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Oh boon Flo, how do we love thee? Let us count the ways. 1) You easily grip onto bathtub faucets, protecting children from hitting themselves on those nasty metal things. 2) You stream the water 12″ in front of you into a pleasant waterfall, making it easier to wash children’s hair. 3) You store and…
Coinstar, the company’s whose coin counting machines transform loose change into cold hard cash at grocery stores across the country, recently introduced a program that allows patrons to cash their coins in exchange for gift cards and eCertificates redeemable at various retailers, including Apple’s iTunes Music Store. The program also has the added benefit of…
Those wacky Germans at König+Neurath have designed a sort of mobile office unit that gives the age old office cubicle a (much needed?) update. Standing at just over six feet tall, the St@ndby-Office is just that: a ready-made portable office cubicle complete with integrated Wi-Fi. It’s made of steel, aluminum and wood and, utilizing what…
We got all verklempt when we read the headline “Nokia Podcasting Application for S60 3rd Edition” a few minutes ago, only to be disappointed when we realized the application was just for downloading and listening/watching to podcasts, instead of editing and uploading them. Don’t get us wrong, downloading your podcast subscriptions on the fly over…
Underwhelmed by Apple’s iPod Hi-Fi, PC Magazine’s Bill Machrone gutted an old boom box and retrofitted the cassette player to hold an iPod, creating the iBook Lo-Fi for under $50. If you like the idea, you can make your own by following his detailed walkthrough; if you’re lazy but feeling lucky, just enter the contest…
Developed by four Dartmouth undergrads in an engineering design class, the GyroBike helps children to ride bicycles by using gyroscoping precission to turn the front wheel in the direction of a child’s impending fall, both correcting the imbalance and teaching them the counterintuitive but correct way to keep themselves from falling. Dear GyroBike: we never…
The urge to watch TV probably ranks among the greatest urges in the whole of humanity. What better way to indulge than to watch TV on your laptop, no matter where you are in the world? The V-Gear MobiTV Global is a USB TV adapter that sets itself apart from the rest of the crowd…
A group of Chinese hardware pirates have created a group of factories, a sales force, and even a line of products all under the NEC moniker. Not only did their representatives carry NEC business cards, they: n the name of NEC, the pirates copied NEC products, and went as far as developing their own range…
No, that’s not a typo. This UMPC comes from a company in deepest France called It’s Label. This UMPC runs the VIA C7M NaNo with Windows Tablet PC edition and 7-inch touchscreen with 40GB hard drive, Bluetooth, and WiFi. Nothing to write home about, but it should cost about $1200 and features a smug sense…
Having spent many a day back in grad school agonizing over our burned fingers because we were too dumb to learn how to hold the soldering tool properly, we thought ColdHeat’s quick to heat, quick to cool Soldering Tool was a great idea when it came out, even if it was two years too late…
When Steve Jobs says: “The new products in the pipeline are the best I’ve ever seen in my life,” he means it. And think of some of the products he has seen in his life: sliced bread, the steam locomotive, and penicillin. J_bs then told investors to potentially expect an Apple DVR as well as…
The XM3120 is a portable XM RoadyXT and XPress cradle with antenna and remote. Pretty sexy styling and it will coast about $100. Not much information, but we do know: The system contains specially engineered drivers to deliver a full spectrum of pure, distinct sound, as well as bass enhancement technology that pumps out quality…
This looks a bit too black box for our taste, but let’s give it a chance. It seems to be a mini-PC with RGB, S-Video, and Stereo Audio out as well as an Ethernet jack. It can supply IPTV, Video-on-Demand, and gaming as well as wireless keyboards smartcards. This paragraph: Imagine a computer so small…
Taking a page from the Gateway and Apple playbooks, Nokia will open two U.S. stores in Chicago and New York where they will sell all the hotness that the carriers don’t know how to market. The Chicago store will open June 21. Nokia has stores in Asia, Australia, and Europe but hasn’t quite cracked the…
While we kept singing that “White Rabbit” song as we browsed this site, this seems like a good idea for Gizmodo-fans and their close friends and relatives. Essentially, White Rabbit can find and purchase anything from Japan you’d likle. These things have been around for years, but these guys kind of know what’s up: Whether…
Had a bad morning commute today? Check out this cheery little video Amit Gupta sent in that he and Kara Canal put together, about how their Roomba spends the day while everyone else is out at work, it might make you feel a little better.
ColorWare’s finally gotten around to adding the MacBook Pro to their line-up of color customizable machines. Only the 15″ for now, $2449 for the 1.83 GHz model and $2949 for the 2 GHz. Each one can be painted in your choice of 24 standard colors and ships in two to three weeks after you order.…
Interesting grassroots effort to get IE off of every computer in the known universe. These scripts essentially turn IE into a giant advertisement for Firefox and offers you a $1 referral fee for every person you convince to switch. Idealistic yet unrealistic? Sure, but think of how much fun you’ll have pissing off the IE…
The $499 V610 is Kodak’s latest addition to their dual-lens line and offers 10X zoom—with a twist. Unfortunately, the zoom isn’t smooth and jumps between 114-130mm which, as the reviewer writes, is annoying. The V610 is ultra-thin and slick and has a number of interesting pre-sets. It has to 6MP CCD sensors but can only…
We played with one of these last year and they made a good running companion. Essentially, it’s a screenless MP3 player inside a pair of light headphones. Well, they’ve upgraded this little fellow with an FM tuner and 1GB of flash memory. Potentially good for running on the treadmill and listening to the TV piped…