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Ion Digital Drum Station Keeps All That Banging to Yourself

Now you can bang the drum all day to your heart’s content without waking up the neighbors with this Ion Digital Drum Station. There’s a grid of eight springy drum pads on this drum machine, and you can program a realistic-sounding drum noise into each one, choosing among 233 sounds. There are also 50 presets…

Gadgets Charlie White

FALTIMA 010 Saves LPs to Just About Anything

The Faltima 010 (we refuse to the the all caps brand name for this article) is not just another record player that can digitize your old LPs. It’s a record player that can digitize your old LPs to MP3s and put them on anything. Users can save music to CD, USB devices (the company claims…

Gadgets Mark Wilson

Concept Remote Controller from Hitachi Looks Special, Sexy

As CEATEC goes on, the weirder ideas find their way onto the web. Here’s Hitachi’s concept RC device with an intuitive user interface. Below the bump is a pic of the prototype that they’re currently working on. I can’t decide whether it looks more like an MP3 player or a sex toy. [Aving USA]

Gadgets AddyDugdale

OpenIt Promises to Shred Evil Plastic Shell Packaging

The days of cut hands and busted scissors at the hands of the ubiquitous no-one’s-getting-the-merchandise-locked-inside-this-sarcophagus plastic anti-theft packaging might be at end courtesy of OpenIt, which are like short pruning shears with orange plier handles, allowing you to cut your way through the shell by brute force. There’s also a retractable box-cutter built into the…

Gadgets Matt Buchanan

Eco-Disco Uses Dancing to Generate Energy, Sweat to Fill Toilets

In an idea that’s pretty much identical to MITs plan to install energy-mooching floors in places like malls and airports, Enviu, a Netherlands-based research group, has proposed creating a nightclub that generates energy from the dancers within. Sections of floor would depress 2 cm when people stepped on them, generating energy to run the lights,…

Gadgets Adam Frucci

The Fastest Casio Exilim Camera Ever Doing 60 FPS Still or 300FPS Video

Pop Sci took a trip to Casio headquarters in Tokyo to scope out Casio’s new camera, which uses a CMOS image sensor and a processor that clearly possesses some snappiness to shoot 60 6-megapixel shots or 300 video frames per second. (We saw this at IFA but didn’t get a chance to fire it off.)…

Gadgets Matt Buchanan

FlyJumper Spring-Shoes Ad Demonstrates Deadly Nature of FlyJumpers

This ad for FlyJumper bouncy stilt shoe… things is refreshingly honest. Sure, it looks like they’re a lot of fun, but at the end of the day, you’ll probably end up killing yourself with them in a horrible, gruesome way. I still kind of want a pair. [Consumerist]

Gadgets Adam Frucci

Russia’s “Father of All Bombs” Not Quite That Manly

To our innocent eyes, the video of Russia’s “Father of All Bombs” looked pretty impressively explosive, but US big-boom experts are now questioning Russia’s hoax-y claims about the weapon’s size and power. For one, it might not even be a shockwave-generating thermobaric bomb—one expert says it actually looks like a fuel-air bomb, which is just…

Gadgets Matt Buchanan

Idiotic Jury Awards RIAA $222,000 for 24 Pirated Songs

Here’s some lousy breaking news for you: in the case we recently told you about, Capitol Records, et al v. Jammie Thomas, the jury found in favor of the RIAA, awarding $222,000 worth of damages. That’s $9,250 per song, for those of you keeping track at home, which is a hell of a lot less…

Gadgets Adam Frucci

Jury on First RIAA Trial Goes Into Deliberations, Hopefully Aren’t Dumb

The trial of the century — Capitol Records, et al v. Jammie Thomas — is coming to a close, with the Jury having just been sent in for deliberations. The case, which is the first RIAA case to make it to trial, all hinges on whether or not Jammie was the one using her Kazaa…

Gadgets Adam Frucci

$75,000 Swami Conversational Robot is a Very Expensive Psychic

Sure we’ve covered other robotic fortune tellers in the past, but none of them have cost anywhere close to $75,000. Now, to be fair, as far as robotic swamis go, this one looks amazing. Utilizing “cutting-edge” AI and over 30 facial motors, this swami can learn his own name, wink at you as you walk…

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The Pantman F1

We’re pretty sure this has been around for a while, but we have to say that the name Pantman F1 is pretty much the best name for a pants press ever. It’s not just Pantman, it’s the Pantman F1—which brings smooth, pressed pants at F1 speeds. The thing’s only $149, which is a slightly high…

Gadgets Jason Chen

Why Does Japan Get All The Super-Fast Fiber Optic Love?

