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Designer James Dunlop hopes his myhab disposable habitats will help curb the huge number of tents left behind at crowded functions, such as music festivals. At a glance, myhab might look like a glorified cardboard box, but check this out: Your very own myhab with room for two will be erected as well as dismantled…
Click to view[Updated 4:37PM 7/11/07] Greetings irrational fanboys and Apple haters! Ten days and 12,000 ~13,500 words later, our stone-cold look at what it means to own an iPhone is done. Before we get to the in depth hands-on, here’s the verdict I’d give any good friend: Wait to buy the iPhone. https://gizmodo.com/apple-iphone-review-276116 Wait for…
We’ve already had some paper synthesizers today to get us in the mood for wonderfully useless products (Gizmodo, not just here for the shiny things in life) and now there’s a paper T-Rex. Crank the handle and T-Rex munches on Captain Caveman—or whatever object you place in his path. https://gizmodo.com/cardboard-audio-gear-is-coolest-useless-thing-ever-276222 Flying Pig is the company…
If you ever have that sinking feeling that your tires are running out of air, this Seetron TP2 Tire Pressure Monitoring System gives you a real-time readout of the psi (pounds per square inch) present in each tire. Once you’ve placed a sensor in each tire, the data is transmitted to this dashboard-mounted readout, giving…
Xbox’s cooler-running chips, which we would have liked to have seen in the Xbox 360 Elite, were rumored for fall. Now Dean Takahashi, the journalist with the best Microsoft Xbox access around, is lending credibility to that unconfirmed fact and reporting on the internal codename: Falcon. Kind of sexy. [mercurynews] https://gizmodo.com/an-xbox-360-elite-2-0-wish-list-for-home-theater-geeks-254361
From the beginning, the iPhone could read Microsoft Word documents, but now you’ll be able to do basic word processing on it with gOffice for iPhone. Developer Kevin Warnock created this mini application, which he calls the world’s first working word processor for the Apple iPhone. What’s the catch? The iPhone’s lack of copy, cut…
This mini Rubik’s cube from Japan is one of those little phone straps that you attach to your mobile. As well as giving you hours of fun, it will scratch the back of your cell, annoy you when you talk, and give people an insight into your beliefs and how your brain works. Slowly. The…
Analysts at Piper Jaffray peg Apple’s next iPod announcement in January 2008, and they bet we’ll see an iPod with an iPhonish touchscreen and running a version of OS X. What is it with these guys and obvious predictions? I mean, January is Macworld. From the looks of it, the iPhone will continue to be…
In the mad scramble to stay profitable in a world turned upside down, the music industry is getting pretty creative. The newest gimmick: sponsoring the cover art image in digital files. Sprint is paying to slap their logo on digital versions of the rapper Piles’ (who?) debut album. When those songs end up on file-sharing…
Now that the Boeing 787 Dreamliner is no longer under wraps, airlines around the world are figuring out how to make it even more luxurious. Not to be outdone is Japan’s All Nippon Airways, which will equip its bathrooms with bun-spraying washlet toilets from Toto. The seats have special bidet wands that wash and dry…
Finally, pillows to match our pajamas. The $17.99 Spider-Man Speaker Pillow is a simple device. Requiring no batteries, a 3.5mm audio jack is all you need to have the sweet lullabies of Tobey Maguire sing you to sleep. Essentially a headphone speaker shoved in polyester and spandex, we’re not real excited about the audio potential,…
The iRiver clix Rhapsody is, hardware wise, the same iRiver clix we reviewed a few months back. It’s a sexy mini media player, and we urge you to check out what ex-GizmodoGod Travis said about the device in his reviews here and here. https://gizmodo.com/iriver-clix-video-walkthrough-255970 So why do we care? This new edition of the clix…
If there’s one thing wrong with your lawn, it’s that it’s just too classy. Since when did you get too good for tacky lawn ornaments? You think you’re better than me? Screw you, buddy. You need to prove that you aren’t totally pretentious by getting something like this completely horrible yet somehow amazing solar frog…
This week Gizmodo’s Charlie White and Sci Fi Tech’s Stephen Schleicher talk iPhone, finding good first-hand reasons why it both rules and sucks. You’ll also want to hear this week’s Rapid-Fire Roundup of Cool Products, the fastest two minutes on the Net. It’s all on this week’s Coolness Roundup, a free netcast on iTunes, or…
The Magic Wheel is one Swiss designer’s answer to the long-gone scooter craze. Consisting of one big wheel and one small wheel, the Magic Wheel operates through the rider planting one foot on the Wheel’s platform while pushing with their opposite leg. The idea is best described as unicycle meets skateboard, or maybe, scooter meets…
Here’s a design concept by Daewoo Kim for a cellphone that might actually be practical in desperate situations, because when one phoneruns out of power, the other one can charge it up. And look at them, aren’t they cute, spooning on that charger together? Cellphone purveyors will probably like this design, because it may entice…
The “Minority Report” interface is a popular one to namecheck recently. The latest company to do so is the Swiss outfit Atracsys, whose interactive system, dubiously dubbed “beMerlin,” optically (surprise) tracks hand movements and promises to deliver the same intuitive awesomeness Tom Cruise experienced, minus the awesome gloves. But the demo video on their site…
Dan McPharlin does beautiful miniature cardboard models of old audio gear. Dan McPharlin actually sells these completely useless but absolutely amazing pieces of paper to other people starting at $60 each. Dan McPharlin is a genius and I can’t wait for him to do a cardboard Quincy Jones to produce my own paper records. Dan’s…
We’ve told you about the ubercool M500 cellphone watch by SMS Technology before, but we were always a little wary of how its advanced functions like text messaging worked with the M500’s miniature touchscreen. Hit the jump for a full video. Skip the first minute or so of the vid, and then prepare to fall…
This is what Optimus Prime’s apartment would look like if he was a chic interior NYC designer instead of a trucker from Minnesota. The all-white flat looks straight from Kubrick’s 2001 and seems to have more drawers than the Library of Congress. It changes its modular structure to reveal new spaces and functions at every…
