Gadgets
MP3-Playing, Photo Frame Skull Belt Buckle is Gothic Gadget Wrongness [Gadget Wrongness]
Sadly this doesn't have "I am become death, the bringer of MP3s" inscribed upon it—it'd chime nicely with the ohmygod tackiness of the Digital Skull Belt Buckle. It's in fact so terrible it's wo ....... read more
4 days ago
Fujistu's Wraparound Exterior Car Video Gives Bird's Eye View, World's First [Driving]
Fujitsu's taken the handy exterior cameras found on high-end, larger vehicles today and applied some nifty video processing to make them a driving aid par excellence. In fact, Fujitsu's saying it's th ....... read more
4 days ago
Esc Key Alarm Clock Won't Let You Escape The Daily Drudge [Clock]
This concept alarm is simple, but self-contradictory: shaped like a giant Esc key, you mash it with a fist to deactivate it, and it wirelessly communicates to a dock to (presumably) turn off the sound ....... read more
4 days ago
Nooka Zon Watch Dots The Time Away [Nooka]
The Zon is the latest in Nooka's line of variously confusing and interesting (for a given value of beauty) timepieces: Its 35 x 45mm dot-matrix display either displays the minutes of the day dotting i ....... read more
7 days ago
Meade ETX-LS Motorized GPS Telescope Basically Does Astronomy For You [Telescopes]
Some details on Meade's ETX-LS telescope have snuck out ahead of its early 2009 launch, and it looks like an amateur telescope for the digital age. That's because it'll drive itself to locate the star ....... read more
7 days ago
Walloffice Is Smallest Home-Office Solution, Not For Shiny Floors [Tiny Desk]
This Wallflower Walloffice desk from Jonas and Jonas design may hold the record for the smallest and simplest home-office solution: It's got just two legs, and is made from a one-piece bent-laminate ....... read more
7 days ago
Cycle Life Watch Concept Charts Your Life Draining Away In Daily Drudgery [Timepieces]
Here's a bit of tech that'll cast a wonderful air of doom and gloom over your morning breakfast cereal: The Cycle Life watch charts your progress through the boring average day's drudgery. It begins c ....... read more
7 days ago
Kami Kami Sensor Counts Your Kids Chews, No Kidding [Chew Counter]
It's been a long time since I've heard anyone reference the old saying "You must chew every mouthful 15 times"...but those memories of childhood arguments with my parents have just come roaring back w ....... read more
7 days ago
Quantum of Solace Is the Perfect Bond Movie [Movie Review]
The latest Bond is the perfect Bond Movie. Yes. It is. In fact, Quantum of Solace is not only the perfect Bond movie, it's the best Bond movie ever, period. Even surpassing Casino Royale?and I mean bo ....... read more
8 days ago
iGala Wireless Photo Frame Has Touchscreen, Own Gmail Account [Digital Photos]
Normally I'd say digital photo frame, splidgital photo frame...but iGala's one has a couple of features that make it stand out. It's an 8-inch touchscreen, with standard 4:3 ratio 800 x 600 pixels so ....... read more
8 days ago
Nokia's Clamshell "Wahoo" Leaks Out, Looks Weirdly RAZR-Like [Nokia]
This strangeness is a leaked photo of an upcoming Nokia handset, dubbed "Wahoo" internally, and we can't decide if it reminds us more of Motorola's aging RAZR range or the BlackBerry Kickstart. It's g ....... read more
8 days ago
Solar Vertical Lamp Blind Charges-Up in Daylight, Lights Rooms At Night [Lighting]
Sometimes a simple idea will make you react with ambivalence, but designers Yoon-Hui Kim and Eun-Kyung Kim's Solar Vertical Lamp probably isn't one of those. At its core it's a solar-powered lighting ....... read more
8 days ago
Mathmos Glowing Wind Lights Probably Best For Breezier Locales [Wind Lights]
Mathmos' eight-inch tall windlights are pretty simple—just a generator, 2.4-inch propeller and two LED lights—but that doesn't stop them from having their own cute, glowing eco-charm. Basi ....... read more
8 days ago
AMD's Quad-Core "Shanghai" Server Opterons Go 45nm, Desktop Version In '09 [Amd]
AMD's just revealed its quad-core Opteron chips manufactured with its new 45nm process. Based on the "Barcelona" chipset, the new "Shanghai" chips have a few extra tweaks: the L3 cache has risen from ....... read more
8 days ago
Lifemax Sneezer Beam Annihilates Your Allergies With Light [Snake Oil]
You want to know what snake oil smells like? Take a whiff of the Lifemax Sneezer beam. Oh wait—you can't because your nose is stuffed up. Well, I suggest taking some Allegra because I hardly thi ....... read more
9 days ago
BlackBerry Curve 8900 Gets Launch Date, $450 Price Tag in Germany [BlackBerry Curve 8900]
We knew it was coming to Germany first, but there's new info that the BlackBerry Curve 8900 will hit the streets there mid-November, and at around $450 (360?) price for a contract-free handset. German ....... read more
9 days ago
Digital Photo Bauble Lets You Spice-Up Christmas Trees With Inappropriate Pics [Photo Balls]
This is a 21st Century Christmas tree bauble: There's a 1.4-inch screen in there, powered by AAA batteries and 8MB of USB-accessed storage, and it's capable of showing slideshows of your pictures. Out ....... read more
9 days ago
WowWee Rovio Contest Winner [Contest]
Congratulations to Neil Morris for coming up with the best productivity gadget out of the submitted entries and winning himself a brand new WowWee Rovio in the process. His concept, dubbed "Chonograhp ....... read more
9 days ago
Awesome Mod Adds 3D Animated Imaging to Viewmaster Toy [Psychedelia]
I was never jealous of my friends who had those Viewmaster slide-viewer toys when I was a kid—they just seemed kinda boring, but I would have been jealous if the toy was as clever as this mod. T ....... read more
9 days ago
Waseda Talker Robot Tries to Speak Like Humans, Sounds Like A Cow [Robot Speech]
This weird looking chap is the Waseda Talker-7 robot, and it makes those strange vowel sounds not through a loudspeaker, but a biomechanical simulation of the way we humans speak. To that end, it's go ....... read more
9 days ago