The New York Times just took a peek into the world of Japanese fiber optic broadband, which we all know is much faster and cheaper than ours. While we here in the States might view the Japanese broadband market as some utopia where entire HD movies can be downloaded in seconds, it’s not quite that…

Gadgets Adam Frucci

Bang & Olufsen Serenata Hands-On Video

Zara over at Shiny Shiny got her hands on the Bang & Olufsen/Samsung Serenata phone, which isn’t just a phone, it’s a "personal music system." Even after watching the video it’s unclear how the music UI capabilities outclass say, the iPhone, but the external speakers seem like they sound pretty great—it even has bass. Not…

Gadgets Jason Chen

Wireless Sensor Monitors Athletic Performance

Hang this gizmo behind your ear, and it measures your posture, gait and other biomechanical data, perfect for athletes who want to improve their performance. The scientists who created it at Imperial College in London also say it will also be useful to monitor orthopedic patients as they recover from surgery. It can measure step…

Gadgets Charlie White

Belkin n52te SpeedPad, More One-Handed Gaming

The Belkin n52te SpeedPad is a sexy update of the cult classic Nostromo SpeedPad N52. Meant to replace the keyboard (and even mouse) for hardcore PC gamers, the controller offers 15 programmable keys, an 8-way thumb pad and full ergonomic support for extended play (a.k.a…a regular day in our life). But most of this was…

Gadgets Mark Wilson

D3O Armor Protects Shovel to Head

When our own Brian Lam beat up a blonde at Nextfest to test D3O soft body armor, we were…well, a little weirded out, but also impressed and a bit proud. But Brian, being the upstanding citizen that he is, refused to see the woman hit in the head. https://gizmodo.com/video-of-a-blonde-being-smashed-by-a-shovel-while-tha-300134 That’s why the press brought in…

Gadgets Mark Wilson

Foldable Fabric Oven, For Baking On the Go

Scientists in Taiwan have figured out how to make an oven out of cloth. Here you can see they’ve heated up a couple of pieces of tasty cheese toast in the thing, and the inventive tinkerers at the Taiwan Textile Research Institute say they’ve also baked a chicken in this lightweight and foldable oven that’s…

Gadgets Charlie White

Moving Mannequin Sprints From The Gap

Problem: the clothes we buy off store mannequins never properly demonstrate our in-motion sexy strut. Solution: the Moving Mannequin runs in place, simulating being late to work or really needing to use the bathroom. (Hit the jump for more along with a glorious animated gif.) We’re being a bit unfair as the Moving Mannequin is…

Gadgets Mark Wilson

Cell Phone Jammer Disguised as a Pack of Cigarettes

Flip the lid on this pack of Marlboro Lights, press the black button and all mobile phones in a 60-foot radius will go dead. Given how hard I am finding it to give up the weed, however, I would prefer a phone that stopped me from smoking. The price of silence? $950. [Red Ferret via…

Gadgets AddyDugdale

Ion Digital Drum Station Keeps All That Banging to Yourself

FALTIMA 010 Saves LPs to Just About Anything

Concept Remote Controller from Hitachi Looks Special, Sexy

OpenIt Promises to Shred Evil Plastic Shell Packaging

Eco-Disco Uses Dancing to Generate Energy, Sweat to Fill Toilets

The Fastest Casio Exilim Camera Ever Doing 60 FPS Still or 300FPS Video

FlyJumper Spring-Shoes Ad Demonstrates Deadly Nature of FlyJumpers

Russia’s “Father of All Bombs” Not Quite That Manly

Idiotic Jury Awards RIAA $222,000 for 24 Pirated Songs

Jury on First RIAA Trial Goes Into Deliberations, Hopefully Aren’t Dumb

$75,000 Swami Conversational Robot is a Very Expensive Psychic

The Pantman F1

Why Does Japan Get All The Super-Fast Fiber Optic Love?

Bang & Olufsen Serenata Hands-On Video

Wireless Sensor Monitors Athletic Performance

Belkin n52te SpeedPad, More One-Handed Gaming

D3O Armor Protects Shovel to Head

Foldable Fabric Oven, For Baking On the Go

Moving Mannequin Sprints From The Gap

Cell Phone Jammer Disguised as a Pack of Cigarettes

Why ‘For All Mankind’ Season 5 Is the Key to the Rest of the Series

ASUS ZenScreen 15.6-Inch Portable Monitor Is Now Cheaper Than Black Friday in Amazon’s Big Spring Sale

Early Wildfires Are Surging Across the US—and Trump’s New Fire Agency Isn’t Ready

INIU Brings Another Power Bank to the Spring Sale as SnapGo Keychain Portable Charger Drops to Its Lowest Price

Attorney Hit With Historic Fine for Citing AI-Generated Cases

Travelers Experiencing the Longest Security Lines in TSA History

Could There Be a ‘Project Hail Mary’ Sequel?

Meta Has More Smart Glasses Coming Whether You Want Them or Not

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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