Gadgets

Past, Present, Future Watch is Readable Yet Artsy

Many stylish watches are fantastic looking but more difficult to read than Clint Eastwood’s leathery mug. This Past, Present Future watch, however, tells you exactly what time it is now, but omits everything else we’ve come to expect on a watch—namely, the rest of the watch. It’s conceptual yet friendly, exactly like our imaginary girlfriends.…

Flask Umbrella Keeps You From Being Dry in the Rain

Alcoholic on the go? Nothing’s worse than getting stuck in the rain without a nip or two to help keep you warm. Well, if you had this sneaky Malacca Flask Umbrella from Swaine Adeney Brigg, you’d never go without. Simply unscrew the bottom of the handle to reveal a glass flask that you can fill…

Why and How OLPC Got Reamed: Negroponte’s Dreams Stolen and Crushed

The WSJ basically pulverizes the OLPC project in an exquisitely detailed piece laying out its trials and tribulations. Its thesis is that the idea—cheap laptops for everyone—is so damn good that everyone else built their own uber-cheap laptops, thrusting OLPC into cutthroat competition. Result? Countries and school systems are buying cheap computers, just not the…

Copying a Key Using a Popsicle Stick Makes Stalking Your Ex Easier

Do you sleep soundly at night knowing that the lock on your front door is uncopyable because it has holes in it rather than notches? Ha! Your key is worthless. Check out this video in which a simple Popsicle stick is modified in no time at all to open a lock. It just requires some…

Futurama and the Gadgets of Tomorrow We Love and Fear

Click to viewIn honor of Futurama’s bombastic return to the world of tomorrow (Available for just $17.99!), we present to you the gadgets we love and fear from the entire Futurama history. Our list from the cryogenic stasis machine of the first episode to the cryogenic stasis machine featured in the movie (psst, it’s the…

16GB iPod touch for $344 Shipped

With the 20 percent cashback deal at Paypal retailers mentioned in Mark’s sweet Cyber Monday guide, you can pick up a 16GB iPod touch from Newegg for just $344 shipped, or the 8GB model for $244. We’re using it on some new speakers. [Newegg, Newegg via CrunchGear] https://gizmodo.com/10-cyber-monday-deals-worth-checking-out-326145

AT&T may be recalling certain Samsung Blackjacks due to poor reception and dropped calls caused by faulty antennas. No official word has been given yet, but users of AT&T’s support forums are buzzing with the news. [BGR]

Ambient Football Scorecast Keeps NFL Fans Up To Date All the Time

Watching football is clearly the best way to get scores to the games you’re interested in, but if you’re unable to view the games due to being busy or having them blacked out in your area, this fancy new Ambient Football Scorecast should keep you all up to date. It displays football scores in real…

Hello Kitty Toilet Paper Dispenser Advances Buttocks Tech

Other than the iPod dock toilet paper speaker we thoroughly tested, there hasn’t been any real advancement in the area of ass wiping technology in the past few years. This Hello Kitty dispenser changes everything with its automated dispensing unit that lets you program exactly how many sheets you want for your next wipe—which may…

10 Cyber Monday Deals Worth Checking Out

You didn’t want to stand out in the cold for your deals on electronics, risking death by trample to save a few bucks? We can’t blame you. So here are 10 great deals you can get from the comfort of your own home during the internet’s version of Black Friday, Cyber Monday. Hit the jump…

Rube Goldberg Builders Needed for TV Show “Super Rubes”

Super Rubes is an upcoming one-hour TV show for The Discovery Channel that will pit a super team of Rube Golderberg creators against impossible challenges. The show is currently casting artists, scientists, engineers, architects and designers—or anyone with mad Rube Goldberg cred or enthusiasm. You need to be between 25-39 years old, and if you’re…

Soyabella, Auto Soymilk Maker

We prefer drinking from cow whenever possible, but the Soyabella soymilk maker, an auto soy grinder and roaster that makes soymilk with the touch of the button, interests us nonetheless. Just add water and soybeans and you’ll have fresh “milk” in 15 minutes. But to ensure that it doesn’t collect dust after your two-week soy…

Real-Life 40-Year-Old Virgin Selling $35k Worth of Star Wars Action Figures on eBay

If you thought The 40 Year Old Virgin was just a hilarious movie with no basis in reality, get a load of this: it’s an eBay auction for $34,500 worth of Star Wars action figures. Why get rid of what’s clearly the product of a lifetime worth of being a creepy shut in? Well, “THIS…

Canadians Finally Get TiVo

Every once in a while we read a mundane press release—in this case, announcing that Canada gets TiVo—and just start laughing. Poor Canada is finally getting TiVo service, “just in time for the holiday season.” But that’s not the funniest part. The only hardware available will be the TiVo Series2, standard def, last gen DVR…

Home Trebuchet Kit, a Few Feet Short of Perfection

When we first spotted this Stirling Warwolf Trebuchet kit, we thought our dreams had come true. At last we could defeat our neighbors, if not in a landscaping-off, at least in an old fashioned, purely American arms race. But then we saw the all-too-reasonable price of $189. And we knew this trebuchet was only moderately…

Sony Ships 1 Millionth New PSP

Sony’s updated PSP Slim (PSP-2000) may not have been an upgrade anywhere near the metamorphosis from Nintendo’s DS to DS Lite, but it’s reinvigorated the Japanese consumer nonetheless. Sony has officially broken the 1 million barrier in these new units shipped to retailers, and has accomplished the feat in just about 2 months of time.…

Super iPod Pillow is Plusher than Plush, Plays MP3s

Let us salute creative types who are super-brazilliant at hacking MP3 players and have a bit of time on their hands, because this is what they can come up with — a super iPod that is 50 times bigger than the real thing, and that probably won’t break when you drop it. There’s a gallery…

Toyota’s New Driving Simulator Looks Like Fairground Attraction

This is Toyota’s latest toy, a 78-ton driving simulator that recreates situations too wild for real life. Consisting of a 23-foot dome perched on top of a 15-foot-high gantry, the simulator is at Toyota’s Higashifuji Technical Center in Shizuoka, and will be deployed to improve safety features on Toyota cars. The movement on the dome…

Murider Multi-Media Robot Goes One Better than the Rolly, Plays Video

Fresh outta Korea is the Murider (Murder? Moo-rider?), an odd-shaped entertainment robot that you might like. Although not as sexy as either Sony’s Rolly or the Miuro robot speaker, the remote-controlled, light-up ‘Bot still has capabilities. As well as playing music, the Murider’s 4.3-inch LED screen lets you watch movies or DMB mobile TV, and…

Brilliance CT 256-Slice Scanner from Philips Gets to the Heart of the Problem

Philips yesterday unveiled their 256-slice scanner that renders 3-D images of the body like never before. The $2-million Brilliance CT machine can capture the body’s skeleton, organs and blood vessels in the minutest of detail, and was unveiled yesterday in Chicago, at the Radiological Society of North America’s annual meeting. Philips’ scanner can give a…