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Too bad the Samsonite OBAG, a rolling bag designed by Rooz Mousavi, is not a real product. Not only is it easier to maneuver and move up and down the stairs, it also looks better than any other suitcase we have ever seen and it can work as a replacement wheel for a Tron lightcycle.…
Britain is absolutely covered in closed-circuit TV cameras, ensuring that anyone walking through London is easily tracked by a shadowy group of law enforcement officials in some dark room somewhere. How unsettling and Orwellian! Well, one enterprising Brit decided to see just how long it would take for the cops to show up after parading…
Hey folks, you probably noticed that there’s a new mobile site for Gizmodo that forwards to a dumbed, really condensed down version of the page. Users who have mobile browsers like iPhone and Opera 9.5 and other ones who render our regular site just fine, you’re also getting redirected to the slimmed down version, which…
Remember the ’80s? You know, the decade that playing a beat on your chest passed as music? Just me? Wow…I am getting old. Anyway, you can relive those days with a high-tech upgrade thanks to this electronic drum kit shirt from Think Geek. That’s right, you can actually play seven different drum sounds through a…
Not to be outdone by the folks at Buffalo, Sony’s latest internal SATA BD recorder can achieve 8x writing speeds on the latest 6x BD-R media, for zapping 25GB in 15 minutes and 50Gb in 30. DVDs are also written, of course, at 16x. It’s $400 and shipping next month, with an included Men In…
We first heard about the Guinness record-holding EVOLTA AA battery back in April, but at the time they were only available in Japan. However, Panasonic is bringing their new product to the States staring this October in AA or AAA four and eight packs (priced at $5 and $9 respectively). I would just stick with…
Apple’s recently revealed its iPhone Developer University Program: it’s aimed at higher educational institutions who wish to introduce an iPhone/iPod touch developer curriculum, and supplies the iPhone SDK free of charge for up to 200 students. Basically it’ll mean that a class is a small developer company, able to share development apps within the team…
When the Eye-Fi hit last year, we loved it, but the price was $100. Now as Eye-Fi has complicated their line a bit, prices are coming down in a major way. The Eye-Fi Home (which allows you to upload your digital camera shots to your PC over your home network) is going for just $60.…
Click to viewMaverick, schmaverick. Here’s a Red Bull Air Race pilot showing that, to participate in these races, you don’t only need to know how to control these perfect flying machines-handcrafted and engineered with the latest technologies-while doing 12 g turns. You also have to be absolutely nuttastically crazy. And while these airplanes are not…
The sad thing about the PSP is that it’s a solid piece of hardware that people, mostly in Japan, are buying, but in humorless irony, third parties are refusing to support the platform. In this graph by famed gaming magazine EDGE, you see in hard numbers that there are almost no more PSP games coming…
The Department of Homeland Security’s been researching a sensor system that tries to predict “hostile thoughts” in people remotely for a while, but it’s just spoken up about developments and renamed the system “Future Attribute Screening Technologies,” FAST, which sounds really non-intimidating. It was called “Project Hostile Intent.” But check out the technology’s supposed powers…
You can’t tell from the image, but that Dell M109S projector can fit in the palm of your hand (3.64″ x 4.12″ x 1.46″). With a modest brightness of 50 lumens and resolution of 858×600 (SVGA), the DLP-based M109S maintains a respectable throw distance of roughly 8 feet. The LED bulb will last four years…
To follow up on its bicycling Murata Boy robot, Murata has subtracted a wheel, hired a stylist, thrown in a gyroscope and come up with the Seiko-chan, or “Little Seiko” unicycling robot. The small robot will be able to move forward and backward on its single wheel, and is even capable of keeping its balance…
Reed Ghazala is considered the father of circuit bending. And if you’ve followed our coverage of the sporadic musical art of circuit bending here on Giz, you probably realize that only a huge hippie like Ghazala could be behind the trend. This interview is 8 minutes long, but whether it was Ghazala’s interesting background or…
With only a few weeks to go until Election Day, director/showman/clown—strike out words depending on your political preferences—Michael Moore’s Slacker Uprising is now available on the internet. Created to promote voting among young people, Moore is saying that this is the first full-feature film to be released for free on the web, using Blip.tv, Amazon…
Nokia’s a little late to the touchscreen game—and they’ve been parading the “Tube” around for a while (“we promise, it’s coming!”). Now details are starting to build for a rumored October 2 announcement of the Tube (known more stodgily as the 5800 XpressMusic), fanned by the leaked pic above spotted by Mobile.cz. The date also…
We’ve all picked up the Covenant Energy Sword in a multiplayer match of Halo, grinning with childlike glee…only to be combo sniped and teabagged into oblivion. Now you can settle the score in real life with this Halo energy sword replica. Cast in stainless steel finished with the reflective “spectrum treatment,” the 27-inch sword will…
Made by Ryan Cashman, this movie shows you that with a chunk of ingenuity and a huge bucket-load of patience you can make movies with any old DSLR. Ryan’s clip of an LED pianist was made with nothing more sophisticated than a green keychain LED and a Canon digital Rebel. He took a sequence of…
This 32-inch Wi-Fi picture frame may look like a TV, but as your guests will quickly (sadly) discover, it’s just a frame to show off your family photos. Easily paired to a wireless router, the display is compatible with Windows Live Photo Gallery as well as proprietary image software that can wirelessly copy photos from…
Movea’s Gyration Motionsense Air Mouse adds to the ranks of new mice with gyros and accelerometers inside so you can control your computer just by waving them mid-air. It’s an ambidextrous mouse using 2.4GHz wireless tech with 100-foot range and it’s got both customizable buttons and gesture recognition. Inside there are two rotational gyro axes…
