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Blowing into your hands to warm them up isn’t exactly new or tech-savvy, but Gorgonz has managed to give that old method of self-heating a 21st-century upgrade. Their new line of gloves has a small mouthpiece for blowing in, and your hot breath gets trapped inside and circulates to the fingers. It’s a low-tech yet…
Reader Brian sends us this video along with his narrative: “I had noticed the last couple days, always around lunch time I saw someone out back of my house fixing something.. so yesterday I decided to actually watch him, and see what he was doing… and so a video was born.” This one’s right up…
You might wanna take this one with an extra grain of salt, but German news site Gamefront is reporting that new Wiimotes are currently being worked on. The revamped Wiimotes (if they exist) include better grips and a rechargeable battery. Hopefully this will put an end to any Wiimote throwers out there. https://gizmodo.com/nyts-david-pogue-wiimote-throwers-are-babies-225003 Rumor: New…
Microsoft just released its Photo Info Tool that digital photogs will dig. Without messing with the actual photographic image, it lets you edit the metadata that accompanies each image without having to open Photoshop or any other image editor. You can access all of its functions right there in Windows Explorer with a quick right-click,…
Israel likes to keep its military in tip-top shape since it’s not exactly in a friendly neighborhood. To that end, it is (and has been) developing micro air vehicles (MAVs) the size of a hornet designed to attack its enemies. Other countries are getting onboard with the whole “tiny killer robot from outer space” motif,…
Radio listeners in Europe may need to thank the European Space Agency if all goes according to plan. The ESA is set to debut a new type of multimedia radio tomorrow that makes use of currently existing satellites and a low profile antenna affixed to cars’ roofs (seen here). The new and improved (!) radio…
The Blackbird Rider is a guitar made out of carbon fiber that was designed using 3D CAD software. It’s 2/3 the size of an ordinary guitar but makes up for that by being hollow throughout—even in its neck and head—making the entire guitar a sound box. The goal of this design was to get the…
Valentine’s Day is coming up, and here’s a unique gift for that red letter day: a limited edition clock (without alarm) called the Black Heart Flipperoo from Gama-Go. It combines an old-timey clock-with-hands (you do remember how to tell analog time, don’t you?) with individually-designed flipping dates. Slightly different from the Flipperoos we’ve seen here…
Business 2.0’s 101 Dumbest Moments in Business article earned some major pickup today, recapping blunders by McDonalds, Starbucks, Walmart, Sony, and Microsoft to name a few. We recall all of the mishaps, saying Doh to ourselves 100 times, but there was one product mentioned which I felt was not dumb, but Brilliant. See the I-Tattoo,…
Sony’s last major Bravia ad was great: it was engaging and memorable, even if it really said nothing at all about Bravia TVs. Its new spot, while actually sporting a Bravia set (in front of a Sony Style store no less), still offers nil about the product itself. But, as Slate’s ad critic extraordinaire, Seth…
Netgear’s Storage Central has been popular enough with the home and small business market for them to release an updated version. The SC101T now supports SATA drives instead of IDE, has disk mirroring, and finally supports Gigabit Ethernet. About gorram time, we say. https://gizmodo.com/netgears-networking-storage-solution-154459 The Storage Central Turbo should be available early 2007 wherever the…
If your photoshop skills suck as bad as ours does—queen of poop anyone?—this keyboard skin for Apple laptops may just be the thing for you. The XSKN is just a silicone keyboard skin with the appropriate Photoshop shortcut keys silk screened onto the surface. This way you can just look down at your keyboard to…
IEEE’s 802.11n working group has given Draft 2.0 of the spec a thumbs up, sending it off to members for approval by the end of this month. The upshot is that once it’s okayed by all members, work on Draft 3.0 starts in earnest, to be sent out for voting by June. As long as…
After having to get Lasik surgery due to these insanely blurry HTC Vox spy shots, we’re glad to see HTC release some real photos for the slider, even if they are just renders. https://gizmodo.com/htc-vox-sliding-smartphone-spy-shot-229354 According to the photos, the Vox will be among the first of HTC’s phones to run Windows Mobile Crossbow, the “next-gen”…
If you’re looking to get a head start on Vista, Newegg has the 32-bit version of Vista Ultimate up for $199. More legit than bittorrent, but a little less legit than retail, this OEM version is supposedly only for OEMs. That doesn’t stop Newegg, or you, from getting one for yourself. Quite a good deal,…
Scott Clark, over at Everything USB loaded up his Honda with beef jerky and a GPS to help him find his way on his coast to coast road trip. When I say GPS, I mean he used a Laptop, GPS module and Microsoft’s Streets & Trips 2007. It’s passe to make Microsoft UI jokes, so…
We’re not much for iPod cases around here—why get a cool looking player just to hide it—but this iBumps seems like a pretty good idea. Instead of covering up the entire face, these four bumps raise up the player to prevent scratches on a flat surface. Not only that, they’re non-slip, so you can place…
The girls at Shiny Shiny are still pink in the face after a quick rendezvous with LG’s sexy, silvery Shine. Despite the phone’s smudge-able looks, they found the Shine to be pretty resistant to fingerprints and scratches. The phone’s spinning scroll wheel, located on its midriff, is also intuitive despite suffering from a bit of…
I was surprised when NYT’s tech journo David Pogue’s most recent blog post was written as a song Hazing to the RIAA. His lead claimed that he had a music past as a Broadway conductor and arranger, which a little emailing and googling confirmed. These days, its rare to find opinions from Pogue that differ…
We’ve seen mini guitar USB drives before, but this is the first one officially licensed by Gibson. https://gizmodo.com/mini-guitar-usb-drive-packs-256mb-of-mojo-209726 Designed like the Gibson Le Paul Standard, this 1GB, USB2.0 flash drive screams “I’m a musician, please sleep with me” louder than anything else attached to your laptop. Unless of course you’re playing your demo track called…