Gadgets

Santa apparently granted Sony’s Christmas wishes early: They’ve been moving over 200,000 PS3s a week in the U.S. since Black Friday. It’s no DS Lite saleswise, but pretty nice numbers nonetheless. [WSJ] https://gizmodo.com/nintendo-ds-sets-new-record-wins-all-of-worlds-gold-327335

Industrial Designer Gives Old Soviet-Era Handset Just What It Was Missing—Bluetooth

Industrial designer Brano Meres updated an old telephone handset dating from the Soviet era and brought it into the Noughties as a headset to use with his cellphones. As well as an on/off button, the Cold War-era monstrosity rocks a pair of LED indicator lights and a connector for charging the battery. There was one…

Shot Caller Times Your Drinking Games to the Last Second

If ever a gadget is going to promote responsible drinking, then the Shot Caller is it. And let’s face it, when you’re playing drinking games with your buddies, it is all about being responsible and drinking up when you are told to drink up. Made for the Power Hour and Century Club drinking games, the…

$109 iPod Touch Clone on Sale Now

For those who prefer “non-aspirin pain reliever” to Tylenol, this $109 Optimus Touch is the perfect Apple remedy. Strikingly similar to Apple’s iPod Touch, the 4GB Optimus Touch sports similar menus and lots of enhancements, including a 1.3MP camera, FM tuner, miniSD slot, and support of your DivX and XviD movies. Of course, there are…

Rotoflexion Massaging Backpack Has Robot Hands to Rub You Down

Normally, a heavy backpack is the cause of shoulder and back aches and pains, but not the Rotoflexion Massaging Backpack. No, it’s got “strong mechanical hands” on the straps that give you a workover while you tote your laptop around. I’d expect a massaging backpack to just vibrate, which would be enough in itself, but…

AquaMaker AM10 Pulls Drinking Water from Air

The AquaMaker AM10 is not your standard office water cooler. Pulling up to 36 liters of water from the air every 38 hours, its independence from water deliveries will make it perfect for some sequel of Office Space set in a rainforest. But for the rest of us, its purported $15/day operating price is just…

Octopus Toy Brings New Meaning to Octopussy

Back away from the toy, children. Because its eight “tingling tentacles” aren’t meant for alliteration alone. Fully waterproof and ready for the tub, the Screaming O Screaming Octopus Clitoral Vibrator seems like an odd choice to us for one’s clitoral vibration needs, but then again, we’re not its target sex. If you’re interested, it’ll run…

Dell Latitude XT Tablet PC Gets Official At Under 4 Pounds With Capacitive Touch

Dell’s Latitude XT 12.1-inch convertible Tablet PC is finally official, and it’s being paraded as the world’s “only sub-four-pound 12.1-inch convertible tablet” with capacitive touch capability—meaning it’ll sense your finger (sorry, only one) without any pressure at all. Also on the touchy-feely side, it’s got palm rejection, a no-battery pen eraser and Dell says its…

Deluxe Laser Challenge Pro Set Lets You Pew Pew Pew Till You Can Pew No More

If you’re going to wage war on your fellow cubicle jockeys, then there are worse ways to do it than using the Deluxe Laser Challenge Pro Set—take it from me, stapling my boss’s ear to the office notice board didn’t win me any influential new friends when I worked the phones at the Acme Sex…

China Presents the Goochi Guchy Gucci Cellphone

The Italian fashion house so beloved of fans of pubic topiary is no stranger to having its products knocked off by enterprising people wanting some of the Gucci dollar. Nevertheless, you can bet your life that its people will wince when they see just how a chinese cellphone company has interpreted the brand. The Gucciphone,…

Flying Santa Puts the Crap Back in Christmas

It’s the holidays, so you know what that means: loads of Christmas themed crap that you won’t touch for 11 months out of the year. Take this flying Santa, for example. While you could buy a normal remote control helicopter, why would you want something that wouldn’t be really awkward to use in June? This…

Vacuum Broom Concept Magically Crams a Vacuum Into a Broomstick

I’ve got two words for you: vacuum broom. It’s a simple idea, but one that makes a lot of sense. Well, a lot of sense until you wonder if all the bulk in a vacuum cleaner is necessary to, you know, run the vacuum. And that there’s no room for a bag in a broomstick.…

Expected Curtain Gives the Lonely Friends to Come Home to

Designed by Mino Kodama, the Expected Curtain is a sort of instant virtual posse, aimed individuals who either have no friends, or who are plagued by stalkers*. Hang the curtain in your window and, while the three shadowy “friends” won’t show up during the day (thus making your neighbors fear you are a work-shy fop…

Keyport Production Video Shows Why It’s Great For Motorcycles

The $295 Keyport that allows you to combine six keys into one slick-looking device is near the Optimus Keyboard on the scale of totally overpriced things we would really love to have. Their production videos show you at least part of what your three hundred bones go toward: manufacturing. A machine that urinates water onto…

Intelligent Lantern for People Who Like Son with Their Lumiere

The intelligent lantern could be termed the Swiss Army Knife of flashlights—although the purists among you will probably complain that you can’t file your nails, peel an orange or get a stone out of a horse’s hoof with it. As well as a super-bright beam that can be seen a mile away, the nine-inch outdoor…

Colossal MP3 Player for Giants or NBA Players

When it comes to MP3 players, most people have the mantra, “Smaller is better.” The Colossal MP3 player throws that idea out the window with a massive form factor and buttons large enough for the biggest hands, modeled (parodied?) after the Toshiba gigabeat. The giant DAP has a built-in speaker, but is otherwise basic, with…

Steampunk Webcam is Actually Quite Purchasable

While we cover more than our share of steampunk gear around here, most of it is painstakingly handcrafted by fetishists artisans with years of experience. So it’s good to see good old, low-cost mass production take over to offer the masses slightly to moderately less awesome products, such as this 640×480 “Driverless Webcam.” It’s not…

XO Laptops Ship Today

The OLPC XO laptops that we’ve heard so much about finally ship today. Those generous enough to both give a laptop and get a laptop this holiday season should receive their system in plenty of time for Christmas (though Hanukkah finds itself shafted again). Formerly scheduled for a December 14 to December 24 delivery, we’re…

Intelligent Bra to Give Ladies Less Bounce to the Ounce

University researchers have invented a smart fabric that could help larger ladies in the fight against breast bounce—disappointing the legions of men who love watching girls run for buses in the process. The material, which contains tiny sensors, will be used by bra manufacturers in an attempt to improve the lot of the big-boobed who…

Dekochari Art Bikes Light Up Japan

Dekochari bikes are the baby brothers of Japan’s well-known Dekotora electro trucks. Every inch of them is customized with crazy paint jobs, lights, banners, chrome and you can see them, big bumpers and built-up back ends, tooling round the streets of Japan of an evening. Catch them in detail in the video, after the jump.…