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I didn’t make it to the Home Entertainment Show this year, mainly because last year’s show, while fun, didn’t have a whole lot in the way of gadgets. Giant TVs and hojillion-speaker surround-sound systems, yes, but not so much with the gizmos. Fortunately, DesignTechnica was not lazy, and has just filed their six-page round up,…
Gizmodo actually crawled out of our basements last night to venture into the harsh lights of the Lower East Side (or that’s where we think we were—the signs declared it the ‘Bargain District’) to The Slipper Room, where nerdcore progenitor MC Frontalot—the only MC we know to rap about both Nigerian email scammers and why…
Is it just me, or is Mr. Gates looking really menacing these days? I never thought I’d see him look hard. Also, is it just me or are both of the first Windows Mobile 5.0 phones really, really lust-worthy? My lust for the HTC Universal is well documented, as it contains not only all the…
Scott Clevenger writes: I read a message on the 43folders google discussion thread about a user asking for tech bandoliers (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bandolier). Someone pointed the user to Duds4Days.com which markets a Baby Bandolier. After laughing for way too long I realized that dads typically don’t have a cool looking diaper bag. You’re usually forced to carry…
Olympus has taken the wraps off its latest camera, the Stylus 800 (or Mju 800, depending on what market you’re in). Its big trick is an eight-megapixel sensor inside a regular point-and-shoot body, as well as a 3x optical zoom. We don’t know if that’s really going to improve anything in a noticable way, but…
The PIX sports LED light can function as a watch, timer, stopwatch, pattern maker, counter and messenger. Ken Wold reviews his XenoFreaks PIX sports and calls it “chic, hip, niche, cool, rad, and so uptown.” Just a simple array of LEDs in a small, wearable form factor, the PIX multi-functional sports light sits in a…
For only $40, you can own your very own Tooth Masseuse. Designed primarily to ease pain from generic orthodontia adjustments and treatments, the Tooth Masseuse is simple to use and apparently quite effective. (Apparent, of course, in their ad copy.) They’ve been around for awhile, but it’s nice to know of a battery-operated device that…
Those of you hoping that the prices of LCD displays would perhaps drop into something less than the near panic attack-inducing levels they’re at presently should prepare for some disappointment. A report on ExtremeTech states that, despite a worldwide supply of 193 million units and a demand of 184 million units, the overall price points…
Yoshimura’s new shirt should be granted the privilege to fully bask in the glory it so deserves. The idea is that you can drop your cell into your breast pocket and retrieve it from the opening below, transforming you from a simple magician instead into a poorly-dressed, simple magician. With prices around $30, (3,200 yen)…
Apartment Therapy had a chance to test “The Ball”—the Dyson DC15 vacuum we first mentioned in March. They have nothing but rave reviews for it, but it should be noted that they only spent an afternoon with it. Still, they say they’ve “never had so much fun using a vacuum.” The unit features a strong…
Henry Lim struck out to design and build what could arguably deemed the pinnacle of Lego structure—a working Harpsichord. With the exception of its wire strings, the Harpsi is built entirely out of Lego. The 100,000 piece instrument would likely have one of the largest manuals of tiny, annoyingly difficult-to-understand isometric diagrams to date, but…
Mitsubishi has shown off their newest addition to LCD technology with an LCD that features a six color backlight. The backlight allows for much higher color accuracy and much better color reproduction, as you would be able to tell from the picture if you weren’t using a lesser LCD yourself. The prototype was a 23-inch…
While its name is regrettably misleading, (I expected pandas.) the Nooka Zoo Watch features a mainstay in computing that I’m rather surprised has taken so long to get into a watch: the progress bar. The 59-increment horizontal bar displays the current minute and the seconds gracefully appear in a smaller LCD window. Also by Nooka,…
It’s unconfirmed, but a reliable source has told us New York-based Dodgeball, the cellular SMS hook-up service has been purchased by Google for an unknown amount. Update: God, we’re good. dodgeball + Google [Dodgeball] Related Circuits Discovers Dodgeball [Gizmodo] Dodgeball Home Page [Dodgeball] https://gizmodo.com/circuits-discovers-dodgeball-9502
Fujitsu has announced that the University of Tokyo Hospital’s room access security system will now use their contactless palm vein authentication technology. Palm veins are unique amongst individuals, and with the exception of size, don’t change at all over one’s lifetime. They offer more consistent readings throughout different environments and are not much affected by…
James Spilker, one of the original architects of the GPS satellite realized a solution to GPS’ inconsistency inside of buildings. With a $40 radio chip from Rosum Corporation, a workaround has been created that detects TV signals and uses them to pinpoint your location. Using precision timing, they figure out how far a TV signal…
Sharp has released their new home control panel, designed to monitor the miles of solar panels that will undoubtedly cover your house… of the future. The JH-G51X gives real-time information on power consumption, the charge being generated by the solar cells, how much excess power you can sell back to the grid, or how much…
London-based vendor Bamford and Sons (I say, might not it be the big one, Elizabeth? Quite right!) has announced a special edition, custom-made black iPod mini, much like those that can be had from ColorWare, except that the enblackening here comes at an almost 33 percent premium. If you’re a dosh UKian with heavy wallet,…
MoSys, the same memory supplier who provided chips for the GameCube (and maybe even the Nintendo 64, if memory serves), has perhaps inadvertently let slip that we should expect Nintendo’s next-generation console, the ‘Revolution,’ [seen here in unlikely speculative mockup] to ship in “mid-2006.” That should put it right on schedule to match the Playstation…
A user on CNet is reporting that the Logitech Harmony 880, the web-programmable universal remote with the color screen and rechargeable battery, is available in select Best Buy stores across the country. That wouldn’t normally be news, but the 880 isn’t even available online yet, so if you want to be the first in the…