Gadgets

‘Gadget Jacket’ is Just a Glorified Normal Jacket

This “CAB” jacket is supposedly built for gadgets, says designer Hannah Perner-Wilson, but in all reality it is just a normal jacket with a lot of pockets. This piece visualizes feelings towards an era of dependency on mobile technology. All these new possibilities right here, right now, right wherever we stand. We carry with us…

Gadgets Travis Hudson

The Smile Helmet Forces You To Smile

Hate smiling? Grab the smile helmet. A helmet for people in jobs which demand an unusual amount of smiling, such as air-stewards, receptionists and politicians. A sensor in the front of the helmet detects anybody within a 2 metre range, at which point the mouth is pulled into a broad grin by a small servo…

Gadgets Jason Chen

Logitech Harmony 670 Mid-Range Universal Remote

Packed with more buttons than a Civil War-era army uniform, the Logitech Harmony 670 is a mid-range universal remote that offers most of the functionality but less extras than its big brothers in the Harmony line. The 670 works with the Harmony 7.0 software to make setting up different devices a breeze, but has a…

Gadgets Jason Chen

Design Only: Roll-up Frying Pan

This Sam Hextall designed Scroll Pan works the same as a frying pan, but stores easily in a cupboard when rolled up. The cooking surface is supposed to be diphenyl silicone (plasma treated and Teflon coated), which makes it heatproof and flexible. Unless there’s a locking mechanism, we’re not sure what would keep the pan…

Gadgets Jason Chen

USRobotics USR9630 Cordless Skype Phone Hands-On Review (Verdict: Great Price for Skype and Landline Calling)

You may have heard of the USRobotics Dual-Purpose Skype phone that lets you use Skype and your normal landline all from a single handset. It’s similar to the Linksys CIT300 Dual-Mode Skype phone we reviewed a while back. https://gizmodo.com/usrobotics-dual-purpose-usr9630-cordless-skype-phone-197660 To get the feature list out of the way, it uses DECT 6.0, which operates on…

Gadgets Jason Chen

One Click Butter Cutter for Calorie Counters, Obsessives, Lazy Bums

Too tired or lazy to cut your butter in the morning? Here’s a machine that’ll do it for you, precisely measuring a 35-calorie portion at a time. Keep in mind, butter is 100% fat. This could actually be useful. If you’re a fanatic about calorie counting, dole out a controlled portion, count it accurately, slim…

Gadgets Charlie White

Samsung 305T 30-inch LCD: Lotta Bang, Lotta Buck

She may say otherwise, but it’s true—size matters. This LCD monitor from Samsung will compensate for any size issues at hand. This behemoth comes in at a huge, 30 inches. This LCD has a 2560 x 1600 resolution, 16:10 aspect ration, 400cd/m2 brightness, 1000:1 contrast ratio and a 6ms response time (pretty good, not fantastic…

Gadgets Travis Hudson

Solar Breakthrough? As Soon As We Defy the Laws of Physics

Scientists at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory say they’ve developed a new manufacturing process that allows them to build a material that could goose up the power output of solar cells, reaching efficiencies of 45% compared to the 25% to 39% currently possible. It’s done using a tricky process of injecting additional oxygen into the semiconductor…

Gadgets Charlie White

Fraidy Cat: Cross-Eyed Kitty Scares Fools, Annoys Kids

Fear not. This Halloween, let Fraidy Cat do it for you. This crazy kitty will mesmerize you with big green plastic crossed eyes, crouching on your windowsill at midnight, shivering and shaking, quivering and quaking, to the scary sounds of “Somebody’s Watching Me.” It’s $15 at Walgreens. Oh, my. Am I scared, or what? Product…

Gadgets Charlie White

PhantomPark: Take That Sports Car Underground

Got three cars but just a two-car garage? PhantomPark is a solution to that problem with an elevator that takes that sporty trophy of your midlife crisis underground. Its elevator can lift two 5000-pound vehicles at once, and the top of the elevator functions as the garage floor for that second vehicle. Just don’t push…

Gadgets Charlie White

DigitalSpectrum MemoryFrame MF-8104: WiFi Digital Pic Frame

The DigitalSpectrum MemoryFrame MF-8104 Premium is a 10.4-inch digital photo frame that can connect to your home network wirelessly via WiFi and is IP addressable. That’s right, here it is, a picture frame that can match the feature set of the ill-fated eStarling frame that appeared early last year and then mysteriously vanished. https://gizmodo.com/estarling-just-in-time-for-mothers-day-148197 Finally,…

