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Stain Teacup: Age is Beautiful?

From artist Bethan Laura Wood, these teacups are meant to show their age. The interior surface of the cup is treated so as to stain more in predetermined places. The more the cups are used, the more the pattern is revealed. Over time they will build up an individual pattern dependent on the users personal…

Gadgets Mark Wilson

Archos 704 vs. 604: In Video

The successor to the 604 Wi-Fi, the 80GB Archos 704 Wi-Fi has been caught on film. Sure, we saw some pictures about a week ago, but let’s admit it, we only cared because we had nothing better. It was like an appetizer—the delicate balance of mozzarella to its deep fried bread crumb counterpart was rocking…

Gadgets Mark Wilson

Sharp HN-IR1: Cameraphone on TV

The Sharp HN-IR1 offers cell users another place to put their candid shots of the ladies’ locker room—on our their televisions. Supporting resolutions up to 1920 x 1080, this palm-sized adapter can display your pics in full HD and downscale if necessary. But there’s a catch. It only works with IrSS. That’s the high speed…

Gadgets Mark Wilson

Brain Training Toiler Paper

In the same vein as the Sudoku toilet paper rolls, these Brain Training toilet paper rolls give you something to do when you’re pushing the brown envelope. Of course, you could just concentrate on the task at hand and be done sooner, but we’re not your mother. Personally we think these rolls make more sense…

Gadgets Jason Chen

CompUSA Closing 100 Stores Nationwide, Unemployable Smartasses Everywhere Are Devastated

Ben over at the Consumerist has a tip that CompUSA, our favorite computer retailer if this were the mid 90s, is closing down 100 stores. That doesn’t sound like a huge number, for a nationwide chain, but considering they only have 229 stores, it means they’re in some big trouble. We can sort of anecdotally…

Gadgets Jason Chen

Bathroom Egg Scale Wins Eggnoble Award

What better way to remind yourself that you’re big boned than to get a bathroom scale that looks like it’s made out of eggs. This, like the 20 second workout girl, lets our wives know what we really think. https://gizmodo.com/twenty-second-workout-girl-238878 Actually, if you replaced these faux eggs with real eggs, you could probably stand on…

Gadgets Jason Chen

Robosapiens Invade McDonalds Happy Meals

Our favorite robot toys have gone mainstream, as WowWee and McDonalds are teaming up to put tlittle miniature versions of the toys into Happy Meals. The mini robos consist of regular Walking Robosapien, Roboraptor, Talking Robosapien, Running Roboreptile, Walking Robopet, Chomping Roboraptor, Standup Robosapien, diabetes and obesity. Oh wait, sorry, those last two come with…

Gadgets Jason Chen

Citizen W700 VIRT Caller ID Bluetooth Watch Updated

Citizen has dabbled in Bluetooth watches before, rolling out the VIRT W700 last June that connects to your Bluetooth-enabled cell phone and displays caller ID and vibrates when a call arrives. Now the company has updated its design, improving that ominous black look of its predecessor to this more “casual” appearance. https://gizmodo.com/citizen-bluetooth-watch-179371 But the product…

Gadgets Charlie White

New Video Compression Software Allows Deaf to Sign via Their Mobiles

The folks at the University of Washington are working for a good cause. They’re looking for a way of compressing video so that deaf people could sign using their video-capable cell phones. The catch is, because video is still kinda choppy on most networks, the software they’re working on needs to rely on special skin…

Gadgets Louis Ramirez

Attention Photogs: Handy Diffuser Is In Your Kitchen Drawer

Our friends at Lifehacker just pointed out a great use for that common household item, the coffee filter: Use it to soften up your flash photography. Hold the coffee filter in front of that flash to make its light less specular, giving a soft glow to your close-ups. Just be careful not to hold it…

Gadgets Charlie White

Discovery Biosphere Terrarium Lets Kids Play God

This biosphere from Discovery can supposedly teach kids important things about nature and the environment and all of that crap, but isn’t it more important that this biosphere allows children to play god with an assortment of insects living inside the biosphere. Making it rain, controlling the temperature and humidity, poking and prodding with tweezers…

Gadgets Travis Hudson

Dell Wants You to Make It Suck Less with Digg Clone

A week ago, Dell launched its customer-centered “Dell 2.0” push with its Diggish customer suggestion site, IdeaStorm, where users can post ideas and thoughts on how to improve Dell products. Other users vote on the ideas so that the most popular ones hit the front page, ensuring that a set of eyeballs at Dell scopes…

