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Running Over the Otterbox Laptop Case

Unbox.it, the obsessive compulsive’s guide to opening boxes, ran over Otterbox’s latest rugged laptop case with a Toyota 4Runner. While the case didn’t quite make it through this ordeal, the simulated laptop inside—actually two pieces of styrofoam—did. Clearly it would have been much cooler if they had stuck in a laptop, but watching trucks run…

Tech News John Biggs

Apple Wins Again: iPopMyBaby.com

In another bold legal move by Apple and their crack team of lawyers, iPodMyBaby has changed their name to iPopMyBaby. In what way is baby clothing a threat to the massive Cupertino juggernaut? Glad you asked. Like the Communist Party in the 1950s or a nasty cold sore, using the iPod name to sell baby…

Gadgets John Biggs

Finger Drums Noisemaker

Now you can really bother that miscreant in the next cubicle with Finger Drums, a mouse pad-sized annoyance device whose manufacturer deliberately neglected to include a headphone jack. The touch-sensitive pad gives you an entire miniature electronic drum set at your disposal, including a snare drum, high hat, three tom toms, a bass drum and…

Gadgets Charlie White

Design Concept: Sonoclean Ultrasonic Cleaning Device

When someone dreams up a design concept that will make washing dishes easier, our interest is piqued. This Sonoclean ultrasound cleaning device will take the place of that spray nozzle that pulls out of the kitchen sink, sending ultrasound waves through the sprayed water and blasting away dirt without the need for any dishwashing liquid.…

Gadgets Charlie White

Designer Bluetooth: Jabra JX10

The Jabra JX10 is a great-looking Bluetooth headset, and after all, if you’re going to be wearing something all the time you want it to be great-looking. What? You don’t wear your Bluetooth headset all the time? Good. Don’t. Anyway, Jacob Jensen is the designer of this $180 bauble from Jabra, which is light as…

Gadgets Charlie White

Olympus Voice Trek G-10

Olympus announced its Voice Trek G-10, a voice recorder whose corner slips off to reveal a USB jack which you plug directly into your PC to transfer your recordings. Its built-in 256MB of memory seems rather paltry until you realize that you can shoehorn 69 hours of low-quality audio recording into its mini form factor…

Gadgets Charlie White

BeatBuckle Keeps Your Hands Free

Wear that iPod right up front and center with the BeatBuckle, available for nano and the 30GB or 60GB iPod. This clear plastic belt buckle has a dual locking design to keep that iPod safe. Made by the same company that for some reason brought us the pointless NES buckle, this competitor to the silver-rimmed…

Gadgets Charlie White

DIY: Homemade Headphones

Some people in Ghana are doing more than just spamming us. Case in point: a kid named Prince Dzuckey of the Takoradi Technical Institute in Takoradi, Ghana who’s figured out how to make a pair of headphones out of a couple of old speakers, bottle caps, some wire and a few stray pieces of foam.…

Gadgets Charlie White

Console Power Usage

Have you ever wondered how much power your game consoles are sucking up? The next generation consoles like the Xbox 360 have remote control activation and standby-charging, which means there’s going to be some power draw even when you’ve shut down the machine. DX Gaming tested all the consoles in the last two generations, and…

Tech News Jason Chen

USB Teddy Bear With Removable Head

If you were to embed a USB flash drive into a teddy bear, where would you put the connector? In the hand? Crotch? Feet? Tail? If you answered “in the brain stem, beneath the severed head” give yourself the clap a clap on the back. A modder decided to empty out the guts of a…

Gadgets Jason Chen

Nokia Announces Five New Cellphones

If pandas pumped out babies as often as Nokia pumped out new phones, we’d be eating panda-roast every week instead of just once every few years when we visit China. The 6151 3G phone has a 1.3 megapixel camera, 30MB onboard memory, microSD support, FM radio, Bluetooth and push to talk. It should be available…

Tech News Jason Chen

Sony Ericsson K610im With i-mode

Sony Ericsson has just announced its first GSM/UMTS phone to support i-mode, the internet viewing/push mail service. The phone itself is pretty decent, with a 2 megapixel camera and support for up to 1GB M2 Memory Sticks. There’s also a speaker phone, MP3/AAC/AAC+/eAAC+ support, 3d games, Bluetooth, USB2.0 connectivity, and USB charging. The press release…

Tech News Jason Chen

Happy Father’s Day!

