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DVICE ARCHIVE FOR December 2007
We spend a good chunk of our time here at DVICE writing about fun gadgets and cool pieces of gear (the butter cutter notwithstanding), and occasionally we come across something that’s truly amazing: a piece of technological wizardry so...
POSTED Monday, December 31, 2007
Some of you were pretty upset when DVICE found ways to get under Pleo's skin, but, hey, we didn't literally get under that skin. We even took Pleo out for a well-deserved walk around town. The video features a...
POSTED Monday, December 31, 2007
Oh come on! It's not even New Years and now Easter-themed USB peripherals are showing up. Easter is still four months away for crying out loud. This USB egg cluster looks like something that would pop out of a...
POSTED Monday, December 31, 2007
The M-TRAN II Self-Reconfigurable Modular Robot looks a lot like an AT-AT (or All-Terrain Armored Transport) from Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back, and the idea of an all-terrain walker is one also applied to the M-TRAN...
POSTED Monday, December 31, 2007
If there's any one benefit of technology that we can say for certain stands above all others, it's the ability it gives us to spy on each other. I mean, where would we be without wiretaps, hidden cameras, keyloggers, and...
POSTED Monday, December 31, 2007
Remember Moon Shoes, those crazy floating-inner-bucket booties that were all the rage in the '90s? These Titanium Spring Loaded Insoles are kind of like the adult version, promising to make you feel as if every step is considerably lighter....
POSTED Monday, December 31, 2007
No, this isn't mission control for the next NASA space mission. It's actually the Tokyo Traffic Control Center, the brain of all the roadways in the biggest city on earth. It's impressive, to say the least. Manned by operators working...
POSTED Monday, December 31, 2007
What's the deal with the sport of discus anyway? A glorified Frisbee throwing contest? Are you kidding me? I can throw a Frisbee a solid 100 yard and even a dog can catch it in his mouth. This watch...
POSTED Monday, December 31, 2007
LG Philips has plans to unleash a couple of monster multi-touch displays at CES next week. The 52-inch and humungous 82-inch displays will be able to be manipulated in similar fashion to the iPhone's screen, just on a much, much...
POSTED Monday, December 31, 2007
Thick, chunky batteries can only mean gadgets that are thicker than they need to be and weigh much more than they should. Thankfully Zhang Xiachang has come up with a battery that is so thin, you can roll it...
POSTED Monday, December 31, 2007
Oh, toast, how I love you so. You're slightly brown on the outside, and nothing but delicious on the inside. Luckily for us, simple and beautiful designers like Amandana like to give attention to every nook and cranny of...
POSTED Monday, December 31, 2007
These tables and benches might look like they're covered in water, something that you wouldn't want to sit down at to eat a meal due to the obvious soggy nature of the meal. Well, you'd be wrong, as you could...
POSTED Monday, December 31, 2007
Being stylish and always having to carry around a USB flash drive aren't two traits usually associated with each other. This Olinari Silver Dog Tag wants to think otherwise. This dog tag is loaded with style including the 24-inch...
POSTED Sunday, December 30, 2007
At the end of every year technology writers stop reviewing gadgets and start making top ten lists. Headlines that contain numbers are, after all, Digg magnets. We've combed through all sorts of top ten lists, from "best gadget," to...
POSTED Sunday, December 30, 2007
If you're not looking to burn upwards of $380,000 on high-end and designer speakers, but still want something that looks nice, take a gander at the NACsound Sonance speakers. These speakers don't look anything like speakers at all, resembling...
POSTED Saturday, December 29, 2007
Bean bags and those funky rocker video game chairs are great, if you are still living in mom's basement, but what about for the single bachelor who still enjoys video games but doesn't want to look like a complete...
POSTED Saturday, December 29, 2007
I guess any surgical robot is bound to be a little gross, but this picture of the i-Snake wrapped around a human heart is a little too Whitley Streiber for my tastes. The thing was invented at the Imperial...
POSTED Saturday, December 29, 2007
You may be familiar with our toaster fetish around these parts, but did you also know about our love with all things Boynq? Boynq's latest gadget is as simple as a memory card reader, but what makes it above...
POSTED Saturday, December 29, 2007
Japanese photographers are known for their attention to detail and sense of community--go to Tokyo's Yoyogi Park on any particularly sunny day and you'll see teams of photographer hobbyists lugging around huge bags of expensive camera equipment. That same...
POSTED Saturday, December 29, 2007
Santa may be done writing his lists for the year, but we aren't — check out these laser-etched laptops, some of tomorrow's technology in Battlestar Galactica, and the everyday gadgetry used to snoop out specters. We also took our...
POSTED Friday, December 28, 2007
Here's the next forward-thinking keyboard idea from the Art.Lebedev Studio—this Optimus Tactus is a keyboard that has no keys. Along with its touchscreen substituting for physical keys comes flexibility, giving you choices of how big those graphic keys can...
