Gadgets

How To Make That New Smartphone Actually Smart

Your X-Mas wish came true! Santa wisely consulted one of our best-of-the-best lists and left you a shiny new smartphone under the tree. So, uh, now what? Here’s a step-by-step guide to getting that bad boy up and running.


September 7, 2010

An Entire Year On A Single Thread

After the calendar that sucks ink out of a bottle, this is my favourite design: The 2011 Calendar Scarf, an entire year on a single thread.


August 10, 2010
Geek Out

Soon It’ll Be 05:06:07 08/09/10

The magic moment may have passed already in your timezone, but for many of us 05:06:07 08/09/10 is still a few hours away. I don’t think anything amazing will happen during that moment, but someone should pay attention to a clock – just in case.


July 16, 2010
Software

Google May Soon Start Telling You When To Go Shopping, And What To Buy

Speaking about one possible future of Google integration, company fellow Amit Singhal outlined a frankly terrifying vision – where Google scans our to-do lists, automatically searches for outstanding tasks and tells us when and how to complete them…


March 11, 2010

Paper Calendar Tears Off Its Pages Automagically

This daily calendar mixes analogue, digital, nature and poetry all in one: Every autumn day, each of its pages will fall off automatically, torn by a clever mechanism at its top. As this video shows, it works great. But why?


February 10, 2010

Mintpass Puzzle Calendar Results In Hours Spent Setting The Date

Oh, to have enough time in the day to spend on this Mintpass puzzle calendar, which takes inspiration from those sliding-puzzle games we had as kids… only this time, with the day’s date. Yes, really.


January 25, 2010

Apple A Day Calendar Reminds Me Of A Certain Gadget Blog…

Haha. An apple a day. Just like Gizmodo with all this Tablet news! Get it?! Funny. But this is different. It’s a calendar concept. An ingenious one at that – and healthy too!


December 30, 2009

Google Calendar Now Available In Wall-Sized Offline Mode

Google Japan is now flogging an offline, paper Google Calendar complete with tabs, buttons and links. You can even share dates and invite guests! Sadly there are no email reminders, and it won’t sync with your phone, but…


December 10, 2009
Cars

Have A Heavy German Babe On Your Wall Every Month Of 2010

Phwroar, get a load of ‘er rear end! This German heavy machinery calendar is wall-porn for anyone who fetishizes CAT bulldozers and diggers. Strangely enough, I want one. A calendar, that is—where would I park a digger?


June 2, 2009

Building Calendar May Be Sexist but I Like It Anyway

This outdoor advertising for Axe deodorant—integrated with the architecture of a female students’ dorm—shows a page of a calendar, with each window showing a sexy girl making a day cell.