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No Atlantic Crossing for the Radio-Controlled Spirit of St. Louis Replica

The real Spirit of St. Louis that Charles Lindbergh used to scoot across the Atlantic in 1927 may be hanging in the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC, but that’s no reason not to covet the 80th anniversary (yeah, they’re on the ball here) radio-controlled model from Toys “R” Us-Japan. Admittedly, it’s more…

Gadgets Jonny Hiratsuka

RC Car Cellphone Strap

Keep yourself entertained while you’re waiting at the courthouse for your animal endangerment hearing with these IR-controlled cellphone charms. These mini “RC” cars can be controlled over infrared with the buttons on the Fairlady Z tire (350Z for us) and come in various colors. They can even be controlled by your actual cellphone if you’ve…

Gadgets Jason Chen

Tanita Scale Records Your Weight on USB, Graphs Your Fat

A cousin of the Tanita BC-502 with Bluetooth and a fat sensor, this Tanita BC-500-SV has a USB port so you can keep track of your weight on a memory stick. Every time you weigh yourself, gazing past your midnight KFC and one-mojito-too-many gut, the scale will record your body weight and fat percentage onto…

Gadgets Jason Chen

Best Ultra Portable Laptop: Asus S6F

The folks over at Laptop mag have just taken the Asus S6F for a test spin. For those of you with short term memory (meaning us), the S6F is the same notebook we talked about at the start of the year (it’s only now available State-side). Laptop reviewed the non-leather S6F ($2,199) and praised it…

Gadgets Louis Ramirez

Straight Up Lets You Straighten Your Hair on the Go

Being a male not based in the UK, I had no idea these straightening iron vending machines existed. Well, they do. Beautiful Vending installed 500 of these machines in various locales around the UK, allowing females—or males, if they want—to straighten their hair in 90 second intervals for a pound each ($1.85). Useful if you’re…

Gadgets Jason Chen

Firebox Popsicle Candles Mix Ice and Fire

We’re not sure what kind of mood these candles will elicit from your significant other, but the Mathmos Thaw Light lets you create a wall of ice around what would otherwise be a very boring-looking candle. It’s essentially a mold that you can fill with water, freeze, and then pop a candle into. As the…

Gadgets Louis Ramirez

Product Release Cycles: Do They Affect Your Buying Habits?

Emperor David Pogue over at the New York Times had an interesting blog post a few days ago wherein readers begged him for information relating to product cycles. Think, “Shoot, I just bought that trendy MP3 player last week and today they announce the new one!” It’s quite a conundrum. So what’s Mr. Pogue’s advice?…

Gadgets Nicholas Deleon

Tank Forcefield

Developed by various defense companies, the Trophy system is basically an active forcefield around a tank or an armored vehicle to defend against RPG rounds. It’s not an actual forcefield like the USS Enterprise, it’s a system that detects when a round is incoming and shoots out a projectile to eliminate the threat. Best of…

Gadgets Jason Chen

Vector Holder Charts My Imaginary Demise

Gizmodo loves charts. This stuff holder from Artemy Lebedev, makers of the Optimus keyboard, looks like a chart of the gradually increasing diameter of my gut, from age 20-29, when you face its green side towards you. Flip it around to see the… the red side of the chart, downward, as if it were mapping…

Gadgets Brian Lam

Insanity: Four GPS Navs Shouting From One Dashboard

The voices in Charlie’s head are nothing compared to the cacophony coming from his dashboard. Take a look at this video, where you can hear the voices of four GPS units as he test which tell us to turn soonest. The smooth-sounding male voice is that of the Honda Civic Hybrid’s built-in GPS unit, the…

Gadgets Brian Lam

Fujitsu P1610 Gives Laptops Across the World Weight Complex

Fujitsu may call it a mini laptop, but we all know the P1610 is the illegitimate love child of a UMPC, ultraportable, Tablet PC threesome. It’s got a swiveling 8.9-inch display, an 80GB hard drive, and built-in Wi-Fi/Bluetooth. There’s no dual-core love here though. Instead it’s powered by a 1.2GHz Intel Core Solo processor. The…

