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TiVo-Compatible SDV Tuner May Enable Video on Demand

Remember the USB connector device we pointed at a couple days ago that could bring two-way cable communication? It be this Motorola USB SDV tuning resolver. Dave Zatz explains that this tuner, which will plug into the back of your TiVo in order to enable two-way communications between your box and the cable company, will…

Gadgets Jason Chen

Coffee Mug Knows When You’re Going to Burn Yourself

Our father told us that the best way to test whether a steaming cup of anything was cool enough to drink was to just drink it. It wasn’t until the fifth time we were in the hospital that we discovered that the man wasn’t our father. If we had these heat-sensitive On/Off mugs, which change…

Gadgets Jason Chen

Breakfast Bike Tray Spells Death Wish

Eating while driving is inadvisable, but at least you have a bunch of “car” between you and the thing you hit. Not so when you’re on a bicycle, which is why this BreakFast tray—which holds your breakfast AND has a slot for a cup—is probably a bad idea. Sure, if you can manage to balance…

Gadgets Jason Chen

Glowing ETree Lamp Can Be Bent Into Any Shape

This ETree floor lamp is certainly distinctive looking. Built out of multiple strands of electroluminescent tubes that you can manipulate into pretty much any shape, it’s like a glowing, malleable sculpture for your living room. It looks really cool, but I have trouble picturing it fitting in with the décor with many living rooms. Maybe…

Gadgets Adam Frucci

Creative Confirms that its Zen is Coming with 32GB Flash Memory

Last week we showed that Creative was upping the memory of its Zen to 32GB — well, now it’s official. According to the British version of Crave, the powers that be are still being cagey about the launch, but they did say this: https://gizmodo.com/32gb-creative-zen-leaked-325652 Don’t expect it anytime before the second quarter of 2008. There’s…

Gadgets AddyDugdale

Recycled Xmas Decorations — May All Your Christmases Be Geek

Are these the perfect tree decorations for green geeks? Possibly. Made from recycled CDs and circuit boards, they are heinously expensive (around $6 for a circuit-board dangler, $9 for the CD version. Or you can get a set of three for $16 or $21 respectively. Or you can not bother. What do people who buy…

Gadgets AddyDugdale

Polonium Pen a Pocket-Sized Must-Have for Anti-Putin Russians

Those of you who fear they’ve got on the wrong side of Vladimir Putin just might find the Polonium Pen a must-have. Basically a hand-made ion chamber with LED read-out, the Polonium Pen will sniff out excessive doses of the radioactive element in your cocktail, dim sum, or caviar when held over the suspect glass…

Gadgets AddyDugdale

Bel-Air Filtration System Uses Plants to Purify Our Environs

With more than a nod to NASA and James Dyson, French designer Mathieu Lehanneur’s Bel-Air purifying system uses plants to keep the atmosphere inside your house clean from nasty pollutants. The pint-sized air-filtration system acts as a miniature greenhouse, stripping the benzene, formaldehyde and trichloroethylene from inside your home using three natural filters. The Bel-Air…

Gadgets AddyDugdale

Mysterious HTC CLIO200 Data Device Appears on FCC

The closest HTC device we could match this to is the Shift, a UMPC device that runs both Vista and Windows mobile—but the connection’s tenuous at best. What we do know is that the butt-side of this thing has air vents and a battery pack, which makes us think that this is a data-device instead…

Gadgets Jason Chen

Comic Mocking Universal Music CEO Sadly Not Far From Reality

This webcomic’s almost more like a webtragedy. Why? Its depiction of Wired’s conversation with the confused CEO of the world’s largest record label, Universal, isn’t all that exaggerated. I mean, sometimes it seems like they’re still searching for this whole “internet” thing. [Hijinks Ensue via Boing Boing]

Gadgets Matt Buchanan

Cop Tases Pregnant Woman for Trying to Leave Police Station

As tasers turn into must-have gadgets for self-defense and police officers alike, dubious tasings have apparently also gone epidemic, making taser-proof clothing a must for any activist’s, driver’s or breathing human’s Christmas list. Today’s exhibit: A woman walks into a police station, wants to give up her one-year-old, then tries to leave. Guess what happens?…

Gadgets Matt Buchanan

One Cellphone For Every Two People

According to research firm Informa, cellphone subscriptions have passed the 3.3 billion mark—half the world’s population. In 59 countries, penetration’s over 100 percent because people have more than one cellphone, so not quite half the world actually has one. Yet. [Reuters]

Gadgets Matt Buchanan

M-Audio’s MicroTrack II Digital Audio Recorder: Rock Star Quality at a Garage Band Price

The new MicroTrack II from M-Audio gives musicians everything they need to record music on the go. The handheld device features 2-channel WAV (BWF) and MP3 recording and playback and can copy files directly to CompactFlash cards or microdrives. There are also two 1/4-inch TRS inputs for your gear, 48V phantom-powered mic preamps, and drag-and-drop…

Gadgets Sean Fallon

Comcast Getting 100Mbps Cable Modems Next Year, Fiber Scared?

