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Imagine, instead of holding a remote control to surf channels, you have a set of beads. Each bead is embedded with a different set of instructions for controlling your TV. The concept is called Remobeads and its designed by Dima Komissarov. As you can see, it would certainly look better in the living room than…
Just when you thought you’d seen every iPod accessory in the known universe, scientists discover a new one. This is the iPod baby stroller. I mean, I guess it could be nice to listen to music when walking your baby, but doesn’t that kind of nix the whole baby bonding thing? Kolcraft has no care…
My sister came to visit from California this weekend. While the taxi to the airport was waiting downstairs, she misplaced her LG flip phone. (It’s an ancient model, I don’t even know which one.) We frantically searched the Robischon house for it to no avail. Not long after, the toilet backed up. This was during…
Should, for some reason, you find yourself away from a source of electricity—thus, unable to charge your essential survival items such as an iPod, DS, or PSP—this little number will surely be of use. From Sundance, the PowerFilm 10-Watt solar battery charger promises to harness the power of HUITZILOPOCHTLI for all your battery needs. Once…
Video glasses have never grown past the novelty stage (with consumers at least). But since people will apparently buy anything that is an iPod accessory, manufacturers are trotting out these gadgets and marketing them as a way to watch (mobile) video. Enter the DV920 from ICUITI. The 640 x 480 pixel resolution glasses support both…
Here’s a 21st-century lighting idea that’s a real eye opener. Lytec electric thread glows like neon and can be used in lengths of a few inches to thousands of feet. Even a 1000-yard piece only uses the energy of just one ordinary light bulb. The thinnest of these cool-to-the-touch wires is about as wide as…
Samsung has gone one step further into the camera market today, announcing its very first 6-megapixel digital SLR, the GX-1S. This SLR hopes to compete with the Canon 350D and Nikon D50. Partnering up with Pentax on this project, the GX-1S is fairly light (16.2 oz.) and small and is basically a re-branded Pentax DS2.…
Lira Nikolovska has developed this table for proper conversation analysis. Here is the low-down: two microphones are on either end of the table with a string of LED lights in the center. At regular intervals the microphone will pick up a duration of the speech and analyze the duration and volume of the conversation and…
Everyone loves watching some TV in bed now and then, well Hypnos is making it a bit easier with this bed. It has a Loewe TV stored at the foot of the bed and can rise up to eye level with a simple push of a button from a remote control. There is a bedside…
Two new Apple iPod trademarks could mean more iPod products coming soon. Looks like the term “iPod Hi-Fi” is one of these terms, and could possibly reference the Video iPod, but hopefully means something that can reproduce sound, images and video at a better rate than the products out now. The description Apple uses for…
As if there’s not enough crap in the consumer electronics market right now, Cisco Systems has decided to throw in its hat, announcing its plans to sell phones, radios and even home theater equipment—all to link up to the Internet. Obviously, Cisco believes its networking superiority will give it a leg up in this community,…
No, this isn t an officially-licensed Pac-Man accessory, it just resembles the ghost. This is Oscar, one of many unique power adapters made by Nonydesigns. The ideal function is to keep the kiddies safe by not allowing them access to where the many other devices plug in. The power adapters plug in on the underside…
Oh la-di-da, good days are here. Look, there’s a special on the iJoy ZipConnect Massage Chair with built-in speakers and subwoofer. Only $700 and it comes with a free ZipConnect module (with retractable 18-inch cable and mini stereo plug) for playing any iPod, MP3, portable CD or satellite radio. So, along with listening to music…
Continuing to crank out an endless stream of iPod doo-dads and gee-gaws, Griffin now offers the iClear, an iCase for the iPod nano that offers more than meets the iEye. In fact, less, because this iPod armour claims to be nearly invisible and doesn’t add a whole lot of bulk or weight, either. Nestle your…
This Week in Kotaku: Legislation makes it a Federal crime to “flame” over the Internet. Kotaku commenting members tremble with fear. Some internal and totally unconfirmed leaks from GameStop hint at peril for the software retailer. Continuing to try and desperately create the perfect gaming setups, this week Kotaku tries to find the best cables…
Intel has a new Core Duo chip in the works, a 2.33GHz processor with a name that simply rolls off the tongue: the T2700. Expected to ship sometime in the first quarter of this year, this high-tech part of the Celeron M 4xx family of chips Intel inexplicably code-named “Yonah,” brings dual-core speed to laptops.…
We like our MIRTs here at Gizmodo. A MIRT—Mobile Infrared Transmitter—is a device used by law enforcement and ambulances to turn red lights green. While it would undoubtedly be fun to possess such a device, getting caught with one will turn your world upside down. Not only can Traffic Control register which car the infrared…
Need a bigger drive in your laptop? Seagate’s 160GB notebook drive is just the thing for those of you ready to scrap your desktop PC. Being touted as the first 2.5-inch notebook PC disc drive to use perpendicular recording technology, the aptly-named Momentus 5400.3 drive is a 5,400-rpm drive that operates with 4,200-rpm power efficiency…
Made for CES By David Hoffer I m freaking sick of the iPod, so I was very much looking forward to CES this year. I thought that I would see something new and well-designed in Las Vegas, but I realize now that I was being nave. If CES were a high-school dance, design and companies…
If there s one thing that really stands out about Apple lately, it s that its products keep getting smaller and smaller. Just as Apple shrank the iPod with the nano (and subsequently its packaging), the company’s latest consumer software offerings are also arriving in ultra-thin, super-small retail packaging. The retail boxes are now just…