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Low End Theory: Coalition of the Skinflints

Whatever happened/To Tuesday and so slow Going down the old mine/With a transistor radio When a whiskey-addled Van Morrison first belted out the above lyrics in 1967, he was trying to come to terms with a long-ago love—a brown-eyed girl obliging enough to give him quickies behind some East Belfast stadium, apparently. Yet Van was…

Gadgets Brendan I. Koerner

Stylish UMPC Too Cool For Buttons

We’re all for the improvement of Ultra Mobile PCs (UMPC), but we’re not sure if this is a step forward or a step back (we’re inclined to go with the latter). In an effort to make UMPCs less cold and more cuddly, Brit designer Crispin Jones has done away with their intimidating buttons, engraved them…

Gadgets Louis Ramirez

Video Strip-Tease for Geeks: Nintendo DS Lite Totally Disassembled

If you’ve ever had the desire to take apart a Nintendo DS Lite, watching this video might be a vicarious way to accomplish that rather than facing the prospect of putting it back together afterward. The narrator with the weird accent describes what we’re seeing—the complete disassembly of the handheld gaming player—with nary an explanation…

Gadgets Charlie White

Sleekest LED Keyboard Light for Late Night Fun

The backlit keyboards of Mac laptops are worthy of mimicry—especially if you can do it on the cheap. These $20 bendy 9-inch leather-over-metal My Light Marklights (advertised as a bookmark) are a fine fix for those who’d like to type away under the covers. Three LEDs power two brightness settings, and it lasts 40 hours…

Gadgets Matt Schneiderman

Auto Detective Pen Scopes Out Sound Bugs

There’s a difference between paranoid for no reason and paranoid because someone’s standing behind you right now as you’re reading this. Good thing for both types this Auto Detective Pen only costs $17.71. The pen scans your surroundings for unknown wireless signals, and when found, lights up automatically. Now for some Engrish by someone other…

Gadgets Jason Chen

KishKish Lie Detector for Skype

KishKish, makers of SAM (Simple Answering Machine) for Skype, have now added a lie detector feature to the mix, claiming to detect stress in the voice of your Skype caller, alerting you to any bending of the truth. It’s your $49.95 a year, but we’re thinking it’ll be another decade or two before voice stress…

Gadgets Charlie White

Lowrance iWAY 600c Navi With Satellite Imagery, 30GB Drive

This is not just any GPS navigation device; this Lowrance iWAY 600c can overlay satellite imagery on its maps, giving you a view similar to what you might see in Google Earth with the roads turned on. Its maps can be mixed into the usual 2D modes and even show up in an elevated 3D…

Gadgets Charlie White

Dealzmodo: 12-Percent Off at Best Buy

I’m straying away from my traditional Dealzmodo items to give you folks a chance at saving 12-percent off at Best Buy. As always there are a couple specifications—you have to use the coupon with a Best Buy RewardZone card and some brand names like Bose, KEF and Apple are excluded. Just sign up for the…

Gadgets Travis Hudson

David “Fingers” Haynes: Virtuoso Button Pushing

The minute you start thinking you’re pretty fast and furious with the button pushing, take a look at David “Fingers” Haynes, wailing away on his old beat-up-looking Alesis HR-16B drum machine. He’s using that box to trigger sounds from a Yamaha DTXTREME 2S electronic percussion system. Great musicianship, showing us that the medium doesn’t matter…

Gadgets Charlie White

Samsung SGH-X830: Nano Clone + Phone

Check out this swiveling MP3 phone from Samsung, the SGH-X830, which is so tiny it would be easy to lose in your pocket. It’s about the size and shape of an iPod nano but thicker. You can swivel the screen around to reveal its phone keypad, whose keys are arranged in an unconventional two-by-two layout.…

Gadgets Charlie White

Colorful Sony PSPs On the Way

You can have your Sony PlayStation Portable in any color you want, as long as it’s black. Until later this month, that is. We’ve heard rumblings of the pink PSP, and now we know that’s due on November 22. We’re also hearing that Sony plans to start rolling out other colors, up to five in…

Gadgets Charlie White

LightSnake USB Intelligent Microphone Cable Performs XLR Alchemy

Look at those pretty lights inside the connectors on either end of this 10-foot LightSnake USB intelligent microphone cable. They light up when it’s performing its alchemy, using an embedded analog-to-digital converter to change those analog signals emitted from high quality microphones with XLR connectors into the digital data that only a Mac or PC…

