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We’re suckers for devices that solve a very specific problem, and these slippers do precisely that—the problem in this case being that most nefarious of crimes, slipper theft. Each slipper has a ring at the back that you slip the legs of a table or chair into; an alarm will ring in the event that…
Not to be outdone, AMD responds to Intel’s development of a quad-core processor with one of its own, an upgrade to its K8 architecture that the company is calling K8L. https://gizmodo.com/intel-to-ship-quad-core-processor-in-january-162418 Sources say the AMD part will be shipped about the same time as the quad-core Intel Kentsfield chip, in the first quarter of 2007.…
Fujitsu has just announced their MHV2200BT 200GB Serial ATA 2.5 HDD. Shipping in May, they say it will be the biggest drive for notebooks. You know what this means, right? Now you can rip every single Buffy episode from your DVD collection and carry them around with you at all times. Yeah! Sure, you’ll never…
Flip Flap, a coffee table designed by Artichoke Studio’s Han Kiang Siew, functions as a tabletop and magazine rack at the same time. To hear the artist tell it, it’s like a landscape… “…where 2 flying creatures encounter each other. In a serendipitous moment, they flirt. We inhabit this table in ways beyond mere physicality.…
We are remaining firmly skeptical about this, but there are some binaural sounds you can play through earphones that supposedly hack your brain, making you feel like you’ve had too much coffee, feel relaxed, or can even allegedly simulate sex. These downloadable sounds feed you a different tone in each ear, and the combination of…
We told you Sunday that Dual Tuner TiVos were on the way but that release date was still TBA, probably later this year. Now we’ve got a photo—we think they look pretty slick—and rumors that they’ll be out fairly soon, maybe later this week or maybe in May. Will they be out in time for…
Elecom, the Japanese company that is constantly in search of building a better mouse but rarely succeeds, has come up with the inelegantly-named M-MBDUR, a wireless pointing device for road warriors whose case doubles as its charger. Unless you have a square hand, it’s certainly not ergonomic, but its battery is said to last for…
If you spent a lot of time pretending you were Larvell Jones growing up, or you carry Mr T In Your Pocket wherever you go, we’re guessing you’re exactly the kind of person Phonebites Inc’s targeting with their Razz Software and Razz Headset. Both of them let you load sound clip collections (what they call…
When you’re using in-ear phones, the seal is everything, and Koss is attempting to capitalize on that phenomenon with The Plug, earbuds with shape-shifting hydrophillic urethane tips that conform to the shape of your ear canal. At just $14.95, it seems impossible that these earphones will sound very good, but the idea of a form-fitting…
Now your GPS can be amphibious, with the Garmin GPSMAP 378 and GPSMAP 478, which the company says are the first portable GPS devices loaded with land and sea data. If you spring for the optional antenna ($249.99), each can also be loaded with XM Satellite services, for music and graphic weather capabilities, which would…
We’ve been hearing rumblings of holographic drives and media for years, but now they’re actually on the way, ready to be shipped this year. We saw some of these holographic storage prototypes at CES, where 515GB of data can be shoehorned onto a square inch of disk space. What’s the catch? The first wave of…
What better service for our dear readers than telling you which hotels to avoid because of their world-class-awful WiFi service. The Hotel Chatter web site helped us out yesterday with a list of the best WiFi hotels, and follows that today with those that are best avoided. https://gizmodo.com/list-helps-you-avoid-hotel-wifi-hell-163164 Although the list is politely written, there…
Feature frog Design Mind https://gizmodo.com/frog-design-mind-162216 News On Target Urinal Games Samsung Smell-o-phone Turtle Beach Fails at Going Wireless for Gamers Deleted Text Message Reader CJAM 1000 Cellular Jammer i-Phono, PSP Bluetooth Transmitter Motorola Q Gets Delayed … Again Angstrom’s A2 Light: 24 hours On One Charge I. C. Can: Self-Cooling Beer, 30 Degrees Cooler in…
Being a man is great! People like Marcel Neundorfer can turn a simple task like urinating into a fun and exciting game. He placed a pressure-sensitive display pad within the urinal and when it is impacted an interactive game will be triggered on a front display screen. The target inside the urinal is small with…
Smell-o-vision was something previously reserved for cartoons and other gags. Well, Samsung has done the unthinkable and is actually developing a smell-o-phone. This phone will release “smell tones” upon incoming calls. According to the patent documentation the type and amount of perfume can be controlled. Thanks, Samsung. Now cell phones can annoy two of our…
In an “A for Effort” attempt, Turtle Beach has failed at helping the gamer go completely wireless. The Ear Force x2 Wireless Xbox Headphones is a pair of stereo headphones that can deliver both game sounds and Xbox Live chatter directly through the headset. The base station will connect to the audio outputs from your…
We once knew this girl whose boyfriend was such a controlling creep that he insisted on reading through her email and checking her cellphone call and sms logs to see if she’d been in contact with anyone he didn’t approve of. Instead of dumping him like any sensible person would, she decided to create a…
Here we have one of the coolest devices in the universe. The CJAM 1000 can jam cellphones, pagers, and Wi-Fi with a quarter mile range. The system is biometrically protected and only available to major government organizations and/or soldiers of fortune. I could definitely see this as being useful in a crowded theatre when some…
The PSP sure is wonderful, what with all those…really great games and everything. One thing that would improve Sony’s handheld, however, is wireless headphones. The BT450PX from Bluetake is a wireless audio transmitter for the PSP that uses Bluetooth to work its magic. Simply plug the device into the PSP and voilà—instant wireless headphone goodness.…
The Motorola Q news has been running rampant lately. We’ve seen it being rumored to be released last month, seen it in the wild and even heard about it’s latest abandonment of a European release, but today we are hit with another shocker as the Q gets officially delayed another month. The Q had an…