Gadgets Louis Ramirez

GPS Gang Bang: Garmin, Mio, Cobra and Honda

GPS navigation systems are getting more affordable every day, with powerful but basic units such as the Garmin StreetPilot c320 selling for scarcely more than $300. We got four higher-end GPS units together in the same place, taking them out of the road and comparing their capabilities. The crazy thing is, we liked them all.…

Gadgets Charlie White

World Record Beer-Opening Helicopter

I don’t know whether to be impressed or frightened. This video is courtesy of our lovers over at Dethroner. It is a 10-minute long video of some guy piloting a small helicopter and opening beer bottles with said helicopter. If I understand correctly, this guy set a world record for shortest amount of time spent…

Gadgets Travis Hudson

M-Audio’s X-Session Pro Lets DJs Rock On

Digital DJs have one more way to keep the floor-filling beats going thanks to the X-Session Pro. The USB-powered controller fuses the standard controls of a two-channel DJ mixer with the transport and pitch controls of a turntable. It may not be not be suitable for pros, but it’ll let you control volume, pitch, EQ,…

Gadgets Louis Ramirez

Bubble Helmet Makes You Look Like Bigger Dork Than You Really Are

We’re all for enhancing our TV-viewing experience, but this 6-pound helmet looks more like a prop from SpaceBalls than something we’d wanna wear. Still, Toshiba claims the helmet will give its wearer a 360-degree panorama when watching TV or playing games. Personally, we’d rather use it to scare small children. The Raw Feed via Daily…

Gadgets Louis Ramirez

What If All Humans Vanished?

Our recent ruminations about nuclear weapons and who’s got ’em/who doesn’t got us to thinking about apocalypse. It’s the stuff of science fiction, but what would happen if all of a sudden there were no people on Earth? The Times of London put together a timeline of what the Earth would look like 20 years…

Gadgets Charlie White

USB Air Purifier, Clock

This clock is actually labeled as a USB Digital Thermo Clock Air Purifier. Odd name, yes, but it accurately describes everything that this little USB device does. It can purify the air around you (probably not much, though), and tell you the time, temperature and date all while glowing. It is available through Brando for…

Gadgets Travis Hudson

TokyoFlash LED Watch Sheds Weight, Still Impossible to Read

If you’ve always wanted an LED watch, but were never quite into the whole cyborg look, TokyoFlash’s new Retsu model can satisfy your craving without swallowing your entire wrist. The new Retsu watch is just 8mm thin (or 0.31 inches) and weighs 40 grams (just over an ounce). It’s still impossible for mere mortals to…

Gadgets Louis Ramirez

Pandigital Releases Video-Friendly Digital Photo Frames

Pandigital has released a 5.6-inch, 7-inch, 8-inch and 9.2-inch digital photo frame. What makes these frames different than the average bear is the ability to play video. In addition to the usual flavor of image files supports, this frame will also play back video from MPEG for AVI formats. Media can be loaded onto the…

Gadgets Travis Hudson

Honda GPS Adds Weather Conditions, Social Networking

Honda takes GPS navigation to the next level, planning to add weather data and social networking to its upcoming factory-installed car navi systems. It connects to the Japanese InterNavi Premium Club, showing you what the weather is like wherever you are, and what it will be like on your proposed route. There’s also a social…

Gadgets Charlie White

No Atlantic Crossing for the Radio-Controlled Spirit of St. Louis Replica

RC Car Cellphone Strap

Tanita Scale Records Your Weight on USB, Graphs Your Fat

Best Ultra Portable Laptop: Asus S6F

Straight Up Lets You Straighten Your Hair on the Go

Firebox Popsicle Candles Mix Ice and Fire

Product Release Cycles: Do They Affect Your Buying Habits?

Tank Forcefield

Vector Holder Charts My Imaginary Demise

Insanity: Four GPS Navs Shouting From One Dashboard

Fujitsu P1610 Gives Laptops Across the World Weight Complex

GPS Gang Bang: Garmin, Mio, Cobra and Honda

World Record Beer-Opening Helicopter

M-Audio’s X-Session Pro Lets DJs Rock On

Bubble Helmet Makes You Look Like Bigger Dork Than You Really Are

What If All Humans Vanished?

USB Air Purifier, Clock

TokyoFlash LED Watch Sheds Weight, Still Impossible to Read

Pandigital Releases Video-Friendly Digital Photo Frames

Honda GPS Adds Weather Conditions, Social Networking

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