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CTIA: Samsung Announces t719 Blackberry Connect Clamshell

If you’ve ever lusted after the Blackberry’s email features and wished you could get them on your cellphone, or if you’re stuck with a Blackberry for work but miss having a device that’s easier to make calls on, Samsung may have your number with their new t719 clamshell, which flips open to reveal a hybrid…

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DIY: Portable USB Charger

I think we have a first in Gizmodo history. This is DIY electrical-related project that the average Joe might be able to do. This project is cheap, semi-simple and allows gadgets like iPods and PDAs to be charged via USB. A 9-volt battery does all of the charging and this DIY device is small and…

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Portable Truth Detector

This slab of silicon can detect when your friends and family are lying to your face. Using two unique technologies, Psychological Stress Evaluator (PSE) and the Voice Stress Analyzer (VSA), the Truth Detector glows red when a speaker is under stress. The resulting readout allows you to asses their truthfulness and helps you decide whether…

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Portable Bed for Those on the Go

Livin’ that vagabond lifestyle? Here’s an idea from Swiss designer Kurt Thut whose benefits become immediately obvious. Just don’t sleep on it without a mattress. If you like this, there’s also a bookcase that carries on the same collapsible porto-theme. Foldable bed and shelf [swissmiss]

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Motorola Teams Up With Skype for Wireless Internet Calling

Motorola and Skype have put together the Motorola Talk and Tunes Wireless Internet Calling Kit, a Bluetooth headset for Skype phone calling that doubles as a pair of high fidelity headphones. The kit includes a pair of Motorola HT820 stereo headphones that connect to Motorola’s PC850 Bluetooth USB adapter. Motorola says the headphones work seamlessly…

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Aqua Glow Tub Light: Chromatherapy for $20

Adding a little color to your bath just got a lot cheaper. Until the $20 Aqua Glow Tub Light became available, if you wanted to enhance your bathing experience with chromatherapy you’d have to pay $8900 for the Kohler Sok chromatherapy bath. The Aqua Glow Tub Light is a waterproof fixture made of ABS plastic…

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Glide Shower Rings Solve an Everyday Problem

It’s those little annoyances that, bit by bit, diminish your quality of life. Here’s one of them: shower curtain rings sticking to the shower rod, sometimes even requiring so much effort that you eventually tear the shower curtain. Glide Shower Rings solve that problem, with concealed brass ball bearings at the top, letting the chrome-plated…

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Whirlpool’s Pret-a-Porter Clothes Revitalizer

Whirlpool, known for its innovative range of home appliances, has unveiled Pret-a-Porter, the clothes revitalizer. It has the size of a vacuum cleaner and is fully portable. You can use the device for removing odor, sweat and smoke stains from the clothes that do not need a full, proper cleaning. It is designed to look…

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CTIA: Samsung A960

Not much info available yet on this Samsung A960 foldup handset, but its most unique feature is that great-looking external round OLED display. Haven’t seen one like that before. It’s being shown on the show floor with Sprint branding, but according to Samsung no carrier announcements have been made yet. Samsung Shows Unannounced A960 at…

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The Media Tank External Media Reader

Probably the next best thing to having a Sherman on your desk, the Media Tank from ATMT is an external media reader that reads pretty much anything you throw at it. Firstly, let’s not ignore its size: the Media Tank is pretty darn big, weighing in at 1.5 pounds. If your desk can handle the…

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The Nap Alarm, Another Innovation From Japan

A Japanese company by the name of Takanoha has come up with a tiny gadget that prevents you from falling asleep. Putting the Nap Alarm behind your ear, the gadget vibrates once it detects that you are falling asleep. It measures the speed of head movements in order to determine whether or not the user…

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Instantly Boil Water With the Hydrotap

While the Zip Hydrotap may look like an ordinary water faucet, don’t be so easily mistaken. What sets the Hydrotap apart from other faucets is that it can dispense boiling water at the touch of a [child-proof] button. Of course, it’ll give you plain old cold water for those hot summer days spent on a…

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Borders to Sell Sony Reader

Remember the Sony Reader that we covered back in January during CES? Word around the street is that Borders will be selling the Sony Reader nation-wide at their stores in the future. https://gizmodo.com/live-from-ces-the-sony-reader-146628 Borders won’t be selling eBooks, but they will sell prepaid cards for the Sony CONNECT service that allows users to download eBooks,…

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6502-Powered Nixie Clock

Today Ryan Brooks is our nerd hero of the day, and this is why: So, I wanted a Nixie clock and I really wanted to design the hardware and program it myself. Most of the kits out there are based around a PIC or some other new, easy to use microcontroller. I thought it would…

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Propello Cageless Fan

From the always entertaining, Museum of Modern Art Store comes this gem, a cageless fan. First off, the blades are rubber, so no worry about your cat’s tongue getting mangled. Next, the fan costs a blistering $140.00. Maybe it’s just me, but I’ll save $135 and deal with a cage. This product was the work…

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Toilet Lid Sink

One thing about apartment hunting in New York City when you are not feelthy steenking reech is that no matter how nasty you think the last apartment you saw was, the next one will inevitably be nastier. We once looked at one in lower Manhattan that had the shower in a what was basically a…

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Breath Test for Breast Cancer

Joerg Lahann with the University of Michigan has received the funding to start developing this device that will use nanotechnology to detect breast cancer through the breath. A woman would breathe into an over-the-counter device and cancer-indicating metabolites would be attracted into the nanopockets, causing the pored surface to fill and become dense. Then, an…

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Street Wars Water Gun Assassination Game

This is a massive water gun assassination tournament that will soon be hitting the streets of L.A. It is a 24/7 game that will last until someone wins. Every registered member of Street Wars will receive an envelope with the picture, name, address and phone number of a target. Then there is a three-week deadline…

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Lemur Multi-Touch Touchscreen, Reviewed

Dreaming of a multi-touch touchscreen future? For musicians, the future is now — if you can pony up the $2500 price of admission, that is. The Lemur, the Star Trek-like touchscreen hardware built for musicians, has now found its way into the hands of actual users. What’s the verdict? Depends on whom you ask. The…

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Kattbank Conceals Litter Box

When you’re living in close quarters with a cat, there’s no good solution to the problem of kitty litter. Now here’s Kattbank, a bench designed to conceal that cat litter box, achieving a delicate balance of adequate airflow while keeping offensive odors from escaping. Plus, the designers made sure that the little critters would like…

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CTIA: Samsung Announces t719 Blackberry Connect Clamshell

DIY: Portable USB Charger

Portable Truth Detector

Portable Bed for Those on the Go

Motorola Teams Up With Skype for Wireless Internet Calling

Aqua Glow Tub Light: Chromatherapy for $20

Glide Shower Rings Solve an Everyday Problem

Whirlpool’s Pret-a-Porter Clothes Revitalizer

CTIA: Samsung A960

The Media Tank External Media Reader

The Nap Alarm, Another Innovation From Japan

Instantly Boil Water With the Hydrotap

Borders to Sell Sony Reader

6502-Powered Nixie Clock

Propello Cageless Fan

Toilet Lid Sink

Breath Test for Breast Cancer

Street Wars Water Gun Assassination Game

Lemur Multi-Touch Touchscreen, Reviewed

Kattbank Conceals Litter Box

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Meta’s Two New Smart Glasses Are Slimmer and More Like Regular Glasses

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