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Want to know what kind of fetish websites your roommate likes? Or prefer to monitor some chat rooms of your kids? Do it with a keylogger. And now you can build one yourself. All it takes it a little a lot of electronic know how. Gizmodo does not condone the usage of a keylogger and…
The Zentai Suit, For All Your Personal Needs Isn’t that picture taken in a seedy motel room? https://gizmodo.com/the-zentai-suit-for-all-your-personal-needs-156989 Woz Harshes Apple Buzz Good Lord. . . https://gizmodo.com/woz-harshes-apple-buzz-156844 Q. How do you make yourself look dumber than some lazy idiot riding a Segway? A. Strap on a helmet and play Segway Polo! And he thinks Apple…
There s been a parade of USB gadgets lately and today brings us yet another one. The USB Fragrance Oil Burner houses a small stainless steel hot plate where you can warm up scented oils or pastilles, one of which is included with the burner. The LED indicator lights up when in use and there…
Some photos have popped up of this Sony Ericsson Walkman phone. It is the W530, codenamed Mulan. It is an entry level clamshell phone that has dual displays, camera and an MP3 player. The phone uses Sony’s latest proprietary memory, the M2 Micro stick. These are still spy photos and we are anticipating an official…
Those companies sure do know how to appeal to us gamer types. We thrive on purposeful misspellings! The Cyber Snipa is a USB keypad that was designed with the first-person-shooter in mind. It is essentially replicating the left side of your already existent keyboard to accommodate to gamers. Anybody out there actually use keypads for…
Here s something that s sure to turn heads at the office. The Zentai cat suit is brought to us by our fine friends at eBay. (Well, the seller sibao8000 to be exact.) As we all know, Zentai suits are used to draw attention away from actors on stage, though much of the information on…
This isn’t a gadget—and it’s even a couple of years old—but we think you’ll forgive this weekend foray into “Oh, wow!” engineering. This bit of concrete and steel is the Falkirk Wheel, a boat lift connecting two canals near Falkirk, Scotland. Thanks to Archimedes’ principle (floating objects displace their own weight), each water-filled caisson weighs…
Relive the halcyon days of your youth with these Space Invaders decals from wall graphics company Blik. Available in assorted colors, you get a pack of eight of the 13-inch diameter stick-on invaders along with the missile base that will keep you safe for $45. All you need is a couple of sixpacks to get…
Now there’s a place you can go to find out the top 100 most-frequently-used makes and models of digital cameras used to take pictures uploaded to photo sharing website Flickr. There’s also a column that names the top camera manufacturers represented in Flickr uploads. Here’s an exquisite example of data mining, where recent uploads are…
If your crib is getting to be a little bit too modern-looking, now it’s time to funk it up a bit with some retro-refrigeration. Oddly-named Brit company Smeg is offering these old-fashioned refrigerators with a large selection of colors including those seen above. So if you’re looking to sing the praises of the Union Jack…
Just look at this morphing TV/audio contraption from Sony: the TAV-L1 first presents itself as a big speaker cabinet, but then the front part slides down to reveal a 32-inch HD LCD screen. Equipped with a DVD player on board, it’s a 2.1 home theater in a box with a 100-watt sub along with left…
(2/24/06) Blackberry dodges another bullet, we find a way to spread HDTV all over the house but loathe the DRM that might trip it up, and then a super HD flat panel rears its gorgeous head, at 4x the rez of that 1080p format we all know and love. Ears to the ground, we hear…
This very cute little terrestrial TV tuner with included PVR software is only available in the UK but records television in MPEG-1, MPEG-2, and DivX formats and sells for about $100. While the PVR software isn’t actually on the key itself, it’s certainly a compelling idea. Pinnacle Announces USB Stick with Built-in PVR [DigitalMediaThoughts]
We don’t know how it happened, but now Microsoft is claiming to be an authority on city WiFi infrastructure. Hey, who are we to judge? Newspapers and magazines release similar lists all the time, so we suppose a multinational corporation could do the same. Just don’t start telling us what toothpaste to buy. Among Gates’…
I am an HDTV curmudgeon. It s not that I don t want one. I even know where I d put it. Rather, it s that I don t want to pay for one. In fact, the very idea of spending upwards of $3,000 for a big-screen flat panel TV kind of pisses me off.…
Treehugger’s “Waste of Packaging” contest finalist Kathleen Robinson has given peanut butter lovers a whole new world of variety. Kathleen’s entry consisted of individually packaged peanut butter slices for the whole family to enjoy. Kathleen, however, does provide an optimistic view on the whole idea saying that the inventor should have just sold the “unsticky”…
If you were a gadget-obsessed child, then there is a good chance that Inspector Gadget was in your Saturday morning repertoire. Penny might have been a bit annoying — and we’ve always wanted a better look at Dr. Claw — but now that the first 22 episodes are out on DVD with this 4-disc box…
Steve Wozniak announced that Apple was consorting with the enemy and ignoring its core business by partnering with Intel and focusing on the iPod. Harsh words until you consider that he was taking part in a four-on-four Segway polo tournament in New Zealand at the time. Say what you want, but Woz knows what’s up…
Another bullet dodged by Blackberry-maker RIM, after a judge in Richmond, Virginia called off a hearing over the device without issuing a decision. That hearing had the potential to put a stop to Blackberry service and sales. NTP, a patent holding firm that successfully sued RIM for copyright violations, had asked U.S. District Judge James…
The Bluetrek X2 is an earpiece that’s not quite so delicate as most, called the first water resistant and weatherproof Bluetooth headset by its manufacturer. This means if you get caught in a rainstorm it won’t be ruined, but you probably won’t want to do any underwater basketweaving while wearing it. The X2 is also…