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Eleksen’s Double-sided Keyboard Gives Your UMPC Media Controls

The same guys that brought us the UMPC pouch/keyboard are now bringing us a double-sided keyboard that includes your standard QWERTY keys on one side and a full deck of media controls on the other. The cloth has sensors built in so that when you’re typing on one side, it doesn’t activate the buttons on…

Gadgets Louis Ramirez

PMA07 Coming: Lots of Cameras So Far, More On the Way

The PMA (Photo Marketing Association) Convention and Trade Show is coming up, set for March 8-11 in Las Vegas. We’ll be there doing the touchy-feely with all the latest cameras, bringing you back first-hand reports of what’s hot and what’s not. By the way, if you don’t give a shit about cameras, here’s how to…

Tech News Charlie White

Feelix Growing Project Looking to Build Robots with Attitude

Consisting of international psychologists, neuroscientists, and roboticists, the Feelix Growing project is a team of braniacs hoping to build robots with human emotions that can adapt and respond to our needs depending on our interactions with them. So let’s say you’re happy cause you just got a 60-inch HDTV, the robot will pick up on…

Tech News Louis Ramirez

Adding to Collection of Keyboard Puns: Save Key Piggybank

As a part of our continuing series on useful objects patterned after keyboard keys, our next candidate is this little play on words, a coin bank that looks like a Save button. Ironically, at $9.75 it just about costs more than the amount of coins it can hold. https://gizmodo.com/sit-key-stool-makes-programmers-chuckle-regular-people-239009 Now if someone will make a…

Gadgets Charlie White

HDMI Switches: Don’t Get Ripped Off!

HDMI connectivity is getting cheaper wherever you look. It used to be that you’d have to pay exorbitant prices for anything with HDMI stamped on it—routing that digital video (up to 1080p) and audio at the same time must be incredibly expensive, right? But HDMI cables sold by unscrupulous retailers for 10 times more than…

Tech News Charlie White

Lego Toilet Paper Folder: Life-Changing Invention?

Is there no limit to what you can make with Lego? Kyle Yeats and his friends at UC Berkeley put together this toilet paper folder out of Lego Mindstorms and a bit of scrap metal. It folds up a heaping helping of toilet paper for you, and then cuts it, conveniently delivering it to your…

Gadgets Charlie White

Microstrain Sensors Measures Fatigue in Both Machines and Your Busted Knees

A small company in Vermont called Microstrain has developed a wireless sensor system that can monitor strain and fatigue in various hardware components, such as large trucks all the way down to welding joints, accurate to millionths of a meter. This is like a nervous system … By predicting when welds may fail based upon…

Gadgets Alexander Yoon

The Real Microsoft Ultimate Wireless Keyboard Gallery: My Fingers Are In Love

Click to viewThis is probably the sexiest keyboard we’ve ever played with. Beating Microsoft’s own Wireless Entertainment Desktop 7000, the WED 8000 is the ultimate in design coming out of their exceptional peripherals department. This, my friends, is Microsoft’s Ultimate Keyboard. https://gizmodo.com/microsoft-ultimate-wireless-7000-keyboard-hands-on-230062 We got our hands on an almost-final production version and took enough pictures…

Tech News Jason Chen

The 27-inch Dell LCD Dilemma: Why it’s Brilliant…But Too Pricey Today

Despite its undeniably large dimensions, by the stats, the Dell 27-inch LCD seemed like a flop to me. It has the same exact resolution of 1920 by 1200 that many 24-inch monitors have. Laughably, it is the same price as Dell’s monster 30-inch monitor. CNet, the first ones out the gate with a review, gave…

Tech News Brian Lam

Microsoft Slapped with $1.52 Billion Patent Fine; Alcatel-Lucent May Want More, More, More

The $1.52 billion in damages Microsoft was ordered to pay by a federal jury for infringing on Alcatel-Lucent’s audio patents dealing with MP3 standards may in fact be a smaller note in the story. And not just because that’s only about six weeks of cash flow. One of the analysts said that the ruling could…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

Bookshelf Speakers Hide Your Illiteracy

Although if these are the only books in your living room, we think people will catch on. Call it a hunch. Product Page

Gadgets Jason Chen

Scissors Cell Phone Strap

You never know when you’ll need a pair of scissors for opening gadget boxes or cutting nose hairs. Not that I have nose hairs. But I bet you do. Mini-Scissors Cell Phone Strap [TokyoMango]