Gadgets Charlie White

Got Nukes? Putting It Into Perspective

With all this talk of nuclear weaponry, we would be remiss not to chime in with a stat or two, since nukes are the biggest gadgets of them all, aren’t they? Just check out the graph above, with info from the Washington Post, and you’ll see the answer to the question, “Who’s your daddy?” This…

Gadgets Charlie White

Michelin Develops Airless Tires

Worrying about running over a nail, or making sure your tires are always full may be a thing of the past thanks to the R&D team at Michelin. This is a prototype for airless tires. Instead of the regular inflated tire, this tire has the traditional outer treads wrapped around flexible, yet sturdy spokes. Apparently…

Gadgets Travis Hudson

Samsung SCH-B600 Has a 10-Megapixel Camera Inside

Here’s what Samsung is calling “the world’s first super camera phone,” the Samsung SCH-B600. That’s a 10-megapixel digital camera in there, and the lens is long enough to let it zoom 3x optically. A neat trick: the phone is 6mm thinner and 10g lighter than Samsung’s 7-megapixel V770 camera phone it introduced last year. It…

Gadgets Charlie White

Homer Simpson Dashboard Toy

Not as sexy as a hula girl, this Homer Simpson dashboard toy critiques your driving in the typical Homer Simpson manner. The product page only lists a few sayings, which are mildly amusing but nothing too distracting. It’s only 7.99 ($14.91) so there’s no big loss if Homer goes flying out your passenger window whenever…

Gadgets Jason Chen

Samsung YP-T9 Storms Best Buy

Hot on the heels of last week’s SanDisk announcements, Samsung has let loose the YP-T9, a 4GB MP3 player with video-, photo-, and music-playing capabilities. Like the new Sansa players, the YP-T9 also has a 1.8-inch LCD, built-in FM tuner, and voice recorder (it’s also PlaysForSure compatible). You can snatch yours now for $199 at…

Gadgets Louis Ramirez

Waleli’s GSM Doorbell Links Your Door to Your Phone

If you’re tired of forgetting your keys—or your roommates forgetting their keys—get the GSM doorbell and you’ll never have to worry again. It mounts onto your door, and when rung, calls a pre-programmed number. Punch in a key-code in your phone and the door unlocks automatically. Never get up from your chair again. Also, this…

Gadgets Jason Chen

Sign of the Apocalypse: Digitizing, Emulating the Sun

What you say? What is so special about artificial light? This is. Olle Essvik has developed the Sunclock. Basically it is a lamp that emulates the sun—at sunrise the light will illuminate lightly and gets more intense as the day goes on the then as the sun sets it will fade away. What’s even worse…

Gadgets Travis Hudson

A Closer Look at the Sound Enhancing Creative Xmod

Just a few days word broke that Creative was about to release onto the world the Creative Xmod, small device that supposedly makes MP3s (and other formats of lossy digital music compression) sound better. Laptop magazine got a chance to play around with it and reports that it’s not a complete piece of garbage, going…

Gadgets Nicholas Deleon

Musical Condoms? WTF?

The picture tells the tale—that’s right, it’s a musical condom. Its tone varies with your position and intensity, but if you can keep it up with that tinkly little noise going on down there, you’re a manlier man than I. Maybe it could be made to recite baseball scores to keep things going a little…

Gadgets Charlie White

‘Gadget Jacket’ is Just a Glorified Normal Jacket

The Smile Helmet Forces You To Smile

Logitech Harmony 670 Mid-Range Universal Remote

Design Only: Roll-up Frying Pan

USRobotics USR9630 Cordless Skype Phone Hands-On Review (Verdict: Great Price for Skype and Landline Calling)

One Click Butter Cutter for Calorie Counters, Obsessives, Lazy Bums

Samsung 305T 30-inch LCD: Lotta Bang, Lotta Buck

Solar Breakthrough? As Soon As We Defy the Laws of Physics

Fraidy Cat: Cross-Eyed Kitty Scares Fools, Annoys Kids

PhantomPark: Take That Sports Car Underground

DigitalSpectrum MemoryFrame MF-8104: WiFi Digital Pic Frame

Got Nukes? Putting It Into Perspective

Michelin Develops Airless Tires

Samsung SCH-B600 Has a 10-Megapixel Camera Inside

Homer Simpson Dashboard Toy

Samsung YP-T9 Storms Best Buy

Waleli’s GSM Doorbell Links Your Door to Your Phone

Sign of the Apocalypse: Digitizing, Emulating the Sun

A Closer Look at the Sound Enhancing Creative Xmod

Musical Condoms? WTF?

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