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We thought that elevator zipping us to the 103rd floor of the Sears Tower was fast, but this one in the Taipei 101 building has been named the world’s fastest by the Guinness Book of World Records. This one moves so quickly, it needs to be aerodynamically designed, roaring from the fifth floor to the…
This here is the world’s most expensive remote control. You might expect a normally-frivolous accessory that has had its price jacked up to $55,000 to have all sorts of bells and whistles, like an LCD touchscreen and the ability to start your car. But the Gold RC1 doesn’t have a screen at all. What it…
Yesterday, I wrote a feature on the WGA strike that quoted the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers as saying that, while the internet was great for promotional purposes, “there is not enough marketplace data to judge its true potential, ultimate impact on traditional media or viability as a business.” Oh, so I guess…
Speaking of Al Gore, we just read that the veep-turned-eco-warrior won’t make it to the upcoming nuptials of Google co-founder Larry Page and his betrothed, the very lucky Lucy Southworth. Gore will be off in Oslo picking up his prize, but he does hope to video-conference in to the reception. You tried, Larry, but there’s…
We’ve shown you all manner of ashtrays around here, including a couple of portable models, and even one that looks like you’re gagging some poor hooker or worse with your spent suckweed. But now the PAT (get it? Pocket Ash Tray?) accompanies your smokeage from start to finish, because this airtight closeable pocket ashtray has…
Click to viewI went to the Dubai Air Show this week, got into a Typhoon fighter cockpit, tickled the most powerful gas turbine in the planet, explored the belly of the biggest cargo plane in the world and jumped aboard the fastest turboprop plane ever. All quite amazing and coming in video soon to Giz.…
Ahh, the great outdoors. Wouldn’t it be nice to get out to the woods, to a log cabin far from the things of man? Naturally, you’d still need motorized Lutron Sivoia QED window shades, a “corporate-style” phone system from Panasonic, a whole-house music system and an AMX home control system to bring it all together.…
If you ever wondered what our planet looked like in hi-def from a quarter of a million miles away, now you know. Thanks to an HDTV camera with 1920 x 1080 resolution onboard the lunar explorer Kaguya (but you can call her Serene), images of the Earth rising and setting on November 7 were beamed…
Here’s something you didn’t even know you needed: a Tension Labs EAP03 Earphone Audio Processor, taking that crappy sound you get from portable music players and attempting to somehow improve it. The credit-card-sized unit is powered with a lithium battery, and attaches to your player with Velcro. It’s designed to give you lots of control…
If you want to see a building imploded with 1000 pounds of high explosives, Las Vegas was the place to be early yesterday morning. That’s when demolition experts finally got rid of the 16-story New Frontier Hotel in grand style, as only Las Vegas would be sleazy enough to do. Anyway, we never get tired…
Sharp’s DK-AP2 iPod dock looks like the result of a quick bunk-up between Darth Vader and a vacuum cleaner (laugh all you want, but I bet the nights are long and lonely when you’re Dark Lord of the Sith). Compatible with just about every iPod ever made (including the new nanos) as well as other…
Here is yet another proof that there’s no problem that technology can’t tackle in humanity’s never-ending quest to advance our civilization (and that Addy and me should have stayed for another week diving in the Maldives): some guys have recorded on camera how you can use a laser cutter machine to perfectly slice a pizza…
Teac Esoteric is celebrating 20 years of semi-high end stuff with the VRDS X-05, a Super Audio CD player that boasts all sorts of sexiness—well, the sort of sexiness that only comes with CD players. For example: Its high-precision loading mechanism gives you, says Teac, an altogether quieter, smoother CD experience, while the aluminum turntable…
Ah, holidays. Spend a couple of weeks on a faraway island, where the words “internet” and “connection” are met with baffled stares, and it’s easy to forget what one’s purpose in life actually is. And then you come across a concept gizmo like the Tok Tak and it all comes flooding back: The Giz! Her…
We kinda forgot all about this little box for old folks with old TVs that was announced way back at CES and promised by the end of this year. It’s got a fresh paint job and later street date (January), dropping a little more than a year before analog broadcasts shutdown in 2009 in favor…
Although I can’t read the language, Retro-Futurismus has some great paleo-futuristic images, such as these from Klaus Bürgle. See also: Sealab 1994 (1973) Man’s Future Beneath the Sea (1968) Undersea Cities (1954) Hubert H. Humphrey’s Year 2000 (1967)
Sometime late this year, Monster (yes, that Monster) will roll out the iSonicast, a two-piece system that turns your iPod into a wireless remote control that streams music to the base station, located at your stereo. It’s a simple system, and at $100, a pretty low price, especially for Monster. It uses 2.4GHz RF to…
Optoma’s new 720p HD65 projector is a revamped, dwarfened version of the HD70. While holding on to the same resolution, it’s 15 percent smaller and almost a third lighter, shaving off two pounds to tip the scales at just five. The HD65 also includes HDMI 1.3 and maintains the HD70’s $1000 price tag. [Optoma] https://gizmodo.com/720p-projector-for-under-a-grand-210387
ATI’s TV Wonder 650 TV tuners have been out for PCs for a bit, but a Mac version of the Combo USB variety’s arriving just this month for $149, and it comes in a special white case—guess they didn’t get the memo silver’s the new white. It’s also sporting a polished new interface and parental…
Today SanDisk revealed Vaulter, a 8GB or 16GB flash drive that can hold your entire OS, designed to sit on the PCIe port inside a laptop. In Windows, this creates a separate letter drive, which speeds the hell out of your computer, without taking the place of your 2.5″ SATA-connected HDD. It’s not a Santa…