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What is the Pop and Wrap, you ask? Well, it’s a CableYoYo with a suction cup. Good idea? Sure. Kind of obvious? Absolutely. Well, at least someone will make some cash off of this idea, and the CableYoYo folks are a kind and gentle sort, so good on ’em. https://gizmodo.com/live-at-macworld-cableyoyo-saves-fall-prone-reporter-147780 Product Page [CableYoYo]
This case mod, made by Jeffrey Stephenson, is just about as cool as they come. Designed to look like a Unidyne microphone from days of yore, this beast contains a mini motherboard. The fact that he made this from scratch is just about amazing. Check out his other PCs, including the sexy humidor. Mod Page…
We covered this quite a while ago, but it now appears to be available online for those of you who are unable to tell if little Spike is colicky, wet, or underneath a pile of laundry. https://gizmodo.com/baby-gadgets-the-why-cry-analyzer-9683 While this gadget can be easily replaced by a little trick called “good parenting,” this seems perfect for…
We love the elegance of Jeremy Walton’s paraffin candle with its 40 hours of burning time and built-in matchbox so much that we hesitate to tell you about the stereotypical Maxim/FHM-reading guy we used to go out with whom this would be a perfect gift for, if only it also had a drawer for condoms…
We received the ZP80 bundle last week and got to play with it over the weekend. This $999 bundle is essentially a mini Sonos ZonePlayer with WiFi and built-in Ethernet. I swapped the optical cable from my AirPort and plugged the whole thing in. Using the included Sonos Desktop for Macs, I was able to…
Hard to believe it’s only been seven years since Steve Jobs first showed us the candy-colored clamshell iBook at Macworld NYC, isn’t it? Who knew all it would take for us to realize laptops could be cute was colored plastic? If you’ve just purchased a new iBook, you’re probably going to be more annoyed than…
In their latest venture into the smartphone world, Lenovo’s latest addition is the i921 smartphone. Akihabara is reporting that this phone will possibly run Windows Mobile 5. It also operates on the GSM network and includes a QVGA screen, Bluetooth, 2-megapixel camera and MiniSD expansion. Unfortunately Lenovo’s mobile phone adventures are restricted to the Asia…
News from Korea that iRiver has recently announced the launch of a new member to the iRiver N series, the N12. Available for about $209 this week (in Korea, at least), the N12 comes in black and red and features 1GB of storage. Like the N11 before it, the N12 sports a Swarovski Crystal. Lastly,…
Elgato (meow?) has released a long-awaited update to their EyeTV series. The 250 series allows cable/antenna recording and comes in a small package roughly the size of an iPod. Simply plug the coax into the EyeTV and then plug the EyeTV into the USB port on your Mac. This device isn’t a strain on your…
More clever displays of ingenuity today with pictures of a mouse mod sure to get people asking, Why? It’s a completely functional mouse housed inside an Altoids tin. The mouse mod, pieced together with parts from a Logitech optical mouse and assisted by plenty of free time, is sure to make all-night WoW raids all…
T-Mobile will be releasing this specially-branded Robbie Williams Sony Ericcson W300i in June over in the United Kingdom—sorry, Americans, you shouldn’t like Robbie William’s music anyway. Supposedly ‘ole Robert “creatively influenced” the W300i himself. It comes loaded with exclusive Robbie Williams content including video clips, ringtones, wallpapers and animations. The back of the phone also…
It washes! It massages! It washes AND massages! *gasp* Launching in the UK this month for £40, and as yet unavailable in the US, all we really want to know about Panasonic’s Body Brush & Massager is: will it love us like the Hitachi Magic Wand? Panasonic Body Brush & Massager [Panasonic UK via Gadget…
Hailed as an iPod killer by marketing goons (what isn’t an iPod killer nowadays?), Toshiba is poised to debut its Gigabeat S line of portable digital media players on April 28 in Japan. The Gigabeat S line features two different players, the Gigabeat S30 and the Gigabeat S60, which have 30 and 60 gigabytes of…
Inspired by classic platform-esque games such as Super Mario Bros. and Pitall, Victor Szilagyi and Tristam Sparks have designed and built xBlocks. It uses traditional game controllers and two players will control characters and navigate them throughout the 3D maze. Szilagyi and Sparks designed this for the Mattel Design Challenge 2005 for the Interaction Design…
Nothing is more of a pain-in-the-ass than dealing with airports and luggage. Checking luggage, losing luggage, regulations, fees, etc. can all make your relaxing vacation turn into a stressful nightmare. Ricardo has developed luggage that can solve one of the blunders. This line, named “The Solutions” offers a digital scale that is built into the…
Nespresso invited design students from all over Europe to consider how coffee rituals of today might evolve and fit into future lifestyles, and announced the winners of their Design Contest last week at the Milan furniture fair. The gadget to the left is the second place winner, the InCar coffee machine, designed by Thijs van…
Gizmondo exec, Stefan Erikkson, has certainly made a lot of news lately and it has nothing to do with his crappy, kidney shaped portable media device. In the latest turn of events, Eriksson has been officially arrested and held without bail on suspicion of grand theft. Get the full scoop, after the jump. The charges…
This EVDO USB adapter made its debut at CTIA last week with open arms. It is primarily targeted to owners of desktops or smaller laptops that lack PCMCIA slots, but still want some EVDO love. For example all of the MacBook Pros and six different Dell laptop models lack PCMCIA slots. It operates at USB…
An Interview with Chad Hurley and Steve Chen, Founders of YouTube.com By Brian L. Clark Disruptive. That’s one way to describe YouTube.com. But founders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen tend to disagree. To them, this market is a clear extension of the entertainment industry. Since its public preview in May of last year, the YouTube…
E3 fever, can you feel it? With only 28 days left, only the most minor of announcements are being made. But that doesn’t mean that nothing is going on in the world of gaming. Oh, quite the contrary! Here’s a recap of what’s been going on at Kotaku week, including some next-gen madness! The PlayStation…