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When I was a boy, I loved New York’s Museum of Natural History. Mostly the dinosaurs. But why, in the tech world, are there no places to celebrate gadgetry as art, history, the things we love? This year’s follow up to the original Giz Gallery is just that. It is a collection of the greatest…
If you use your laptop on the couch, or in bed, laptop-desks stop it sliding around, or warming up your nether region. And while we like Logitech’s Comfort Lapdesk, the new N315 adds a mouse-rest—pretty good for $30. https://gizmodo.com/lightning-review-logitech-comfort-lapdesk-5150811 The washable, anti-slip top has room for notebooks with screens 15.6-inches or less, but definitely isn’t…
Dealzmodo has plenty of game bargains today. Direct2Drive is celebrating their fifth anniversary with huge discounts on great games, and Best Buy is giving away copies of X-Blades for the Xbox 360. Top Deals: • 15.6″ Dell Vostro A860 Core2Duo Laptop for $399 (normally $549). • Bioshock (PC) for $5 (normally $18). • Ensure 8…
After the Android-based Internet tablet, the fabled Archos phone may become a reality too. A 0.39-inch thick reality called the Archos Phone Tablet, which will have a sharp 854×480 resolution 4.3-inch touchscreen, and 3G connectivity. https://gizmodo.com/archos-5-internet-tablet-hands-on-android-power-but-w-5358355 The Archos Phone Tablet will use a 1GHz ARM processor and the Android operating system. It’s kind of big…
When does an iPod dock stop being an iPod dock? When it weighs 20 pounds? When it has a subwoofer the size of a child’s head? When it costs $600? Whatever you do, don’t ask Bose. Bose SoundDock 10 sits a few notches above any of its stablemates, both in size and price—this thing is…
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Ah Dubai, you and your glittery airports and your insane skyscrapers and your Death Star islands. If you don’t fall into the desert first, this is how you may look in the future. https://gizmodo.com/glittery-16-million-square-feet-dubai-terminal-3-is-lar-5065812 For some reason, some production company thought it would be nice to promote themselves using an annoying fake trailer depicting a…
The new Archos 5 Internet Tablet is indeed powered by Android, and improves all around over its predecessor, with more storage and a better interface. But something’s still missing. https://gizmodo.com/archos-a5s-and-a5h-tablets-look-blah-unless-the-a-st-5345938 The Archos 5 improves on some of the complaints we had about the previous Archos 5. Archos has upped the storage with loads of options—it…
I can’t speak for everyone here, but I have no need for email or bank account transfers on the go. Mobile web browsing is overrated as are thousands of songs in your pocket. But an Army of Darkness iPhone app???????? Today, the iPhone fulfills its Destiny. The Army of Darkness Soundboard—which is completely freakin’ free—plays…
This do-it-yourself cardboard iPhone dock is so pretty that it actually could have been designed by Jonathan Ive himself. Of course, if Ive had designed it, it would have an Apple logo and sell for $40 instead of being free. Pretty sweet. Go get the PDF and do it yourself here. [iPhone Dock via Unplggd]
Well, this is a shame, if inevitable: The Wall Street Journal will soon start charging non-subscribers 2 bucks a week to use its iPhone app, which is currently free (and better than the NYT app). Even subscribers will have to pony up an extra buck a week for the privilege. https://gizmodo.com/wsjs-free-iphone-app-is-already-better-than-the-nyt-app-5214944 More ominously, while revealing…
From concept to real product: The Mission One electric bike—designed and made by Yves Behar and Mission Motors—is now the world’s fastest electric bike at 161mph (260km/h). And they got a video to prove it. https://gizmodo.com/mission-one-to-be-worlds-fastest-electric-motorcycle-5146464 The bike broke the record on September 1, averaging 150.059mph, and reaching a top speed of 161mph. The most…
Say that, all things equal, you could fix a problem for $8000 or fix the same problem for $150. Which would you choose? Clearly, you are not Medicare. Proloquo2Go is a text-to-speech iPhone app that’s meant to aid those with autism, cerebral palsy, ALS, Down Syndrome—pretty much anyone who has a disability that makes speaking…
This week on TreeHugger, Nanosolar reaching super solar efficiency, deep sea robots, tapping trees to power gadgets, a solar vest that is, ahem, cool, and more. Nanosolar has broken radio silence and the news is good. They’ve simultaneously released information about three things, including possibly hitting grid parity with their solar cells, starting mass production,…
We enjoy making fun of all things Hello Kitty, but your daughter would probably love the Minew A10 (more than she would love the Hello Kitty AR-15 anyway). https://gizmodo.com/hello-kitty-expands-upon-arsenal-with-ar-15-rifle-338916 As you might expect, the A10 is not powerful enough to be used for anything beyond the basics, but the Atom processor, 1GB RAM and 160GB…
If you watched any football this weekend, you saw But Light’s “Tailgate Approved” parody infomercials. But hey, maybe they weren’t parodies; you can buy all that stuff, including the awesome-looking Grooler, online. For $125 you get two coolers with a grill in the middle. Awesome, right? I mean, sure, you can toss a grill and…
Watching this video of the Precision Urban Hopper jumping over a fence, makes my inner kid all giddy and excited. It also makes my outer nerd wet. It has been invented by Boston Dynamics, the creators of the scary BigDog. https://gizmodo.com/new-video-of-bigdog-quadruped-robot-is-so-stunning-its-368651 The Precision Urban Hopper—developed for DARPA—is a GPS-guided robot designed for exploration of urban…
The iPhone has so many great music-creation apps that they deserve their own category, but shiny dedicated instruments like Korg’s new 37-key sampler are always nice. It has a line-input, goose-neck microphone, and editing software for the Mac or PC. It connects to computers via USB, but also has MIDI in/out connections. The line-in jack…
We’ve used enough questionable substances to make the specific timeline of the last 20 years is a bit sketchy. But we’re pretty sure Big came out before the Segway. Regardless, this Zoltar costume/car employs a Segway to mysteriously float through the streets, making the old young and the young old with no discrimination whatsoever, all…
Holy crap. Detectives are still interviewing a Johns Hopkins University student who fatally lacerated the upper body of a man breaking into his off-campus residence overnight. The suspect also suffered a nearly-severed hand, and was pronounced dead at the scene. The house is home to four undergrads who had already had a Sony PlayStation and…
