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Transformers: The Movie News Roundup

Our petrol-sniffing cousins over at Jalopnik really love their Transformers news—and to be honest, so do we. Here’s a roundup of what the latest leaks and news from the set of Michael Bay’s 21st century classic are. Optimus Prime’s Full Body Shot, With Scary Bumblebee Pic Jazz Will Be Played By a Pontiac Solstice Who…

Gadgets Jason Chen

Flavia Fusion Makes Tea Brewing Quick and Painless

Taking the single serve Pod coffee idea to the next logical step, the Flavia Fusion drinks station lets you make fruity drinks instantly. The gadget uses “flavor filter packs” which gets brewed at the push of a button into one single-serve tasty drink. The Flavia itself costs $100, and can make coffee as well as…

Gadgets Jason Chen

Surefire Kroma Palm-Sized Tactical LED Flashlight

Here’s a new flashlight from surefire, makers of flashlights for cops, Navy SEALs and other guys that need to kick ass in dark places. The LED lightsource can go from a low intensity to high, the brighter mode giving the palm sized flashlight 50-lumens. That’s more than double the oomph of a twin D-cell battery.…

Gadgets Brian Lam

Samsung R7 10-inch DMB LCD TV Is The Largest DMB TV Yet

At what’s surely the largest “mobile” DMB TV yet, the Samsung R7 comes in at a whopping 10-inches of real estate. Terrestrial DMB, or T-DMB, is a system they have in Korea for watching TV on mobile devices like cellphones and laptops. The R7 has a 16:9 aspect ratio, controls on the right, and is…

Gadgets Jason Chen

Starfish Bath Sensor Notifies You When Your Tub Overflows With Boiling Water

Personally I’ve always been a shower guy, but this Starfish Bath Sensor may make me switch it up once in a while, if I could get past the “soaking in my own filth” aspect. The Starfish has a water sensor so you can let your bath water go while you’re getting your bubbles, music, and…

Gadgets Jason Chen

Sony Launches 2 GPS Navigation Devices, Hopefully They Don’t Explode

Sony has launched the NV-U81T and NV-U80 navigation units. Both of which comes loaded up with Sony’s Position Plus—I’ll show them a position plus…—technology for more accurate positioning and routing even when the signal is weak. The unit itself has a 4.3-inch touchscreen display with voice commands and Bluetooth for hands-free calling via a cellphone.…

Gadgets Travis Hudson

Garmin Nuvi 660 GPS: Officially Announced at $1076.91

Quick update: Garmin woke up this morning and officially unveiled the Nuvi 660 GPS. We love our Garmins and this would be the perfect one, with its widescreen, slim form, traffic receiver, and ability to read street names, useful for when the turns come up thick and fast. Nothing to add to what we’ve covered…

Gadgets Brian Lam

Samsung SDC-MS61: Slim, Sexy, 6-megapixel

Samsung unveiled this tiny camera at IFA. It is small as hell, looks pretty hot and includes a six-megapixel sensor that will create some very sexy voyeur shots. It has a 3-inch LCD screen, video recording—in widescreen (!!)—and even includes an MP3 recorder and player. Hopefully it will include some kind of image stabilization, small…

Gadgets Travis Hudson

Mad Hatter’s Quad Core 2 Duo Server Goes Sixteen Ways

This one goes out to all my IT homies. A Gizmodo reader just sent this screen shot in of task manager running on a server he built for work. It runs 4 processors, that have 2 cores each, with each of those cores hyperthreaded. So…That shows up in Windows as 16 procs. I’ll stand back…

Gadgets Brian Lam

Radar Golf Ball Finder

Isn’t Labor Day weekend fantastic? Well it is great until you hit the links and lose your first ball. This little gadget might be the perfect companion on the golf course. This $250 kit includes 12 golf balls that have embedded microchips that capable of being located with the handheld radar golf ball finder. This…

Gadgets Travis Hudson

Belt Lighter, Like a Cancer Inducing Batman Utility Belt

Sometimes the simplest ideas end up being the most convenient. The buckle on this belt is actually a removable lighter. I highly doubt this one will get through airport security, but if you aren’t trying to fly, then there is no worry about misplacing that lighter ever again. We don’t need no water, let the…

