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Liked the Voodoo Knife Holder but thought having actual knives doing the piercing was a bit too gory for your kitchen? Perhaps you’ll be happy with OUCH! the Voodoo Doll Toothpick Holder. Available in grey or white, each one holds 35 toothpicks and will easily break the ice at the next dinner party you throw.…
Gadgetry for Up North By Brendan I. Koerner Thanks to the booming prison-industrial complex, odds are you’re no more than one or two degrees removed from someone who has spent, is spending, or will spend time behind bars. Lord knows that your humble narrator certainly fits into the one-degree category, due to one close relation’s…
The highlight of this phone is easily the bright, beautiful OLED display. It also has a 2.0 megapixel camera that is also capable of capturing video. It comes in two colors: black and white and has the usually kicks of the average cell phone, including an MP3 player with expandable memory via MicroSD. This phone…
This phone is described as the “ultimate music phone,” coincidentally it resembles a gadget that many people in the world call the ultimate MP3 player. The phone supports WMA, MP3, AAC and AMR. It also has a 1.4 megapixel camera with a 4x zoom. The criticisms come from the fact that it has a revolutionary…
I just lost my lens cap so I wanted to try out the LensPen, which we’ve seen before. Luckily, they also had a brand new laptop screen cleaner which was very cool. There are three functions here—a keyboard brush, a screen brush, and a carbon black cleaner for the screen. You brush off debris then…
While we at Gizmodo will readily admit that this MP3 Shower Radio is not exactly the most exciting thing we ve seen in the past few days, it does have a certain kind of hokey charm to it. This water-resistant radio houses a compartment where you can put your MP3 player (read: iPod), enabling you…
The fine people over at iPodLinux have been working on getting MAME (Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator) onto their iPods—a pretty neat achievement in and of itself, but one of them has gone an extra step further and built a MAME Cabinet around his iPod Nano. The iPod and Ms Pacman, together at last. Nerdtastic! iPod…
This has been out for a while but it’s the first time we’ve seen this one up close. It’s a striking business communicator with touchscreen and a unique keypad for messaging. It’s got 80MB on board and we were very impressed with the overall finish. It actually looked better than the 900-series communicators and the…
Samsung’s cameraphone strategy at this year’s CeBIT seems to be the bigger, the better. We thought the big announcement was going to be their SGH-i310 2 megapixel cameraphone with the whopping 8GB hard drive, but no, today they introduced us to the SCH-B600, which at 10 megapixels is not only the world’s highest resolution cameraphone…
Velocity Micro is now shipping the Velocity Micro Raptor Signature Edition which it calls the world’s fastest gaming PC. It s packing NVIDIA Quad SLI (Scan Line Interleave Scalable Link Interface) technology using four NVIDIA Geforce 7900 GPUs along with an NVIDIA nForce 4 SLI MCP (multichip package) motherboard. This is a step beyond what…
Our first cousins at Kotaku showed us these unique LED Pac Man Spoke Lights, hand-made spoke art constructed by a gal named LadyAda. Now you can animate both of your bicycle wheels, one with Pac Man and the other with that little blue ghost he’s chasing. LadyAda shows you how to make your own in…
When I was about eight, I dropped a jar of mayonnaise on the ground, covering my mother’s feet in oily funk. She flipped out and started to chase me with a whiffle bat. I think she was drunk. It’s a good thing my mother wasn’t a robot developed by the RiSE project, a joint venture…
In what must be the most outrageous computer case mod yet, Chopper Computers of Colorado created this prototype of a chopper-style computer where the only things missing are handlebars and wheels. One-inch steel tubing is used for the frame, the same material used to build roadworthy choppers, and the seat has a hinge for easy…
This is another heavy-duty phone from BenQ-Siemens. It is constructed of aluminum and magnesium. This clamshell has a lot of the same features of its sliding counterpart, the EL 71. It has a small, 1-inch color screen outside along with four buttons that for the camera and media. Inside there is an average-sized screen and…
If you thought that 8-gigabyte thumb drive of yours held a lot of stuff, take a look at this Celldisk 16GB flash drive from Iocell Korea that the company calls the world s largest. To be unveiled at CeBIT, this USB 2.0 drive is no bigger than an average flash drive. No word on pricing…
Press releases love to talk all sorts of crap about how their product will enable you to engage in a multimedia lifestyle, but Nokia’s Lifeblog 2.0 application for their N phone series, launched at CeBIT yesterday, is software that a) actually does that and b) can make you radically rethink the way you relate to…
Here you go. The our first video of the much-hyped UMPC from Samsung. Asus is next.
This is one of the durable phones from BenQ. It is a slider that is composed out of aluminum and magnesium. It is expandable via MicroSD up to 1GB and also features an audio output to your stored music through a speaker system dongle. It will be available in Europe, Asia and South America in…
This one goes out to the ladies. The CL75 is a stylish clamshell with a screen that turns into a mirror and a sexy, sexy poppy image on the front cover. When you press a button, the screen darkens, allowing the glossy face of the phone to be used as a compact mirror. This is…
If you’re looking for your own private jet, then $1,295,000 will buy you this Eclipse 500, a twin-engine very light jet (VLJ) that can carry six passengers at 408 mph for 1,495 miles on a tank of fuel. Not only is it the cheapest jet available, at a cost of approximately 56 cents a mile…