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This iPod has more armor than most of our troops in Iraq. Since the page is in Japanese—and appears to have been published back in 2004—I have no idea whether it saw the front lines or was simply a one-off casemod for a tin-can robot. All I want to know is, where can I get…
It doesn’t fly, but this Bat-Bot has sonar and can distinguish one plant type from another. What’s more, the ears move around like a real bat’s. Which means that this research from the Active Perception Lab at the University of Antwerp in Belgium will at the very least lead to a Furby upgrade in the…
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Malpractice suits are a secondary source on income for me. Exploiting the stupidity of some CNA’s is a hobby of mine. Claire Dunne, Brunel University student, is foiling my plans through the intelligent use of technology! This wristband contains a memory chip that stores all of the drug information for any patient. Chips are also…
Scientists across the globe have dedicated their lives and millions of dollars of research funds into making sure your cat has a good time. Apparently this was designed from chaos theory research. The Cat Attack uses the latest research in chaos theory and complex systems to emulate the movements and personality of a cat’s favorite…
Propane-powered flame organs? People in the sand making grooves? Laser Aeolian interactive harps? It must be Burning Man time. The improbable orchestra is a knob-bestrewn groove box, hiding a gutted Pentium PC running open source sound software; several people can twiddle together. (I hear there s plenty of that at Burning Man.) The Aeolian interactive…
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Jade Ltd, is going to begin selling a product called My Logger. This thing plugs into the standard telephone and then into a PC via USB and will record your phone conversations to hard disk. It also has a built in microphone for tagging all your phone sex romps with voice memos. This product is…
Today’s DAP headlines: Rio Dead Everything Else = iPod Knock Off 49 DAPs and an iPod Ain’t One …and more… Plus iPorn! On a slightly somber note, D&M Holdings Inc. announced the closing of its child brand, Rio Audio, makers of the popular Karma and Carbon players. The Karma model was renowned for its unique…
Mimobots are essentially collectable toys that double as USB keys. Given the rise of collectable action figures from the likes of Yahid Serial Killer Rodriguez and others, it’s inevitable that this sort of thing is happening. Overall this seems like the perfect mix of quirky design and utility that we here at Gizmodo defecate ourselves…
Every techie/gamer out there has a Duck Hunt memory of some sort. I personally blame my tourettes on this game and that fucking dog, who taunted me day after day until I showed him by taking a hammer through our new Zenith. If only I had this sniper rifle then, I bet my parents would…
This is an improved version of DDR with a little a better reward/punishment system called Dance Dance Immolation. In normal DDR depending on how good and bad you do affects your score. In this version of DDR, if you are doing well, a machine blasts flames into the air wowing the crowd. Don t let…
D&M, holder of the Rio brand, will stop selling Rio portable products and begin creating networked home media devices. According to a BusinessWire press release: D&M Holdings Inc. (TSE II: 6735), today announced it would exit the mass-market portable digital audio player business, currently marketed under the Rio brand, by September 30, 2005. D&M Holdings…
With this many reinventions of some kind of FM dongle made by Griffin, one could say they’re doing it more than Madonna has. Anyways, the iFM is a cute little “mint-sized” FM reciever for your iPod. It’s got a volume control button and a play/pause button for control as well as the standard tuning buttons.…
Ok, I’ve been a big bitcher for the past few days re: the Mini and any number of other hardware issues, but I’m trying to make it clear that this love of gadgets is a two-way street. I’ll sit here and salivate over the iPod Snuggle—the iPod with a warm, cozy outer layer—but that also…
Bang, bang, you shot me down—with MIDI. The MIDI gun, based on a Doepfer DJ MIDI controller, is ugly as sin but the various knobs, dials, and, most importantly, a laser sight, will make you the banging-est DJ around. Get it? Banging? Ha, Willie! Sweet Jesus! It’s the midiGun [MusicThing]
The first thing that popped in my head when I saw these bikes were the Spy vs. Spy characters in MAD Magazine… y’know, ’cause of the angular headlamps and the black and white color scheme… Yes, I’m a dork. Let’s move on. Despite my weird imagination, this ENV motorbike by Intelligent Energy does look pretty…
So this isn’t really gadgety or anything, but it certainly has a geek quotient to it. You send a copy of your fingerprint to fancy schmancy jewelery maker Piaget, and they’ll make a watch or pendant design out of it. The swirls of your print will be laid out in diamonds and white gold, which…
We posted a set of images of the updated Sony Ericsson smartphone—Sony Ericsson p910i Updated – The Hermione. The source of these images, clearly someone inside the French arm of Orange, a European telecomm, is unknown to us and the image, mixed in with a set of future offerings from Motorola and Nokia, among others,…
Battery maker Ultracell has announced they’ve developed a fuel cell that has twice the density of a lithium battery and that it will get a hell of a lot more juice than other standard cells. “UltraCell’s reformed methanol fuel cell, or RMFC, technology uses a micro reformer to generate fuel-cell-ready hydrogen from a highly concentrated…