Tech News Lisa Katayama

Sit Key Stool Makes Programmers Chuckle, Regular People Groan

In the same vein as the delete key eraser, this sit key stool takes the keyboard and makes it part of your decor. https://gizmodo.com/delete-the-new-erase-237691 Not an actual key on any keyboard we know of—the END key would have made more sense, possibly—it’s still a pretty cool piece of furniture for the nerd in your life.…

Gadgets Jason Chen

Switch to Sprint, Support Planned Parenthood, and Skip on the Fee

If you’re looking to ditch your current cell carrier in favor of Sprint and are also a fan of reproductive rights, Planned Parenthood has a great deal for you. Planned Parenthood Wireless is a new choice for your cell phone service. By signing up for this service, you will help preserve reproductive rights, and ensure…

Tech News Adam Frucci

Desolation Row (Color)

CantikFotos has posted a color photo of the amazing Desolation Row in Taiwan. Like the view from Google Maps the new image adds another level of paleo-futuristic wonder to the development.

Tech News Matt Novak

Cellphone Ankle Strap is Unbelievably Awesome

Heading off to a formal affair tonight? Save room in your purse by carrying your cellphone on an ankle strap. Add some pearls, a little poop cellphone strap, six-inch heels, and you’re gunning set to fit into any crowd. https://gizmodo.com/japanese-golden-poop-cellphone-charm-205693 Hell, if you can carry a gun this way, why not a cellphone? We certainly…

Gadgets Jason Chen

Conde Nast Backs Up Fake Steve Jobs in Fight with Real Steve Jobs

When Fake Steve Jobs, the anonymous blogger who parodied the real man, was asked to cease and desist, he asked for a sugar daddy to keep the site going. After only a few weeks, Wired News emerged as the lucky sponsor. I wonder how much he sold his soul for — fighting those lawyers can’t…

Tech News Brian Lam

Wii Turns Elderly Into Addicts

I remember people laughing at Nintendo’s blue ocean strategy, where they said they were going to go after the untapped sections of the game market like the elderly. Well if the Sedgebrook Retirement Community in Chicago, IL is a good indicator of Blue Ocean’s success, then they are definitely onto something cause these geriatrics are…

Tech News Ben Longo

Nokia Patent Morphs Your Stylus into a Cell Phone Joystick

Though it bears a very strong resemblance to another joystick/cell phone patent we’ve recently seen, Nokia’s take on mobile gaming is slightly different cause rather than house a pop-up joystick in your cell phone’s mid-riff, they want you to use your stylus as a joystick. Seems like a neat trick as long as it’s a…

Gadgets Louis Ramirez

ELITE Bomb Detector Kit Identifies Explosives in a Minute

Now you could argue that a minute is one minute too slow, but for those times when the bomb squad ain’t around, the pocket-friendly ELITE (Easy Livermore Inspection Test for Explosives) detector lets you sniff out up to 30 different types of explosives. Just rub one of the ELITE swipes on the suspicious package (hopefully…

Gadgets Louis Ramirez

Eleksen’s Double-sided Keyboard Gives Your UMPC Media Controls

PMA07 Coming: Lots of Cameras So Far, More On the Way

Feelix Growing Project Looking to Build Robots with Attitude

Adding to Collection of Keyboard Puns: Save Key Piggybank

HDMI Switches: Don’t Get Ripped Off!

Lego Toilet Paper Folder: Life-Changing Invention?

Microstrain Sensors Measures Fatigue in Both Machines and Your Busted Knees

The Real Microsoft Ultimate Wireless Keyboard Gallery: My Fingers Are In Love

The 27-inch Dell LCD Dilemma: Why it’s Brilliant…But Too Pricey Today

Microsoft Slapped with $1.52 Billion Patent Fine; Alcatel-Lucent May Want More, More, More

Bookshelf Speakers Hide Your Illiteracy

Scissors Cell Phone Strap

Sit Key Stool Makes Programmers Chuckle, Regular People Groan

Switch to Sprint, Support Planned Parenthood, and Skip on the Fee

Desolation Row (Color)

Cellphone Ankle Strap is Unbelievably Awesome

Conde Nast Backs Up Fake Steve Jobs in Fight with Real Steve Jobs

Wii Turns Elderly Into Addicts

Nokia Patent Morphs Your Stylus into a Cell Phone Joystick

ELITE Bomb Detector Kit Identifies Explosives in a Minute

Ranking 2016’s Superhero Debuts, 10 Years Later

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