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Why drink Joe from a normal mug when you can tease coworkers with this hilarious gravity-defying fused three-cup stack day after day, and get more coffee per serving while you’re at it? Who knows, maybe this will serve as the icebreaker you need to chat up that latte-swilling hottie in Finance. If this were ours,…
Yetro is something so unfashionable it has yet to be retro—and probably will never be. Example: my RAZR. I’ve had it for almost three years now. I hate it. Actually, hate is too strong a word. I pity it. My mobile phone with its nauseous blue-painted interface, its ability to change its ring tone to…
Solar power doesn’t just have to be for them holier-than-thou green types, it can also be for the filthy rich—or for lovelorn poets. Art Center student Jiyeon Song made the One Day Poem Pavilion of boards with holes punched at different angles. Depending on the angle of the sun to the earth where the pavilion…
For the photographer with a sharp eye (for recycling) come these innovative bracelets from Australian designer Craig Arnold. Called the re:vision line, these premium-priced baubles are assembled using the discarded lens casings of some of the world’s most well-known camera brands. (I swear I spotted a Minolta in there somewhere.) The bad news is that…
Craving a bit deeper, more meaningful interaction action with your touchscreen gadget, like maybe stretching or squeezing it? Microsoft thought so. Researchers have come up with a prototype of their force-sensing tech that’ll let you apply different kinds of force to a device, like twisting or bending, to do stuff like flip through document pages…
Action figure customizer Sillof has made everything from steampunk versions of Ironman to Star Wars characters circa World War II. We’ve featured his sets several times on this site, but what we’ve covered are only bits and pieces of an amazing body of work. The master model maker himself gives us the goods on why,…
Elektrobit is bringing satellite phones to the masses with its new Satellite/Terrestrial Reference PDA Phone. Gone is the bulky antenna sported by satellite phones of yore, replaced with a sleek, qwerty-keyboard PDA look that’s just a touch thicker than a Blackberry 8800. The concept product runs Windows Mobile 6.1 professional and contains a packed feature…
When we last checked in on super shady Mac cloner Psystar‘s gridskipping ways, they’d supposedly somehow managed to land a $6 million pad—a little fishy, given their brief history. A ZDNet reader on the ground got up close, reporting that there’s definite activity at the location, though no hard confirmation it’s Psystar that’s the busy…
For you poor, poor souls who own an Xbox 360 but still rely on dial-up for your internet, an intrepid Instructables member has written up a great “How To” on using your phone line to log onto Xbox Live. All you need is a PC running Windows with a working dial-up connection, an ethernet cable…
Eco start-up company Sungevity is launching a new web application on Earth Day (three days away, people!) that will take the guess work out of solar panel installations. Enter your address on Sungevity’s website and satellite-imaging software will zoom in on your home, calculate your roof’s dimensions, select the right sized solar arrays and calculate…
A screencap supposedly snagged from Canon’s German site spilled some details on Canon’s way anticipated 5D Mark II before it slipped back into the ether. June release, and it rocks a 16-megapixel DIGIC III processor that can fire at 6.5FPS. The blurb calls the Mark II “small, light, robust and weatherproof.” A bit different than…
Air France’s in-flight cellphone trial has finally taken off, but with bumpy results. The New York Times hitched a ride on the French carrier recently and found several bugs in the system: https://gizmodo.com/air-france-makes-in-flight-calling-possible-gallic-shr-336602 • The quality is patchy and keeps most in-flight calls short and tinny-sounding. One receiver of an OnAir call complained that it…
Want to become the coolest parent ever? Turn off the computers, put down the television remote, and do a little DIY with your kids this weekend by building your own arcade machine. While you assemble the pieces, regale little Tommy or Gina with the tales of your Space Invaders past. And when they look up…
Macs tend to have a high resale value that outpaces PCs with similar specs and age. But this MacBook Pro on eBay looks like it was literally beaten with an ugly stick before being left to rot in a vat of orc piss, and the dude’s still asking $1295 (more than a brand new MacBook).…
South Park already showed us how to fix the internet, but what really struck me was Randy’s speech at the end—he totally sounded like an AT&T or Comcast executive when he said, “It’s easy for us to think we can just use up all the internet we want but…it could one day be gone forever.”…
Before the advent of the drive-through, families on road trips were stumped by the dilemma of how to have a hot meal ready at any time during their travels. But never fear, 1930s road warrior — hook up this automatic food cooking contraption to your exhaust pipe and your car will prepare your dinners for…
One (sorta) promising tidbit about Motorola’s handset division being cut loose to fend for itself: It’s being restructured so that the software and hardware people actually work together. What a radical idea! New phones will come out faster, if not necessarily better. [Unwired View] https://gizmodo.com/motorola-chops-off-handset-division-372282
MSI has dropped some new info on its contender to the Eee-PC throne, the Wind Notebook, which we first peeked at in March. The roughly 2.2 lb UMPC will come with either an 8.9 inch or 10 inch LCD display sporting a 1024 x 600 resolution. MSI says the Wind will feature a 2.5-inch HDD…
We’d heard that Asus’s bigger, badder Eee PC would be getting an early launch next month in Asia but it looks like the US won’t have to wait very long either. Crave’s Asus sources are telling them it’ll launch stateside on May 12 for $549. That’s definitely a bit more than the long-rumored $500 pricepoint.…
Onkyo’s best new entry level HTiB setup has a 7.1 surround is notable for having room correction tech. I’m pretty sure its rare to find a low end system that can adjust gain and delay on all channels to calibrate itself to a room’s acoustics. The receiver included is the DTS/Dolby capable HT-R560, with 3…