Gadgets Matt Buchanan

Lit-Up Umbrella Shafts Use The Force to Repel Rain But Not Muggers

Check out these umbrellas with lightsaber handles and fully-lit shafts, stealing Star Wars juju with reckless abandon. Pick out your choice of red, blue, or black canopies, and light up the night with that red, white or blue lightsaber look. Walk in a bad neighborhood with one of these lit-up umbrellas along with some white…

Gadgets Charlie White

Masquerade Speakers Cover Your Satellites with Paintings

I’ve always liked being able to see my speakers, but if the Mrs. is nagging you about your set up, Masquerades wall-mountable speakers replace your satellite’s front grilles with works of art so no one will know you’ve got a 5.1 set up going. You can choose from various different paintings or send them an…

Gadgets Louis Ramirez

Shoe Fetish + Punishment = Punitive Shoes

Know somebody who’s been very, very naughty? Make that bad girl walk around in a pair of these Punitive Shoes for a day or two, certain to elicit laughs or wood, depending on your point of view. Yours for the price of a middling pair of Manolo Blahniks. Product Page [Punitive Shoes]

Gadgets Charlie White

Ikea Slabang Alarm Clock Can Take a Beating

Ikea knows that most people get their daily jollies out of smashing their products. Just kidding, Ikea, your desks are the bee’s knees. The clock is wrapped in a rubber skin to protect it during all of the domestic abuse. It also includes the unique feature of an integrated mic for recording your own wake-up…

Gadgets Travis Hudson

Eleksen’s Double-sided Keyboard Gives Your UMPC Media Controls

The same guys that brought us the UMPC pouch/keyboard are now bringing us a double-sided keyboard that includes your standard QWERTY keys on one side and a full deck of media controls on the other. The cloth has sensors built in so that when you’re typing on one side, it doesn’t activate the buttons on…

Gadgets Louis Ramirez

Adding to Collection of Keyboard Puns: Save Key Piggybank

As a part of our continuing series on useful objects patterned after keyboard keys, our next candidate is this little play on words, a coin bank that looks like a Save button. Ironically, at $9.75 it just about costs more than the amount of coins it can hold. https://gizmodo.com/sit-key-stool-makes-programmers-chuckle-regular-people-239009 Now if someone will make a…

Gadgets Charlie White

Lego Toilet Paper Folder: Life-Changing Invention?

Is there no limit to what you can make with Lego? Kyle Yeats and his friends at UC Berkeley put together this toilet paper folder out of Lego Mindstorms and a bit of scrap metal. It folds up a heaping helping of toilet paper for you, and then cuts it, conveniently delivering it to your…

Gadgets Charlie White

Microstrain Sensors Measures Fatigue in Both Machines and Your Busted Knees

A small company in Vermont called Microstrain has developed a wireless sensor system that can monitor strain and fatigue in various hardware components, such as large trucks all the way down to welding joints, accurate to millionths of a meter. This is like a nervous system … By predicting when welds may fail based upon…

Gadgets Alexander Yoon

Stain Teacup: Age is Beautiful?

Archos 704 vs. 604: In Video

Sharp HN-IR1: Cameraphone on TV

Brain Training Toiler Paper

CompUSA Closing 100 Stores Nationwide, Unemployable Smartasses Everywhere Are Devastated

Bathroom Egg Scale Wins Eggnoble Award

Robosapiens Invade McDonalds Happy Meals

Citizen W700 VIRT Caller ID Bluetooth Watch Updated

New Video Compression Software Allows Deaf to Sign via Their Mobiles

Attention Photogs: Handy Diffuser Is In Your Kitchen Drawer

Discovery Biosphere Terrarium Lets Kids Play God

Dell Wants You to Make It Suck Less with Digg Clone

Lit-Up Umbrella Shafts Use The Force to Repel Rain But Not Muggers

Masquerade Speakers Cover Your Satellites with Paintings

Shoe Fetish + Punishment = Punitive Shoes

Ikea Slabang Alarm Clock Can Take a Beating

Eleksen’s Double-sided Keyboard Gives Your UMPC Media Controls

Adding to Collection of Keyboard Puns: Save Key Piggybank

Lego Toilet Paper Folder: Life-Changing Invention?

Microstrain Sensors Measures Fatigue in Both Machines and Your Busted Knees

Trump Says He’ll Sign Order to Pay TSA

Deadpool Will Deface ‘Magic: The Gathering’ Classics for a New Secret Lair

Apple’s Siri Isn’t Just Going to Use One Chatbot. It’s Going to Use All of Them

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

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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