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TrackItBack Helps You Recover Lost Gear

If you’re not a fan of carving your name, phone number, and address on the back of your RAZR like your mom did to your elementary school lunchbox, then TrackItBack may be the sticker for you. TrackItBack is basically a set of stickers for your camera, cellphone or MP3 player labelled with a confidential ID…

Gadgets Jason Chen

Cassette Generator: Your Name On Tape

You remember cassettes, don’t you? Go to this website and make it look like you have your own album, old skool. Tell your friends you’re a Nashville Cat, been playin’ since they’s babies. OK, commenters, your turn: how would you label a cassette featuring your intrepid Giz editors? Cassette Generator [SaysIt, via Boing Boing]

Gadgets Charlie White

Nextfest: Playing With Virtual Balls

While sneaking around Nextfest, the big technology conference that’s happening this weekend in New York City, Richard managed to take some footage of a giant table game starring big virtual balls. This video shows men and women "holding" the virtual balls, "rolling" the virtual balls and just generally having a good time with said balls.…

Gadgets Nicholas Deleon

Dyson’s CR01 Contrarotating Double-Drum Washing Machine

Dyson, masters of the cyclonic vacuum cleaners are taking on the task of washing out your dirty laundry. The contrarotating, or rotating in an opposite manner, design uses two drums to get clothes cleaner, by “flexing” fabrics more. Sounds like its rough on the delicates, but we’re not laundry men, so what do we know?…

Gadgets Brian Lam

Oceanic SCUBA Mask with Integrated Head-Up Display

Here’s a great idea for SCUBA divers: a mask with a tiny LCD panel that shows your depth, time you’ve been under the water and cylinder pressure. The transmitter gathers the data at the regulator and sends it to this mini display mounted right where you need it. Sometimes if you’re diving really deep it…

Gadgets Charlie White

Ledtronics LED Bulbs Light Up the Area in 360 Degrees

Ledtronics now offers these three-dimensional G3 series bulbs that cover their LED arrays with spherical orbs, protecting them from the elements for outdoor use. Those LEDs are pointing every which way, lighting up the area front-to-back, while using just 13 watts. Being highly efficient LEDs, they emit very little heat, too. But you’ll pay on…

Gadgets Charlie White

Hitachi Rotary: Enough to Abandon Blades?

Okay metrosexuals, step away from those messy blades and cream and step up to an electric razor that might just remind you of your beloved shaving mess you deal with every morning. The Hitachi Rotary is an electric razor, yes, but its elongated shape might remind you of that old-fashioned razor to which you’re so…

Gadgets Charlie White

Look Out, Here Comes the Human Skateboard

We’re not getting a whole lot of info on the human skateboard dude here, but just look at the pic. The guy can even flip over on his back and keep rolling. He should market this thing. Human Skate Board [Gizoo]

Gadgets Charlie White

Samsung IP-830w on Sprint: World Phone, Smart Slider, First Look

If you’re a world traveler, you might want to take a look at this Sprint IP-830w “world phone,” a sliding Samsung smartphone with a 320×240 touchscreen, an SD memory card slot, and a 520MHz Intel PXA 272 CPU. Our buddy Dave at Mobility Today took a First Look at it and liked what he saw.…

Gadgets Charlie White

Gerber Inferno Flexi-Light Offers Seven Tendrils, Five Modes

Did somebody take a Power Squid and turn it into a seven-headed hydra of a flashlight? Yep, kinda. It’s the Gerber Inferno Flexi-Light, with seven articulated legs springing out of its casing, each leg with a versatile LED in the end with five lighting modes. You can have a focused white flashlight, a more diffused…

Gadgets Charlie White

Aphrodite Project Techie Hooker Platforms Re-emerge at Digital Life

We’ve heard about the Aphrodite Project before, where hooker platform shoes go high-tech in addition to alot of other arty stuff. The shoes first appeared in a show in New York last May and also surfaced at Siggraph graphics fest last summer. Now, they’ve re-appeared at Digital Life in New York, and pictures from their…

Gadgets Charlie White

TurboSonic Boom Box Store in Japan

TurboSonic is a dedicated boom box store, specializing in 70’s and 80’s vintage models. Our fav in their stock? The vinyl-playing, bright red, Sharp VZ-V20 you see on the top left. Thanks Roger. TurboSonic [via Viper Fantastic]

