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Parents, PingAlert is perfect for your nerdy little kid. Next time he’s getting his ass kicked on the playground for lunch money, he can use PingAlert to give you the heads up. You enter a special number into a speed dial on the phone, and it dials the KidsOK service which then sends an SMS…
Popular Science has a wonderful feature about colored bubbles. The inventor, Tim Kehoe, spent 11 years figuring out a way to make bubbles with color that disappeared after the pop. And then the bubbles broke on the kids, on the parents, on cars, on Haddleton’s prized German Shepherds. It looked like there had been a…
Oh, ho, ho. Here’s the ugliest little USB desk ornament I’ve seen to date. Of course, I celebrate the Festival of Lights, but I can still comment on tacky snowmen with pink hat-and-scarf combos. However, if it does float your boat, the snowman actually flashes different colors and the Christmas tree plays a nice holiday…
Forget the $100 laptop. The free iT does it one better. A stripped-down PC from Hong Kong-based website Asiatotal, the iT will be given away for free to small businesses and those of you in the lower income bracket. It comes with a keyboard, mouse, a 7-inch LCD monitor with speaker, smart card reader, mouse…
If you couldn’t get your hands on an XBox 360 and plan to do some tech shopping this weekend, PC Magazine wanted to warn you against some of the bad, bad things we’ve all come across this past year. It’s no wonder the Oakley Thump 1 MP3 sunglasses are first on the list. I mean,…
As part of the ongoing AU Design Project, Japanese communications company AU recently unveiled some promising new concepts for future phones. The AU Design Project is a department of AU responsible for making phones that are, well, just way way sexier than anything else on the market. The AU Design Project gave Japan such coveted…
Though it’s still not an overly popular design, I’m a sucker for a tablet PC. And looks like Acer has decided to release one of the these beauties in the entry level space. The Travelmate C200 series features an Intel Pentium M processor and Mobile Intel 915PM/GM Express chipset, and more importantly, a one-of-a-kind sliding…
If you’re one of those sad folks who don’t know exactly what’s in a Buttery Nipple, the Bar Master Deluxe is for you. Shaped like a hip flask to make you look like a genuine alcoholic, this little gadget will give you all the information you’ve ever needed to be the best bartender ever (or…
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Only in Japan would you find people lazy enough to not flip open their cellphones. Takara Toys has solved this problem with a new cellphone opener. Basically, you throw this horrible piece of oversized plastic onto your phone, push a button and voila!…open phone. Comes in 4 sexy colors for you to waste your money…
For the avid musician on the go, having an instrument in perfect tune is a must. Just imagine if Rush tried playing “2112” without being in tune? A disaster. Fender wants you to make sure your Telecaster, Strat, or any product made by them is in tune so they don’t get a bad rep when…
Sometimes you’ll need to vacuum under tight places, like underneath a PC, the cracks of a sofa, or inside a drawer. This adorable duck-shaped vacuum is perfect for just that. It’s USB powered and uses its bill as a suction mechanism. Just think—next time you’re doing lines off your TOOL CD during an all-night LAN…
Dear Samsung Scientists, Long time, no talk. I’ve been busy, the holidays and all, but I just wanted to drop you a line to say I appreciate all that you’re doing to reduce me to a quivering lump of media-ingesting jelly. Thanks for understanding that my concentration skills ain’t so good and that having TV…
The Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) has begun a giant undertaking. Realizing the annoyance of multiple docking stations we’re forced to use when confronted with all of our different portable electronics, these good people have decided to work out a standard docking connector that would work in vehicles as well as in our homes. “It is…
It has to be a slow news day when we are dipping into this risqu category and showing a gallery of various suicide bombing vests. As disgusting as they are, some of these are pretty damn fancy—triggers, complex wiring and shrapnel, while some others are Wile E. Coyote style, consisting of just a bomb in…
Perhaps you would like to guess on the functionality of that strange device we found, or vent your frustration over the absurdity of the mini PC getting mini-er. Well, now is your chance. Gizmodo has comment invitations lined up like Zero Hour Xbox 360s. If you want to be a Gizmodo commenter, email us at…
This week at Treehugger: A Weapon of Mosquito Destruction: The Mosquito Magnet. A Hand-Powered Night Vision Monocular that allows you to see in the dark without batteries. Hewlett Packard decides that having toxic flame retardant on the outside of its laptop casings might not be such a good idea. Also, from the Crazy But Cool…
Several classic shrines were entered today into Gizmodo’s Apple iPod shrine-building contest. As you contemplate the nature of this particular devotional, ponder these questions: Is this shrine worthy of a video iPod? Is the desire for a second iPod not at odds with the Buddhist way? Would his holiness the Dalai Lama podcast or video…
Get ready for this, the biggest shocker of the day. It’s something NOT Xbox 360-related and it is actually an innovative iPod Video case that has me intrigued. Are you amazed yet? I know I am. At first this case would appear to just be a mild-mannered iPod case that features matching colors (black or…
The previous set of Cosmos Mimobots were cute enough to kill kittens and puppies. That’s why the goSeries, along with having the ability to make sad clowns happy again, has its own backstory: https://gizmodo.com/mimobots-its-a-toy-its-a-usb-key-122549 we are peaceful and joyful creatures essentially made of electronic silicon providing us with an extraordinary ability in memory. we love…