Gadgets

Sea-Monkeygate: Triops Calls Out Sea-Monkeys, War Declared

Ladies and gentlemen, I present Sea-Monkeygate. While at the Toy Fair here in New York, I stumbled upon two products that essentially do the same thing (let you grow small animals in a small water tank): Sea-Monkeys and Triops. You’ve probably heard of Sea-Monekys, those weird things that come in packets and grow in water.…

Gadgets Nicholas Deleon

Mobile Spy Ear: Domestic Eavesdropping For NSA Tots

President Bush defends domestic eavesdropping, so why shouldn’t you? The Mobile Spy Ear, which completes Wild Planet’s trifecta of kiddie 007 gadgets, is moveable car with a microphone that transmits sounds to an earbud from up to 75 feet away. Too bad the vehicle itself only travels 30 feet, and it’s one of those wind…

Gadgets Noah Robischon

Spy Gear Intruder Trap System: RFID for Kids

Wild Planet’s Intruder Trap System is made up of three wireless motion sensors connected by radio frequency. I suppose the “keep out” sign just isn’t enough in this day and age. Why three? They all work together. The first one is touch sensitive… …which means you can put it on top of your iPod and…

Gadgets Noah Robischon

Toy Of The Year Winner Wild Planet Sneaks Us A Peek At Next Year’s Spy Gear Lineup

Wild Planet’s Spy Video Car was undoubtedly one of the coolest toys of last year, hence the company’s big Toy Of The Year win. Now they are expanding the line with several additional spy-themed products. The first of which is this Agent Action Briefcase. I happen to have been one of those kids who wanted…

Gadgets Noah Robischon

Toy Fair 2007: Gizmodo Plays Around All Day

The 104th annual American International Toy Fair got underway this weekend, and Gizmodo is bringing extra batteries. Our coverage of the show will appear throughout the day. What’s new this year? And why did LEGO create this life-sized George Lucas head? George Lucas was inducted into the Toy Industry Hall of Fame, that’s why. LEGO…

Gadgets Noah Robischon

D-Wade Sidekick 3 Release Announced

On the T-Mobile wiki, they dropped some info pre-press release time, you know, to the little people. In a few hours, T-Mobile will officially announce the latest addition to the Sidekick line up. We wanted you to be the first to have the details…The T-Mobile Sidekick 3, D-Wade Edition, will be available at select T-Mobile…

Gadgets Mark Wilson

Dishmaker: Never Wash Another Dish?

We actually linked to this story from Treehugger about a year ago, but with the advent of YouTube there is renewed interest in the product…at least to me. While the dishmaker appears unwieldy, this “dishwasher sized” apparatus can actually replace cabinets worth of dishes by storing them as flat disks. Only a small amount of…

Gadgets Mark Wilson

First Shot: Toshiba G900 Smartphone

Photos of Toshiba’s G900 Pro Windows Mobile 6 smartphone have been photographed (by photographers) at the 3GSM tradeshow. Features include a wide 800×400 touchscreen, QWERTY keyboard, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, miniSD, fingerprint recognition and not one, but two cameras (the first is dedicated for video calls, while the other captures 2 megapixel stills). We like: not choosing…

Gadgets Mark Wilson

Rumor: New Sony Nano Contender

Reliable sources told a sources’s brother’s girlfriend’s roommate’s dog’s owner’s manicurist’s magician that Sony may be working on an iPod Nano contender. While the body would be a modified design of the NW-A3000 series, new units would actually run smaller than the Nano and playback video for 8-10 hours at a time on a larger…

Gadgets Mark Wilson

The Titan: Handmade Indestructible USB Tankdrive

The Russian space program didn’t die, it was redirected to USB flash drive making. The Titan USB flash drive is constructed from a graphite/aluminum composite metal matrix that has “traditionally been used by NASA and other space agencies”. This matrix is then covered in titanium to avoid corrosion, and generally help with the entire badass…

Gadgets Mark Wilson

CHUCKii – Wiimote Nunchuk in New Colors

Remember all those colors Nintendo teased us with when they announced the Wii? Now you can get them…unofficially. NDS-Central sells mod shells for console products, and just announced a variety of new Wii nunchuk cases for an awkward $11.90. Colors include Dynamic Red, Dreamy Blue, Strat Clear, Astro Yellow, and Cool Black. Despite the Wii’s…

Gadgets Mark Wilson

Uren A1: Car Computer

Driving is just too easy on its own—man requires more challenge to be fulfilled by his otherwise thankless trips to the convenience store. Innowell’s Uren A1 is a vehicle-focused UMPC perfect for such excursions with death/injury. Featuring an AMD LX800 processor, the A1 is a fully-capable Windows XP machine. Its 7″ touchscreen display is supported…