Comcast confirms we’ll see the rollout of DOCSIS 3.0—the next-gen data over cable standard allowing bandwidth of 160Mbps down and 120Mbps up—starting next year, with 20 percent of its footprint expected to be blanketed in bandwidth goodness by the end of 2008. Even though Comcast isn’t saying where it’ll fall, markets where there’s FiOS are…

Gadgets Matt Buchanan

Hands-On with the Samsung SGH-i620 Smartphone Slider

Vincent from SlashGear just got a hands-on with Samsung’s new SGH-i620, otherwise known as the Sangria, a slim slider smartphone with an iPod-like touchwheel on the front. As we reported back in May, it’s loaded up with Windows Mobile and has Wi-Fi, a 2-megapixel camera, Bluetooth and MicroSD expandability. Unfortunately for us, word from Samsung…

Gadgets Adam Frucci

Mini Mob Tiny Brick Phone Is Perfect For Midget Zack Morris

Using a retro brick phone doesn’t have to be an exercise in giving up modern features as long as you’re using the Mini Mob. Not only does it look like Zack’s Kelly Kapowski booty call gadget, it’s got an MP3 player, a camera, GSM compatibility and a slot for headphones. And best of all, it’s…

Gadgets Jason Chen

Swarovsky-Encrusted Toilet Covers All Of Toilet, Not Just Insides, In Crap

Just when we thought we’d stop writing about things that are coated in Swarovsky crystals, they had to go and slap their shiny mess all over a toilet. It costs $75,000, which means you could easily coat a regular toilet in 750 $100 bills and have it come out looking better than this. Actually, you could…

Gadgets Jason Chen

Patent Office Re-Koshers TiVo’s Time Warp Patent Over EchoStar

TiVo already stomped EchoStar out in court a year and a half ago in a patent dispute over TiVo’s “multimedia time warping system.” Refresher: EchoStar cobbled together its own DVR setup, TiVo sued and won. EchoStar appeals to the US patent office for a review of TiVo’s patent. Today: The PTO finds TiVo’s patent to…

Gadgets Matt Buchanan

Warner Music Profits and the Sky Are Down, Digital Sales and Pigs Are Up

As much we like to joke about the new music economy stripping rappers of their fourth Bentley and downgrading their 60-inch plasmas to 42-inchers, Warner Music actually did take a hard beating this past quarter, losing almost $7 million in profit versus last year’s—more than half, for a take of $5 million. While profits were…

Gadgets Matt Buchanan

Windows Mobile Successor Launching Early 2008

Shown at the Mobius Conference in Amsterdam, the next version of Windows Mobile will be “an update rather than an upgrade.” This means that it’s not Windows Mobile 7/Photon, which would be a huge leap in functionality, but more along the lines of the transition of WM5 to WM6. Most of the stuff The Unwired…

Gadgets Jason Chen

TiVo-Compatible SDV Tuner May Enable Video on Demand

Coffee Mug Knows When You’re Going to Burn Yourself

Breakfast Bike Tray Spells Death Wish

Glowing ETree Lamp Can Be Bent Into Any Shape

Creative Confirms that its Zen is Coming with 32GB Flash Memory

Recycled Xmas Decorations — May All Your Christmases Be Geek

Polonium Pen a Pocket-Sized Must-Have for Anti-Putin Russians

Bel-Air Filtration System Uses Plants to Purify Our Environs

Mysterious HTC CLIO200 Data Device Appears on FCC

Comic Mocking Universal Music CEO Sadly Not Far From Reality

Cop Tases Pregnant Woman for Trying to Leave Police Station

One Cellphone For Every Two People

M-Audio’s MicroTrack II Digital Audio Recorder: Rock Star Quality at a Garage Band Price

Comcast Getting 100Mbps Cable Modems Next Year, Fiber Scared?

Hands-On with the Samsung SGH-i620 Smartphone Slider

Mini Mob Tiny Brick Phone Is Perfect For Midget Zack Morris

Swarovsky-Encrusted Toilet Covers All Of Toilet, Not Just Insides, In Crap

Patent Office Re-Koshers TiVo’s Time Warp Patent Over EchoStar

Warner Music Profits and the Sky Are Down, Digital Sales and Pigs Are Up

Windows Mobile Successor Launching Early 2008

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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