Online

You Can Buy IKEA Products On Amazon

We don’t know how long this has been going on or if it’s new but we’ve never heard about it so HOLY CRAP you can buy Ikea products on Amazon right now! That’s right, you can get Ikea’s affordable furniture with the one click convenience of Amazon.


May 3, 2011
Mobile

Clear 4G: A Love Story

This photograph was taken at the SFMTA Customer Service Center, the 7th level of bureaucratic hell. I was working there, but I don’t work there, feel me?


January 29, 2011
Entertainment

On Rdio

In the last 30 days, I’ve easily discovered more great new music than I have in the last decade, and have listened to the iTunes equivalent of at least $US700 in music for the cost of a CD.


January 27, 2011
Software

This Is How To Silence Apple Fanboys Or Justin Bieber On Twitter

I’ve just discovered the Chrome extension Proxlet, and I swear it’s going to change my life for the better. Now you can mute people, hashtags or Foursquare tweets from your feed – even if you’re not actually following them.


January 13, 2011
Cars

The Military-Grade iPhone Windshield Mount

Using touchscreens in the car can be such a hassle, because even if you put them in a dash or windshield mount where they’re safely in your line of sight, they still wiggle around too much. Or they did.


January 11, 2011
Software

Lifechanger: GroupMe Group Texting

CES is like Ninja Warrior for bloggers, a vast, obstacle-strewn arena where cell service is rare and usable internet is as uncommon as good hygiene. To stay in touch, Gizmodo relied on GroupMe. It worked and then some.


December 21, 2010
Geek Out

Lifechanger: The Unofficial Shoe Of Gizmodo

Biddle’s got the classics, GoreTex-ified. Mascari has ‘em in brown, (iconoclast), and I’ve got the tall fleecey ones – I hate getting cold ankles. Blam might order a pair. I’m talking about the L.L.Bean Boot: the accidental, unofficial shoe of Gizmodo.


November 27, 2010

Lifechanger: Happiness Is A Loaded Sonos

Magic is a singing home. But piping music all over a house has always been unreasonably hard. Or just primitive.


October 12, 2010

Lifechanger: Contigo Vacuum-Sealed Stainless Steel Travel Mug

I’ve got a horrible habit of obsessing over a supposed need to be filled by a product, then instantly forgetting it once I buy it. But I’ve had a Contigo Autoseal mug for a year. I just bought two more.


October 7, 2010

All Hail The Electric Snuggie

I’m man enough to admit when I’m wrong. And declaring the Snuggle Suit the last word in Snuggie technology was most definitely one of those times. The Coz-E is the heated electric Snuggie of your closest-held dreams.