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Best Beer Dispenser Ever

Even if you fill it up with that watery swill known as American beer, this Asahi beer dispensing machine spotted in Narita Airport in Japan can bring the sacred suds from keg to glass with flawless precision. It’s much better than the ponderous and goofy Asahi beer robot we were inexplicably raving about last month.…

Gadgets Charlie White

What Happens When a Jackass Swallows a Magnet

With a coin on the outside, he can slowly trace the magnet’s path through his intestines and out the other side. Even better, if this is a strong enough magnet he can even use it as a cellphone/MP3 player holder. Magnet Gut Video [Random Good Stuff]

Gadgets Jason Chen

Digital Day Counter Watches Your Food

If you’ve got a fridge full of half eaten jars of questionable freshness, toss them all away—what are you, cheap? Once you’re done with that, grab some Digital Day Counters and attach them to all your new food, letting the counter keep track of how many days that sour cream has been sitting there, waiting…

Gadgets Jason Chen

Completely Silent Non-Electric Humidifier

If the gurgle, gurgle, drip, drip sound of your humidifier keeps you up at night, try your hand at this Non-Electric Humidifier. Completely silent thanks to the lack of moving parts, the humidifier uses a wick to draw water and allows hot air to pass through from your forced-air vents, evaporating the water and humidifying…

Gadgets Jason Chen

GPS Navigating Navirobo Teddy Bear

Go figure, this is only available in Japan. The Navirobo Teddy Bear has a GPS module crammed where the sun don’t shine. Sit it on your dashboard and let the navigating begin. Navirobo will point you in the correct direction and dance when you arrive at the final destination. Don’t miss a turn or the…

Gadgets Travis Hudson

Sony NV-U71T GPS Likes Finger Caresses

Sony’s second generation GPS came out today, building upon the solid, if not a little boring first system. This one has a few tricks up its sleeves, though. Most notably traffic monitoring, and finger gesture reading. Traffic is par for the course, but the finger gestures are something we”ve never seen before. Essentially, you can…

Gadgets Brian Lam

Samsung V9900 Out-Starves Samsung Trace

Looks like the Samsung phones are having an anorexia contest. On one side we have the Samsung Trace measuring in at a thin 0.3 inches. In Korea they have the V9900, which had one less celery stick for dinner and managed to maintain a 0.27-inch waist line. It’s also got a better 2-megapixel camera (the…

Gadgets Louis Ramirez

Mini Guitar USB Drive Packs 256MB of Mojo

We’ve heard about guitars that connect directly to a PC via USB, but here’s a 256MB USB thumb drive that looks just like a tiny guitar. No, it’s not an actual working model of a guitar, and even if it were, your fingers would have to be the size of a pinhead to play it.…

Gadgets Charlie White

Nokia Ready to Slip Us Another Tablet?

If the Nokia N95 and 770 were to get it on in some seedy Motel 8, this would be the result of their passionate love-making. The Nokia 330 has the media-friendly features of its N95 father with the sexy thinness of its 770 mother. Though it’s far from being confirmed, the gadget-loving Brits at T3…

Gadgets Louis Ramirez

Discriminav Racially Discriminating GPS System: Far-Fetched?

Discriminav, the fictional product depicted in this sketch from the Fox Network’s Talkshow with Spike Feresten is an over-the-top concept. But wait. Honestly, aren’t there some areas of your town you’d rather not drive through in the middle of the night? Our GPS system proposed a route through the most crime-ridden area of a large…

Gadgets Charlie White

Zetabyte ZBox: Backup Drive Beams Data to the Heavens

Zetabyte’s Zbox isn’t just a networked storage device. Every bit you put on the drive gets uploaded to Amazon’s S3 storage cloud. So, if an earthquake, tornado, flood, or any other natural or unnatural disaster takes out your pad, your stuff is safe and sound over at Amazon’s batcave. The hardware doesn’t cost anything. Come…

Gadgets Brian Lam

Sony Reader: Exclusive Video of E-Ink Refresh Delay

When I reviewed Sony Reader, an e-ink e-book reader, I mentioned a slight flicker on the screen when it refreshed pages. Here’s a video of that, and here’s all our prior coverage. Despite the flicker, it’s still a pretty little toy that’ll make a great present for the voracious reader and technophile in your family.–Brian…

