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Leave it to Brando to fill in the hole of USB warming by providing an actual stainless steel camping-like cup to the equation. So not only does this USB cup warmer warm cups, it provides its own cup to warm. Other than that, there’s a four-foot USB cable, a lid, and an LED indicator to…
I am a surprisingly hairy man. All that hair needs the right tools to tame, trim and shave. The three devices up to the task? The Mangroomer, the Philips Bodygroom, and the Flowbee have been around for a while and are great separately, but this is the first time that we’ve seen their full power…
The ENVY H:171 (just rolls off the tongue, doesn’t it?) was just announced. It has an Intel Core 2 Extreme X6800 processor, a Dual NVIDIA GeForce Go 7950 GPU, and a whopping 600GB of disk space spread across three 200GB HDDs. Yeah, three hard drives in a laptop. It also has a 17-inch screen, which…
Everyone and their three-legged dog is coming up with an IM client for the iPhone, but this latest one from FlickIM isn’t quite good enough to dethrone our current champ, JiveTalk. FlickIM may have a fancy messaging interface and a cool contact selection dropdown (the default Safari selector), but it doesn’t have any options, it…
The book Walt Disney’s America by Christopher Finch contains a 1966 quote from Walt Disney which sums up why the (1997) redesign of Tomorrowland was antithetical to its original purpose. Now, when we opened Disneyland, outer space was Buck Rogers. I did put in a trip to the moon, and I got Wernher von Braun…
You know what? I’m sick of taking a shower while standing in a boring old bathtub. I think, at this point in my life, I deserve something a bit classier. That’s why I’ve decided to upgrade my bathroom to this Hoesch Sensamare Komplettbad Modern Luxury Bathroom design. Sure, it’s probably against my lease to totally…
SanDisk teamed up with high-end Ducati motorcycles to pimp the raw speed of its latest flash memory drives and cards, and today rolled out some way cool-looking $124.99 USB flash drives that look like the gas tank on a Ducati motorcycle. They’re also quick, at 20MBps read/ write speeds, have a 4GB capacity and include…
Clean up that pigsty and decorate with some style at the same time with these classic car shelves, mini-replicas of some your favorite machines from days of yore. Check it out: There’s an old ’57 Chevy, a classic Mustang from 1965, and what’s that? It looks like a Corvette, vintage C3 from around 1969. Nice.…
Click to viewOkay, if you’re one of those fops whose shit don’t stank, or if you can’t stand a little potty talk, skip right on down to the next post. For the rest of us, here’s Poof, a liquid deodorizer that somehow creates a translucent seal at the surface of the water containing those malodorous…
I’m stressing out, dude. Wrist massages aren’t helping. Eighty bucks for this? [Product Page via Red Ferret]
The ease of use iPhone integration that allows you to dial numbers, look up addresses and send emails directly from links in Safari may actually be the iPhone’s downfall. By formatting a “dial” link incorrectly so that the webpage shows one number, but the actual number being dialed is something else, exploiters can make you…
Here’s a gallery of a 59-feet-tall 1:1 Gundam robot, lying down in its base at Mount Fuji. I know the world is entranced by Transformers right now, but please excuse my enthusiasm when I say… “it’s full-scale Gundam! A REAL GUNDAM! Look at those pics! LOOK AT THAT DETAIL! OMFG!” OK, much better now. We…
For our next round of the iPod Dock Bracket, we’re pitting the Altec Lansing IM600 against the Griffin Amplifi. The IM300 is sleek and portable, while the Amplifi is large and in charge. Which one is good enough to make it through to the final four? https://gizmodo.com/ipod-docks-the-sweet-16ish-bracket-265489 If you want more on either unit, check…
Here’s the world’s first pair of wireless USB adapters, the model F5U035 from Belkin that can either communicate with each other for PC-to-PC transfers, or each can act as a link to a wireless USB hub. Or, anywhere you might have a USB cable, these two devices could communicate with each other and eliminate all…
Did you see the battalion of Google camera cars, or would you prefer to check out some ingenious shenanigans with an RC plane and an iPhone? Mere Muggles can cast a spell on their computer, or maybe buy into the Dark Side with a Darth Vader laptop. The choice is yours… • Our Brian got…
What’s so special about an orange juicer, you say ? This Metrokane L-Press is the first new design for such a device in 10 years, and this one has a rack-and-pinion gearing, just like the steering on the finest sports cars. So get this, that means you can press down with 1,000 pounds of leverage using…
Updated: The Enryu T-53 “support dragon” has two powerful yellow claws at the end of each hydraulic arm, but, fear not, it’s here to help. The 3-ton rescue vehicle is controlled either with joysticks or, à la Robot Jox, a system where the arms of the machine mimic the arms of the operator, though with…
Sony’s DV Direct DVD recorder lets you transfer HD video from a Sony hard drive camcorder onto DVDs that can be played back on a Blu-ray player. It looks like Sony got a little pissed when it saw JVC doing something like this with its $400 Everio HD Share Station DVD recorder, but that one…
In a case of divine irony, the smaller and more desirable our gadgets become, the harder they would be to use. That’s why researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology have developed a watch that can be controlled by gesturing, eliminating tiny controls not meant for our mortal caveman hands. Measuring movement through five infrared…
Now that Sony has stopped trying to oust the iPod from the Walkman’s former throne, the company is free to make cool products for the iPod, such as the two new docks unveiled today. The clock/radio ICF-C1iP (in black or white) and the boombox ZS-S2iP, which like Samsung’s new iPod dock has an integrated CD…