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By Brendan I. Koerner Fuzzy logic is one of those high-falutin’ concepts that I realize I’m too dim to fully comprehend. I mean, okay, I get the part about partial truths between yes and no, or one and zero. Just don’t ask me to get up in front of a group of inquisitive eight-year-olds and…
Hey non-English speaking Europeans that have happened to stumble upon the English version of Gizmodo and are deciphering these words, this post is for you! Atlantis has released the X-380 GPS unit. This is a pretty ho-hum GPS unit, except for the fact that it supports up to 18 different languages and can read your…
You’ll stop laughing at the unfortunate name of this device about a minute into this video of PMPINSIDE’s Uren V1 being unboxed. The slim in-car PC/UMPC hybrid packs all of the features we wrote about before: 1GHz processor, 30GB hard drive, Windows XP, GPS, FM transmitter, 3-megapixel camera, DMB TV tuner, two USB ports, audio…
This unique device was first unveiled at the KES electronics show in Korea and it is slowly making it rounds around the web impressing and confusing. For me, it does a little bit of both. The RoadBox has a very weak VGA quality camera, and some very non-weak acceleration and speed monitors that can “sense”…
I’m in Tokyo, and I’ve been avoiding gadgets. After all, I’m supposed to be on vacation. But today Lisa took me to Akiba, and I ended up running through a dozen stores, groping over 50 handsets. I’ve written about some, like the incredibly simple Wilcom R9, glowing Sony Ericsson w43s and walkman-like w42s. But gripping…
Good news all around in the medical world—the first home HIV test has been launched in the U.K. This test involves swabbing a sample of saliva and sending it off to a laboratory. Upon a negative sample, the person will receive an e-mail, if it is a positive HIV sample a doctor will call directly,…
The majority of you told us in a survey yesterday that you’d rather just have a cellphone without all those multiple features on board, but what if you had a display that was 800×480? And you could display all your favorite pics in all their wide-screen glory (simulated usage above)? https://gizmodo.com/eclipse-design-phone-is-simple-better-224645 Hitachi just started cranking…
KDDI Corp has developed a breathalyzer/cellphone combo that prevents inebriated taxi and bus drivers in Japan from getting behind the wheel. Companies that buy the phone will require their employees to blow into the breathalyzer before getting behind the wheel. The phone then measures how drunk (or sober) you are and sends the results to…
Leave it to those Finns with their small asses to create a simple object that lets you carry three beers and gives you a place to sit after you’ve quickly guzzled them in a couple of minutes. The product is available in 13 colors, and it’s called a Footstool, but works just as well with…
They told us it was bullet-proof, unbreakable. Yet in a mere eight days, a hacker by the name of Muslix64 has managed to single-handedly break the Advanced Access Content System (AACS), the standard that Disney, Intel, Microsoft, Sony, and others developed to protect HD DVD and Blu-ray discs. Or has he? The BackupHDDVD software Muslix64…
You might have heard of the divShare file sharing site, but would someone please explain to us how on earth a company like this can stay in business? You can upload unlimited files of any type, the files will stay there forever, and the company will serve unlimited downloads, too. There are no ads, no…
You’re not going to want to be on the receiving end of this DREAD gun, capable of cranking out 120,000 rounds per minute of .308 and .50 caliber round metal balls at 8000 feet per second (ft/s). To give you some perspective, the M-16 rifle delivers its ammunition at 3200 ft/s, and can shoot a…
The Showa Retro Heisi Pop Analog Watch would be great if you were alive in Japan from 1926 to 1989. Then you’d appreciate the fact that in order to extract the time from this watch, you have to dial 117 on the rotary face. Once you do that, a robotic woman will announce the time…
Here’s another design from Rune Larsen, the designer of the Easy as Pi phone. All the phone has is a standard keypad and a pop-up see-through LCD. https://gizmodo.com/even-simpler-tiny-phone-makes-phone-calls-and-thats-it-221462 This makes us wonder. Are people actually interested in higher megapixel counts, more memory, more connectivity, more media playback, and more everything in their phones? Or do…
Though it looks like it could blow a hole through a steel door, what you’re looking at is a 400mm picture camera from Leica. Dubbed the Leica Gun, it’s part of a rare camera auction taking place on January 28th through Tamarkin Photographica and eBay Live Auctions. While it looks like it can scare the…
Did you get a cool new gadget for Christmas? Has your dog eaten it yet? If so, did you take a photo? Teresa S did, with her dog demonstrating exactly how much he likes her new talking Barney. All together now: “I love you, you love me, there’s a dog chewing on me…” She could…
Being that we’ve lived most our lives in California or other temperate areas, we’ve never known the pain of scraping ice off our windshields when we set off for work in the morning. Here’s a reminder for you poor bastards up in the northeast: this Eddie Bauer electric ice scraper is a pretty handy way…
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What do you get when you overclock Nvidia’s GeForce 8800 GTX? As the folks at i4U found out, you get the fastest card on the planet. With a core clock speed of 630MHz (up from the standard 575MHz), the 8800 GTX XXX Edition blazed through the charts scoring 11,138 on 3DMark06 (by comparison the XFX…
Not exactly new—we saw this on sale at our local target—this Nintendo themed Monopoly game could be great to get your video game-addicted kids to join in on a fun family activity. Complete with Donkey Kong’s barrel, Link’s Shield, Princess Peach’s barf bag and Mario’s girdle, Nintendo Monopoly is definitely in the top five themed…
