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Unlike Indiana Jones, I generally don’t hate snakes. But seeing these modular mechanical snakes wriggling up some dude’s leg gave me shivers. The video gets scarier still when they start climbing walls and shimmying up the inside of pipes. According to the Carnegie Mellon-based developers, the elaborate “gaits” that let these robot snakes maneuver on…
The One Laptop Per Child project, initially famed for its lofty goals, became known for becoming one of the more impressive shitshows in tech, in part thanks to founder Nick Negroponte’s own foibles. So it’s probably not a bad thing for the org—as much credit as he deserves for starting it—that he’s stepping off to…
It’s fair to call the GeCube an Asus Eee PC clone. With a 7″ screen, 2GB of flash storage, Linux backbone and that form factor, I mean, c’mon. The 2.1lb computer does have two things going for it though. It has a splash proof keyboard and…what could the special talent be? (We have a neat…
Who needs to wage a costly format war when you could build nuclear power plants? That’s Toshiba’s thinking exactly. They just launched a brand new company, Toshiba America Nuclear Energy Corp., which will “enhance” its nuclear power business in the US. Um…what? [Yahoo!/Reuters]
You’re forced to use a Mac for assorted reasons (boss made you; school requires it; reliability in general) but you don’t like it. The best way to stick it to the Jobsman is to buy a $12 MagStay. This little plastic thingamajig locks into the USB port next to the MagSafe magnetic breakaway power adapter,…
Not so long ago we showed you an absolutely wicked 4-wheel motorcycle, the Yamaha Tesseract (hit that link if you haven’t seen it, trust us). Now the design is looking to be a trend with this recent unveiling of Sbarro’s Pendolauto at the Geneva Motor Show. Adding a bit of stability to the standard crotch…
The RoboSwift, built by researchers at the Delft University of Technology, is among the first flying machines with a “morphing” wing sweep. As you’ll see in the video below, its wings reduce in surface area when pulled back to limit drag, the way the wings of actual fast-flying swifts do. Unlike the real birds, however,…
Without a doubt, this has to be the most disgusting and gross tech gear photo gallery in the history of The Most Disgusting and Gross Tech Gear Photo Galleries. Ever. The vomit-inducing shot above, a pancake of beige, white and green mold with the Dell logo impressed on it, is just the aperitif. Honestly, I…
While we’re impressed by the technology behind military robots, it can be depressing when you realize that they’re actually being produced to maim and kill. This paintball robot "Gepetto" gets rid of such guilt. And, as you’ll see this video, it’s a lot funnier when a robot turns on its master to cause moderate levels…
The bizarrely named Naja King flexible stand grips your iPhone or iPod Touch into either a horizontal or vertical position. Its head, with its anti-scratch grippers, rotates 360º, and the three-foot-long cable, which packs flat for travelling, can be bent into just about any position. This, I think, makes it the Kama Sutra of iPod…
CSR, the UK-based company with over 50 percent of the market share of Bluetooth products, has created BlueVox2, a cheap mono headset with low power consumption—CSR claims 15 hours talk time—and noise reduction. The tiny chip has AuriStream, allows simultaneous connection to multiple devices and supports Bluetooth 2.1+EDR. Will we see this filtering down to…
Silverlit, purveyors of remote-controlled things that fly, have come up trumps with their V-Beat Air Drums. Containing motion sensors (but, sadly, no neon tips like you see in the picture) they are the beans to the toast that is the V-Beat air guitar. Plug your iPod into the control box and drum along to whatever…
At CeBIT this week, Nav N Go has been showing off its ghetto-looking iGO MyWay 8 for an "upcoming yet-to-be-announced iPhone GPS receiver." There’s no more information beyond that, except that the software looks quite boring and doesn’t seem to fully exploit the capabilities of multitouch. [Pocket-Lint]
Casio’s new G-Shock GW-9200 may not have a phone or MP3 player, but that’s about all it lacks. With an altimeter, barometer and thermometer, the chunky black plastic timepiece hits the US on June 28 and will cost you around $230. Full specs are below. – 6 Band Atomic Time Sync – Barometer (air pressure…
Samsung has added more TVs to their PAVV line, this time three high-end LCDs at 40, 46 and 52 inches. Incorporating a new LCD panel, dubbed “crystal rose,” the TVs have slim-bezel cases with touches of red, which at least makes them a dash more elegant than the usual run-of-the-mill black boxes. Samsung has also…
Readers of Gizmodo and Digg have been able to confirm Circuit City’s not-so-secret-anymore HD DVD for Blu-Ray player trade-in offer a Circuit City employee told us about yesterday morning. One report from a Giz reader says that he used the offer to get a new PlayStation 3. In addition to this, we just got all…
Not sweating the NSA’s warrantless wiretapping program ’cause you don’t have a landline, just a mobile? Tell your glands to kick in again. A computer security consultant working for a wireless carrier—probably Verizon—stumbled upon a high-speed backdoor built into the carrier’s network for the Feds to pull anything from “the billing system, text messaging, fraud…
Regarding recent stories that Pioneer may cease manufacturing its own plasma TVs, and presumably in doing so kill off the critically acclaimed Kuro TV line, the company’s North American division has this to say: https://gizmodo.com/reuters-pioneer-ending-all-plasma-production-will-out-363382 The current press coverage was not released by Pioneer so it may be misleading and contains many inaccuracies. The statement…
The Dutch have some bizarre taste in desktop speakers. Case in point, this Bbudd Speaker System. Your “little dead desktop buddy” here is a passive or non-amplified speaker—which makes sense considering that you are blasting tunes out of the feet of his lifeless corpse. He will run you about €24,95 ($38 USD), so there should…
The world is infatuated with USB gadgets, so why not put a whole bunch of it together in a value priced assortment that pays no attention to order or aesthetics? The visionaries at Think Geek have done just that with their Mini USB Desktop Multi-tasking Device. Features include a cup warmer, task lamp, mini vacuum…
