Gadgets
Cox Communications Getting Into The Wireless Business [Cellphones]
Cox communications, one of the top three cable companies in the US, is planning on making a foray into the wireless business with an offering that integrates all of their services into one device. Cox ....... read more
15 hours ago
Kite Surfer Goes Out During Tropical Storm, Learns Valuable Lesson About the Power of Nature [Weather]
Kite surfing is a fun sport that involves using a large kite and a surfboard to get a lot of speed up on the water. It's like wakeboarding without a boat. Naturally, you need a decent amount of wind f ....... read more
16 hours ago
UK Gov't Creating Centralized Snooping Silo to Monitor all Calls, Texts, Emails, IMs and Surf Histories [Privacy]
The UK government has decided to spend hundreds of millions of pounds (gajillions of dollars in US currency) on a huge central silo for all of the country's communications data. What'll that entail? W ....... read more
17 hours ago
The Most Inventive Ways to Void Your Gadget Warranties [Photo Contest]
For this week's contest, we took a little break from the Photoshopping. Instead, I asked you to submit photos of Gadgets being used in ways other than originally intended. Below the jump, you'll find ....... read more
18 hours ago
TV-B-Gone SHP Looks Like an iPhone, and We Will Not Take the Bait [Lessons Learned]
OK, so the new TV-B-Gone SHP (super high power) is designed to look like an iPhone. It appears to be designed just for us here at Gizmodo, embodying two things that, for better or for worse, we're kno ....... read more
19 hours ago
Low-Tech Bluetooth Hack Puts Callers to Your Cellphone On Infinite hold [Muzak]
This video demos what an Instructables team call a "quick down and dirty hack" that uses a Bluetooth headset to prank callers to your cellphone with an infinite hold pattern. It involves nothing more ....... read more
21 hours ago
Animated Waterdrop Sculpture May Amaze, Make You Seasick [Art]
Less spine-tinglingly freaky than the eerie-eyeballed Opto-Isolator animated sculpture, the upcoming Waterdrop sculpture by Héctor Serrano Studio for Roca may have a different side-effect: seasickness ....... read more
21 hours ago
Leaked Pics Seem to be Upcoming Nokia N79 Cellphone [Nokia]
Over at BoyGeniusReport there's a bunch of images that seem to be leaked shots of an upcoming Nokia N-series cellphone, the N79. It's faintly similar to the N82, and supposedly has a 2.4 inch QVGA scr ....... read more
1 day ago
Ricoh R10 Digital Compact Cam is Updated R8, Bigger Screen [Cameras]
Ricoh's previous-gen R8 digital cam only hit the streets back in February, and it's now being replaced by the new R10. The R10 has a larger 3-inch screen, 7.1x optical zoom, and a 10-megapixel CCD sen ....... read more
1 day ago
Casio PCP-1200 Photo Printer Has 7-Inch Touchscreen, Keyboard for Some Reason [Printers]
This new photo-printer from Casio is one mixed-up gizmo: As well as standard photo-printing functions, it's got a 7-inch touchscreen and a full keyboard. So is it a mini computer with printer aspirati ....... read more
1 day ago
Brando's Mini Universal Battery Charger is Jawsome, USB-Powered [Power]
Brando has a new universal battery charger available, working on the same jaw-grip/adjustable electric contacts principle as Thanko's version before. This time though, the gizmo is designed to be port ....... read more
1 day ago
Nokia Pimps 8800 Cellphone With Carbon Arte Version [Carbon Black]
Nokia's just come up with a new entry in its Arte series of "jazzed up" cellphones with the 8800 Carbon Arte. The old slider phone now has panels of carbon fiber in its front and rear faces, along wit ....... read more
1 day ago
Pizza Oven Leaves You with Few Culinary Choices [Food]
Call me crazy, but I don't really see the point of this Stonebake Pizza Oven. I mean, what's wrong with a regular oven? It can cook pizzas perfectly well, and when you don't want a pizza it can cook m ....... read more
1 day ago
Physicists Devise Warp Drive Plans for Traveling Faster Than Light [Science]
Warp drives, those vague constants of science fiction movies, might actually become real, allowing for travel faster than the speed of light. According to two physicists from Baylor, they've come up w ....... read more
1 day ago
'Guitar Photocopier' Now Available on eBay [Auctions]
Have a favorite guitar that you wish you had two of? Right now on eBay you can pick up a "guitar photocopier," a contraption that can carve a new guitar body for you that's exactly like another guitar ....... read more
1 day ago
RCA's 1969 Two Thousand TV Was Computerized Vision of Future, for $2,000 [Retromodo]
Back in 1969 RCA made an attempt at a high-end TV that was a vision of the sets of the year 2000. The Two Thousand was even made in a limited run of 2,000 and cost $2,000. That's around $12,000 in tod ....... read more
1 day ago
Guy Builds Olympic Village Replica with 140,000 Playing Cards [On The Cards]
This Olympics Village model made by an expert card-stacker makes the Lego Olympics look just naff in comparison. I mean, that model's just a lot of plastic parts snapped together: This guy had to avoi ....... read more
1 day ago
Walking Stick With Suspension, Flashlight and Flashing Signal is Perfect for Supergran [Supergran's Stick]
Were I an old geezer right now, my gadget-cravings would no doubt include this multifunction walking stick. It's adjustable, has in-built suspension, an LED flashlight, flashing signals and an alarm a ....... read more
2 days ago
Retro Space Arcade Cabinet Mixes Retro, Futurism with Banana Color Scheme [Arcades]
The classic arcade cabinet of yesterdecade gets a snazzy makeover in the Retro Space machine from designer Martijn Koch. It's a tribute in part to "honor the design of the first ever arcade cabinet" w ....... read more
2 days ago
Brando's Telescope Case Now For iPhone 3G-Owning Voyeurs Too [Zoom Zoom]
Until now to telescopic-zoom an image with your iPhone 3G involved a quick sprint in the general direction of your photo's subject: But now Brando has a version of their telescope add-on for the phone ....... read more
2 days ago