Gadgets

Shock Ball Takes Hot Potato to a New Level

Unless you are playing hot potato with a flaming tennis ball, then you aren’t playing hard enough. And if that flaming tennis ball is a bit too much, then the Shock Ball may be more of your liking. Charge up the ball and begin tossing it around. The Shock Ball has contact points all over…

Gadgets Travis Hudson

PMA 07: Jobo photoGPS Brings Easy GPS Photo Tagging to the Masses

Jobo rolled out its photoGPS today, sitting up top your camera as if it were a flash unit, but it’s oh so different: It geo-tags your location and saves that so you’ll know right where you were when you snapped that pic. The cool thing about this is that it works with any camera with…

Gadgets Curtis Joe Walker and Charlie White

SoundGate Tablet Lets Musicians Geek Out

Designed by Nicolas Gonzalez Garrido, the SoundGate PC is a tablet/laptop hybrid made especially for musicians. It lets them record sessions, transcribe their music, and write out their next single. The tablet has a 10-inch touchscreen LCD and a flip-style QWERTY keyboard. A volume knob and jog dials are found inside and there’s even a…

Gadgets Louis Ramirez

Bose Invades Your Car with Hard Drive-based Media System

Love them or hate them, Bose wants to be your car’s media control center with the just-announced Bose Media System. What’s particularly interesting about their system is the way it’s controlled—via the device’s two knobs (which have built-in proximity sensors). The two-knob set up lets you pick songs or cycle through the unit’s functions, which…

Gadgets Louis Ramirez

BongXedo Beer Bong Puts Efficiency First

In further pursuit of getting you ready for one of the biggest drinking holidays of the year, I present the BongXedo beer bong. This beer bong systems is worn around the body and the drinking tube comes out in a very peculiar place. The BongXedo has dual funnels that can hold a few beers, total.…

Gadgets Travis Hudson

ID Sniper Fills Its Victims with Hot GPS-tracking Lead

Well now… this is unsettling. This might look like a regular old headshot-delivering sniper rifle, but it doesn’t shoot bullets. No, the ID Sniper fires tiny GPS chips. I guess the idea is that you can set up in a clocktower somewhere and sink little tracking devices into people from up to 0.62 miles away…

Gadgets Adam Frucci

NYC Cabbies May Strike Over GPS Devices

Cab drivers in New York City are getting their panties in a twist over a proposed plan to install monitors in the back of cabs. The monitors would display commercials and other forms of entertainment, but what is upsetting the drivers is the fact that these displays also have GPS devices that track location when…

Gadgets Travis Hudson

Bulletproof Raincoat Will Stop All Those Pesky Bullets

If you’re worried about some thug trying to jack your iPod, this raincoat should give you some peace of mind. Not because it makes you look like a really big Matrix fan, but because it’s bulletproof and stabproof. You can flaunt your fancy gadgets all you want, and if someone tries to jam a broken…

Gadgets Adam Frucci

Nokia’s 6110 GPS Navigator in Action

It looks like we weren’t the only ones impressed with Nokia’s new GPS-enabled 6110. After some one-on-one time with the phone, the guys at T3 are still fawning over the sexy slider’s GPS capabilities, which include one-touch navigation, a slick zooming feature, and a special pedestrian mode for the car-less crowd. The phone should be…

Gadgets Louis Ramirez

Random House Sending Books Via SMS

I admit, I like sending and receiving texts, but to read an entire chapter via text—that’s where I draw the line. Nevertheless, Random House is offering the first chapter of a new business book (Life’s a Pitch) for free via SMS on mobile phones. Sign up and you’ll even get a 40% discount on the…

Gadgets Louis Ramirez

PMA 07: Joby Gives GorillaPod a Dose of Growth Hormone

Joby introduced a new member of the GorillaPod family at PMA 2007, the GorillaPod Solo. Instead of a tripod, it’s just got one long leg that can wrap securely around much larger objects than the original versions can. https://gizmodo.com/joby-gorillapod-versatile-tripod-153575 It comes in two sizes, 20″ and 30″. It uses the same quick release head as…

Gadgets Curtis Joe Walker

PMA 07: Pandigital 15″ Frame, Thinner But with a Huge Honkin’ Screen

Sure, there are digital picture frames popping up everywhere, but this Pandigital model just rolled out here at PMA 2007 is different. First of all, it’s huge, 15 inches diagonal with a 1024×768 screen. That’s a 4:3 aspect ratio, a slight disadvantage since most photos aren’t taken in that shape, but the unit’s firmware cuts…

