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Here’s a design concept that’s long overdue: It’s a vibrating alarm that you wear on your finger, bypassing all that morning racket for a gentle jostling. Each of the two rings can have its own separate wake-up time, designed for comfort with an elastic band so you’ll hardly know you’re wearing it. When you wake…
The Hands Hands Soap is not just creepy and scares the bejeezus out of me. This soap shaped as baby hands to wash your hands is just wrong at the cosmological level, as cleaning your hands with hands will also clean the hands that cleaned your hands while cleaning your own hands, incurring in a…
We like our MP3 players small and wafer-thin, and this TEAC MP-600 qualifies as both because it’s about the size of a Triscuit. Even though it’s just 3 inches wide and 9mm thin, it still shows off a 3.5-inch touchscreen up front, and packs an FM tuner along with digital voice recording inside. Take the…
What to do with an old PowerBook when you replace it with a shiny new Santa Rosa MacBook Pro? Make jewelry out of the power buttons, of course. While these are of the dangly, girly variety, they would make a pretty killer pair of gauges, too. [Flickr via MAKE]
Belkin has just released a way to add 802.11n connectivity to your laptop with Express Card or PC Card slot, so you could easily get all those streaming porn HD clips where it really matters: in the bathroom. Destined to become obsolete as soon as you change your notebook, the Belkin N1 Wireless goes for…
Maybe it’s not the simplest, but apart from running on top of a sequoia log, I can’t think of any simpler unicycle than this. $74 will get you the Nimbus Ultimate Wheel with no seat and no chain. However, it comes with lots of free stuff, plus a demo video after the jump. Free stuff…
The Phonofonics II pumps out sound at 55 decibels, directly from your iPod and without using any external power whatsoever, just with its white ceramic horn. How this hornstastic magic happens? Quite simple: This thing has ears. As you can see in the gallery, the patent-pending Phonofonics II has two receptacles to put your earphones…
Orvis Stainless Steel Huge Flask. One. Entire. Gallon. Bourbon. Rum. Tequila. Whatever. It won’t even fit into André the Giant pants, but if you ask me, it’s totally worth the $200. [Product Page via Oh Gizmo] https://gizmodo.com/andre-the-giant-selected-as-new-hand-model-for-iphone-268165
More than just a glorified tin can on wheels, the Teardrop trailer from Sundance is a little pocket of retro heaven – provided your pockets are deep enough to afford the wonga needed to snap one of these up. With an aluminum exterior and maple interior, the 1,000-lb trailer has a whole heap of things…
It’s official: You should keep your PS2 around for Guitar Hero III since it picks up the most badass guitar of the bunch, a black Kramer. The PS3, Wii and Xbox 360 all get boring white Gibson Les Pauls. But at least now you can swap the faceplate out for something that shreds a bit…
The play Railroads on Parade was featured at the 1939/40 New York World’s Fair. It told the story of railroad transportation progress from the 1820s until 1939, and into the future. The photo below depicts a “woman of the future” from the cast and can be found in the book Dawn of a New Day,…
Taser just introduced this multiple projectile taser cannon as part of its 2007 Tactical Conference, appropriately named the Shockwave. Each one of those little green boxes can light up an assailant’s ass like any particular day happens to be the fourth of July. As you can see in the video, the biggest advantage of the…
The official website for OpenMoko, the open source Linux-based phone dubbed the “hacker’s dream,” went live today. We groped an early base model back in February and had a righteously detailed breakdown of the latest details last week. Now that the site is live, you can order a developer preview phone kit from their store…
When a cooler full of ice can’t handle your mobile refrigeration needs, reach for the CarryCool refrigerated tote. The bag‘s adapter plugs into a standard car lighter and draws enough power to keep everything inside nice and cool. When would you actually use this thing? Perhaps you’re in the business of smuggling dinosaur DNA samples…
Musipen is a cylindrical MP3 concept with a curved glowing screen, twisty-knob controls, and a pretty power button. There’s a play/pause/off button up top, knobs to control everything else. Despite it being only a little bit bigger than a pen, this thing is all screen. Easy sell when it’s hanging around the neck of a…
Who but the greatest public-restroom aficionados knew that the “final touchless restroom frontier” was the electronic toilet-paper dispenser? I for one am surprised that no one has tried to market this already. But sure enough, I just heard from public-restroom mainstay Kimberly-Clark, who announced the JRT* Electronic Coreless, the world’s first touchless electronic bath-tissue dispenser.…
Did you ever wonder who covered the damage when Optimus and Megatron face off? McSweeney’s intercepted this letter from Optimus Prime’s insurance agent notifying him of his policy increase to $235,567.50. Since becoming a GEICO customer in January of this year, you have reported 131 accidents, requesting reimbursement for repairs necessitated by each one. You…
Today, ATI announced the 600 USB and 650 PCIe cards, one for USB one for PCIe. The USB is a single tuner HDTV device for laptops, like the Pinnacle. The 650 PCIe is a desktop card with two tuners (that’s new) that records and plays an analog and digital source simultaneously. Both cards have Orb…
What do you get when you combine a Taser with a shotgun shell? Something you really, really don’t want to get hit with. The new Taser XREP is a tiny wireless Taser that can be fired from a standard issue 12 gauge, taking down perps from up to 100 feet away. And hey, if you’re…
This 71-year-old Chinese man goes by “Electric Man” to his friends and neighbors. Why? Because he routinely has 220V of electricity flowing through his body for “exercise.” While he’s charged up, he can do a number of things, such as light lightbulbs and cook a fish in a mere two minutes. He also uses his…