Gadgets Charlie White

Saitek Suits Up Mouse with Touch-sensitive Scrolling

A cross between Apple’s Mighty Mouse and Motorola’s PEBL, the Obsidian is Saitek’s most fashionable mouse to date. Its got a 1,000 dpi resolution and ditches a scroll wheel for touch-sensitive scrolling. The horizontal charging dock can simultaneously charge your mouse and a spare battery making sure your mouse never goes hungry. We’ve never been…

Gadgets Louis Ramirez

USB Missile Launcher Reviewed (Verdict: Nobody’s Getting Any Work Done)

How fun are these USB Missile Launchers? Very. A single launcher comes with 3 foam missiles, a three foot USB cable, sound effects, and a Windows XP control program. Once installed, you control the cannon with either your mouse or the arrow keys, and fire with the space bar. We kinda wish they came with…

Gadgets Jason Chen

Personal Heater Keeps Your Butterfly Warm

The winter months can be cold and bitter (especially if you’re single), so why not cozy up to the Butterfly. Its an environmentally-friendly personal heater that emits heat through its butterfly pattern when evaporated lighter fluid and oxygen react with the heater’s glass fiber. Its portable and even safe enough to keep in your pocket,…

Gadgets Louis Ramirez

Ionkids System Tracks your Children, Excuses the Bad Parenting

The Ionkids system is a PDA device with a separate wristwatch. Strap the watch to the kids wrist (or more appropriately, ankle) and know when your kids get too far away from you. The PDA allows you to set up a zone and it will alert when a corresponding watch leaves the area. Then it…

Gadgets Travis Hudson

A BananaGuard a Day Keeps the Bruises Away

Bananas are among the more delicate fruits, in need of protection inside a lunchbox or backpack. If you’re a banana aficionado like we are, you’ll need the Banana Guard, a hard plastic case for those phallic fruits that will keep those icky brown bruises away. Hey, BananaGuard also makes a great Halloween costume for that…

Gadgets Charlie White

Sanyo Rolls Out Eneloop Solar Charger, Rechargeable Heater

At the same time Sanyo trotted out little Eneloopy, the battery tester doggie, it also introduced two other products associated with its Eneloop rechargeable batteries introduced last year. https://gizmodo.com/sanyo-eneloopy-the-dog-gone-battery-tester-211270 The Eneloop solar charger recharges four AA-sized batteries, and the kicker is there’s a USB port on the back that will also let you charge up…

Gadgets Charlie White

Weird Watch: Gauge Mecha 1 BMF Oozes Sci-Fi

If you’re one of those distinctive throwbacks who still wears a watch instead of using your cellphone to tell time, this limited edition Gauge Mecha 1 BMF concept watch from Avant-Garde Mecha Complications will surely set you further apart from the crowd. Its impractical analog-digitality underlies the fact that there’s really nothing digital about it;…

Gadgets Charlie White

Top 5 Early Bird Luxo-Gift List

As soon as Halloween is done, it’s a sprint until Christmas. Never mind all that talk about Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving that launches the holiday shopping season. If you’re planning to buy a luxo-sport gift for that special someone this year, you’ll want to avoid that herd of sheep, and get your shopping…

Gadgets Charlie White

Low End Theory: Coalition of the Skinflints

Stylish UMPC Too Cool For Buttons

Video Strip-Tease for Geeks: Nintendo DS Lite Totally Disassembled

Sleekest LED Keyboard Light for Late Night Fun

Auto Detective Pen Scopes Out Sound Bugs

KishKish Lie Detector for Skype

Lowrance iWAY 600c Navi With Satellite Imagery, 30GB Drive

Dealzmodo: 12-Percent Off at Best Buy

David “Fingers” Haynes: Virtuoso Button Pushing

Samsung SGH-X830: Nano Clone + Phone

Colorful Sony PSPs On the Way

LightSnake USB Intelligent Microphone Cable Performs XLR Alchemy

Saitek Suits Up Mouse with Touch-sensitive Scrolling

USB Missile Launcher Reviewed (Verdict: Nobody’s Getting Any Work Done)

Personal Heater Keeps Your Butterfly Warm

Ionkids System Tracks your Children, Excuses the Bad Parenting

A BananaGuard a Day Keeps the Bruises Away

Sanyo Rolls Out Eneloop Solar Charger, Rechargeable Heater

Weird Watch: Gauge Mecha 1 BMF Oozes Sci-Fi

Top 5 Early Bird Luxo-Gift List

Do ‘Disclosure Day’ Prep With a Spielberg Sci-Fi Marathon

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Sonos Play Review: Call It a Comeback

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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

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