Gadgets Travis Hudson

Belkin Releases Accessory Line for Samsung Players

Well I’ll be a monkey’s blue-assed uncle. It was just a little while ago that we presented our first, exclusive look at the Samsung YP-K5 MP3 player and Belkin already has a line of accessories out for this player. The other Samsung players Belkin will be accessorizing are the T9 and Z5. https://gizmodo.com/samsung-yp-k5-mp3-mini-boombox-first-unboxing-review-198099 For a…

Gadgets Travis Hudson

Thermador Liberty Shelf: Motorized Refrigerator Shelves Are Way Cool

As appliance manufacturers grope for techno-ideas with little success, Thermador creates an innovative design that could actually be useful: the Liberty Shelf, motorized refrigerator shelves that move up and down to accommodate items of various heights. Sure, you can do this manually, but have you tried it when the shelf is full of 40-ounce Colt…

Gadgets Charlie White

FordLink Gives Pickup Truck Drivers Web Access, More

You know wireless broadband is getting ubiquitous when even Ford pickup trucks are equipped with tablet PCs hooked up to the net. That’s the case with Ford, launching its FordLink system for F-series pickups that consists of a tablet PC running Windows XP that’s connected to the vast tubes of the Interwebs. If you want…

Gadgets Charlie White

Samsung YP-K5 MP3 Mini Boombox: First Unboxing, Review, and Video.

Here it is. You might have seen some fuzzy flyby images of this MP3 player with speakers built into its backside. But we’ve got it in our hands. And we love it. For a 4GB player, it’s kinda chunky. The magnesium case is almost three times as thick as a nano, even though it has…

Gadgets Brian Lam

Toilet Golf, For Saving Par while Dropping a Dookie

I guess for some people, pooping is a pretty boring ordeal. Personally for me, I have the time of my life while taking the Browns to the Super Bowl. Sometimes I make it a game, like race the clock, etc. Enough about my fecal fun. This is the potty putter. It’s a miniature green and…

Gadgets Travis Hudson

Maxtek 4.3-inch GPS Navigation With Picture-in-Picture DMB

If you think about it, we’re a bit lucky here in the US. If we look at gadgets such as the 4.3-inch T-DMB GPS navigation device from Maxtek, it’s like looking into our own future. Sure, we can’t have this now, but in a few years, we’ll be able to watch TV and get directions…

Gadgets Jason Chen

Philips Prestigo Universal Learning Remote

Looking more like a magician’s wand than a remote, the Philips Prestigo—hey, someone there thought so too—has a touch-screen LCD and a rotary dial on its face to let you point and click your way to TV bliss. The LCD only lights up the appropriate buttons for the device you’re controlling, so you won’t get…

Gadgets Jason Chen

Honest Technology’s Placeshifting IPTV and Surveillance Device

The IP Box from Honest Technology has two practical functions. One of these is place-shifting, sending the TV channels you have at home through your broadband connection to your remote device. You can keep an eye on CNN with your laptop or PDA while you’re out in the world, wheeling and dealing. The video is…

Gadgets Jason Chen

TracNet 100 Mobile Stuffs WiFi and TV in your Car

Here it is, the thing to make your computer a little bit more like KITT. The TracNet 100 Mobile puts a WiFi hotspot, web browsing, and IPTV in your hoopty ride. The data love comes courtesy of a Verizon EVDO card, built into the controller box. That box itself has 802.11G wireless, 3 ethernet ports,…

Gadgets Brian Lam

Transformers: The Movie News Roundup

Flavia Fusion Makes Tea Brewing Quick and Painless

Surefire Kroma Palm-Sized Tactical LED Flashlight

Samsung R7 10-inch DMB LCD TV Is The Largest DMB TV Yet

Starfish Bath Sensor Notifies You When Your Tub Overflows With Boiling Water

Sony Launches 2 GPS Navigation Devices, Hopefully They Don’t Explode

Garmin Nuvi 660 GPS: Officially Announced at $1076.91

Samsung SDC-MS61: Slim, Sexy, 6-megapixel

Mad Hatter’s Quad Core 2 Duo Server Goes Sixteen Ways

Radar Golf Ball Finder

Belt Lighter, Like a Cancer Inducing Batman Utility Belt

Belkin Releases Accessory Line for Samsung Players

Thermador Liberty Shelf: Motorized Refrigerator Shelves Are Way Cool

FordLink Gives Pickup Truck Drivers Web Access, More

Samsung YP-K5 MP3 Mini Boombox: First Unboxing, Review, and Video.

