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University researchers have invented a smart fabric that could help larger ladies in the fight against breast bounce—disappointing the legions of men who love watching girls run for buses in the process. The material, which contains tiny sensors, will be used by bra manufacturers in an attempt to improve the lot of the big-boobed who…
Not so long ago, our own Addy Dugdale showed us the Burj Dubai, what will be the world’s tallest building of any kind when finished. Discovery Channel show “Really Big Things” got a slightly better view as the first camera crew allowed on top the building. And what can we say? It’s high up there…
DoCoMo, purveyor of multi-colored phones to Pantone fans in Japan has come up with a 3G phone aimed at kids. As well as having many safety features and a keyboard designed for small fingers, the F801i, which goes on sale in Japan December 20, comes with a bright yellow “amulet.” Not to ward off evil…
Dekochari bikes are the baby brothers of Japan’s well-known Dekotora electro trucks. Every inch of them is customized with crazy paint jobs, lights, banners, chrome and you can see them, big bumpers and built-up back ends, tooling round the streets of Japan of an evening. Catch them in detail in the video, after the jump.…
If you’re a tablet person, you should take a look at Toshiba’s latest, the Portege M700. It’s got a 12.1″ LCD screen, the first from Toshiba with LED backlighting and an antiglare coating for maximum indoor/outdoor performance. The screen has another talent too: unlike many Tablet PCs, this can be touched with your finger rather…
T-Mobile just introduced another phone for its Hotspot@Home Wi-Fi calling service, the Samsung Katalyst. The slider phone basics include a 1.3 megapixel camera, MP3 player, microSD slot (cards up to 2GB only) and stereo Bluetooth. Also called the t739, the phone will sell for $80 after rebate and contract renewal, and will be Samsung’s second…
A South Korean company, Mouscan, is bringing out a handy little gizmo that scans text and then reads it aloud in any language. The Voiscan, which uses technology originally developed by Hewlett-Packard for its CapShare handheld scanning device way back in 1998, is quick and easy to use. All you do is wave the cellphone-sized…
Designed by Sung Hoon Mun, the “Slider” works as both conventional shower and shoulder and back massager, depending on how you deploy the nozzle. Full gallery after the jump. I would prefer a bigger shower head, myself. [Yanko]
Here is Nokia Research Center’s new cellphone: the Eco Sensor, a shiny concept which includes the phone itself and a “wearable sensors” that “monitor your health, environment and local weather” to “increase your global environmental awareness” with technologies like Near Field Communication and Radio Frequency Identification. Well, whatever rocks your world, you treehugging hippies you.…
Monday morning, and contemplating the excesses of the weekend, I wonder where we would all be without wood. And then I see EverGreen’s MP3 player, with its 28 x 35 mm acorn form, its 1GB flash memory, its MP3, WMA and OGG compatibility, and I think to myself, “Well, I’m glad I’ve got a 60GB…
The May 31, 1922 Modesto Evening News (Modesto, California) ran an article titled, “Big Laughs Coming,” about how future generations may look at the styles, technology and work life of 1922. The writer of this piece clearly romanticizes the notion of rural life by proclaiming, “We, voluntarily imprisoned in cramped apartments or small house, will…
Drew Curtis and his company Fark, in their quest to rulzor teh internetz, filed an application with the U.S. Patent and Trademark office to lay claim to the acronym NSFW. Seeing as we like to use the acronym to prevent employed and/or righteous gadget freaks from becoming enraged, we take an interest in the all-encompassing…
Did I also mention these USB powered, foot warming Santa Boots provide a portal into the mind of Santa Claus for 15 minutes, after which youre spit out behind a Toys-R-Us? Ok, fine, that’s a lie. But with cold weather setting in, and Christmas season in full swing, this may be the most relevant USB…
Last week we ran a rumor that Epcot’s new Spaceship Earth ride had screwed Woz, and that Steve Jobs alone would be immortalized in Disney animatronics. Now that the ride has opened to select guests, we’ve confirmed that the ride does indeed feature a long-haired, scruffy man tinkering away at a computer in a garage.…
TiVo chop shop WeaKnees is offering the biggest Series 3 TiVo they can muster. Cramming in a 1TB drive internally along with an external 1TB eSATA, they’re offering ready-to-run TiVos with a whopping 2TB of storage space, or enough for 292 hours of HD programming. But when you have enough storage for well over 100…
The Asus Eee PC has been a runaway hit. (Who would have thought that people would want small, cheap laptops?) The only real thing that users have been complaining about is the “warranty void if removed” sticker on the laptop’s access panel, saying that users couldn’t perform a simple memory installation without giving up their…
All Giz Wants isn’t about wanting what we have now. It’s about wanting what we should have now, what’s technically possible but practically improbable. Here’s an item I’ve been (wet) dreaming about for some time—a universal remote that’s really universal. I don’t mean to control both a Blu-ray player and an HD DVD player. I…
We knew senior citizens were using Wii Sports to exercise without the risk of breaking a hip. What we didn’t expect were retirees with names like Lefty, Six Pack or The Hook vowing to destroy each other in a promotion video for a Wii Bowling championship, which looks produced by Jerry Bruckheimer for the World…
Top Gear got some time behind the wheel of a BMW 330i that can drive itself. How it works: a human driver takes the car around the track for a spin, while the car records data of event. Then, using military-grade GPS, the car can coordinate its position on the track with the driver data…
According to a rumor from the GPS Information forums, this is the upcoming Garmin handheld GPS unit called the “Colorado.” You notice immediately that its design seems unconventional at best, while you wonder how one could operate the control pad without blocking the screen. It almost looks like a walkie-talkie when upright that features easy…
