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BenQ Readying Its First UMPC

The details are still pretty slim, but DigiTimes is reporting that BenQ is prepping its first UMPC to be launched in the fourth quarter of this year. BenQ would be joining the ranks of Sony, Samsung, and Asus, all of which have UMPCs out. Personally, I’ve yet to see a UMPC I’d spend my hard-earned…

Gadgets Louis Ramirez

Color Changing Faucet Actually Available for $19

We’ve shown you various color changing faucets over the years, but many of them were either too expensive or too early of a prototype to be buyable. This updated LED Faucet light, however, is both real and cheap. https://gizmodo.com/led-faucet-light-135803 For just $19.99, you get a LED faucet light that streams blue water normally, but turns…

Gadgets Jason Chen

Trekkie Apartment Up for Sale

Remember that Star Trek-inspired apartment we showed you not too long ago? Well, Tony Alleyne (the man behind the apartment) is putting his 1 bedroom home up for sale asking for $967,000. The apartment is located in Hinckley, Leics, UK and comes with all the bells and whistles we showed you before, but unless there’s…

Tech News Louis Ramirez

Grobag Egg is a Thermometer for the Illiterate

If for some reason you’re not capable of reading numbers, this Grobag Egg shows you the temperature in easy to “read” colors. Blue if it’s cold, yellow and orange if it’s somewhere inbetween, and red if the roof is on fire. Of course, unless you suffer from congenital insensitivity to pain with anhidrosis, or NAMBLA,…

Gadgets Jason Chen

Blu-Ray Beats Up on HD DVD For Second Month Running

The format war is far from over, but Sony’s Blu-ray camp continues to enjoy the lead over Toshiba and the rest of the HD DVD gang, edging them out in movie sales yet again for the month of February. Both formats are competing to be the next high-def disc du jour, but so far in…

Tech News Louis Ramirez

Confessions of a Cellphone Sales Rep

Red Shoe Diaries this is not, but if you ever wanted to know the hidden workings of that Sprint, T-Mobile, Cingular, Verizon, or Alltel store you pass by on the way scope out the girls at Forever 21 at the mall, the Consumerist has you covered. Some interesting tidbits: Cingular lets you upgrade a phone…

Tech News Jason Chen

Dean Kamen’s Cyborg Arm: It’s Real and It’s Spectacular

Dean Kamen (the Segway and medical/robot guy)’s new robot arm has been lighting up the internet since last week. There were loads of questions (is it really an arm? Why did he make it? Was the audience actually crying?) but not very many answers. Here are some new details on courtesy of a guy who…

Tech News Jason Chen

Hidden Camera Pillow Spies on the Babysitter

What makes for a better housewarming present than a spy camera shoved inside a pillow? Nothing we can think of. The hidden camera pillow uses the crowded 2.4GHz range to broadcast video from the pillow to your receiver, and is only one of 71 different items with a spy camera shoved inside. It’s too bad…

Gadgets Jason Chen

Anyfix Universal Charger Charges 80% of European Phones

You may not know the name Luigi Colani, but there’s a good chance this 80-year old industrial design legend doesn’t know you either. Why’s this guy important? Because he’s just designed a mobile phone charger that charges more than 80% of European phones on the market today. By plugging the Anyfix into any wall outlet…

Gadgets Jason Chen

Homemade Roller Coaster: Less Lines than Six Flags

This homemade roller coaster that was built out in the fields of Oklahoma is pretty cool, I guess. Call me when you add the loops, guys. Then it’ll be a real coaster. Check their website for a whole slew of videos of these guys just asking for a broken neck. Jeremy Reid [via Neatorama]

Gadgets Adam Frucci

LG Shine’s Cousins Flip, Get Dipped in Gold

LG’s popular Korean phone, the Shine, has not only been updated already, there’s now two new versions planned for an eventual release. The first, a gold-dipped hedonistic version, should ship for Korea’s CDMA networks first before (possibly) heading everywhere else with a GSM version. https://gizmodo.com/lg-already-updates-shine-looks-the-same-but-adds-hsdp-238163 The second, a flip-phone version of the Shine, looks to…

Tech News Jason Chen

RIAA Boycott Tip: Use RIAA Radar Bookmarklet

Have you installed the RIAA Radar bookmarklet yet? No? What the hell are you waiting for? If you don’t know what I’m talking about, let me fill you in. Just follow these simple steps: 1. Add the RIAA Radar bookmarklet to your bookmarks/favorites list. (A bookmarklet is a piece of JavaScript stored inside a bookmark.…

