You’ve gotta love DIY hacks that don’t even pretend to be trying to create something that’s actually useful, but are more attempts to prove that the maker can create something completely ridiculous. Take this door that can be unlocked with a Wiimote, for example. Is this very secure? No, not…
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
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…
It’s been six months, and it’s still next to impossible to find a Wii anywhere. Freakonomics looks at the issue and makes some interesting points. They point out that this is really bad for game publishers, but really not all that bad for stores, as it gets people in the…
If you’re not getting enough of The Force while you’re, say, driving to work, maybe you need one of these really small Star Wars Micro Lightsabers hanging on your key chain. Or perhaps a strong cup of coffee would do even better. Anyway, Think Geek just got a shipment of…
When it comes to toilets, you can’t top Japan‘s offerings. The latest model to come from the land of the rising sun is Inax‘s Satis Asteo Washlet, which is the first I’ve seen to include built-in speakers and an SD card reader pre-loaded with classical music or nature sounds (’cause…
Sony announced three HDTV camcorders that are smaller, lighter and more efficient than their predecessors. Top of the heap is Sony’s first flash-based HD camcorder, the HDR-CX7 (pictured above) that Sony calls “the smallest and lightest AVCHD HD camcorder” on the market. It’s so small because it’s all solid-state, recording…
Oops, excuse my editorializing in the headline, but seriously I have been calling for the failure of this thing for months. Anyway, if you remember, right after CeBIT the OLED manufacturer Optimus was going to use dropped them like a bad habit, but now they have found a super OLED…
Avid Technology announced the latest version of its wildly popular consumer video editing software package, Pinnacle Studio 11, set to ship next month. Now the software is offered in Basic, Plus, and Ultimate versions. If you don’t need to edit HD, the Basic version for $49 will probably do everything…
Once in a while, Gizmodo comes across that rare object, that invention that showcases the amazing nature of human genius and the never-ending quest for perfection that lifts the spirits of every man and woman in the planet. That gadget is clearly not the Booze Belt, something that celebrates two…
