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Uniden hasn’t been long in the GPS game, but its experience in high-end radar detectors goes back years and years. So it’s no surprise that, come CES, it will be the first company to introduce a MapTrax GPS navigator with radar detection built in. We don’t know much about them yet, like how the radar…
The MPillow is a technogel-filled music player-cushion combo to aid relaxation, that connects via wireless to your computer. Designed by Per Arlander, Madiene Linstrom and Ozgur Tasar, you can either download your own music or listen to the ambient whale-fart sounds available on the MPillow itself. The lights change according to your musical tastes, apparently.…
It looks like Samsung is upping the ante in the OLED world, although not quite like we predicted. The Korean manufacturer has announced that it is developing a 31-inch OLED TV with a thickness of just 4.3mm, and will be showcasing it in just two weeks’ time, at CES. More details of the AM-OLED display…
Ah, Mondo USB. A strange place, full of really useless gizmos that no one really needs. And the Moo Moo is exactly that: basically a plastic cow that you and your better half attach to your computers, you press the button when you’re feeling lonely and an 18-stone transsexual appears from nowhere to do unspeakable…
After tooling around with getting internet sharing working on the Sprint Mogul for a bit, we discovered this small WMWifiRouter app by Jorrit Jongma. It’s pretty much an install and run affair (save a bit of internet connection Wi-fi setup beforehand), but the only thing you have to watch out for is using a static…
If you have any DVDs, HD DVDs, Blu-ray Discs or even some old-timey CDs lying around that are in desperate need of a bizarre storage solution, look no further than the Art of Hand Stand Disc Holder. It doesn’t do much beyond what you see here, but it will definitely add an interesting look to…
Sure, there are more useful cellphone storage products out there, but few could match the style and sheer randomness of these “his and hers” bathtub holders. Don’t get me wrong, it would be nice if they had some sort of functionality, but that would make them far less stupid—and who wants that? [Product Page] https://gizmodo.com/blinking-cellphone-holder-is-ironically-useful-251195
Thought that the $200 Everex gPC was too good (and cheap) to be true? Did an earlier, positive review from Wired only serve to pique your interest? Unfortunately, a recent review by PC Magazine may bring many Wal-Mart shoppers crashing to the earth. According to their review, the gPC is” one of those PCs you…
Most people are familiar with Microsoft’s Windows Genuine Advantage program—whenever you have to “validate” Windows, that’s WGA in action. Since there is no copy protection on OS X, lifelong Mac users might be unfamiliar with this whole idea. Don’t worry, it looks like you might get acquainted real soon! Apple has a new patent called…
The video showing the SmartNav hands-free mouse that controls your PC with your head was just waiting to be made fun of, and that’s exactly what our comment of the day did. NUTBASTARD ‘s (if you think his name is ultra-cool, you should see his avatar; appears to be a bona-fide badass) comment with reference…
Old ladies make quilts, nerds make life-sized replicas of the Macintosh 128k. And the best part is that Ben Fino-Radin’s design even incorporates insertable images to mimic web browsing. Ridiculous? You bet it is. Do I want one? No, not really—but I appreciate the effort. [Benjaminter via Boing Boing]
This Sequiam Biometrics BioVault 2.0 is officially endorsed by the NRA as a biometric gun-safety device, meaning it’s safe enough that an organization that specializes in guns believes it can prevent your kids from getting at your guns. And not only is it safe, it’s convenient too. How many times have you heard an intruder…
Christmas may be over, but if designer Sir Norman Foster has his way, everyone in Moscow will be staring at a 1500-ft-tall, 27 million square foot, $4 billion dollar Christmas tree every day of the year. The structure, dubbed “Crystal Island,” is being described as a “city within a building” and will feature 900 apartments,…
As if adorning an otherwise fine laptop in Swarovski crystals or Hello Kitty logos wasn’t bad enough, NEC has made a laptop with both Swarovski and Hello Kitty, making this the worst laptop we’ve ever seen. Seriously, we’re not even going to bother showing you the specs, because if anybody purchases this thing from Japan,…
NetGear has recently announced 5 new products to their arsenal of network-attached storage devices (NAS) with four of these coming to the ReadyNAS NV+ lineup and one to the 1100 series. The upgrades offer storage capacities ranging from 1.5TB to 4TB along with an enhanced UI, support for Gigabit Ethernet networking, UPnP AV multimedia access,…
To go along with our official game console flamewar thread, we present today’s question of the day: what consoles do you own? Some of you probably scored a Wii this Christmas, so feel free to tick that box really, really hard to show everyone how lucky you were (we didn’t score one). Only the latest…
We’re pretty sure these two pieces of software were developed separately, but both MIT and Sony have come up with a way to take hand-drawn sketches and turn them into little worlds with embedded physics engines. Sony’s uses their PS Eye to take either hand-drawn objects or just stuff they have laying on top of…
The world’s smallest Bluetooth headset just three weeks ago was Nextlink’s Invisio G5. Today’s it’s a fatty, out-ano’d by the more dwarven AD-HSM10, which looks like a titanium hearing aid. It weighs about a gram less than the G5 and is more squat, but its measly 3 hours of talk time and 100 hours of…
• The NYPD will test electric scooters next month. NYPD Blue? More like NYPD Green! (Please, hold your applause.)[Newsday] • Can’t find a Wii near you? Try China, apparently they have them coming out the yin yang. They are pre-modded to play American games, too. [CrunchGear] • Down Under Dealzmodo: Australians buying select models of…
This Forbes article about Amazon’s fat Christmas is mostly full of no-brainers (the Wii and MacBooks sold well) but it does have one worthwhile little statistic: When Amazon had Wiis in stock, they sold 17 of them a second. So don’t feel bad if you ruined your child’s Christmas, only people with Flash fingers stood…