A happy father’s day goes out to all of those gadget-loving dads out there—especially our own, JohnB, who is celebrating his very first father’s day with Kasper. May the presents of gadgets and love come today for all of those pops out there. Have a good day, you guys deserve it. https://gizmodo.com/exclusive-kasper-the-incredibly-human-technology-stra-145485

Tech News Travis Hudson

The Week In Comments

Blind Spot Revealed: Drivaware LaneFX I have to add because I’ve been a total nut about this ever since someone mentioned it on a blog and I tried it: to adjust your side view mirrors properly, wait for a car to pass you on the left or right, and then position the side view mirror…

Tech News Jason Chen

Japanese Automated Parking Garage Video

A bit lower tech than the VW automated parking garage, this Japanese parking garage stores and retrieves your car like a jukebox, spinning around until yours comes up. https://gizmodo.com/vws-automated-parking-garage-173049 Park your car on the rotating platform and it gets stored, awaiting your eventual return from Victoria’s Secret, where you were buying negligees for your mistress.…

Gadgets Jason Chen

TiVo Applies For Content-On-Demand Download Service

Speaking of TiVo, the US patent office gave the world a sneak peek at TiVo’s new download service labeled “Method and apparatus for secure transfer of previously broadcasted content and Method and apparatus for secure transfer and playback of multimedia content”. https://gizmodo.com/free-tivo-for-nashville-sounds-fans-on-fathers-day-181523 In English, this means TiVo is going to let you download a show/movie…

Tech News Jason Chen

Free TiVo For Nashville Sounds Fans On Father’s Day

This really beats stuff like free bat day or free chimichanga day. The Nashville Sounds is going to give away a free TiVo to all fathers Sunday in their game against the Oklahoma RedHawks. The game starts at 6PM and gates open at 4:30PM. Even if you don’t like baseball, this is a free TiVo!…

Tech News Jason Chen

California Passes Vampire Slayer Act

Why are Californians worried about Vampires, and why should it matter to us? These vampires aren’t the David Boreanaz kind, instead, California Lawmakers are referring to electronics that suck power when they’re plugged in even when they’re not being used. DVD Players, battery chargers, and game consoles are culprits of having standby modes that draw…

Gadgets Jason Chen

802.11 pre-N Routers Running Into Issues

Not only are most of the the pre-N and draft-N routers on the shelves today going to be incompatible with the final spec, they’re incompatible with 802.11b/g products (and with each other). Three chipsets are on the market today that are being used in these N routers: Airgo, Broadcom and Marvell. In tests, Airgo received…

Tech News Jason Chen

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Running Over the Otterbox Laptop Case

Apple Wins Again: iPopMyBaby.com

Finger Drums Noisemaker

Design Concept: Sonoclean Ultrasonic Cleaning Device

Designer Bluetooth: Jabra JX10

Olympus Voice Trek G-10

BeatBuckle Keeps Your Hands Free

DIY: Homemade Headphones

Console Power Usage

USB Teddy Bear With Removable Head

Nokia Announces Five New Cellphones

Sony Ericsson K610im With i-mode

Happy Father’s Day!

The Week In Comments

Japanese Automated Parking Garage Video

TiVo Applies For Content-On-Demand Download Service

Free TiVo For Nashville Sounds Fans On Father’s Day

California Passes Vampire Slayer Act

802.11 pre-N Routers Running Into Issues

Gizmodo Today

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