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This is the Cath Kidston limited-edition Roberts Revival DAB radio for John Lewis. What all these fancy names mean, I don t have the slightest clue, but this DAB radio is pretty sweet and looks unique, too. It features the latest PausePlus that allows live radio to be paused for up to 40 minutes while…
Get your mind out of the gutter—this is a completely legit gadget. We are completely serious here, no jokes allowed, especially when dealing with stains and vibrators. This uses lubricant water and then vibrates 120 times per second on the stain to completely remove it without any color fading. It uses a bunch of D…
It seems that we here at Gizmodo have gone into some kind of Lego frenzy. Maybe we are just finally realizing the coolness of what people can do with Legos. This is a total conversion of a medium-format pinhole camera. It uses all Lego parts and is fully functional. This guy seems to have a…
Normally I turn into a Negative Nancy when it comes to vintage gaming products and memorabilia, but this thing is cool as hell. There isn t much information available regarding how this was built, but it functions pretty simply. The game of pong is played until another minute has passed, then one of the paddles…
We said if you don’t got Mojo Nixon then your store could use some fixin’! Special thanks to: Shure, Sprint, Rockstar Games The Warriors, TomTomGo, Kameo, XBox, Apple Ipod, Nokia, PuttyWorld, American Apparel, Mercedes, Logitech, Olympus, Akimbo, Earthlink, SunRocket, Kodak, Nikon Wireless, ASPCA, SmartHome, Texas Instruments, Navy Field, Samsung and Mini. Wanna advertise? Sure you…
What have we here? Reader BA sent us this little tidbit from T-Mobile describing the Sidekick timeline out to 2007. We can expect the SK III in Spring 2006 and some kind of insane RAZR/Sidekick/Video Player in 2007. Then what’s all this with the Unlicensed Mobile Access (UMA) stuff? WiFi? Bluetooth? Oh, what delectable anticipation!…
First we had USB heating gloves, which were a decent idea, although it’s probably difficult to type with gloves on. Now from the same company there are USB heating slippers, which are a novel idea. Get up from the computer, put them on and simply plug them back in when you return. Oh, Universal Serial…
In an extremely shocking announcement, Nokia said it will no longer put development time into the N-Gage, meaning no more new versions or updates. This comes as an enormous surprise after the N-Gage was so popular and awesome! Nokia also said it’s not done in the mobile gaming market yet. The company plans to crawl…
The few days since the official release of the Xbox 360 have given enough time to curious engineers to dismantle the thing and provide an entire cost analysis. Altogether, the parts cost for the Xbox 360 Premium is $525, over $100 more than its retail price tag. Now unless Microsoft is behind all of this…
Elecom has come out with a new device to satisfy those people who really need Skype on the go. This is a 32MB USB drive that’s preloaded with the Skype software. The memory allows storage of profiles and it also keeps track of more private information such as usernames and passwords without storing them on…
Ever seen a movie where some guy has to be cool and break into a room/building/closet with a padlock on it, so he goes and shoots it with his handgun, lock goes flying off, and in he goes? Of course you have. Well some old guy who kicks ass decided to hang up 5 tough…
Spiders suck. They might eat insects and help catch bugs, but they creep me the hell out. When I saw this absolutely ridiculous-looking gadget called the “Spider Catcher”, I knew it was made for me. You point this sucker at a spider, slam it into that sonofabitch and he’s done-for, thanks to nylon bristles that…
Ho, ho, it’s lock-step corporate fun and binge drinking time again. Gizmodo wants you to enjoy your company’s annual excuse to watch your colleagues make asses of themselves responsibly. Our advice this year? Don’t sit on the copy machine. At least if you are in the UK, where 32 percent of Canon technicians say they…
Prosthetic Ass (Latteier, 2000) Interview/Article by Jonah Brucker-Cohen In the world of creative interventions into popular technology, projects that make us question how we consume and use digital devices are often those that maintain our attention. Using this credo as a starting point, Toronto, Ontario-based artist, Amos Latteier creates work that explores the lighter side…
You and I may think gift cards are ubiquitous enough but retailers aren’t content with selling $55 billion worth this year. Up next: ones that are festooned with flashing lights, scratch-n-sniff patches, digital photos, and even computer chips that can play back music or short audio messages. [WSJ (reg)] Consumer electronics marketers are wising up…
I had just finished my third slice of pumpkin pie when the FedEx man came to my door bearing gifts. “What is this malevolent fortune,” I asked, “What evil could be ensconced in such a non-assuming box?” I tore it open and gasped, a bolus of turkey and cranberry rising in my gullet. It was…
I recently got some hands-on time with RCA’s 25110RE3 SOHO cordless headset and phone, which is aimed at the home-office set. I fell pretty hard for it at first. The slim phone and headset both charge on a base that is separate from the main station, so the mini-base doesn’t need a phone jack and…
The iDog, SEGA’s toy robot dog that dances, lights up, and does stuff, has been bred in a new color thats not really…a color. Black. Demand for the iDog has been insane lately, with Amazon.com completely selling out of the white iDog. The black iDog will do absolutely nothing new. It will still dance. It…
Kids, you must realize something: Unprotected LCD sex can change your future and affect your design. It seems Samsung and Apple had a late-night romp and nine months later, Samsung pops out this LCD display design. The SM770P is a 17-inch screen while the SM970P is a 19-inch display. These LCDs have a few more…
There’s poker and there’s Atari and never the twain shall meet—or shall they? This is the ultimate in home rumpus room decor: stripped down, plexiglassed Atari 2600 with joysticks out at every corner of the hexagonal table decorated with Q-Bert and that long-forgotten classic, Space Penis vs. the Clap, pictured here. Get this—it all works!…