Gadgets Charlie White

TN Games’ Force-feedback Vest Beats the Crap Outta Gamers

We’ve seen some pretty interesting gaming peripherals in our time, but this one might steal the show. It’s a force-feedback vest that gives players a virtual beating, responding to everything from punches to car crashes with 10 pounds of pressure sent throughout your torso. The vest is intended to give gaming an extra level of…

Gadgets Louis Ramirez

Wonderful Shot Makes Your Pup a Pap

Wanting to see what your dog sees isn’t just weird, now it’s also a reality. By tying this Wonderful Shot Dog Camera to your dog, you can snap 3.5-megapixel shots by remote, or on a timed basis. By taking one shot every minute, you’ll be able to see exactly where your dog went in the…

Gadgets Jason Chen

Magellan Makes Maestro Line Official, First GPS with Voice Command

Magellan confirmed those leaked Maestro GPS systems today, giving them better prices than we had initially reported. The top of the line Maestro 4050 will be the company’s first GPS to support voice commands and sell for $699 when it drops in May. The 4040, which loses the 4050’s voice command and real-time traffic features,…

Gadgets Louis Ramirez

The Simpsons Jukebox: Because Matt Groening Needs More Money To Work On Futurama

Did you know Futurama was coming back for 13 episodes and some straight-to-DVD movies in 2008? It’s true. That’s why we should all buy this $39.99 Simpsons Jukebox, which is an AM/FM clock radio with snooze, backlight, and knobs on the front. You may not like the radio, but any cash given to Groening should…

Gadgets Jason Chen

The Winerack: Combining Beer and Breasts, Finally

We know about the Beer Belly, but what about the ladies that want to sneak beer into places where they shouldn’t using the contours of their bodies? Good news, girls: the Winerack is here. https://gizmodo.com/fake-beer-belly-gets-you-tanked-140140 Created by the Nobel laureates behind the Beer Belly, the Winerack is a bra that can hold whatever liquid you…

Gadgets Adam Frucci

LG Prada Review: A Trendy Phone for Designer Whores

The girls at ShinyShiny got some one-on-one time with the much-hyped LG Prada phone and after spending 24 hours with a preproduction model had some mixed, but mostly good things to say. So the good news first. The touch-screen has no lag whatsoever. Even better, fat-fingered technofiles don’t have to worry about accidentally hitting the…

Gadgets Louis Ramirez

Orbital Listening Device Helps Creeps Spy

Minding your own business is one of those things that’s just right to do. Just because you’re curious about what your neighbors are arguing about doesn’t mean you have the right to spy on them and figure out what exactly it is. It’s also cheaper than being a sneaky sleazebag. This Orbital Electronic Listening Device…

Gadgets Adam Frucci

Giraffe Robot Lets Your Boss Remotely Keep Tabs on the Office

Think you got it easy cause your boss ain’t around? You better think twice. Designed by HeadThere, the Giraffe is a remote controlled mobile videoconferencing robot. It can be operated via the Internet by anyone who wants to see, talk, or interact with people far-away. The robot stands 5’8″ tall and uses a 14-inch LCD…

Gadgets Louis Ramirez

Shock Ball Takes Hot Potato to a New Level

PMA 07: Jobo photoGPS Brings Easy GPS Photo Tagging to the Masses

SoundGate Tablet Lets Musicians Geek Out

Bose Invades Your Car with Hard Drive-based Media System

BongXedo Beer Bong Puts Efficiency First

ID Sniper Fills Its Victims with Hot GPS-tracking Lead

NYC Cabbies May Strike Over GPS Devices

Bulletproof Raincoat Will Stop All Those Pesky Bullets

Nokia’s 6110 GPS Navigator in Action

Random House Sending Books Via SMS

PMA 07: Joby Gives GorillaPod a Dose of Growth Hormone

PMA 07: Pandigital 15″ Frame, Thinner But with a Huge Honkin’ Screen

TN Games’ Force-feedback Vest Beats the Crap Outta Gamers

Wonderful Shot Makes Your Pup a Pap

Magellan Makes Maestro Line Official, First GPS with Voice Command

The Simpsons Jukebox: Because Matt Groening Needs More Money To Work On Futurama

The Winerack: Combining Beer and Breasts, Finally

LG Prada Review: A Trendy Phone for Designer Whores

Orbital Listening Device Helps Creeps Spy

Giraffe Robot Lets Your Boss Remotely Keep Tabs on the Office

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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