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Fuel Cell Beverage Heater Keeps Your Coffee Drinkable

Nothing is worse than having a hot cup of coffee turn into a chilly mug of awful without you realizing it, only to take a shocking sip an hour after you’ve gotten to work and need another caffeine boost. Enter the Fuel Cell Beverage Heater. It’s a wee device that hangs on the side of…

Gadgets Adam Frucci

Solar Power of 1999 (1956)

The fascinating book 1999: Our Hopeful Future by Victor Cohn explains in chapter nine how the world will harness the power of the sun. Below is an excerpt from chapter nine titled, “We Hitch Up the Sun.” The sun rose as usual on January 10, 1999, and went to work. In a great, sun-drenched desert,…

Tech News Matt Novak

The Steampunk Office

Not content with just making steampunk monitors, steampunk guitars and steampunk turntables, the offices of Three Rings Design decide to make their entire workplace steampunk. https://gizmodo.com/modding-an-lcd-monitor-the-steampunk-way-266721 Located in SoMa, San Francisco, the office looks like The Nautilus from 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, complete with pool table, levers, switches, light fixtures, Dreamcasts, Xbox 360s, and…

Tech News Jason Chen

For the Nosy Parker Who Has Everything – A Personal DNA Analyzer

I’m not quite sure who the Spartan DX is aimed at, apart from a rich man determined to find out which one of his four farmhands is guilty of schtupping his daughter in the hay loft. And research labs, obviously. Up until now all DNA analyzers have been batched, mainframe machines, which mean that results…

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How to Comment: Popups

Hey folks, there’s a slightly new comment feature available on Giz and most Gawker sites now. When you make a comment, there should be some notification windows on the right- hand side that tells you your comment’s been submitted and received. Not a huge feature, but a cool one that looks better than the old…

Tech News Jason Chen

Like Earth, Only in Space …. and with monorails (1989)

This image is featured in the 1989 book Checkerboard Press Computers and Electronics (Encyclopedia Series). The caption appears below. Space colonies are now being considered seriously by some people. The one in the picture [above] is controlled throughout by a big central computer. The colony is positioned 240,000 miles (350,000km) from Earth and about the…

Tech News Matt Novak

BPM Watch Helps You Spin Wax, Tell Time

TokyoFlash, everyone’s favorite super-nerd watch designers, have a new offering: the BPM Watch. What makes it unique is the sweet BPM counter that can detect how many beats per minute the music you’re listening to has. It’s designed for DJs who want to sync up songs they’re mixing together, but it can just as easily…

Gadgets Adam Frucci

Dealzmodo: TiVo Series 3 For $396

Barely beating out the previous Dealzmodo, this Buy.com deal for a Series 3 TiVo goes for $396 if you use Google Checkout, versus Amazon’s $420. Of course, both deals require a $200 rebate, which might scare you off if you’ve been burned by rebates not arriving before. https://gizmodo.com/tivo-series-3-for-400-cheapest-ever-263936 Product Page [Buy.com – Thanks Jody!]

Tech News Jason Chen

17-inch High Res Macbook Pro Reviewed By a Real Geek

The Ars ladies and gents are zero fluff geeks. Which is why I’m recommending you take a look at Eric Bangeman’s review of the new 1920 x 1200 17-inch Macbook Pro. Mainly, they say the battery life is a little better, but the performance is definitely better. And they wish it had an LED backlight.…

Tech News Brian Lam

Concept UMPC Packs a Swiveling Screen

Not much is known about Intel’s Donley UMPC, but one thing this concept handheld has that few UMPCs can brag about is a swiveling display. The 5-inch screen can be placed in landscape or portrait mode. There’s also built-in Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, GPS and WWAN. That alone is enough to get our attention. I think the…

Gadgets Louis Ramirez

Pet Fat Counter in Japan (Verdict: as Stupid as This Post)

Hi, Doggert De Niro here, Gizmodo’s resident Method canine, and the latest of Gizmodo’s resident pet testers*, with the latest pet-friendly product, the dog fat counter. You may remember my predecessor, Fluffy, better. That bitch (heyyyy, just joking, people, she’s a wunnerful mammal and one of the best stunt pets in the business) tested the…

Gadgets Ad Dugdale

Herman Miller C2 Climate Control for the Cubicle

This week, San Francisco is entering another one of those “heatwaves” as the newspaper calls them. That’s 75 degrees, for those of you uninitiated to the reality of Bay Area micro climates. Which makes me think of this mini electric climate controller from the Herman Miller Be Collection. It can sit on a desk and…

Tech News Brian Lam

Unconfirmed: Get $100 off Apple Hardware Over the Phone

Update: Looks like my brain completely shut down when I read the Consumerist post the first time. Apparently, the rumor is this: you can save $100 on Apple hardware (not the iPhone) when you order over the phone and play coy and say their hardware is too expensive. It has nothing to do with the…

