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There are plenty of projector clocks on the market, but many of these are shaped like Batman and confined to bedroom use. However, Brando is bucking the trend with a projector clock designed to be used in the car. Naturally, the size of the date and time displayed is dependent on how far back you…
Voodoo’s Envy 133 notebook is skinny slice of hotness-basically the skinniest notebook alive when it launches (only .7 inches thick), bumping the MacBook Air into the fatty column, courtesy of its .76-inch bulge. It sounds good on paper for the Envy 133, but the Air’s slick tapering definitely masks its love handle, so even though…
Available in five colors, the Volcano T7 is the latest DAP player. Reminiscent of a memory stick and with a small OLED display, it’s available in both 2GB and 4GB versions. There’s also a USB 2.0 port, an FM radio, and an equalizer. There’s also a recording function, both for voice and radio. Now available…
Today SanDisk announced it would acquire the company that developed the chunky MusicGremlin Wi-Fi MP3 player, a device that made a smallish splash a few years ago for being the Zune before there was a Zune. SanDisk itself has tried the Wi-Fi thing before with Sansa Connect (itself an acquisition), but that fell short of…
Oh my. I knew that I was asking for trouble when I called in Photoshops of inappropriate spokespeople for gadgets, but I didn’t realize just how much trouble I was going to get. I got a huge response for this one, including some of the most sick (and hilarious) entries to a Photoshop contest yet.…
Last Friday, we rounded up and judged the most colorful iPhone 3G rumors floating around the tubes. Now that Steve has spilled the beans, I bet you’re curious as to how accurate our thinking was. Turns out we were pretty much on target with our verdicts. https://gizmodo.com/iphone-2-rumor-round-up-verdict-dont-believe-everythi-5013932 • iPhone 2 to be 22% thinner. We…
HoloVizio may look like yet another 3D screen, but it completely changes the approach to three-dimensional displays using voxels instead of pixels. Each voxel can project multiple light beams—of different intensity and colors—in several directions, simultaneously. This means that anyone standing around the monitor will actually see an object from a different perspective, with no…
In between beers, my student days were spent shuttling between at least 10 different homes, and my poor battered library would definitely have benefited from PLoP! This concept from designer Joyce Hong is simply a rigid cardboard bookshelf that collapses up when you need to move it around. It weighs just 4 pounds, and can…
Hi, John McCain here. You might know me, I’m the Republican candidate for this year’s presidential race. However, I’m not yet in possession of a Number Two to ride that ticket alongside me. Earlier this week, I told people at a luncheon party in Virginia that I was using the power of the Google in…
British inventors have designed a washing machine that takes eco-friendliness to a new level: it uses just a single cup of water to wash a load of clothes. Instead of water the Xeros machine uses thousands of special plastic chips (about 44 pounds’ worth) in each wash, and when that single cup of water is…
As one familiar with the term “one cubic meter of storage space” (and as someone with 28 cubic meters’ worth of boxes currently sitting in her parents’ attic) Arik Levy’s storage system is made up of seven different modules that you can stack together in all sorts of different ways. Available in aluminum, blackened oak…
Washington D.C. (Agencies) – Confidential FCC documents unearthed today by internet blog Intomobile point out at the possibility of Apple releasing a new secret device which some experts think could be a “smartphone.” The new gadget—which was submitted for FCC approval in June 1, 2008—apparently has a big “touch” screen, as well as the ability…
Gym bunnies amongst you might be interested in the Murphy Gym, a shallow cupboard full of the kind of equipment you need to look like a condom stuffed with walnuts—marbled walnuts if you are either a hunk of Kobe beef, or if you like popping S.T.E.Roids as if they were M&Ms. I’m also guessing that…
Designer Billy May has come up with his Torn Lighting concept as a discreet way of adding some light to your apartment. The installations conceal LED lights, and look like you’ve got some kind of weird space-time holes torn into your walls and leaking light into your room. Pretty neat, and a nice way of…
We knew it wouldn’t be long before someone from AT&T leaked a policy memo vis-a-vis the iPhone 3G’s July 11 launch. As well as all the mobile provider’s pricing details from yesterday, the document contains a bit more info, such as how many iPhones each customer can walk out with (that’ll be three, then, so…
Laydeez an’ gennulmen, I bring you the passive-agressive anger-release machine, an interactive sculpture by Yarisal and Kublitz. It’s pretty self-explanatory—a vending machine that smashes smashables for you, although I’m not sure it gives you the same satisfaction that you get from chucking china at the floor. I dedicate this one to those people who were…
Well, it might be for viewing your pocket fluff, if you’ve got a scientific mind and it’s interesting to you. This new ‘scope is a little smaller and more portable than ones we’ve shown before and features 24-90x zoom, a 1.8-inch LCD, 2MB of internal memory and a 300,000-pixel CMOS sensor. If you like exploring…
Voodoo’s new Envy 133 will be the thinnest laptop on the market at 0.7″. It matches Intel’s most holy Metro concept laptop, and with good reason: Says Voodoo, the Envy 133 was “developed using the smallest available Intel Centrino technology and elements from an innovative Intel reference design.” This means that, when it goes on…
HP overhauled its feature-packed consumer DV notebooks, the familiar black-and-silver ID getting a “magic chrome” enhancement: otherwise invisible controls light-up when touched. It’s the first new look for the Pavilion line since 2006. The entire line features HD tuners, Blu-ray drives, webcams, fingerprint readers and built-in 3G internet. Here’s a closer look at the line,…
HP is announcing 10 business notebooks today, but there’s only one that we care about: the flagship EliteBook 6930p, a ruggedized, super-encrypted, QuickLook 2-boosted, 4-and-a-half pounder. Toughened to Mil-Spec 810F against extreme temperatures, humidity, dust, bumps, and other torture, it also has DOD-grade file deletion. HP got rid of the Vista-only SideShow app launcher QuickLook…