Gadgets

Another Flying Car Tries to Get Your Hopes Up

From the wishful thinking department comes this video that claims that the X-Hawk flying car will be ready to take off by 2010. OK. Are you sure that’s based on actual fact and not because you taught yourself how to make mediocre 3D videos on your home computer? Perhaps the X-Hawk can also help if…

Gadgets Adam Frucci

Hello, GEORGE – Hands-On The $499 iPod Dock With A Killer Remote

Given the huge number of iPod docking stations on the market, you better have some special features to win a spot on Gizmodo’s mantle (and justify a $499 pricetag). This MacWorld Best of Show winner, which is in no way connected with Vandelay Industries but made by Chestnut Hill Sound, certainly stands out. Along with…

Gadgets Noah Robischon

Wireless USB For Cameras Will Transfer 1GB in 30 Seconds

No one ever did master the art of sending photos from your camera to your PC wirelessly, but now a semiconductor company by the name of Artimi is hoping to give the concept another shot. They’re working on a wireless USB technology that, with the aid of a USB dongle, would let you transfer up…

Gadgets Louis Ramirez

Apex USB Battery Charger

Similar to the EverFast USB charger, this Apex USB battery charger can charge four batteries in as many hours just from your USB port. https://gizmodo.com/everfast-usb-stick-battery-charger-130967 Essentially the same as a regular battery charger, this thing plugs into your USB port instead of the wall, which means the only people who have more USB ports free…

Gadgets Jason Chen

101 Gadgets for the Evil Genius

Established Evil Geniuses, look away. This is for the novice Evil Genius. The Evil Kinda-Smart-Guy, if you will. 101 Spy Gadgets for the Evil Genius isn’t 101 spy gadgets neatly boxed for your use, it’s a book that teaches you how to make your own gadgets to spy on your neighbors. Most projects in the…

Gadgets Jason Chen

DangerBomb Clock: Boom! You’re an Idiot.

Doesn’t the morning suck enough without punishing yourself even more when you wake up? This DangerBomb Clock is cruel in two ways: one, it’ll scare the crap out of you for a second when you first wake up, scaring you before you realized you were the dumbass who bought an alarm clock that looks like…

Gadgets Adam Frucci

Scientists Working to Turn Sugar to Gas Without Use of Your Intestines

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has put a healthy chunk of change behind some scientists who are working to figure out a way to turn sugar into diesel fuel. Ethanol can already be made by combining yeast and sugar (mmm, ethanol), but they think they can mess with some of those microbes to have…

Gadgets Adam Frucci

LED Lights: The Latest in Urban Advertising

In case you missed it, here’s how the mainstream media reacted to Aqua Teen Hunger Force’s latest urban advertising campaign. Essentially, they flipped out. Now, we’re all a techie crowd here so when we see LEDs with Mooninites flippin’ us the bird, we don’t go running scared. But compared to Sony’s PSP graffiti campaign, I…

Gadgets Louis Ramirez

The Ultimate Stoner Gadget: Hands-On the Volcano Herb Vaporizer

Click to viewThe Volcano is the Ferrari of tobacco and herbal vaporizers. Instead of burning, it atomizes. There’s no smoke, and no carcinogens. Just sweet, sweet, vapor that is so efficient that your herbs will be 3-4 times more effective… making you 3-4 times less effective. Here were our impressions. Vaporizers are billed as tobacco…

Gadgets D. B.

T-Mobile to Get Samsung Stripe, aka PEBL Clone

Our insider at T-Mobile, lets call him T-Mobile Insider Dude, slipped us a little spec sheet about Samsung’s latest clamshell phone that will be available for T-Mobile soon—the Stripe. I guess Samsung copying Motorola on the Q wasn’t enough, now they are taking a shot at the more-than-year-old Motorola PEBL. The Stripe is a fairly…

Gadgets Travis Hudson

Low End Theory: Always Low Prices! And Yet…

By Brendan I. Koerner A few weeks back, I asked y’all a tough ethical question: have you ever felt guilty about buying pirated goods in the name of saving a few bucks? Now I’ve got another dilemma to ponder, inspired by my recent discovery of the four-gig Ematic flash drive pictured to the right. What…

Gadgets Brendan I. Koerner

Verizon Ups its EV-DO Network to Rev A

Good news for all you mobile broadband lovers. Verizon Wireless today launched its EV-DO Rev. A network along with the USB720 wireless modem ($149 with 2-year plan), which is pretty much what we used back during CES. The modem combined with the speedier network will give you download speeds of around 450-800 kilobits per second.…

Gadgets Louis Ramirez

Medicine-dispensing Tooth Gives Me the Heebie-Jeebies

If you really, really hate taking your medication, here’s a solution to get rid of the unpleasantness that goes along with swallowing pills. Why, it’s as simple as ripping a couple of your teeth out and replacing them with small devices that steadily inject your cheeks with medicine. Never worry about forgetting to take your…

