Gadgets

Lomographic Fisheye Camera #Two: Still Capturing 180-degrees of Cool

The Lomo cameras were originally known for their leaky bodies that contaminate film with errant light — perfect for art house photos. This 35mm fisheye film camera improves upon Lomo’s best selling first with more image distorting capabilities, and a metal case. More, details, and sample shots, after the jump. First off, the Fisheye No.…

Gadgets Brian Lam

Quiet Supersonic Transport: Private Mach 1.6 Travel by 2013?

Lockheed Martin has been commissioned to design and manufacture the Quiet Supersonic Transport (QSST), a 12-seat private jet that will be able to quietly break the sound barrier. Capable of flying at Mach 1.6—which for the rest of us means 1200mph—that unique ability to sneak through the sound barrier without breaking every window in sight…

Gadgets Charlie White

Accsense Remote Monitoring

This “pod” based remote monitoring from Accsense looks interesting. It works by having one base station connected to your business’s Ethernet LAN which communicates with up to 16 different pods using 802.15.4/Zigbee wireless protocol. Each pod can be placed anywhere on the premises to monitor stuff like physical presence, temperature, vibration, light level, humidity, door…

Gadgets Jason Chen

Functional Concept: Slice-o-rama, The Vegetable Table Saw

The Slice-o-rama is just a design prototype for now, but this cutting board table saw has rails to guide the built-in table saw into your lettuce, potatoes, apples and yams. It uses the kind of saw that removes casts from your arm, so it supposedly won’t cut into your fingers. I haven’t been lucky enough…

Gadgets Jason Chen

Samsung SCH-B500 Slider With DMB

This black slider from Samsung has Bluetooth, MP3 player, two-megapixel camera and 320×240 display. It’s 1.4-inches thick and has the popular Digital Multimedia Broadcasting (DMB) that’s found on most cellphones and media players released in Korea. No word on a US launch, but the UI supports English as well as Chinese, Japanese and Korean, so…

Gadgets Jason Chen

Top Gear’s Limey Bastards Hack Cars for Remote Control

There are only so many stunts you can pull in a car before you worry about getting yourself killed. So UK auto show Top Gear rigged some with remote controls, and raced them past a swinging wrecking ball, through a dirt track, and over ramps.– Brian Lam Top Gear Video: Full-Sized Remote Controlled Cars [via…

Gadgets Brian Lam

Flying Cars: Forget It

We’re suckers for flying cars around here. I mean, just look at that picture above. It is so cool. Who wouldn’t want to fly above the daily traffic jam, pulling back on the steering wheel and rotating above the fray? https://gizmodo.com/transition-personal-air-vehicle-to-fly-by-2009-155483 Meanwhile, back on terra firma, Mike Elegan at Personal Tech Pipeline talks some sense…

Gadgets Charlie White

Sharp Lumiwall: Solar-Powered Wall of Light

We first saw Sharp Lumiwall technology in solar-powered streetlights, and now the company is offering the thin-film transparent solar panels sandwiched between pieces of glass. https://gizmodo.com/sharps-solar-powered-street-lamp-lumiwall-18520 During the day, the glass panels store energy using the solar arrays. While the sunlight shines on them, they look like smoked glass windows, but then at night they…

Gadgets Charlie White

TruScene Car Monitoring Device

The TruScene is a device that will actively monitor and record around your vehicle. It does the recording in 30 second clips and will only save the clips if a sudden bump or jolt occurs—perhaps from a hit and run. The TruScene could be really helpful making those hit-and-runners burn in hell—well, a hit and…

Gadgets Travis Hudson

Multitasking Post-it Notes: Not Just For Notes Any More

We’re always eager to turn to our cheery bunkmates at Lifehacker for helpful hints, and here’s a good example that we were wondering why we hadn’t thought of before: Use the sticky side of a Post-it note to pick up crumbs and such that gets stuck between the keys of your assorted gadgetry. Crumbs, dust,…

Gadgets Charlie White

Movado 800 Watch Unveiled

I’ve never really been much of a watch man, but on occasion I stumble across a watch that gets me all hot and bothered. The Movado 800 has done that. Hell, I’m not even sure about the specifics of the watch, but it looks so beautiful that I don’t care. It is available with a…

Gadgets Travis Hudson

iBar: Software + Projector = Interactive Hijinks

The iBar turns a countertop into an interactive surface, where projectors mounted underneath can display graphics on the milky, semi-transparent surface. It has an intelligent tracking system that reacts to touch, and its software follows objects and is able to illuminate them where they sit. There are all kinds of possibilities with this technology, such…

