Although people who drive stick know what gear they’re in by feel, this German shift knob is something we think they can get behind. It’s a learning shifter, which you assign gear numbers to depending on your car’s specific position. When you switch to that gear, the LCD display on…
Whether you’re making home Blu-ray movies to distribute to your friends or just backing up all your data with 50GB chunks, Blu-ray seems to be the way to go if you’ve got a Mac. FastMac’s latest Blu-ray drives are the first sub-$500 BD burners that we’ve seen, and work fine…
Although it’s not specifically used for wine, like the Nuvo Vino, there’s nothing technically stopping you from taking temperatures of your drinks with these infrared thermometers. They come in three sizes—keychain, pocket, and radar detector—and all are able to measure anywhere between -76 degrees F to 938 degrees F. Word…
This waterproof floating table tennis table is the perfect addition to any summer party. It measures in at 54 inches long by 27 inches wide, which is significantly smaller than a traditional table, but it could still provide some fun. It has a hard top surface and soft sides (for…
As promised, here is a video of the iRiver Clix demonstrating how the actual “clix” works along with an interface tour. Pardon the partial blurriness—my camera was set to “amateur pornography” mode and I forgot to turn it off. –Travis Hudson iRiver Clix Unboxed, Groped [Gizmodo] 2nd Generation iRiver Clix…
Move over Dean Kamen. You might have the money you’ve made from the dozens upon dozens of Segways you’ve sold, but your budget can’t compete with DARPA’s, and they’re in the bionic arm field too. DARPA already has their first prototype done, and they say they’re on track to “provide,…
Has Ferrari no sense of decency? Now the esteemed Italian carmaker-cum-gadget ho has agreed to festoon its logo on yet another geegaw, this time the Sony Ericsson K800i cellphone. If you recall, the K800i has been available for over a year, and has a 3.2-megapixel autofocus camera and Dual Mode…
We already knew that we were going to be forking out about $1500 for the Optimus uber-keyboard, but now they’ve got a finalized number. $1564 (Shakespeare’s birthday). Fantastic. In other news, their updated development schedule has the plastic tooling done by July 10, OLED tooling done by July 16 (they…
What would you do if this plate was set in front of you? What would you do? Here’s a fresh dish of octopus tentacles, still alive, served to Cyrus Farivar at a restaurant in South Korea. “They calm down after a little while, but then when you go after them…
There are plenty of sci-fi movies that have bleak visions of the future, depicting people hooked up to computers like they’re plugged into something at the hospital. They think we’ll turn into a society of mindless drones, with computers running our lives rather than vice versa. Well, if that future…
If beanbags had a version 2.0, the Slouchpad would be it. A gamer’s dream, it has two built-in 5-watt RMS speakers and a 10-watt RMS subwoofer for those outta-the-chair moments when you’re playing Gears Of War. And it’s not just gamer-friendly, as you can plug just about anything into it,…
Teachers, eh? First they came to praise the iPod, then they came to bury it. A spate of incidents involving iPods in class and exam rooms has led to a ban on digital media players in some schools. A high school in Idaho has been one of the first establishments…
Despite Big Four agitation for an iTunes subscription service, Steve-o told Reuters on Wednesday that not only has that model “failed so far,” iTunes customers “don’t seem to be interested in it.” He reasons that they’d prefer to own, rather than rent, music. So why not just give us the…
Tired of flipping between four remote controls to operate all your A/V gear? Designed by Chen Hung Ming, the Book-style remote has three “pages” you can flip through to control either your TV, DVD or stereo. Each page has a small tab/bookmark that explains what each page controls. The concept…
Some of you might remember the Suitcase Bike concept that we showed you last year. Where the bike folds up into itself to resemble a suitcase with wheels. While this may look similar, it has one major difference. It’s in production. That’s right, in just a few short months for…
The folks at iSymphony like jam-packing their boomboxes and the V1BLUe is no exception. It’s a slim stereo unit with built-in A2DP Bluetooth so you can play tunes wirelessly from your cellphone or your iPod (if your iPod is docked in the included wireless dock). The stereo also plays CDs,…
If you’re hardcore enough to review 105 power supplies, you’d better have some kind of spectacular testing regimen in place. The guys at matbe do, and they’ve come out the other side with a handful of recommendations on which one you should buy. For the nonmodular units, they recommend Akasa…
We’ll leave the political debate for our concerned citizen cousins over at Wonkette, but here’s a Backwards Bush keychain that counts down the days he has left in office. So if you’re the kind of person who really needs to know exactly how much time is left until we need…
You may or may not have read reports last week about a Swedish fighter jet crashing in the Arctic Circle. So far, so what, you’re probably saying—after all, there were no fatalities. And so began the questions. What caused the accident&madash;was it pilot error? The wrong kind of snow? Maybe…
Nothing says “the 1980s” like cassettes. The now dead format holds a dear place in the heart of any child of the ’80s who fondly recalls meticulously recording mixtapes, trading for concert recordings by mail on XLII’s, and putting Scotch tape over the little hole on the top of that…
Although this bullshit button is quite similar to Staple’s Easy Button, and both are actually available for purchase, the bullshit button actually does something useful. See, whenever your buddies make some outlandish claim, just slam on this button and it’ll pop out one of five “clever” sayings. • “(Beep) That…
Now that the Prada phone is out, rumor has it that LG is planning another touchscreen cellphone. This time around the phone will be a clamshell with dual touchscreens (like this NTT DoCoMo phone). The touchscreens will function as one giant display, or they can act independently of one another,…
Say goodbye to that obnoxious alarm clock, scaring you out of bed every morning with its cacophonous din. Now you can rage against the dying of the light with the Glo Pillow, gently waking you up with soft LED lights, slowly increasing their brightness over 40 minutes just like the…
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Announced last year in Japan, the Miuro is now ready to go around the house on its own. The robot speaker on wheels who follows you about like an annoying child (but with better tunes) is available not just in white but in a number of hot fruity colors like…
A hot tip from Mr Curly pointed us to a great site that does batteries galore for the Aussie market. Rezap does battery converters like the ones
Sure, you could get that USB foam rocket launcher if you’re some sort of wussbag, but if you mean business you know that a couple of soft darts to the face aren’t going to really get your message across. You need to get serious. Nothing’s more serious than… well, OK,…
In addition to that wireless plamsa that’s in the works, today we also learned that Samsung is planning on giving it’s 2nd-gen LED-based DLPs a 3D upgrade. The current line up is 3D-ready and come September, Samsung will sell a $100 package that’ll include two 3D glasses and a 3D…
Finally, a company has combined my two favorite hobbies. Thank you for fulfilling my dream of being able to transfer files with ease and crack open a cold one almost at the same time with one convenient device. This Popdrive is a 1GB flash drive that sits securely in the…
At one time or another, every Microsoft-branded product for the home has been called the next media “hub.” Is it the Windows PC? Is it the Xbox? Is it the component-shaped Media Center PC? In January, Microsoft suggested that the , a standalone multidrive server that sits somewhere on your…
Everyone once in a while we like to send out a positive message in the form of a gadget and today it is Spikey, the device that can attach to the top of bottles to prevent them from being able to be spiked with roofies or other inebriators. The device…
