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EnergyTree—Forget to Recycle, Kill a Living Thing

Ben Arent, a creative young designer, has proposed the EnergyTree. Basically it’s an actual tree that is connected to a processor that monitors your in-home environmental habits. And depending on your energy/recycling routines you will either feed your baby tree water & nutrients or poison. That’s right, if you are bad to the planet you…

Tech News Ben Longo

Corsair Survivor Flash Drives Good For Mudslides, Deep Sea Hijinks, Zombie Attacks

Back in March, we introduced you to these ruggedized babies, but didn’t have any specs or pricing, let alone a picture of one stuck in the mud. Now we’re good to go. There’s piping hot info and another, more explanatory pic, after the jump. https://gizmodo.com/corsair-flash-survivor-usb-drives-can-go-through-a-war-245577 Now we can tell you, for instance, that they are…

Tech News Wilson Rothman

Hotelchatter Rates the Best Hotels for Wi-Fi

If you’re going on vacation, we’d recommend you leave your laptop at home, but if you’re going on a business trip, you gotta get ‘er done. And an integral tool to getting ‘er done is Wi-Fi. Hotelchatter’s got a list of the hotels with the best Wi-Fi coverage. Among them are various Marriott properties, Andre…

Tech News Jason Chen

Retina-X Mobile Spy for Smartphones Keeps Tabs on That Bitch

Okay, I fell for it. The press release says “Controversial Smartphone Spy Software Introduced,” and I bit. It’s exactly what you’d imagine: an invisible piece of software, running on Windows Mobile smartphones, picks up the call log and all incoming and outgoing text messages, which it then uploads to an account you can check online.…

Tech News Wilson Rothman

Cubic Pillow Has Holes for Sound, Phones

Talking with your girlfriend on the phone for hours on end is such a chore, but it can be less of one with this cubic pillow. Each of the six sides has a hole in the middle, so you can easily stick a phone receiver in there but still have the pleasure of lying down…

Gadgets Jason Chen

UV-Indicating Cellphone Charm

Have sensitive skin? Then hook up one of these UV bead cellphone charms to your phone and always be aware of how much UV light you’re getting. The beads start out white, but change as they suck in the radiation. You can buy different amounts of beads depending on your needs—but get enough and you…

Tech News Jason Chen

Quick News: Ebay, Same-Sex Elf Marriage, and More

For those of you who still haven’t linked up their TiVo boxes to Amazon Unbox, you might want to right now. Since today is the last day to get a $15 UnBox credit for doing so. Yahoo’s picking up the remaining 80% of online advertiser Right Media, for $680 million. That looks like chump change…

Tech News Ben Longo

1080p Smackmodo Pits Panasonic vs. Epson Projectors

Click to viewSince we favorably reviewed the Epson PowerLite Home Cinema 1080 projector that’s now shipping for a mere $3000, we felt compelled to also review the Panasonic PT-AE1000U, especially since Panny reduced its price to exactly the same $3000 level as soon as the Epson model was released. https://gizmodo.com/hands-on-the-epson-powerlite-home-cinema-1080-how-much-254973 We had a chance to…

Tech News Charlie White

1980-1990 Developments (1979)

The last two pages of the 1979 book Future Cities: Homes and Living into the 21st Century describes what will happen over the course of “the next 120 years.” Naturally, we’ll begin with the 1980s. 1980-1990 -Satellites in Earth orbit beam educational programmes to many countries in the underdeveloped Third World. -Wind turbines – modern…

Tech News Matt Novak

Creative X-Fi i600 Dock is Shiny, Powerful, iPod-Supported

Remember the Creative X-Fi Z600 dock? It was a damn shiny dock from Creative that used the X-Fi sound processor and supported the line of Creative’s Zen players. The are re-releasing it as the X-Fi i600 for the iPod. The system has 35-watt speakers and a 130-watt subwoofer along with an IR remote and piano…

Tech News Travis Hudson

Hands-on With the New Optimus Prime Transformer

[BTW, I did a hands on video of Prime vs iPod (ala Spaceballs)]Unboxing a new cellphone is nice, but it rarely matches the excitement we had as a kid unboxing a brand new Transformers toy. So imagine how giddy we got when we got the new Optimus Prime Transformers toy today! https://gizmodo.com/video-review-transformers-optimus-prime-vs-r2d2-vs-i-256618 As you can…

Gadgets Jason Chen

Hockey-Themed Cleaning Gear Concept

Hopefully I wasn’t the only one who spent the better part of the weekend watching hockey (by the way, that Rangers goal was legit, it wasn’t a kick). This is the Nike Life Extreme Sports concept gear that features a hockey-stick broom and a vacuum sucking goal. Avoid taking this broom out to the actual…

Gadgets Travis Hudson

Corset Lamp Doesn’t Squeeze Out Any More Volts

Still unable to find a partner to fill in that corset you own for some odd reason? Do what all of the cool kids are doing and turn it into a lamp. Why? Who knows, but it definitely looks awesome and will make you the coolest (and creepiest) kid on the block. $43. Product Page…

