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Hey, chubster. Do you have trouble keeping a healthy diet? Would having a friendly, diet-focused robot in your kitchen help? No? Well, don’t tell the guys at the MIT Media Lab that, because that’s exactly what they’ve been cooking up. It’s an in-home robot that’ll make eye contact with you while it tracks your eating…
With the Mac Mini-styled exterior, the miniStack NAS from Newertech lets you share up to 750GB of your junk over the network with other computers. It’s got a USB 2.0 port, a 10/100 Ethernet port and the ability to service up to 20 simultaneous PC or Mac users. All this for a low price of…
Going on a trip? Forget those standard plastic coolers. This Thermo MP3 cooler can keep 16 cans at 40 degrees F, but that’s not the best part. The best part is the two speakers on the front that can take in any MP3 player and pump out your tunes while you’re out camping. All this…
Seen at this year’s Comic-Con, these Metal Gear Solid Kubrick figures are probably the best things we’ve seen yet in LEGO-ish form. The Kubrick block figures will have Snake and Grey Fox from #1, Naked Snake from #3, and Old Snake and Robot Ninja Raiden from #4. La Li Lu Le Lo. [Figures via Toys…
Adding to the iPhone made out of various materials club, we submit this clay iPhone. Doesn’t quite look as good as the other one we saw, but there’s even a dock and a box in there too. [Flickr via BoingBoing] https://gizmodo.com/knitted-iphone-made-of-pure-wool-and-love-is-shatterpro-275543
According to Oxford philosopher Nick Bostrom, the chances are pretty good that we’re currently existing not in the “real world,” but instead are a vast computer simulation created by a future, further advanced version of ourselves. Yeah, crazy, I know. Basically, he argues that because computing power will advance to the point where a system…
The 1949 book Television: Medium of the Future by Maurice Gorham correctly identifies, but dismisses, a concern about the visual age: voting with your eyes. Fears have been expressed lest this new reliance on television may lead to choice of candidates for their face rather than their real qualities; that the film-star types will have…
Remember those old Bluetooth laser keyboards from a few years back that projected a laser image on the desk that you could type on? Celluon’s releasing a new version of that old device, but this time it’s connected over USB instead of Bluetooth. Still compatible with Windows Mobiles, Palm OS, BlackBerry, Symbian and Windows 2000/XP/Vista…
Those bullshit ionic air purifiers from Sharper Image may not help relieve your allergies, but ionic wind may help keep your computer cool. Purdue researchers demonstrated that by ionizing air and passing it over the chip, it increased airflow on the surface and cooled them down as much as 250%. The mock chip went down…
Recycling electronics is crucial, so why should recycling your old vibrators be any different? Love Honey has a new program where you send in your old, worn out, used one-too-many-times vibrator to them, and they’ll send you a brand new rabbit vibrator for half price. Half price! That’s a fantastic deal. Don’t take our word…
Robot webcams are all the rage nowadays, and this USB Robot doesn’t look to stir up the waters with “innovation.” It’s got a a low-quality VGA-ish camera (350k pixels) along with lights for eyes. The same eyes that look in disapproving horror at what you’re doing at your desk right now. You should be ashamed…
This week on the 99th episode of Coolness Roundup, Gizmodo’s Charlie White and Sci Fi Tech’s Stephen Schleicher talk about iMacs, iLife, iWork, and take a look at high-definition combo DVD players. They wrap things up with the Rapid-Fire Roundup of Cool Products, all on Coolness Roundup, a free netcast on iTunes, or you can…
So this is why the Novint Falcon force feedback controller was delayed so long? So they could work out the Fleshlight integration? All is understood and forgiven, Novint. [Slashdong via Fleshbot]
We’ve got a winner in the Flash Gordon contest. Congratulations to Jeromy Pankratz, who got the most answers right in the Flash Gordon trivia game. Proving he’s both really nerdy and really old. All the better reason to have a comfortable Gamepod chair. If you’re curious as to what the answers were, they’re posted after…
Japanese boffins are now making animations by creating small plasma balls in mid-air. The technology doesn’t use vapor or strange gases, just lasers to heat up oxygen and nitrogen molecules: up to 1,000 brilliant dots per second, which makes smooth motion possible. They could be used as street signs, advertising or to create giant plasma…
Meizu Me reports that Meizu will release a speaker dock slightly reminiscent of iPod speaker docks for their M6 player. The M6, if you recall, is a small nano-ish player that’s actually quite good, despite taking much of its design influence straight from Apple. This dock will be 88 grams and measure 208x87x86mm. That’s 0.2…
Since we first saw the “advanced amateur” Sony Alpha DSLR earlier this year, it’s been shrouded in mystery and its spec list has been rife with guesswork and conjecture. Now we’re seeing the next round of soothsaying by a flimsy Franco-rumor site, telling us that the higher-end amateur model will have a 14.4-megapixel sensor, a…
The HTC Iris, a Motorola Q-like Windows Mobile smartphone with a front face keyboard, has just been approved by the FCC. The phone has CDMA850/CDMA1900/1x-EVDO connectivity, 802.11b/g, Bluetooth, a 2.4-inch screen with QVGA resolution, 2-megapixel camera, GPS and runs Windows Mobile 6. It doesn’t look like it’s the high end of the HTC phones, but…
Sony’s Bravia ads are generally pretty entertaining affairs, what with the grand scale they usually inhabit. It looks like they’re working on a new one, if the Technicolor Play Doh bunnies that have been invading NYC are any indication. It’s not all that clear what exactly these bunnies will be doing in the ad, but…
Who knew a camcorder could be so cheap, but here it is, the DXG-572V that records MPEG-4 video at “near DVD-quality” for $149. It looks to be about the same kind of recording mechanism that you’ll get on most still cameras these days, laying down 640×480 video at 30 frames per second onto an SD…