Gadgets Brian Lam

Cisco’s HD Video Conferencing Impresses Robert Scoble

Retailing at $80,000 for one screen and $300,000 for three screens, Cisco’s telepresence technology simulates the act of actually being there, which is way better than traditional teleconferencing. The whole setup is backed by a supercomputer, three plasma screens with 1080p/30FPS video, and is SIP based, running over an IP network. You can fit two…

Gadgets Jason Chen

Tankball: Like Paintball, But in Tanks

Get shot by one of these and chances are you’ll have more than just a bruise to worry about, but if you’re looking for the ultimate paintball rush, tankball is for you. You’ll have to fly out to Northhamptonshire, England to give it a try, but $139 gets you two hours of tank time and…

Gadgets Louis Ramirez

Working Origami TV

This cleverly named Sharp Pencil Quality TV is a set of the DIY variety. Although its screen is only 2-inches across, the screen resolution can be as precise as your pencils are sharp. It supports premade Video-On-Pulp scrolls for Kill Bill Volume 1, Dirty Harry, and Dr. Strangelove. Pencils and paper not included. Stane’s Island…

Gadgets Brian Lam

Target Illuminates Wii Gift Cards

RawmeatCowboy (yum) got some of the first shots of the illuminating Wii gift card that will be available at Target. It’s all part of an elaborate scheme to get you to buy more shit at Target. The card is obviously too thick to easily fit in a wallet, so Target expects you to forget the…

Gadgets Travis Hudson

Fossil FX6001 Bluetooth Watch Reviewed (Verdict: One-Trick Pony)

The ever-elusive Jonathan, over at CrunchGear, got his hands on one of the Fossil FX6001 Bluetooth watches. The FX6001 is one beastly device coming in at half an inch thick and weighing a good metric ton. It was designed to work with Symbian Series 60 devices, primarily Sony Ericsson phones and a few Nokias. The…

Gadgets Travis Hudson

Going Nowhere Fast: Porsche 917 In Your Living Room

Now you can bring the heady days of the early ’70s at LeMans into your living room. Not only does this Porsche 917-inspired chair crafted by Inspired Design have a front end made of fiberglass just like the original race car, it’s slathered with nine coats of paint in the same style of many of…

Gadgets Charlie White

BitTorrent Gets Promiscuous at Asus HQ

The boys at Asus are giving you two more reasons to fork over your cash. Though they look like ordinary routers, the WL-500g Premium and WL-500gW are super routers featuring a BitTorrent client that turns them into instant download machines. The cool thing about the routers are that they’ll let you download from the Internet…

Gadgets Louis Ramirez

Equitime Quadtec: Digital Watch, Analog Thinking

This Equitime Quadtec digital watch isn’t just any LCD display with a strap. It takes a different approach to time telling that combines both analog and digital mindsets. During the first 30 minutes after the hour it tells you how many minutes past the hour the current time is, and then after 30 minutes past…

Gadgets Charlie White

Best Beer Dispenser Ever

What Happens When a Jackass Swallows a Magnet

Digital Day Counter Watches Your Food

Completely Silent Non-Electric Humidifier

GPS Navigating Navirobo Teddy Bear

Sony NV-U71T GPS Likes Finger Caresses

Samsung V9900 Out-Starves Samsung Trace

Mini Guitar USB Drive Packs 256MB of Mojo

Nokia Ready to Slip Us Another Tablet?

Discriminav Racially Discriminating GPS System: Far-Fetched?

Zetabyte ZBox: Backup Drive Beams Data to the Heavens

Sony Reader: Exclusive Video of E-Ink Refresh Delay

Cisco’s HD Video Conferencing Impresses Robert Scoble

Tankball: Like Paintball, But in Tanks

Working Origami TV

Target Illuminates Wii Gift Cards

Fossil FX6001 Bluetooth Watch Reviewed (Verdict: One-Trick Pony)

Going Nowhere Fast: Porsche 917 In Your Living Room

BitTorrent Gets Promiscuous at Asus HQ

Equitime Quadtec: Digital Watch, Analog Thinking

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