Toilet Golf, For Saving Par while Dropping a Dookie

Maxtek 4.3-inch GPS Navigation With Picture-in-Picture DMB

Philips Prestigo Universal Learning Remote

Honest Technology’s Placeshifting IPTV and Surveillance Device

TracNet 100 Mobile Stuffs WiFi and TV in your Car

Even the ‘Avatar’ Fighting Game Is Disrespecting ‘Legend of Korra’

Bluesky Has a New App, and It’s All About AI

Dammit, Jim, He’s a Doctor And an Action Figure!

Whatever Just Happened with ‘Fruit Love Island,’ Nobody Won

AMC Puts a Stake in ‘Talamasca’ After One Season

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

2027 Is Shaping Up to Be a Great Year for Big Sci-Fi RPGs

MSI Prestige 14 Flip AI+ Review: A Solid 2-in-1 Laptop With Some Glaring Flaws

Sonos Play Review: Call It a Comeback

Sonos Era 100 SL Review: The Cheapest Way Into Wired Sonos Sound

Asus ROG’s Massive Swift OLED Gaming Monitor Epitomizes Excess in the Best Way

The Ikea Varmblixt Smart Lamp Fills a Donut Hole in My Life

Nothing Headphone A vs. Headphone 1: Which Pair of ANC Wireless Headphones Wins?

Asus ROG’s Cetra Open Wireless Gaming Earbuds Might Be Better Than Wearing a Headset

Nintendo’s Talking Flower Is Annoying as Hell. I Love It

Level Lock Pro Review: As Good as a Secret Smart Lock Gets

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Gadgets

Transformers: The Movie News Roundup

Flavia Fusion Makes Tea Brewing Quick and Painless

Surefire Kroma Palm-Sized Tactical LED Flashlight

Samsung R7 10-inch DMB LCD TV Is The Largest DMB TV Yet

Starfish Bath Sensor Notifies You When Your Tub Overflows With Boiling Water

Sony Launches 2 GPS Navigation Devices, Hopefully They Don’t Explode

Garmin Nuvi 660 GPS: Officially Announced at $1076.91

Samsung SDC-MS61: Slim, Sexy, 6-megapixel

Mad Hatter’s Quad Core 2 Duo Server Goes Sixteen Ways

Radar Golf Ball Finder

Belt Lighter, Like a Cancer Inducing Batman Utility Belt

Belkin Releases Accessory Line for Samsung Players

Thermador Liberty Shelf: Motorized Refrigerator Shelves Are Way Cool

FordLink Gives Pickup Truck Drivers Web Access, More

Samsung YP-K5 MP3 Mini Boombox: First Unboxing, Review, and Video.

Toilet Golf, For Saving Par while Dropping a Dookie

Maxtek 4.3-inch GPS Navigation With Picture-in-Picture DMB

Philips Prestigo Universal Learning Remote

Honest Technology’s Placeshifting IPTV and Surveillance Device

TracNet 100 Mobile Stuffs WiFi and TV in your Car

Even the ‘Avatar’ Fighting Game Is Disrespecting ‘Legend of Korra’

Bluesky Has a New App, and It’s All About AI

Dammit, Jim, He’s a Doctor *And* an Action Figure!

Whatever Just Happened with ‘Fruit Love Island,’ Nobody Won

AMC Puts a Stake in ‘Talamasca’ After One Season

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

2027 Is Shaping Up to Be a Great Year for Big Sci-Fi RPGs

MSI Prestige 14 Flip AI+ Review: A Solid 2-in-1 Laptop With Some Glaring Flaws

Sonos Play Review: Call It a Comeback

Sonos Era 100 SL Review: The Cheapest Way Into Wired Sonos Sound

Asus ROG’s Massive Swift OLED Gaming Monitor Epitomizes Excess in the Best Way

The Ikea Varmblixt Smart Lamp Fills a Donut Hole in My Life

Nothing Headphone A vs. Headphone 1: Which Pair of ANC Wireless Headphones Wins?

Asus ROG’s Cetra Open Wireless Gaming Earbuds Might Be Better Than Wearing a Headset

Nintendo’s Talking Flower Is Annoying as Hell. I Love It

Level Lock Pro Review: As Good as a Secret Smart Lock Gets

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Dammit, Jim, He’s a Doctor And an Action Figure!