Gadgets Adam Frucci

Sony Ericsson Phone Cradle Turns Your Mobile into a Mini PC

You can’ have a new phone without some new accessories. The folks at Unwired View have dug up some details on Sony Ericsson’s multimedia cradle, a dock meant to complement your Sony Ericsson phone. The cradle hooks up to your phone via a system bus and includes a large 7-inch display, built-in mic and speakers,…

Gadgets Louis Ramirez

Boston Mooninite Fetching $5k on eBay

We’re not sure whether it’s the real deal or not, but if you want one of those LED Aqua Teen Hunger Force Mooninites up in your room, you can get one via eBay for a cool $5001 (as of the time of this writing). The seller claims it’s leggit (he pulled it from Commonwealth Avenue…

Gadgets Louis Ramirez

Beatles ‘Let it Bii’ Shirt Lacks Words of Wisdom

Nerdy Shirts came up with a lamebrained idea: let’s mix up the Beatles with the Nintendo Wii, supposedly combining the best of both worlds. Let it Bii? Certainly the Beatles didn’t authorize this. We’re thinking the creators of this T-shirt will soon find themselves in times of trouble of the legal variety, and Mother Mary’s…

Gadgets Charlie White

LifeView SkyChat Puts Skype Calls and Land Lines on Equal Footing

LifeView just rolled out a black box it calls SkyChat, and it lets you mix up regular old phone lines with Skype calls. It has a call waiting function that switches between landline calls and Skype, and can join two calls for a three-way conference, too. Plus, it can show you caller ID info with…

Gadgets Charlie White

Promotional Gadgets Grip Boston in Fear and Loathing

Gadgets practically turned the entire city of Boston upside down yesterday. Fourteen of these horrifying and obviously dangerous devices were found throughout the city, and it turns out they were light boards depicting a “Mooninite,” an outer space delinquent who shows up on the Adult Swim show Aqua Teen Hunger Force. As Err the Mooninite…

Gadgets Charlie White

The Lighting Stick

If a standard halogen floor lamp is too boring for you, take a look at this Lighting Stick. It’s a stand-up model that blasts light onto a wall with numerous LEDs. You can set the lights to one solid color—Murderous Red for example—or have them cycle between colors like a rave in slow motion. Except…

Gadgets Jason Chen

Is Dell Prepping a Game-worthy UMPC?

Well, if you ask Dell’s global gaming chief, Abizar Vakharia, it sure sounds like they are. When drilled on the question of a future gaming handheld Vakharia admitted it was on their radar screen. He didn’t give up any other details, but I wouldn’t be surprised if they have an Axim-like gaming handheld in the…

Gadgets Louis Ramirez

Another Flying Car Tries to Get Your Hopes Up

Hello, GEORGE – Hands-On The $499 iPod Dock With A Killer Remote

Wireless USB For Cameras Will Transfer 1GB in 30 Seconds

Apex USB Battery Charger

101 Gadgets for the Evil Genius

DangerBomb Clock: Boom! You’re an Idiot.

Scientists Working to Turn Sugar to Gas Without Use of Your Intestines

LED Lights: The Latest in Urban Advertising

The Ultimate Stoner Gadget: Hands-On the Volcano Herb Vaporizer

T-Mobile to Get Samsung Stripe, aka PEBL Clone

Low End Theory: Always Low Prices! And Yet…

Verizon Ups its EV-DO Network to Rev A

Medicine-dispensing Tooth Gives Me the Heebie-Jeebies

Sony Ericsson Phone Cradle Turns Your Mobile into a Mini PC

Boston Mooninite Fetching $5k on eBay

Beatles ‘Let it Bii’ Shirt Lacks Words of Wisdom

LifeView SkyChat Puts Skype Calls and Land Lines on Equal Footing

Promotional Gadgets Grip Boston in Fear and Loathing

The Lighting Stick

Is Dell Prepping a Game-worthy UMPC?

Sonos Roam 2 Speaker Turns the Amazon Spring Sale into a Black Friday Moment, Now at Its Lowest Price

What Do You Mean Glen Powell Is Fox McCloud in the ‘Super Mario Galaxy’ Movie

This Winter Fly Is Doing Something Scientists Didn’t Think Was Possible

Acer’s Mac Mini M4 Docking Station Drops to an All-Time Low, Supporting Up to 8TB Storage

Sony Is Hiking PS5 Prices for the Second Time in Less Than a Year

This Amazon Smart Plug Deal in the Spring Sale Makes Alexa Smart Home Setup Almost Too Easy and Cheap

Ryan Coogler’s ‘X-Files’ Reboot Has Found Its Other Big Star

Anker’s 100W Power Bank Hits Its Lowest Price of the Year on Amazon, Packing 25,000mAh and 3 Ports

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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