POSTED Friday, December 28, 2007
Japan's rail system is one of the best in the world, with speedy bullet trains available to whisk you between every major city and an extensive regional system in place to get you to even the smallest towns without ever...
POSTED Friday, December 28, 2007
Plans are underway to create the world's biggest building in Moscow, a gigantic monstrosity dubbed Crystal Island that'll dominate the skyline. The $4 billion "city in a building" will cover a whopping 2.5 million square meters of floor space and...
POSTED Friday, December 28, 2007
So you want to get invited to the Hulu trial beta program but don't have an invite? Well, 2,500 of you are in luck, because DVICE just happens to be giving away 2,500 invites starting...right now. This is a first...
POSTED Friday, December 28, 2007
So, you want to be a Ghost Hunter? There's never been a better time: a lot of the tech tools hunters use in the field are available to everyone, letting you start your search for the paranormal as soon...
POSTED Friday, December 28, 2007
Neo's attempts to bend the spoon may have been a bit easier if he would just have slipped in a Magic Teaspoon on the prophet. A portion of the spoon's handle made of nickel titanium naval ordinance laboratory, which...
POSTED Friday, December 28, 2007
The rumor mills are churning at full speed in anticipation of MacWorld, which is coming up in just a couple of weeks. So what should we expect? Well, according to some "experts" who have dug around talking to Apple's suppliers,...
POSTED Friday, December 28, 2007
With the holidays wrapping up, there is no doubt that more and more gadgets have invaded your life. With more gadgets comes more cords and chargers, and with more cords and chargers comes an even bigger of a rat's...
POSTED Friday, December 28, 2007
The Radisson SAS Hotel in Berlin is home to the largest cylindrical fish tank in the world, standing at a whopping 80 feet tall and containing 260,000 gallons of water. It's got 2,500 fish inside that are spread across 56...
POSTED Friday, December 28, 2007
Philipe Starck has been at it for Fossil for some time now, with odd and unique watch designs. His latest, the Palindrom, is no different. The Palindrome watch has a small rectangle that acts as the hour hand with...
POSTED Friday, December 28, 2007
Two years ago laser-etched laptops were all over the Internet, mainly because of the famous tarsier and Magritte Powerbooks. But since then people have been busily etching all kinds of things into their laptop lids, from the Mona Lisa to...
POSTED Friday, December 28, 2007
Radiators are ugly. Harps are pretty. If you want to make a radiator that's pretty, make it look like a harp. That must have been the inspiration behind the Adagio radiator. (Either that or the person who designed it...
POSTED Friday, December 28, 2007
You know CES 2008 is just around the corner when companies start unveiling new digital photo frames. Digital Foci is primed to introduce three new frames that range from the small 5.7-inch (640x480) Image Moments 6, the medium sized...
POSTED Friday, December 28, 2007
The Tokyo landscape offers unique opportunities to create art and the latest is the coin locker exhibit at Shimbashi station in Tokyo, Japan. Each locker is programmed with a number that will allow anyone with the digits to open...
POSTED Friday, December 28, 2007
Can you imagine a world before the iPhone? It's difficult, isn't it? But there was a time earlier in the year when instead of reviewing the iPhone, we were making predictions about it. In April I wrote a column...
POSTED Thursday, December 27, 2007
The more we watch the rapid-fire development of OLED (Organic Light Emitting Diode) screens, the more obvious it gets: These super-thin panels are soon to be commonplace, and they're far superior to any display technology that came before. Samsung today...
POSTED Thursday, December 27, 2007
The HOAP-3, a humanoid robot by Fujitsu, is able to redefine the way it interacts with its environment as it learns. It accomplishes this by mimicking movements learned by way of a motion-capture-equipped human companion, watching others move around,...
POSTED Thursday, December 27, 2007
Normally entering your username and password is a tedious affair, but that's only because you're not, er, doing it, with the Password Panties. Although they probably won't keep determined thieves from penetrating this firewall, they do make pressing the...
POSTED Thursday, December 27, 2007
Sure, a nice, five second cartoon would be great for these digital billboards that are going up in Philadelphia, Atlanta, Chicago, Los Angeles, Miami and 15 other cities, but that isn't a feasible option for these new, high-tech billboards...
POSTED Thursday, December 27, 2007
The train makers on the Odakyu Line in Japan are pretty smart. When they wanted to make their trains more kid friendly, they simply went out and got kids to redesign them. The result is a big yellow train...
POSTED Thursday, December 27, 2007
The DVD Coach Single Target Duplicator by EZ Dupe is both a mouthful and a computer-free solution for creating copies of DVDs and CDs. Just put whatever disc you want duplicated into one drive and a blank one in...
