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The idea of the SeeEye2Eye is sound. Who wouldn’t want to be able to look someone in the eye instead of looking down when you’re in a Skype or iChat conference? Although the SeeEye2Eye teleprompter/periscope does work the way it’s intended—letting you look directly at the webcam instead of at the screen when you’re video-chatting…
Rather than driving across the country with crappy Microsoft GPS software and a laptop, pick up a quality piece of GPS hardware with the TomTom Go 300. Circuit City has this GPS device for $370 after $130 of instant savings. The device has 32MB of memory, SD expandability, voice commands, touch screen and more. https://gizmodo.com/2-500-mile-roadtrip-microsoft-mapware-laptop-gps-230964…
If you’ve got a hankerin’ to make some field recordings for your next conceptual folk-rock opus, this Zoom H4 portable recorder will give you studio-quality recordings of people on the subway platform for you to layer over with reverb-drenched guitar. You are such an artist! It records to SD cards and has a USB connection,…
This basic coffee mug can also function as an optical computer mouse. I’m sure the ergonomics aren’t the greatest, but it will keep your hand warm and give you something to impress everyone in the office with. It is still a conceptual design right now, but expect the MugMouse to be hitting the crappy gift…
As much as we like the Wii, it’s no secret that its graphics ain’t exactly state of the art. So we were a little crestfallen when we heard Nintendo’s U.S. prez Reggie Fils-Amie tell GamePro that there are no plans for an HD-capable Wii. “83 percent of households do not have the means to produce…
Can’t go anywhere without that bar? Drag this sturdy portable bar along, and you can set up your cups anytime and anywhere. It’s complete with an ice bucket, room for plenty of juice bottles and there’s even a rail that can hold eleven 750mL bottles. That’s a lot of drinks, almost enough for one night…
…but I don’t know why anybody would want to do that. This swiveling panel can rotate the TV around 180 degrees making it vanish completely. I’m trying to figure out a good application for this monstrosity of an entertainment center—maybe if you felt like knocking out a wall in your house, this could be an…
There’s no real info on this to be had, but this is purportedly the upcoming Motorola Z8. It looks to be the next Motorizr, coming hot on the heels of the Z6. From the picture we can deduce that it’s a slider, it has green accents, and it has a camera on the front that…
Add this $23 Thanko USB Warming Mouse II to the pantheon of mice that can surely warm up those popsicle fingers this winter. Choosing between this one, its predecessor and Brando’s USB warming mouse will be a challenge, but we know you can do it. https://gizmodo.com/brando-usb-warming-mouse-215318 Combine one of these with a heated toilet seat…
Getting the kiddos to read can be in the pain in the ass sometimes—I should know, I have 13 kids (not really). But I can remember back in the day asking my mom over and over how much longer I had to read before going to play some Nintendo. The Mark-My-Time bookmark replaces the parent…
This week at Lifehacker: Secure VNC with Hamachi “Pairing up VNC with Hamachi, a Virtual Private Network application, you can remote control any computer securely over your private network across any combination of operating systems.” Encrypt your instant messages with Gaim “You’re instant messaging your wife from the office and you’d rather the IT guys…
We’re all painfully aware of the high-def war going on between Blu-ray and HD DVD, but CE Pro’s Jason Unger brings the frontline a little closer to home as he talks with reps from both sides of the camp. Here’s a look at some of the mud-slinging that took place during his sit downs. HD…
A tipster who works for the sister company of M&M Mars picked up a few bags of the chocolate candies at the company’s outlet store where he works in Australia, and what did he find but Apple logos printed on some of the M&Ms inside. A fluke? Part of an upcoming promo campaign in Australia?…
The Navy has figured out a strange way to neutralize deadly mines near the beach: using a satellite-guided bomb that releases thousands of poison darts. Each .50 caliber Venom dart is packing some seriously poisonous stuff called DETA, causing some of the mines to explode and then neutralizing the rest of them with caustic chemicals.…
Here’s a radical shoe design, the Nike Water Cat. They’re super-light, sticky-rubberized for stepping in puddles large or small, and easily collapsible so they fit into a backpack without taking up much space. Nobody is saying when these kicks will be available, but we’re hoping they’ll be ready in time for our Gizmodo whitewater rafting…
The Samsung A707 (you know, the music playin’, jive talking’, RAZR wannabe) is getting a nice coat of red paint just in time for Valentine’s Day. The specs remain the same—2-megapixel camera, HSDPA, lots of different audio file format support, etc.—as does the price ($50 with two-year contract). And as we all know, nothing says…
If you weren’t busy enough as it is, we are giving away a Nintendo Wii. The contest will pit your brains against our trivia, if you answer the question correct you can enter the contest with a chance to win a Nintendo Wii. If you missed part one of the trivia contest, it is right…
Swedish company PopCatcher has developed technology that’s going to be a lawsuit waiting to happen if it hits US shores: its software is able to tell the difference between music, speech and commercials, and the company’s MusicDock MD-601 automatically captures those songs, storing them as 192kbps MP3 files onto its docked MP3 player. Whoa! Reviewer…
Sony greeted its PS3 fans with a shiny new update this morning. Version 1.50 fixes backward compatibility issues with PS1 and PS2 games. Specifically, it’ll allow them to run in progressive scan mode. Other than that, it’s hard to tell what else has been fixed since there’s no update log. Anyone notice any changes after…
Ry Cooder, prolific solo artist and talented session musician, was having a lot of trouble getting his new album to sound right. Then, by accident, he discovered the magic method to mastering his record and making it sound awesome: iTunes. By burning it with the “sound enhancer” accidentally turned on, Cooder got his album sounding…