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Remember the Mogo Mouse? You know, that extremely small, Bluetooth mouse that could store and charge in the PCMCIA slot? MoGo went ahead and made it even smaller, took out the mousing capabilities and attached a speaker/mic for the MoGo Bluetooth headset. The uncomfortable-looking earpiece can fold in and out for easy storage. Like the…
This 1977 illustration by Rick Guidice is from the book Yesterday’s Tomorrows: Past Visions of the American Future. “Scientists have long known that exercise will be especially important for denizens of space colonies, since there is no gravity to give the body a natural workout. One wonders, however, whether this image of suburban jogging and…
Here’s a competitor to the excellent Garmin Forerunner 305 GPS trainer, and this one’s from Korean company Paroos. Its G100 adds music functions to its GPS tracking, featuring an MP3 player with 512MB of storage as well as an FM radio. https://gizmodo.com/live-from-ces-garmin-forerunner-205-and-305-146632 Besides displaying distance traveled, speed, elapsed time and caloric expenditure just like its…
Hello, Brian here. More CTIA gems, back in the far left back corner of the show. Next to the hotdog stand. Yes. Here’s 24/7, what Medis is claiming is the first disposable gadget fuel cell. It’ll recharge a phone like a Treo with up to 20 hours of talk time. And it comes with a…
If you live in an apartment or building with a water heater from 1901 (like me) you know how long that sucker takes to heat up the water. The Shower Start is a little device that can detect when water is warm and turn off the flow. Confused? Yeah, me too. Apparently you turn on…
Okay, now the clocks have gone too far. The BanClock extorts money from you in order to shut the fuck up. Here’s one device we hope will stay in Japan, where they’re selling it right now for $50. But it looks like it would be easy to defeat, with a simple unplug instead of giving…
Still wondering whether you should buy that new MacBook or Mac Pro? The gang at MacRumors has compiled the ultimate Mac-buying guide based on product refresh cycles and Internet rumblings. Take the Mac Pro for instance. MR recommends you skip it cause it’s been 234 days since its last refresh. What’s 100 percent safe to…
The US Postal Service continues to attempt to cash in on the Star Wars brand, now cranking out a pane of 15 stamps featuring Star Wars characters, monsters and gadgets. The US mailmen are also attempting to lure you into voting for your favorite stamp. It’s tied in with that R2-D2 mailbox stunt you’ve undoubtedly…
By Brendan I. Koerner Every so often, I come across a product that inspires a thicket of hard-to-reconcile emotions. In the case of the $199 QuickPAD IR, my first reaction was straightforward enough—namely, bafflement at how such a seemingly archaic machine, best described as a Smith Corona word processor mated with a Psion Series 3,…
Downloaded movies will replace plastic discs in the next few years, and Coolness Roundup covers the current state of downloading and what’s to come on tonight’s broadcast on Sirius Satellite Radio. Join Gizmodo’s Charlie White along with Stephen Schleicher of Sci Fi Tech on Sirius Stars 102 tonight at 12:30 a.m. Pacific, and hear their…
iTunes fans have more reason to spend money now that Apple’s rolled out their new “Complete My Album” feature. The new feature gives you a full 99-cent credit for every track you’ve previously purchased from a specific album, so if you’re gonna buy an album and you’ve already bought two songs off that album before,…
Researchers at the University of Oslo have developed a computer that evolves on its own using genetic algorithms to boost performance. See? What their hardware does is par up “genes” in the hardware to find the hardware design that is the most effective to accomplish the tasks at hand. Just like in the real world,…
3D movies have been around for a while, and now the bigwigs in Hollywood are toying with the idea of going all 3D in the future. According to Regal Entertainment’s CEO, audiences are willing to pay premium ticket prices if the movies they see are in 3D. DreamWorks Animation SKG has already jumped on the…
Click to viewLast week I asked Microsoft to bring Folding@Home to the Xbox 360 to add a boatload of computing power to the Alzheimer’s fight. Well, Folding@Home isn’t the only distributed protein-folding program around, don’t-cha know. There’s also Rosetta@Home, a program that happened to receive over $10 million from the Gates Foundation for HIV research…
Nokia’s 7088 is the first slider phone to join the gussied-up models in the company’s L’Amour Collection. It’s also the first CDMA phone to join the L’Amour series, packing a built-in camera with flash (no word on how megapixels), voice recorder and browser. To be honest, it’s a pretty bare-bones phone, so unless its looks…
This portable plastic splint takes up a tiny space in a backpack but brings big relief, holding a broken limb together long enough to get medical help and providing soothing warmth in the meantime. The special plastic fuses itself together in about five minutes using the same chemical-reactive heat technology used in hand warmers. Aimed…
Airline pilot Fredrik Johansson is also a guitarist, and got sick and tired of shoehorning his axe onto planes. That’s why the resourceful Swede invented a folding guitar, and after putting together a staff of woodworkers, geeks, musicians and luthiers, he’s finally brought his creation to market. The result is the DeVillain Guitar Company, and…
Bioscrypt’s new 3D cam sounds like something from the future. Capable of detecting and reading your face, it’s the first 3D face recognition camera, relying on 40,000 different ID points (like your forehead, eye sockets and nose) to ID you and log you onto your computer. Bioscrypt claims it won’t matter if you have a…
Those of you who were impressed by Sony’s new Bravia projectors yesterday will wanna catch Shiny Shiny’s video preview of the AW15 in action. The good news is that the projector is pretty quiet (20 decibels quiet to be exact) and can project pictures as large as 200 inches, which is more than enough for…
A funny thing happened to me the other day walking by the UT Starcom booth this CTIA—I noticed they had the unreleased, unannounced, secret Sidekick ID plastered across their booth, four-feet wide. UT Starcom, manufacturer of phones for companies like Danger and their Sidekick/Hiptop had covered it up a day later with a can of…