Gadgets Brian Lam

Blind Camera Lets You Take Other People’s Pictures

This art project by Sascha Pohflepp combines a Sony Ericsson k750i with a black case to let you take other people’s pictures. The design works by recording what time you click the button to “take” a picture, then later on connects to the internet to scope out shots other people took with that same timestamp.…

Gadgets Jason Chen

Harmony Bionic Ear System

Boston Scientific’s bionic ear gets FDA approval today, perfectly timed to save the hearing of Metallica fans rounding 40+. The piece delivers 120 spectral bands, which is 5-10 times more than the competition. Hmm…120 bands? I bet that makes the world sound as if it were in MIDI. The internal sound processor hooks into the…

Gadgets Brian Lam

DIY USB Hub Monster

Lack craftsmanship, but want a unique and cool USB hub? Sure you do! This is a USB hub monster that will fit your needs. It is basically a USB hub with male to female extension cables wrapped around coat hangers and very sloppily covered in cloth. But it is so damn cool. Hit the jump…

Gadgets Travis Hudson

Suzuki Shows Off Prototype Fuel Cell Electric Wheelchair

Suzuki’s Mio, a prototype electric wheelchair with a fuel cell, can run more than 40 km (24 miles) on one charge of methanol. This translates into a longer travel range compared to the previous unit, the “Senior Car”. Other new features: large armrests, a handlebar with ball knobs, a mesh-fabric seat and a large LCD…

Gadgets Jason Chen

Humpable Huggable, Giant iPod Pillow

Our obsession with iPods has taken another giant leap forward with the iPillow iPod. This is a giant, 16-inch stuffed iPod with integrated speakers. So now you can truly lay in bed and showing your iPod just how much you really love it. $18. Product Page [Via Gearlog]

Gadgets Travis Hudson

Keep Those Drinks Warm or Cool in an ’07 Sebring

Those of us living in a van down by the river will welcome the 2007 Chrysler Sebring, with its optional cup holder that not only keeps that coffee hot but keeps that brewski cold, too. Not that you would be driving with a brewski. No, no, officer, this is iced tea. Anyway, flip a switch…

Gadgets Charlie White

Pebbles That Glow in the Dark: Radioactive?

Freak out your friends and avoid lawsuits with these glow-in-the-dark pebbles, appearing to be mild-mannered gray rocks by day but glowing with an eerie green radioactive aura for about six hours each night. Get a bag of 350 for $10. Product Page [Collections, Etc., via OhGizmo]

Gadgets Charlie White

Dealzmodo: Samsung Digimax i5 5-megapixel Digicam, $170

Geeks.com has this tiny camera for $170 after some instant savings. It retails for $240 and includes $50 of instant savings and a $20-off coupon code (CAMERADEAL) bringing the final price down to $170. It is an average 5-megapixel digital cam with a 3x optical zoom, video capture, flash, rechargeable batteries and 50MB of included…

Gadgets Travis Hudson

TrackItBack Helps You Recover Lost Gear

Cassette Generator: Your Name On Tape

Nextfest: Playing With Virtual Balls

Dyson’s CR01 Contrarotating Double-Drum Washing Machine

Oceanic SCUBA Mask with Integrated Head-Up Display

Ledtronics LED Bulbs Light Up the Area in 360 Degrees

Hitachi Rotary: Enough to Abandon Blades?

Look Out, Here Comes the Human Skateboard

Samsung IP-830w on Sprint: World Phone, Smart Slider, First Look

Gerber Inferno Flexi-Light Offers Seven Tendrils, Five Modes

Aphrodite Project Techie Hooker Platforms Re-emerge at Digital Life

TurboSonic Boom Box Store in Japan

Blind Camera Lets You Take Other People’s Pictures

Harmony Bionic Ear System

DIY USB Hub Monster

Suzuki Shows Off Prototype Fuel Cell Electric Wheelchair

Humpable Huggable, Giant iPod Pillow

Keep Those Drinks Warm or Cool in an ’07 Sebring

Pebbles That Glow in the Dark: Radioactive?

Dealzmodo: Samsung Digimax i5 5-megapixel Digicam, $170

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