Gadgets Charlie White

LED Knitting Supplies

Everything else in the world has LEDs in it, why not knitting needles and crochet hooks? MAKE mag is highlighting some LED illuminated knitting supplies. I still don’t understand the appeal of knitting. Do people actually wear the crap that they knit/crochet or is it simply a hobby to give their hands more carpal tunnel.…

Gadgets Travis Hudson

Professor Invents Fruit Ripeness Sticker

As a guy who can’t hear the difference between knocking on a ripe melon, knocking on an under-ripe melon and knocking on my own ass, a “ripeness” indicator sticker on fruit would be awesome. This sticker, invented by a University of Arizona professor, can display to shoppers whether a fruit or vegetable is ripe, under-ripe…

Gadgets Jason Chen

Sacrowedgy: A Wedgy To Relax You

This Sacrowedgy is totally different from the wedgies we received in elementary school, junior high, high school, through parts of college, that one time at grad school, and last week from Charlie—but in a good way. The Sacrowedgy helps your muscles relax and reduces back, hip and knee pain, just by lying on it. The…

Gadgets Jason Chen

Virtual Reality Used To Help Treat Post Traumatic Stress Disorder

The Virtual Reality Medical center in San Diego just got $4 million from Naval Research to improve their VR systems to help treat soldiers who are returning from battle with PTSD. How does VR work to treat PTSD? Doctors and psychologists set up a situation where the soldier is back in battle, in this case,…

Gadgets Jason Chen

Peekaboo Isolation Chamber Chair

Showing shades of the Cone of Silence, the Isolation Chamber Chair is a design concept that lets you shut out the world so you can concentrate on your game of Tetris or your incoming text message from your sweetie. In a time when we are pulling down existing barriers to promote encounters and a sense…

Gadgets Jason Chen

BenQ IMS-100 Portable Bluetooth Speakers

Here’s an interesting product from BenQ. Instead of tying speakers to your Bluetooth-enabled portable music device or phone, these speakers are Bluetooth A2DP enabled so you can stream music to it from a distance. This means you can control your music player/phone while sitting on your couch while placing the speakers on the bookshelf—no more…

Gadgets Jason Chen

NuVJ: Numark’s DJ/VJ Controller + Software

Switching from vinyl to digital? How about leaving sound behind entirely? https://gizmodo.com/numark-d2-director-usb-dj-rig-188806 The Numark NuVJ hardware/software bundle packs a DJ-style MIDI controller and VJ software (ArKaos, for Mac and Windows) into a single $300 package. Electronic musicians may want to take note as well as visualists, because this could fill a void as a usable,…

Gadgets Peter Kirn

BBQ Spatula with Built-In Meat Thermometer

Some of us are not exactly talented in the kitchen or around the grill, and sometimes it’s a little difficult to tell when something is done just by “feel.” That’s where this $20 BBQ Spatula with a cooking thermometer attached can be a lifesaver, telling you if all those creepy crawlies are cooked out of…

Gadgets Charlie White

Lomographic Fisheye Camera #Two: Still Capturing 180-degrees of Cool

Quiet Supersonic Transport: Private Mach 1.6 Travel by 2013?

Accsense Remote Monitoring

Functional Concept: Slice-o-rama, The Vegetable Table Saw

Samsung SCH-B500 Slider With DMB

Top Gear’s Limey Bastards Hack Cars for Remote Control

Flying Cars: Forget It

Sharp Lumiwall: Solar-Powered Wall of Light

TruScene Car Monitoring Device

Multitasking Post-it Notes: Not Just For Notes Any More

Movado 800 Watch Unveiled

iBar: Software + Projector = Interactive Hijinks

LED Knitting Supplies

Professor Invents Fruit Ripeness Sticker

Sacrowedgy: A Wedgy To Relax You

Virtual Reality Used To Help Treat Post Traumatic Stress Disorder

Peekaboo Isolation Chamber Chair

BenQ IMS-100 Portable Bluetooth Speakers

NuVJ: Numark’s DJ/VJ Controller + Software

BBQ Spatula with Built-In Meat Thermometer

Anker’s USB-C Docking Station With Detachable Hub Hits an All-Time Low in Amazon’s Spring Sale, Likely the Last Chance Before Prime Day

The Sadie Sink ‘Spider-Man: Brand New Day’ Rumors Just Keep Swirling

This Kindle Paperwhite E-Reader Now Costs About as Much as a Few Paper Books, While Amazon’s Spring Sale Price Still Holds

Lenovo Tab One Becomes an Even Better Budget Tablet Pick Below $100, Now Bundled With a Case in Amazon’s Spring Sale

Jason David Frank’s Final Movie Honors His ‘Power Rangers’ Legacy

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The ‘Project Hail Mary’ Party Continues With a Manga Adaptation

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Sonos Play Review: Call It a Comeback

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