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South Korea Starts Campaign for Robot Rights

It may sound like something from a sci-fi flick, but South Korea is writing up a code of ethics to protect robots from being abused by humans and vice versa. Tops on their list is the issue of safety, especially now that more people are interacting with robots. Roboticists in Europe are also lobbying their…

Gadgets Louis Ramirez

Electronic USB Instrument Lets You Relive Your Glory Days in the Marching Band

As if USB guitars and USB keyboards weren’t enough, Ion Audio’s just produced a USB electronic Wind instrument. Shaped like a plastic clarinet, this gadget lets you simulate woodwinds, brass, strings, and synth instruments from the comfort of your computer desk. Of course, playing a clarinet—and in turn, this USB wind instrument—is harder than playing…

Gadgets Jason Chen

Gundam Razor Defends Earth While Making You Presentable

Although there’s no real benefit to having a Gundam razor as opposed to, say, a non-Gundam razor, you’ll still feel safe using a razor sanctioned by a 50-foot Japanese defense robot. Then again, actual Gundam pilots are only 13 years old, which means these haven’t actually been tested on real human beings. Wait, did we…

Gadgets Jason Chen

Ionic Teeth Whitener Uses LEDs to Whiten Your Choppers

Are your pearly whites starting to look a little yellow? For $29 the Ionic Teeth Whitener can make your teeth look like porcelain thanks to a special blue LED that—when combined with their special toothpaste—zaps all sorts of stains from your choppers. Or you could, y’know, brush more often. LEDs to Whiten Your Teeth [Crave]

Gadgets Louis Ramirez

3D World’s Three-Eyed Camera Makes 3D Photo Shoots a Reality

Design-wise, 3D World’s three-lens shooter looks like a camera experiment gone wrong. But the reason the 120 Tri-lense Stereo Camera was fitted with an extra pair of eyes is so that it could take “3D images.” Here’s the catch though. You’ll need a special viewer to make it all work. So in the long run,…

Gadgets Louis Ramirez

Your Keyboard is Disgusting

Do you realize what’s inside your keyboard? It’s a veritable cornicopia of disgusting down there, full of fingernail clippings, Dorito crumbs, herbs and spices, and a whole civilization of bacteria. Who cares? Not me, but if you do, this OneClean Keyboard Cleaner will make sure you aren’t typing over anything gross anymore. It both cleans…

Gadgets Adam Frucci

Asus W5fe: Not Quite Ready for Prime Time

Asus’ W5fe made a big splash at CES, mainly cause it was the first lappie to sport an external LCD for Vista’s SideShow. Unfortunately, the laptop is going out with a whimper. The problem? SideShow itself. Although the controls are straightforward, the folks at Laptop think navigating through the interface is “clumsy.” And when you…

Gadgets Louis Ramirez

Slate: Blackberries and iPods Sending Timex the Way of Betamax

Slate’s Moneybox columnist, Daniel Gross, details a sinking trend in the sales of mid-range watches—ones actually meant to tell time—and chalks this up to the fact that “most people these days carry a highly accurate and durable time piece, but it isn’t a watch.” It’s an iPod, a cell phone, whatever. Sales of watches under…

Gadgets Matt Buchanan

PS2-less PS3’s Coming to the US and Japan?

Europe already got the shaft from Sony when it came to backwards compatibility and their PS3s. Could the US be next? Rumor has it that Sony is removing the PS2 emotion engine from future PS3 models that are being shipped to the US and Japan to cut costs. That means that, like the Xbox 360,…

Gadgets Adam Frucci

New Crime Deterrent: Seizure-Inducing Lights

In Japan, it isn’t enough to just, you know, call the cops when a robber breaks into your home. No, you’ve got to put your money on them being epileptic and then try to give them a seizure. At least that’s how I understand the Intrusion Alarm System by National Japan. It blasts a loud…

Gadgets Adam Frucci

PMA 07: AlwaysOn Armadillo + Millipod Combo for Protection and Support

MADE is best known for its sturdy line of silicone camera body condoms known as Camera Armour, but now the company’s got a new product for the shirt-pocket photographer set, too. The AlwaysOn Armadillo + Millipod Combo is a neoprene wrap that attaches to the camera via tripod mount. The mount includes a small fold-out…

Gadgets Curtis Joe Walker

Sony Ericsson’s Next Touchscreen-based Smartphone?

