Gadgets

Duck Fadar: “Luke, I am your bath toy.”

Duck Fadar is a rubber duck utilizing the “force” of LED to generate random colors while in the tub. A young Jedi no longer needs to choose between the light or the dark; now it’s more like the fuchsia or the aquamarine. Neat feature: lighting is automatic when Fadar is dropped into water. Product Page…

Gadgets Mark Wilson

Anlong MP4 Watch

Forget those dated MP3 watches that are so 2005, Shenzhen Adragon Digitek is offering an Anlong MP4 wristwatch. Pretend you are just checking the time as you tune out the ramblings of bosses/children/firemen to watch your favorite soccer team score a goal. https://gizmodo.com/thanko-fmp3-watch-next-gen-with-fm-204179 The watch is water and shockproof and can play video for 9…

Gadgets Mark Wilson

Suspicious Looking Device from Junkfunnel Labs: We Don’t Trust Its Irony

“The only function of the Suspicious Looking device is to appear as suspicious as possible, whether carried in hand or placed indiscrimately in public places.” – Junkfunnel Product Page Using a combination of LEDs, an optical distance sensor, touch sensor, buzzer and motors, the Suspicious Looking Device will manage to freak out even the most…

Gadgets Mark Wilson

Onion Goggles Protect Your Eyes From Onion Attacks

If you want to not cry when chopping onions, you can either follow one of those home-remedies about holding your breath or putting some carrots up your nose, or you can buy one of these Onion Goggles. Twenty bucks will prevent any onion or onion-related parts from getting up into your eyeballs, which is a…

Gadgets Jason Chen

Recy, the Recyclable Wood Roadster from Mercedes-Benz

This is the first entry into the LA Auto Show’s Design Challenge. The competition challenges manufacturers to design a environmental conscious car. None of this vegetable oil powered crap. This car is completely Recyclable because it is made out of wood, alloys, glass and metal. I’m still not sold. Even though it is partially made…

Gadgets Travis Hudson

HP Releases the HD100, First USB 2.0 HD-DVD Drive

When not busy spying on journalists, HP does pretty well for itself and the HD100 is the first USB 2.0-based external HD-DVD player. If you want to take advantage of the drive’s HD-DVD playback, you’ll need at least a single-core 3.2GHz Pentium or an AMD 64 X2 2.2GHz. (And companies wonder why consumers aren’t jumping…

Gadgets Nicholas Deleon

Panasonic Words Gear e-book Reader

The 1024×600, 5.6-inch Words Gear book reader from Panasonic is going head-to-head against Sony’s just released Reader, for your on-the-go literary entertainment time. Unfortunately, it’s too soon to tell which one of these will win. https://gizmodo.com/sony-reader-pricing-and-availability-203331 The Words Gear has a six-hour battery life, an e-Sensor to control the device with a finger, and a…

Gadgets Jason Chen

SMC Skype Phone White Saintly Twin of Belkin Phone

A reader sends in an unboxing of the SMC Skype phone, which he got his hands on early. J. Chen notes its really similar, maybe identical, to the black Skype handset we looked at a few weeks ago. One good, one evil—but seemingly the same operating system on each. Click through for the gallery of…

Gadgets Brian Lam

Dot-It Lights: Stick ‘Em Up

It’s getting to that point in the price/performance curve where battery-powered LED lighting fixtures are disposable and practical. A prime example is Sylvania Dot-it LEDs, stick-up lights that cost less than $10 and shine for over a hundred hours. Stick the power-sipping pocket-sized lights almost anywhere, and press the middle whenever you need a bit…

Gadgets Charlie White

Tiny Town Fast Food

We’re still trying to figure out why they did this, but here it is, the tiniest fast food meal we’ve ever seen. That burger is only an inch wide. All the ingredients were handmade down to the micro-fries and their teensy bag, and even the itty-bitty soda, and it all reportedly “tasted awesome.” You’ll walk…

Gadgets Charlie White

How To Make Working Wolverine Claws Without Surgery

So you want to look like Hugh Jackman? A guy named Nate sure did, and he documented his entire process so nerds around the world can follow in his footsteps. We won’t repeat the entirety of the instructions here, but suffice it to say it includes aluminum bars, pieces of wood, a belt sander, alcohol,…

Gadgets Jason Chen

Baby Bath Thermometer and Wireless Monitor

This baby gadget consists of two pieces, a thermometer and a baby monitor. The former goes into the bath-water and alerts you if the temperature goes below 68 or above 104 degrees Fahrenheit, and the later wirelessly broadcasts the baby’s goo’s and gaa’s to your receiver. The receiver is battery powered, and the baby monitor…

