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Let’s face it, any car—no matter how fast or sexy—is still out-cooled by “Maverick” and whatever he’s flying these days. But the Giugiaro Vadho, or Vadhò, is the greatest fusion of car and jet since the Batmobile. And the ubervehicle is eco-friendly because it’s powered by BMW’s V12 Hydrogen 7 engine. Here’s more on the…
Have you spent so much on your watch that you can’t afford a clock? Neither did we. We’re just trying to find some angle to support the Von Zios. While the Von Zios wears like a normal watch, the links can snap together allowing for a rigid support structure. We don’t necessarily like the idea…
Uebanet put together a collection of 12 Japanese inventions that “never quite took off”. It’s tough to pick a favorite from the list, but I do enjoy the Hair Blocker. While apparently designed to prevent females/hippies/80s rockers from getting hair in their noodles, it doubles as a intimidating lion mane or cheery sunshine hat. Our…
We’re not sure exactly how time is “launched” with the $58 Time Launcher M clock, but we like the inside-out philosophy. Through watching the gears move by the second, we pretend that we have some level of understanding regarding how mechanical clocks actually work. And then when friends come over to admire the clock, we…
Man’s best friend may be the dog, but dogs have since moved on. They too answer to the all-powerful consumer culture driving them to have the latest and greatest gadgets. And there is nothing we can do about it. Our gallery is a reflection of this phenomenon, and a tribute to the dogs who used…
The Pill Towel is the official weapon of the domesticated James Bond. Stored in an ordinary pill pack, a few drops of water transforms this ordinary-looking pill into a 11×9″ multipurpose cloth of doom. Your windows will never know what hit ’em. $12 for 16. Product Page [via uberreview]
AMEX Digital just announced their new Touch Senses wireless keyboard for Windows Vista. It’s a media button-heavy keyboard that communicates on the 2.4G band up to 20 feet from your computer. Powered by 4 AAA batteries, the Touch Senses only lasts a somewhat disappointing two months before you realize that you never have AAAs on…
Operation was a fun game, but fatally flawed (no pun intended). The sad fact is that no game can hold the adult attention span unless there is a strong possibility of someone getting injured while playing. That’s why Shocking Autopsy is Operation for adults. While you pull various weapons from a gangsters body, just make…
For those who hate their trackpad but enjoy looking like a cyborg, the Logisys Optical Finger Mouse may be a dream come true. Featuring dual buttons, a scroll wheel and 800dpi, the mouse is fully functional and promising for tight spaces—like when you want to browse the Internet while rolling downhill in a tractor tire.…
The PogoDrive is another GPS in a crowded market of UK-exclusive navigational devices with one unique feature: it will warn you of speedtraps. That’s because Pogo has loaded the Origin360 database onto their platform, which has mapped all known cameras and speed traps in the Universe. The Pogo then allows automatic warning prompts from any…
Now if the knife packaging could only be opened through a failed breathalyzer, we’d really have something. And what’s with this “you still have to walk to the other side of the store for black leather gloves” attitude? Because if I find a pair with a packaged flask and silencer, you just lost my business,…
Found in a Brooklyn Target, this Schick Quattro Titanium razor implies that a) it’s a great idea to shave and listen to music at the same time (which it totally is), and b) you already have something to listen to. These look like some fairly decent headphones at least. Of course, they’re nothing like the…
Every car purchase we’ve made over the years has been kind of a settle. That’s because despite intensive car shopping, we’ve never been able to find a vehicle with a microwave inside. WAVEBOX TO THE RESCUE! With the WaveBox, we’re free to microwave popcorn, hot dogs, or even a steak no matter where we are.…
Seeing as we’ve already established that the PS3 is the best bargain Blu-ray player out there now and a better DVD player than the Xbox 360, it’s pretty fitting that Sony’s dream machine is going to have DVD upscaling. https://gizmodo.com/sony-ps3-best-bd-player-out-there-225490 In a recent interview, Phil Harrison said “…we’re going to have DVD upscaling on Playstation…
Best Buy came clean today admitting to investigators that their stores rely on a secret intranet site which shows higher prices than the ones customers find at BestBuy.com. The intranet is used to trick you into coming into the store, so when you see a sale online and refer to it at the store, the…
Here’s a sad fact of life. No matter what wireless speakers you buy, there’s always gonna be some amount of cabling required, be it for power or whatnot. So although JBL’s On Air speakers claim to be “wireless” as the folks at CNET found out, they’re anything but. Still, one thing they have over the…
The Optimus 103 keyboard is still nowhere to be found—same as when we looked last week, but they’ve just released a set of screenshots for their bundled configurator. https://gizmodo.com/optimus-keyboard-now-has-swappable-keys-various-models-238814 As you can see, the configurator lets you easily swapout languages, functions, and plugins for each key. We were going to call this vaporware again, but…
I’ve been hung up on multi-monitor setups lately. Who can blame me? More pixels generally mean more productivity. Unless you’re talking about the Zenview Powerscape Ultra HD, which equates to orgasmic bliss of the computing variety. There’s a 30-inch LCD in the center, at a full 2560 by 1600 res, with four 20-inch displays, in…
Just when we thought Samsung was firmly in the Blu-ray camp, they come out with a version of their M55 laptop that supports HD DVD. The machine has a Core Duo T2500, 2GB of RAM, 120GB SATA disk, 17-inch 1920×1200 screen, and it’s available for around $3200 if you speak Korean. Is it a matter…
By taking a feature common to webcams—lip syncing your face to a cartoon avatar—and putting it in a phone, KTF’s providing “privacy” calling for anyone with this 3G phone. How it works: instead of playing back the video broadcast to you, the EV-W100 uses the lip-sync program to generate either a male, female, pig, or…