POSTED Thursday, December 27, 2007
I'll admit I'm a sucker for anything with exposed gears, and this Oblong Gear Clock is only adding fuel to the fire of my secret love. What's worse: this tower of toothy cogs isn't just for show, either. The...
POSTED Thursday, December 27, 2007
If Apple follows through with one of its new patents, your iPod may start paying attention to how long you're listening to music, and how loud. Sounds a little intrusive but, If you think about it, pretty much any...
POSTED Thursday, December 27, 2007
Because we all know that global warming is caused by all those pesky doghouses that are belching out carbon monoxide and piling up in landfills, Sustainable Pet Design created Greenrrrroof. It's basically the same thing as any old doghouse...
POSTED Thursday, December 27, 2007
It may not be the most stylish watch around, but it can definitely get the job done for the heavily medicated. This watch has two crucial features — the maximum of six daily alarms that can be set, and...
POSTED Thursday, December 27, 2007
Sitting down right now? There is a very likely chance you are, but take a gander at your buttocks. How does it look? I just looked at mine and it sure is gloomy. That is probably because it lacks...
POSTED Thursday, December 27, 2007
Host Vanessa Rae takes Suki, her dog, and Pleo, a robotic dinosaur-like companion, out for a whirlwind tour of Manhattan.
POSTED Thursday, December 27, 2007
We already know you can't save money even if your life depends on it, but how will you do when the lives of a virtual family are at stake? Said family lives inside Jinsei Ginko (translates into "Life Bank")...
POSTED Thursday, December 27, 2007
If your boardroom meeting still feature a flip pad, printed charts, and laser pointers as the main attraction, then encourage your boss to upgrade to the D+S Plasma-Lift Conference table. Besides looking impressive with a lacquered oak veneer finish,...
POSTED Thursday, December 27, 2007
Fed up with the boring storage ideas all us land dwellers have come up with over the years, John Paul Plauche turned to the sea for some new ideas. The lowly barnacle seems to have caught his eye (apparently...
POSTED Thursday, December 27, 2007
Having all of your CDs out on a bunch of shelves may look impressive, but it can be a pain if you don't have them organized in any way. The CD Carousel Plus holds 150 CDs at once, has...
POSTED Thursday, December 27, 2007
The way things are going, before too long we'll all be trying to find our invisible gadgets. From tiny cellphones to thin TVs, everybody wants smaller and thinner gadgets. And Japan is here to deliver what people want. Just take...
POSTED Thursday, December 27, 2007
The life of a Japanese salaryman is so tough that only the bravest/most foolish Western businessmen dare step up to work at a large Japan-based corporation. The latest example of exactly how hardcore Japanese salarymen are comes in the...
POSTED Thursday, December 27, 2007
Although this Netgear ReadyNAS hard disk enclosure looks almost exactly like a dehumidifier that's buzzing away in our basement right now, it's a whole lot more useful. That's because it's a well-known fact that you can't be too rich, too...
POSTED Wednesday, December 26, 2007
Are you tired of waiting for Apple to release a MacBook tablet for you to fawn over? Sure, there have been rumors about them for months now, but there's nothing coming out of Cupertino currently that looks anything like the...
POSTED Wednesday, December 26, 2007
All GPS devices currently on the market run on the US-Government-created GPS network of satellites. Not all countries are all that excited about relying on maps and navigation supplied by the US government, as Uncle Sam has the ability to...
POSTED Wednesday, December 26, 2007
Talk about the separation of science and religion. A group of Israeli scientists printed the entire text of the Hebrew Bible on to an area smaller than half a grain of sugar, no doubt enraging anti-science religious zealots and...
POSTED Wednesday, December 26, 2007
The NaturalPoint SmartNAV 3 allows you to control your computer cursor without using your hands — an obvious boon for those who suffer from debilitating pain or hampered mobility. Instead, you plug in the USB sensor, put it atop...
POSTED Wednesday, December 26, 2007
We show you a lot of cool and wild bikes around here, but what would you do with your old bicycle if you got one? If you are the folks over at Bike Furniture Design from Michigan, you fashion...
POSTED Wednesday, December 26, 2007
Other than businesses and old folks, I really can't think of too many people who have a use for a landline. Cell phones — and in a more major way smart phones — make fixed sets just seem cumbersome....
POSTED Wednesday, December 26, 2007
This wallet has a lot more going on than your wallet, no matter how many credit cards, receipts, and pictures of your family you have stuffed inside. The Emtrace PS100 is a 5mm-thick digital photo frame that can fit in...
POSTED Wednesday, December 26, 2007
Turned on the news lately? It's obvious that threats and concerns of terrorism are running rampant. Sure, airliners and frequent fliers have a lot of measures to take for protection, but what about the average joe with a garage...