Tech News Adam Frucci

Blank Phone Concept One Giant OLED Touchscreen

I still dream of it about once a week, but I know a lot of you have had enoughiPhone & friends posts until June, and all that buttonless touchscreen talk. Well Mike Kwan over at Mobile Mag just wrote about the inevitable next step, in his post about the Blank phone. The concept takes the…

Tech News Brian Lam

Channel Changer Gun Vents Your Anger at This Season’s Writing on 24

Shooting your TV is bad (haven’t you seen that episode of The Simpsons?). Shooting it with a remote that’s shaped like a gun is slightly better. With this £9.99 ($19) remote, you can channel your hate for this season’s lackluster writing on 24 by shooting the screen whenever someone says or does something ridiculous even…

Gadgets Jason Chen

Dealzmodo: $200 Off BlackBerry 8800

The BlackBerry 8800 that made its triumphant debut at 3GSM last month is available, for cheap, over at Amazon. This phone will cost you $125 out the digital door and includes a $25 rebate. It does require a service plan from Cingular, for the savings. If you pick up this phone directly from Cingular it…

Commerce Travis Hudson

Rumor: Pioneer Developing a Sirius Inno?

Wow, it seems like it was only yesterday that Pioneer was debuting the Inno, an XM portable player. Well over a year after the initial unveiling, a tipster has revealed to Orbitcast that Pioneer is working on a new device “similar to the Inno,” but for Sirius satellite radio, instead. This isn’t too surprising given…

Tech News Travis Hudson

Forbes Analyst: 10 Million iPhones? Good Luck

Taesik Yoon, an analyst over at Forbes, rolls off why investors shouldn’t gleefully pump money into Apple stock betting on the iPhone to return their investment in gold bullion. A lot of it’s familiar—high price point, ill fit with the smart phone market despite its potential growth—but some of it’s a bit newish. https://gizmodo.com/analyst-apple-will-release-flash-based-subnotebook-fl-243105 For…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

Playstation Home Coming in October; Beta Next Month

You suckersPS3 owners who want to get Home will have your chance soon enough. There will be a 15,000 person private beta starting in April, with a 50,000 person public beta starting in August in anticipation of an October launch. It’s also been revealed that the Home software will come in at under 500MB, and…

Tech News Adam Frucci

Animated Atari Pong T-Shirt

The unseasonably warm San Francisco weather today makes me think of Summer attire. That, and how I’d rather be outside today. Bringing such thoughts back to the realm of gadgets, I present you with this T-shirt which mounts an animated (but unplayable) game of Pong on the bony forefront of your chest, using some unspecified…

Gadgets Brian Lam

Dig Your Pirate Cell Strap Out Of A Dead Man’s Chest

What’s in this enigmatic chest? Gold? Diamonds? An evil curse? Nah, it’s just a cell phone strap. You have to use the paddle to dig into it before you get your treasure, though. Cell Phone Strap Treasure in a Pirate Chest [TokyoMango]

Tech News Lisa Katayama

BenQ Readying Its First UMPC

Color Changing Faucet Actually Available for $19

Trekkie Apartment Up for Sale

Grobag Egg is a Thermometer for the Illiterate

Blu-Ray Beats Up on HD DVD For Second Month Running

Confessions of a Cellphone Sales Rep

Dean Kamen’s Cyborg Arm: It’s Real and It’s Spectacular

Hidden Camera Pillow Spies on the Babysitter

Anyfix Universal Charger Charges 80% of European Phones

Homemade Roller Coaster: Less Lines than Six Flags

LG Shine’s Cousins Flip, Get Dipped in Gold

RIAA Boycott Tip: Use RIAA Radar Bookmarklet

Blank Phone Concept One Giant OLED Touchscreen

Channel Changer Gun Vents Your Anger at This Season’s Writing on 24

Dealzmodo: $200 Off BlackBerry 8800

Rumor: Pioneer Developing a Sirius Inno?

Forbes Analyst: 10 Million iPhones? Good Luck

Playstation Home Coming in October; Beta Next Month

Animated Atari Pong T-Shirt

Dig Your Pirate Cell Strap Out Of A Dead Man’s Chest

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