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Mobile Office Concept

In our personal future utopia more people get to work from home in their pajamas, but if that never comes to pass we guess we might be seeing things like like British designer James Mower’s mobile concept office, a temporary workplace designed for businesses so they can bring their offices closer to their clients: The…

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New York Times, Others Coming to an e-Reader Near You Soon?

While the idea of actually holding onto a newspaper may still be appealing to some, those of us living in the year 2006 may want to give the tradition of reading the morning paper a little bit of an upgrade. Various newspapers, including the financial newspaper De Tijd in Belgium and the New York Times…

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Samsung A580 Goes Wi-Fi, Kind of

Samsung is going balls to the wall this year with phone releases. They had a ton of new phones at CTIA earlier this month and today we are introduced to the Samsung A580. The key aspect of this phone is the addition of Sprint’s new wireless backup feature. It is a clamshell phone with the…

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Rex, the Talking Prescription Bottle

No, Rex won’t be your friend and listen to you whispering sweet-nothings, but it will help you take your medicine correctly, every time. The Rex kit includes three bottles and a recording device for $55. This device is primarily targeted for the elderly or visually impaired. With a push of a button the bottle will…

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Mimobots Flying Cats Series

Two new Mimobots! We here at Gizmodo puffy heart the mimobot USB flash drives and prize them above all others, so it’s great to see mimoco launching a new installment in their limited edition artist series. These two cuties are from the Flying Cat x mimoco line—the one on the left is HERO (by

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Xyron Design Runner Portable Printer

Here’s some good news for graphic designers who wouldn’t mind seeing how a prototype design actually looks on paper. The Xyron Design Runner is a tiny (about the size of a computer mouse) portable printer that prints directly onto various surfaces, such as wood and fabric, making the task of jazzing up birthday cards—or, if…

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RFID Enabled Fitness Wristbands

These are rubber wristbands that are being developed by Casio. Each wristband will contain an RFID chip filled with information of the said wearer. Step up to a workout machine and an attached PDA will read the RFID information and begin a personalized training session. Besides being able to control training sessions the wristbands can…

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Audi Roadjet’s Rear-Console Espresso Machine

Our commute to work most days is the five inches we reach to get the laptop off of the bedside table and into bed, so we read stories about extreme commuting with great horror and begin to think things like the working WMF espresso machine Audi placed in the rear-seat console of its Roadjet concept…

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Logitech V400 Dual Laser Mouse Reviewed (Verdict: Dual Lasers are a Gimmick, Otherwise OK)

Logitech has been pumping up their V400 wireless mouse for quite some time now, nearly going so far as to claim that it will do your homework and wash your car. By far, the most hyped feature is its so-called dual laser engine, which is supposed to improve upon regular laser mice that take snapshots…

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RED ONE Camera

Finally officially announced at NAB 2006 in Las Vegas today, the RED ONE camera is the latest greatest project from Oakley founder Jim Jannard, a serious photography and video buff who owns about a thousand different cameras himself. The RED ONE is designed to be a modular, upgradable system, so users can add hardware, software,…

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frog Design Mind

Product Design for the Elderly By Gretchen Anderson If we are what we use, then it seems the elderly people in today’s society are cranky, stupid and tacky. Of course, looking at products made for the elderly really says more about what product designers and manufacturers think the elderly are. Even as technology has gotten…

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Electrowetting: Not What You Think

Philips spin-off Liquidvista is currently working on an electrowetting display. While this sounds like the light show you get when you pee on an electric blanket, it is not. Instead, it is a system that expands or contracts a drop of ink or oil under glass to draw one pixel. When contracted, the ink “disappears.”…

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Get Out of Date Free Card

Oh, ho, ho, ho. What will small companies think of next to get a mention in USA Today and freak people out? Secure Networks is offering a free service called SecureSingles which allows you to punch in a few pertinent details about your next date and, if things don’t go so well or your date…

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Glowing, Foggy Ice Bowl

How much is a bowl that holds ice cubes, five bucks? How much is that same bowl, but with blue LEDs and fog effects? Apparently, it’s $60. If you really need to have your ice be 2000 Flushes blue, or love fog, this is for you. For the other 6.6 billion people in the world,…

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RFID Enabled Purse

The classy broads over at Simon Fraser U in Canada have come up with a purse to keep forgetful dames from leaving the house without their important items — cellphone, keys, wallet, iPod, lipstick, or anything they choose. The purse works by having an RFID reader inside that knows when each item is inserted by…

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Sportline 334 Safety Pedometer

If Natalie Portman’s character in V for Vendetta had this safety alarm pedometer, she would have never met V and the movie would have been 10 minutes long. The Sportline 334 is a regular pedometer — tracking your steps and counting your calories burned — but it also makes a 100db noise to alert bystanders.…

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Virtual Brix Makes You Look Prettier

This project is from the Interaction Design Institute in Ivrea, Italy. It is similar to an oversized webcam. The wall of virtual bricks recreates the image recorded from a webcam. So, walk up to the piece and get turned into a 20 feet by 13 feet monstrosity. This would be great to use with Skype,…

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Sony Patents Shape Changing Bath

Are you skinny, but married a fatty? Sony’s new patent for bathtubs allows the interior walls to become wider, narrower, deeper or shallower at will. Their powers come from the strong flexible polymer walls that are backed with elastic cushioning panels. There’s no chance of spillage due to a water sensor that measures how full…

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Perific Ergonomic Mouse Keeps Hands From Breaking

Remember the days of the square-shaped mouse with only two rectangular buttons, with not a mouse wheel in sight? Those things were pretty torturous to use for any extended period of time, mainly because of their unforgiving design. Perific hopes to eliminate that problem with a new wireless mouse/trackball that forgoes feature bloat in favor…

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Sony PSP Goes White

We may have reported on news of a white PSP almost a year ago, but now it’s finally here. That is, if you don’t live in Europe. For reasons unbeknownst to us, Play-Asia is refusing to ship it there. If you really must have it, open up Craigslist Tokyo and offer an otaku something in…

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Mobile Office Concept

New York Times, Others Coming to an e-Reader Near You Soon?

Samsung A580 Goes Wi-Fi, Kind of

Rex, the Talking Prescription Bottle

Mimobots Flying Cats Series

Xyron Design Runner Portable Printer

RFID Enabled Fitness Wristbands

Audi Roadjet’s Rear-Console Espresso Machine

Logitech V400 Dual Laser Mouse Reviewed (Verdict: Dual Lasers are a Gimmick, Otherwise OK)

RED ONE Camera

frog Design Mind

Electrowetting: Not What You Think

Get Out of Date Free Card

Glowing, Foggy Ice Bowl

RFID Enabled Purse

Sportline 334 Safety Pedometer

Virtual Brix Makes You Look Prettier

Sony Patents Shape Changing Bath

Perific Ergonomic Mouse Keeps Hands From Breaking

Sony PSP Goes White

ExpressVPN Just Launched ExpressAI: Your Prompts Are Now Invisible

VR Just Took Another Massive Body Blow

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