The details on these two phones are so slim, we’re bound to think they’re fanboy images. But here we have what could be Sony Ericsson‘s next smartphone, a touchscreen-based mobile codenamed “Sneff.” It’s either a touchscreen or a slider, although those “buttons” up front lead me to believe it’s the former. Next up we have…

Gadgets Louis Ramirez

Google Phone to Predict Your Searches

The idea sounds over the top, but a Google patent has surfaced which describes an application that can predict your searches based on your location, previous search history, and the time of day. So let’s say you’re in New York on a Saturday night. You take out your GPhone, and the app will predict the…

Gadgets Louis Ramirez

PMA 07: HP Announces DreamColor, An Open System for Standard Colors All Over the Universe

HP’s Executive VP of Imaging and Printing Vyomesh Joshi (pictured above) actually made a bit of news at PMA 07 in the midst of his flurry of desperate-sounding guff and cheerleading about getting people to print more pictures so the company could continue earning astronomical profits by price gouging the public with its worth-its-weight-in-gold printer…

Gadgets Charlie White

NEC’s New Displays Put an End to Screen Glare

Nothing’s more frustrating than working on your laptop and seeing your mug reflected on the display. NEC’s new “super-transmissive natural light TFTs” might put an end to those days. They claim the screens can display vivid colors regardless of the environment you’re in. So you can be plopped down at a Park somewhere on a…

Gadgets Louis Ramirez

Bose Apologizes for TriPort Troubles, Offers Free Upgrades

All you TriPort owners listen up. Now that Bose has come clean on the TriPort’s stability issues,” they’re releasing an updated version of their in-ear headphones which they say won’t fall out of your ears. They’re also releasing three additional accessories for the headphones, a wire clip, a neck lanyard, and upgraded interchangeable ear tips…

Gadgets Louis Ramirez

Desktop Moving Composer: Wake Up to a Different Sound Each Morning, Madness Guaranteed

As alarm clocks go, the award-winning Desktop Moving Composer is one of the cutest we’ve featured in Gizmodo. The sound and lightscape that wakes you in the morning is dependent on where you place each of the seven colored audio transmitting modules (each of which correspond to a specific instrument) on top of the white…

Gadgets Ad Dugdale

iJoyRide: Get Off Your Horse and Drink Your Lo-Cal

Trot ON, Hortensia! This is the iJoyRide, a fitness machine that thinks it’s a horse. It’s got four speeds (Warm Up, Taking It Easy, Getting Serious and Pump It Up) and 30 minutes on it will burn the same amount of calories as a 30-min run or bike ride. Wannabe mustang riders could probably play…

Gadgets Ad Dugdale

Tricorder Invented, For Realz

“Mr. Spock, what is that substance?” “Hmm…it appears to be a naked photo of the alien from Zentir 16. The one that you promised to show to no one else.” “Not that! The OTHER substance.” “Oh, that’s just the STD you left on the picture…and my heart” Purdue researchers have invented a real-world “tricorder”. It…

Gadgets Mark Wilson

LEDs for Outside: Light the Earth, Spite the Sun

Iwasaki Electric just announced their new LED Bouhantou, an LED bulb made for outdoor use. The idea has some hidden advantages, like not emitting UV light and thereby not attracting bugs (all while keeping the light quality more pleasant than the current alien death pee alternatives.) And of course, the units are major power savers.…

Gadgets Mark Wilson

South Korea Starts Campaign for Robot Rights

Electronic USB Instrument Lets You Relive Your Glory Days in the Marching Band

Gundam Razor Defends Earth While Making You Presentable

Ionic Teeth Whitener Uses LEDs to Whiten Your Choppers

3D World’s Three-Eyed Camera Makes 3D Photo Shoots a Reality

Your Keyboard is Disgusting

Asus W5fe: Not Quite Ready for Prime Time

Slate: Blackberries and iPods Sending Timex the Way of Betamax

PS2-less PS3’s Coming to the US and Japan?

New Crime Deterrent: Seizure-Inducing Lights

PMA 07: AlwaysOn Armadillo + Millipod Combo for Protection and Support

Sony Ericsson’s Next Touchscreen-based Smartphone?

Google Phone to Predict Your Searches

PMA 07: HP Announces DreamColor, An Open System for Standard Colors All Over the Universe

NEC’s New Displays Put an End to Screen Glare

Bose Apologizes for TriPort Troubles, Offers Free Upgrades

Desktop Moving Composer: Wake Up to a Different Sound Each Morning, Madness Guaranteed

iJoyRide: Get Off Your Horse and Drink Your Lo-Cal

Tricorder Invented, For Realz

LEDs for Outside: Light the Earth, Spite the Sun

Study Challenges Popular Theory on Why Primordial Bugs Were So Darn Huge

Ewan McGregor and Anne Hathaway’s Mystery’s Sci-Fi Film Has Its First Trailer

Scientists Just Found the Salt Limit That Pushes Your Heart to the Breaking Point

White House Social Media Just Had Its Covfefe Moment

Roborock F25 Ultra Steam Wet Dry Vacuum Is Now at Its Lowest Price, but Only During the Spring Sale Window

This $450 Semi-Dumb Phone Is Barely Even a Phone

Startup Successfully Ignites World’s First Fusion Rocket

Shokz OpenDots One Earbuds Hit Their Lowest Price Yet Across All Color Options, Including the New Ones

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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