in webcam, and almost four-and-a-half hours’ battery life and all sorts of holes for you to stick things into, including an HDMI port. Full specs are below the gallery. CPU 2.0-GHz Intel Core…

Gadgets AddyDugdale

Samsung 1TB 3.5-Inch HDD Has World’s Highest Recording Density

Running at 7,200rpm and with a 1TB capacity, Samsung’s new F1 RAID Class 3.5-inch HDD offers the world’s highest recording density and is aimed at storage and video surveillance applications. Using just three platters, the HDD’s low power consumption makes it the coolest operating 1TB drive in its class. Full press release is below. Seoul,…

Gadgets AddyDugdale

Hitachi’s 500GB Notebook Hard Drive Turns Your Laptop Into an Ultimate eBook Reader

Hitachi’s upping the notebook 2.5-inch storage game to the 500GB level, which means that you’ll have much, much more space to store all your eBooks and comics to take with you on the go. The Travelstar 5K500 will be available in 400GB or 500GB models, and have optional Bulk Data Encryption for drive-level security. It…

Gadgets Jason Chen

The Fuzz Have a New Way to Bust Your Drunken Ass

Garmin Colorado 300, 400i, 400t, 400c GPSes Saves Lost Hikers, Fishers and Voyeurs

Garmin Juices Up nuvi Line With New Voice Control on 880, Fatter Screen for 260w

Garmin Mobile PC and GPS 20x Dongle Turns Your Laptop into a Garmin GPS

Garmin nuvi 5000 Has Hummer-Sized Screen

Motorola Readies Up MPEG-4-Ready Next-Generation Set-Top Box Army Led by DCX3400

Powramid Power Strip Lifts, Separates Your AC Adapters

World’s Tallest Elevator Tower Opens in Japan to Much Polite Applause, Bowing

Corsair Brings 32GB Flash Drives, College Students Get Excited

Belkin RockStar Shares Your Music With Five Friends (Now We Need Five Friends)

BlueAnt V1 Bluetooth Headset First Ever With True Voice User Interface

Motorola DH01 Mobile Video Player Does Live TV and DVR Clips, Hopes Mobile TV Will Get Better

Motion-Sensing, Money-Eating Piggy Bank: A Haiku

1981 Atari Handheld Breakout Game Prototype Up on eBay

Pinnacle Video Transfer, Analog to Digital in Your Pocket

Exploding Nano-Wires Create Maybe the Coolest Picture We’ve Ever Seen

Germ Guardian Air Sanitizer Scares You Well

Dell Inspiron 1525 Is a Whole Lotta Laptop for Less than a Grand

Samsung 1TB 3.5-Inch HDD Has World’s Highest Recording Density

Hitachi’s 500GB Notebook Hard Drive Turns Your Laptop Into an Ultimate eBook Reader

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

Repair Workers Accidentally Stumble Upon Lost Remains of Legendary ‘Fourth Musketeer’

Dreame Aero Pro Wet Dry Vacuum Mop Drops 20% Shortly After Launch in the Spring Cleaning Sale

Darth Maul’s Legs, Ranked

April Set to Unleash Some Wild Weather Across Parts of the US, Meteorologists Warn

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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