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Honestly, the Swiss army knife went out with boy scouts. With growing up comes different responsibilities. For example: people trade in whittling wood with stapling memos and TPS reports. This Swiss Business Tool will provide you all of the tools you’ll ever need. It includes a flat-clinch stapler, hole punch, staple remover, scissors, optical gauge…
There are two ways to describe the DeFIBulator: a portable lie detector, if you’re feeling sensational, or a portable tension detector, if you’re feeling honest. Developed in Singapore, it purports to measure varying degrees of vibration in someone’s voice to 65% accuracy. In case that number still doesn’t convince you this is meant to be…
Card Beeper is a credit card case that cries out in anguish when there is no card inside. Every 20 seconds, you’ll hear a beep if you’ve forgotten to get your card back from a merchant, or if you’ve been jacked by a pickpocket. There’s a money clip on the back, too, so your cash…
The SN-A250 is one hell of a sexy MP3 player. Upon first glance, then entire face is a black and has an integrated OLED screen. The buttons are placed along the side to keep it slim and smooth. The back of this MP3 player has a metallic finish. Unfortunately it goes no larger than 1GB.…
Here s Pit Stop, the portable urinal designed for truckers that’s tailor-made for guys and gals with promises to keep. The receiving end is designed to be mounted on the wall of a truck s sleeper cab, while the leakproof container at the other end of the five-foot transfer hose is self-sealing with a quick-disconnect…
Some of us here at Gizmodo are ten times more excited about the upcoming Nintendo Revolution than we ever were about the Macbook Pro, so the rumors currently swirling around GDC about how the Revolution might just get a name change and might just be out in June are threatening to make our heads explode.…
The magnetic wristband is especially made for those home improvement chores where you feel like you don’t have enough hands. It has a powerful magnetic surface that’s 2.25″ x 1.25″, and can hold a handful of those nails and screws in place while you’re busy getting the job done. Might not be a good idea…
If getting up in the morning is a bitter pill to swallow, you might need some help from this pill alarm clock radio, a design concept from the Pascal Bardel Product Design Lounge. To adjust the volume or turn off the alarm, you rotate the clock. It’s 5.5 inches long and was designed in a…
Here’s the Samsung Asian Babe of the Day holding another of the company’s zillions of products, and this one’s the Q35 which it calls the world’s smallest dual core laptop. It has a 12.1-inch 1280×800 widescreen display and is powered by the Intel Core Duo T2700 processor running at 2.33GHz. The only weird thing about…
Austrian company Fluidforms sells pepper and salt mills, vases and bowls, but with a twist—their website lets you design certain products to your specifications, within certain limits. The finished product will be made either completely by machine, or mostly by machine and then hand-finished. The Shockwave design interface for making a pepper mill (at right)…
The Motorola S7 Bluetooth headset has apparently been approved by the FCC. Don’t fret, this is not another pair of Oakley Thumps, but the trick here is that the headset can be attached to your own eyewear, and a mullet is optional. https://gizmodo.com/thump-2-0-mullet-must-haves-for-2006-116547 Pricing and availability weren’t available, but details are said to be forthcoming.…
KTF Technologies one-ups everybody else with the EV-K100, a telephone it calls the world s slimmest. It s so thin, if you turn it sideways it’s almost invisible. To put its size into context, the EV-K100 s 7.9mm thickness is only slightly larger than the iPod nano s 6.85mm dimension. The company reached this level…
If Soaron from Captain Power could lay an egg, we imagine it would look much like this optical smoke alarm by Danish designer Jacob Jensen, the man responsible for the look of Bang & Olufsen’s classic products (19 of his designs are in the MoMa collection). Don’t let our snarking about its looks fool you,…
The kind-hearted team at Mobility Today got their hands on the HTC StarTrek phone recently. The phone, which was shown at both CeBit and the 3GSM show in Barcelona, appears to be designed in the vein of the popular television series, though communication devices back then probably weren t powered by Windows Mobile 5 for…
Here’s a companion piece to that custom-made Ascii carpet we showed you yesterday: it’s a floor/doormat that gives your guests a cheery greeting of welcome encoded in binary. https://gizmodo.com/custom-made-ascii-carpet-161956 In our book, this is not quite fancy enough to get into Geek Chic territory. If they would just make another one that reads Go Away,…
Maxfield goes after the kids market with its MAX-JOY MP3 player, a durable-looking device that’s not waterproof but looks like it could be peanut butter-proof. It has a bright, two-color OLED display, and it’s expandible, too, with its 256MB of storage that can be augmented up to 2GB with a Secure Digital flash card. Don’t…
Not that any of us would ever use such a thing, but here’s the KUKU alarm clock from LeFutur, another one of those strange early-morning torture devices (similar to the puzzle clock) that requires you to perform some mundane task in order to rouse yourself from the depths of slumber. https://gizmodo.com/puzzle-alarm-clock-presents-mild-challenge-wakes-you-u-157999 At your pre-designated time,…
Here we go again. If you were looking forward to installing Microsoft Windows Vista in November, you might be disappointed to hear that the company has delayed the launch until January of 2007. Although business users will still get Vista in November, Microsoft said it needed a few more weeks to work on security issues…
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For Royal College of Art design students Chris Glaister, Afshin Mehin and Tomas Rosen, the problem with concrete is once you put it down you can’t change it, and people have to just get used to it. So they decided to make concrete that changes color and came up with Chronos Chromos Concrete, a system…