Gadgets Mark Wilson

Rubik’s Revolution: Hot Potato in a Cube

After 300 million Rubik’s Cubes have sold worldwide, it’s apparently time for a revolution (translation: new product that won’t be as big a deal). While manufacturers added obligatory lights, sound and voice effects to the Cube, they’ve tweaked altered obliterated gameplay in the process. How so? I don’t think the cube actually spins anymore. Instead,…

Gadgets Mark Wilson

Verizon XV6800 Spyshot

In a surely James Bondish scene complete with lasers and campy theme songs, someone grabbed some shots of the Apache successor, the Verizon XV6800. No big changes here cosmetically, other than what is certain to be a slightly slimmed waistline. Otherwise you get some EV-DO Rev A, improved camera, and other very normal stuff. We’re…

Gadgets Mark Wilson

HANG & PLAY: Time to Buy More Coats

The Hang & Play coat hangers are just a Felipe Morales concept, but surely these are not at a “could never be reproduced except by a mystical robot from the future that could absolutely never exist because it would destroy, by laser, the great grandmother of its creator when it traveled back in time therefore…

Gadgets Mark Wilson

Samsung NV3 Cam in Silver and Oriental Plant Lacquer

Hey boss, remember those Samsung NV3 Oriental Lacquer cameras you wanted? Here’s what they look like. Nice, eh? Too bad they’re going to be about £200 ($393) for the silver and £230 ($452) for the OPL. https://gizmodo.com/samsung-nv3-gets-orientally-lacquered-234763 If you want the regular one, you can grab it for about $200 online. Samsung adds silver and…

Gadgets Jason Chen

Blackout Buddy Is Your Only Friend Among Screaming Survivors

This Blackout Buddy is like the Belkin Battery Backup Flashlight, except without the battery backup. It spends most of its life plugged into the wall, soaking up juice for when the power goes out. When that day comes, you’ll get a flashlight that lasts 12-16 hours and an AM/FM radio that lasts 4-8 hours. https://gizmodo.com/belkin-battery-backup-brings-bonus-bulb-229477…

Gadgets Jason Chen

Spinning Disc CD Player Cuts Like a Saw

If you’re still not quite enamored with online music stores like iTunes and prefer to get your music in hard copy format, here’s a ridiculous CD player design. Called The Spinning Disc, this player simulates an electric table saw with your CD, which means you’re getting a visual as well as an audio show. Kinda.…

Gadgets Jason Chen

Samsung L77 Is One Skinny Shooter

Samsung’s got quite a reputation with its improbably slim cellphones, and now it turns its expertise on the L77, a midrange point-and-shoot that it’s calling the “world’s thinnest 7-megapixel camera.” No wonder it’s called L77, because along with that 7-megapixel CCD, it has an unusually long 7x optical zoom as well. But the big news…

Gadgets Charlie White

Experimental Skype Tweak Broadcasts You in 640×480

Although we enjoy using Skype to talk with our parents our hos in different area codes, its lousy 320×240 quality makes even YouTube look great. Good thing some developer named Jason came up with a sweet “hack”—more like a tweak—to get your Skype video up to 640×480. Just grab the latest version of Skype for…

Gadgets Jason Chen

Sea-Monkeygate: Triops Calls Out Sea-Monkeys, War Declared

Mobile Spy Ear: Domestic Eavesdropping For NSA Tots

Spy Gear Intruder Trap System: RFID for Kids

Toy Of The Year Winner Wild Planet Sneaks Us A Peek At Next Year’s Spy Gear Lineup

Toy Fair 2007: Gizmodo Plays Around All Day

D-Wade Sidekick 3 Release Announced

Dishmaker: Never Wash Another Dish?

First Shot: Toshiba G900 Smartphone

Rumor: New Sony Nano Contender

The Titan: Handmade Indestructible USB Tankdrive

CHUCKii – Wiimote Nunchuk in New Colors

Uren A1: Car Computer

Rubik’s Revolution: Hot Potato in a Cube

Verizon XV6800 Spyshot

HANG & PLAY: Time to Buy More Coats

Samsung NV3 Cam in Silver and Oriental Plant Lacquer

Blackout Buddy Is Your Only Friend Among Screaming Survivors

Spinning Disc CD Player Cuts Like a Saw

Samsung L77 Is One Skinny Shooter

Experimental Skype Tweak Broadcasts You in 640×480

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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