Tech News Travis Hudson

Pink Stinger Tampon Taser

American Inventor Spot has too much of two things—time on their hands and vaginas on their mind. How else can you explain this “experimental” tampon personal security taser. It’s pink, fluffy, wired, and can shock you with 50,000 volts. Oh, and it’s shaped like a tampon. Fantastic, eh? Just be careful not to mix this…

Gadgets Jason Chen

Vudu, Apple TV and Robert X. Cringely – Connect the Dots

The super-secret video store in a box, Vudu, had its coming out party this weekend. One of the things that piqued everyone’s interest—aside from the 5,000 movies that will be available on demand from seven Hollywood studios and a gaggle of indie distributors—is that the box will work on a peer-to-peer style distribution network based…

Tech News Noah Robischon

Retro Dealzmodo: HP Jornada UMPC PDA Thing

Remember the Jornada? We sure as hell do, and almost five years after we declared it dead it is still lingering. This time it is for sale at Geeks.com. They really aren’t that terrific of deals—Jornada 720 for $190 and Jornada 728 for $250—but it is still interesting to see random stores finding boxes of…

Tech News Travis Hudson

Xbox 360 GPU Goes 65nm this Fall

The rumors of Microsoft’s Xbox 360 CPU going to a 65nm manufacturing process have been bouncing around for months, but we haven’t heard much about the GPU yet. However, Digitimes (who also said the 65nm CPUs were delayed until mid ’07) reports that Chinese-language paper Commercial Times claims the upgraded GPUs are coming in the…

Tech News Jason Chen

Giz Weekend Roundup: What You Missed by Having a Life

How did you spend your weekend? With your family, perhaps? Maybe you were outside, enjoying the beautiful weather. You could have been working on a project, such as rebuilding a car engine or writing some short fiction. Those are all such noble activities, but you know what? You totally blew it by not sitting in…

Tech News Adam Frucci

Jake’s Steampunk Computer Mouse

The fetish-driven industrial nut inside of us all squirms with joy at this steampunk mouse designed by Jake of Jake of All Trades. He even wrote up an old-timey narrative about this mouse. Role-playing and steampunk? It’s like an explosion in my pants! It is actually smaller than it looks—reminds me of the size of…

Gadgets Travis Hudson

Dressing Like a Beekeeper May or May Not Protect You From Evil Technology

Despite the fact that it’s kind of, well, scientifically impossible to be allergic to wireless signals, there are increasing numbers of hypochondriacs out there who claim that all the cellphone and Wi-Fi signals out there are causing their health problems. https://gizmodo.com/british-woman-is-allergic-to-modern-technology-246034 At least now they’re making it easier for us to spot them as crazies.…

Gadgets Adam Frucci

EnergyTree—Forget to Recycle, Kill a Living Thing

Corsair Survivor Flash Drives Good For Mudslides, Deep Sea Hijinks, Zombie Attacks

Hotelchatter Rates the Best Hotels for Wi-Fi

Retina-X Mobile Spy for Smartphones Keeps Tabs on That Bitch

Cubic Pillow Has Holes for Sound, Phones

UV-Indicating Cellphone Charm

Quick News: Ebay, Same-Sex Elf Marriage, and More

1080p Smackmodo Pits Panasonic vs. Epson Projectors

1980-1990 Developments (1979)

Creative X-Fi i600 Dock is Shiny, Powerful, iPod-Supported

Hands-on With the New Optimus Prime Transformer

Hockey-Themed Cleaning Gear Concept

Corset Lamp Doesn’t Squeeze Out Any More Volts

Pink Stinger Tampon Taser

Vudu, Apple TV and Robert X. Cringely – Connect the Dots

Retro Dealzmodo: HP Jornada UMPC PDA Thing

Xbox 360 GPU Goes 65nm this Fall

Giz Weekend Roundup: What You Missed by Having a Life

Jake’s Steampunk Computer Mouse

Dressing Like a Beekeeper May or May Not Protect You From Evil Technology

JBL Authentics 500 Retro-Style Home Speaker Hits 40% Off, Now at Its Lowest Price as Amazon’s Spring Sale Clearance Begins

ExpressVPN Spring Sale Special: Up to 73% Off + Free eSIM and Password Manager

You Too Will Learn to Fear the XenoFrog

Amazon Echo Dot Sees Its Last Price Drop in the Spring Sale, Final Hours Tick Down Ahead of an Uncertain Prime Day

Artemis 2 by the Numbers: Breaking Down NASA’s Big Return to the Moon

Apple Removes iPhone Vibe Coding App from App Store

China’s Biggest Social Media Celebrity Is… Kris Jenner?

Up to $1,550 Off on pCloud: Pay Once, Protect Data Forever for World Backup Day

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

Aqara Smart Lock U400 Review: Hands-free Unlocking at Its Best

MSI Prestige 14 Flip AI+ Review: A Solid 2-in-1 Laptop With Some Glaring Flaws

Sonos Play Review: Call It a Comeback

Sonos Era 100 SL Review: The Cheapest Way Into Wired Sonos Sound

Asus ROG’s Massive Swift OLED Gaming Monitor Epitomizes Excess in the Best Way

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

Nothing Headphone A vs. Headphone 1: Which Pair of ANC Wireless Headphones Wins?

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