Gadgets Jason Chen

HP iPAQ rx5900 Travel Companion Reviewed (Verdict: Best Hybrid Yet)

HP pals up with Tom Tom, and the result is the iPAQ rx5900 Travel Companion ($599), bringing together well-designed hardware with a friendly user interface. Laptop Magazine liked the way it feels like a full-fledged GPS device and a first-rate pocket PC, too, with neither seeming to be an afterthought. Other highlights are the 3.5-inch…

Gadgets Charlie White

Jetpack Convention

Phil Torrone, the Maker of Makers reports on a gathering of jetpack aficionados, which can only be called a wet dream sort of Chuck Yeager and Jetson geeks everywhere. There were several working rocket belts in attendance, and I can say with no reservation that I would gladly cut off a pinky toe for the…

Gadgets Brian Lam

Intempo Digital PP01 FM and DAB Radio

Don’t be fooled by this great-looking device—it’s not a video player with a screen that stretches all the way across its front as it first appears to be. No, the Intempo Digital PP01 is a digital radio with a “customizable front,” where you can exchange the included designs with those of your own, or even…

Gadgets Charlie White

Star Trek 40th Anniversary Phaser

This is much cooler than the one we built for ourselves when we were kids out of a pack of chewing gum, a rotary phone, our dad’s tie, and an Atari 2600. The Star Trek 40th Anniversary Phaser looks quite similar to the original prop Shatner and Nimoy were pointing at each other—inbetween rounds of…

Gadgets Jason Chen

DaysAgo Counts the Days For You

DaysAgo is a little digital date counter that attaches to anything with its magnetic or suction backing, and tells you how long it’s been since, well, whatever. Put it on those leftovers so you’ll know how long they’ve been sitting in the refrigerator, or slap it on a plant pot to let you know when…

Gadgets Charlie White

Hohner Six-Sided Harmonica Plays the Blues Six Ways to Sunday

Blues harmonica players, or harpists as we like to be called, play the blues for a number of reasons, but one of them is that our diatonic instruments are so limited. When the band changes keys, we have to go rummaging around for another harmonica. Not any more with the Hohner Six-Sided Harmonica made by…

Gadgets Charlie White

Universal Sonic Toothbrush Turns Any Toothbrush Sonic

As much as we love our Sonicare toothbrushes, we know that $100 may be a bit much for some people to spend on a toothbrush (it’s totally worth it though). For those folks, there’s the Universal Sonic Toothbrush that turns any old toothbrush into an automatic vibrating one. https://gizmodo.com/gear-raves-sonicare-elite-7750-195564 All you have to do is…

Gadgets Jason Chen

USB Humidifier Makes You and Your Computer Humid

Putting aside whether it’s a good idea or not to make the immediate area around your computer humid, this USB humidifier helps make offices and homes with dry air a little less dry. It fits 40-150ml of tap water and starts misting when plugged into your USB port. There’s an automatic shutoff valve after 2…

Gadgets Jason Chen

Duck Fadar: “Luke, I am your bath toy.”

Anlong MP4 Watch

Suspicious Looking Device from Junkfunnel Labs: We Don’t Trust Its Irony

Onion Goggles Protect Your Eyes From Onion Attacks

Recy, the Recyclable Wood Roadster from Mercedes-Benz

HP Releases the HD100, First USB 2.0 HD-DVD Drive

Panasonic Words Gear e-book Reader

SMC Skype Phone White Saintly Twin of Belkin Phone

Dot-It Lights: Stick ‘Em Up

Tiny Town Fast Food

How To Make Working Wolverine Claws Without Surgery

Baby Bath Thermometer and Wireless Monitor

HP iPAQ rx5900 Travel Companion Reviewed (Verdict: Best Hybrid Yet)

Jetpack Convention

Intempo Digital PP01 FM and DAB Radio

Star Trek 40th Anniversary Phaser

DaysAgo Counts the Days For You

Hohner Six-Sided Harmonica Plays the Blues Six Ways to Sunday

Universal Sonic Toothbrush Turns Any Toothbrush Sonic

USB Humidifier Makes You and Your Computer Humid

Aqara Smart Lock U400 Review: Hands-free Unlocking at Its Best

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

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Ranking 2016’s Superhero Debuts, 10 Years Later

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