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Accidentally Take Your Gadget Swimming? Rice Is Your Friend
12:00PM 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 »
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Cord-o-Clip: The Clothesline Goes Version 2.0
4:43AM 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. More »
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Battlemodo: Dyson Says Airblade Would Beat Mitsubishi Jet Towel
7:20AM Wilson Rothman | 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 Seamus Byrne | 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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