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Accidentally Take Your Gadget Swimming? Rice Is Your Friend

12:00PM August 7, 2009 | Dan Nosowitz

Who hasn’t accidentally left a phone, camera or MP3 player in a swimsuit pocket and gone swimming? It’s a harrowing experience, but there’s hope: Dunking the gadget in rice is a somewhat surprising yet very effective drying method. More »


Cord-o-Clip: The Clothesline Goes Version 2.0

4:43AM April 1, 2008 | Gizmodo US Edition

The thing those two happy chappies are demonstrating is yet another high-tech clothes-drying device: the Cord-o-Clip. What makes this gadget whizzy? Well, you know when you go out to hang clothes on your line, and you’re juggling with the laundry and a bag of pegs, maybe with a couple jammed between your teeth because you’ve got no free hands? And then you drop a sock and a T-shirt? Not anymore: cord-o-clip uses a pair of lines on a pulley system that has captive pegs ready to grip onto your clean stuff.

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Battlemodo: Dyson Says Airblade Would Beat Mitsubishi Jet Towel

7:20AM June 27, 2007 | Wilson Rothman

newVideoPlayer("dyson_comeback_gawker.flv", 475, 376); We have it on tape. Today, James Dyson (whose friends call him Sir) told us that Airblade would stomp the crap out of Mitsubishi’s Jet Towel in a hand-drying face-off. Those are our words; you’ll have to watch the video to see how the charming and diplomatic Englishman puts it. But while you watch, make sure you pay attention to the fire in his eyes. – Video by Richard Blakeley More »


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James Dyson Shows Giz His Airblade

4:50AM June 27, 2007 | Seamus Byrne

newVideoPlayer("dyson_demo_gawker.flv", 475, 376); Today, we caught up with revolutionary vacuum inventor and impresario James Dyson in a makeshift restroom at the AMC Theaters on 42nd St in New York. Dressed like an off-duty samurai, the smiley and recently knighted Sir James gave us a personal demo of his new hand-drying mechanism, the Airblade. Yes, you’ve seen it before—now it’s coming to America. – Video by Richard Blakeley More »


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Blow Monkey

11:17AM April 15, 2007 | Seamus Byrne

Heh. Blow Monkey.

It’s $9 and for drying nails…thank God. –Mark Wilson

Product Page [via uberreview]

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