Tech News Jason Chen

Sonicare Flexcare Toothbrush Brings Ultraviolet Radiation to Give Gums Super Powers

We love our Sonicare toothbrushes. But how could you improve on a design that’s prevented any cavities since we started using it? By adding a UV sanitizer. Peter Pachal at Sci Fi has the scoop. Philips’ Sonicare FlexCare combines the old Sonicare brush with a UV chamber where you store your two brush heads after…

Tech News Jason Chen

Xbox 360 Getting Added Cooling After Being Repaired

French Xbox 360 owners who’ve sent in their defective or broken Xboxes to Microsoft to fix are finding that the return console have a little extra “wooooosh” in them. Yeah, Microsoft’s adding extra cooling power to their Xbox 360s to address all the overheating problems. It’s about time, and probably should have been stuck into…

Tech News Jason Chen

Gionee NES Phone Lets You Stomp Goombas on the Go

While we wait for Sony Ericsson’s rumored PSP phone to arrive, the folks at Gionee have created the Gionee S20 slider, a cellphone that comes with an NES emulator. Not that we advocate this kinda stuff, but, er, you could load up the phone with your favorite ROMs and then hook it up to your…

Gadgets Louis Ramirez

Digg Spam Sucks

A new Digg policy here, out of respect for the Digg community. -No big yellow Digg badges for articles unless they have original content, new reporting, treatment, or photos. It’s not fair when we get the Digg for someone else’s work. Let’s keep the signal-to-noise ratio high, dudes. And btw, Digg user “Iwanttodiggthis,” I appreciate…

Tech News Brian Lam

Who Wants In Our iPod Bracket?

The Cobra Kai challenge you! Are you a company who thinks their iPod dock is tough enough to compete in our iPod Dock Bracket? Are you a dirty-playing company who will stop at nothing to win, Cobra Kai, “Sweep the leg, Johnny!” style? Then let us know (my email is on the side of the…

Gadgets Mark Wilson

Sony Admits It’s “Really Late In The Game” For Personal Audio Battle With Apple

At a press breakfast today in NYC, Sony Electronics US President Stan Glasgow admitted that Sony’s attempts to unseat Apple in the once Walkman-dominated personal audio category are pretty close to over. For many years, Sony repeated the slogan, “It’s still early in the game.” Today, acknowledging Apple’s 80% market share in personal audio, Glasgow…

Tech News Wilson Rothman

Samsung Bordeaux Breaks Contrast Ratio Record

Samsung LCDs are known for their typically high contrast ratios, and their new Bordeauxs follow in that tradition, packing a 17,000:1 contrast ratio, which is several notches higher than your standard contrast ratio. But don’t be fooled by numbers alone. https://gizmodo.com/contrast-ratio-shoot-out-everyone-loses-259495 The TVs, which come in three sizes (40-inch LN40M81BD, 46-inch LN46M81BD, 52 inch LN52M81BD)…

Gadgets Louis Ramirez

Fuel Cell Beverage Heater Keeps Your Coffee Drinkable

Solar Power of 1999 (1956)

The Steampunk Office

For the Nosy Parker Who Has Everything – A Personal DNA Analyzer

How to Comment: Popups

Like Earth, Only in Space …. and with monorails (1989)

BPM Watch Helps You Spin Wax, Tell Time

Dealzmodo: TiVo Series 3 For $396

17-inch High Res Macbook Pro Reviewed By a Real Geek

Concept UMPC Packs a Swiveling Screen

Pet Fat Counter in Japan (Verdict: as Stupid as This Post)

Herman Miller C2 Climate Control for the Cubicle

Unconfirmed: Get $100 off Apple Hardware Over the Phone

Sonicare Flexcare Toothbrush Brings Ultraviolet Radiation to Give Gums Super Powers

Xbox 360 Getting Added Cooling After Being Repaired

Gionee NES Phone Lets You Stomp Goombas on the Go

Digg Spam Sucks

Who Wants In Our iPod Bracket?

Sony Admits It’s “Really Late In The Game” For Personal Audio Battle With Apple

Samsung Bordeaux Breaks Contrast Ratio Record

Feds Sniffing Around Polymarket After Suspicious Bets

DJI Osmo 360 Review: The Best 360 Camera for the DJI-Pilled

Don’t Get Too Attached to Any AI App

‘Paradise’ Writer Teases What’s Coming in Season 3 After That Huge Twist

Trump’s New White House App Is Mildly Concerning and Weird for a Lot of Reasons

Bloodsucking Ticks Can Survive Inside Your Home Longer Than You Might Think

The Best New Toys of March 2026

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Sonos Play Review: Call It a Comeback

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The Ikea Varmblixt Smart Lamp Fills a Donut Hole in My Life

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