POSTED Wednesday, December 26, 2007
JVC has just announced a pair of earbuds that aren't made from the plastics that you're used to with most headphones of that nature. No, they're made of wood, just like the classy speakers you have setup in your living...
POSTED Wednesday, December 26, 2007
There's never enough MP3 docks. By now you should have one in the kitchen, media room, shower and even at the office. On the hog is another place that can be scratched off that list with this motorcycle-mounted MP3...
POSTED Wednesday, December 26, 2007
There are some downsides to technology, and those being ridiculous items like this. I'm going to go out on a limb and say it's tough to find at least one individual lazy enough to need a swiveling USB card...
POSTED Wednesday, December 26, 2007
Japanese production house Yujin just released the ultimate embodiment of Tokyo urban culture: Japanese cell phone emoticon toys! Don't worry about the fact that most of the Japan-only keitai (cell phone) iconography is foreign to you. The point is...
POSTED Wednesday, December 26, 2007
The dream of wielding a Star Trek alien musical instrument like the one shown above can now be yours courtesy of the Suzuki Q Chord. Designed to avoid allowing the playing of any wrong notes, the Q Chord combines...
POSTED Tuesday, December 25, 2007
When most people think of the SCI FI series Battlestar Galactica, they think of super-sophisticated synthetic lifeforms (a.k.a. Cylons) and starships that travel faster than light. But those aren't the show's only high-tech wonders; check out these mind-blowing futuristic...
POSTED Monday, December 24, 2007
Some people just don't like seeing fan blades hang from their ceilings. If even one blade hanging from the ceiling is too many, then you may want to switch out your current ceiling fans with Fanimation's retractable blade fan,...
POSTED Monday, December 24, 2007
Yes, we know that Christmas is tomorrow, but these are gifts that will certainly work as late holiday presents or as birthday gifts all year round. Show your friend just what you think of his bad-combination gadget habit with...
POSTED Monday, December 24, 2007
One of our DVICE spies sent us this top-secret subway radar map that shows a giant submerged Pac-Man lurking just off the shore of Manhattan. At this time its intentions are unknown, but given that Pac-Man is just a...
POSTED Monday, December 24, 2007
Man, don't you totally hate it when you're in a firefight and you lean around a corner to aim and totally catch a bullet in the melon? It's the worst! Well, if I had a Corner Shot instead of a...
POSTED Monday, December 24, 2007
Double Happiness Jeans has an intriguing business plan involving a giant printer, a dress made of meat (images), a sweatshop in Second Life and printable cloth. Actually the meat dress (called the Meat Mini) is just a way to...
POSTED Monday, December 24, 2007
Like Charlie Brown, I am one heck of a old grinch around the holidays. Eggnog, yule tides, and all of those traditions are nothing but a bunch of hoo-ha to me. The one shining moment is the holidays is...
POSTED Monday, December 24, 2007
The ChiliPad has taken a nod from high-end gaming PCs with a product capable of heating or cooling a mattress. Combining liquid and mattresses never results in a good outcome, but the ChiliPad is essentially a watercooler (or heater)...
POSTED Sunday, December 23, 2007
Apple fans mourned Thursday when Think Secret, one of the Internet's most popular Apple rumormongering websites, agreed to shut down in a legal settlement of an Apple-filed lawsuit from 2005. In exchange for shutting down, the site's owner Nick...
POSTED Sunday, December 23, 2007
Even though this watch is actually a steampunk-inspired creation — made apparent by the name, Vulcania — I can't help but think it has a futuristic steampunk feel due to the clean metals and design. Designer Fabrice Gonet dreamed...
POSTED Saturday, December 22, 2007
I've always been a sucker for anything stainless steel, so I am pretty giddy seeing Micro's Stainless Steel Camcorder. Not only does this cam look great on the outside, but it also shoots DVD-quality footage. It can record upwards...
POSTED Saturday, December 22, 2007
Projectors and stereos with integrated iPod docks are understandable and even acceptable, but a digital photo frame with an iPod dock may be pushing it a little too far, just like that iPod docking stethoscope. Mustek's i700 digital photo...
POSTED Saturday, December 22, 2007
The year may be coming to a close, but we're not slowing down here at DVICE. We've got an exciting sweepstakes going (love the Wii, much?), a list of 101 gift guides for any late shoppers, 11 gadgets for...
POSTED Friday, December 21, 2007
As digital picture frames move beyond mere autonomous devices and onto the Web, they become easier to use and more interactive. Here's an example of that, Ality's updated Wireless Pixxa frame, which lets you send and receive pictures to...
POSTED Friday, December 21, 2007
Staring at cute posters of cats and fish on the ceiling of a dentist office is so 1990s. The future is here, and it surprisingly looks like a technology from a 1990s television series. The relaxView B.V. is a...
POSTED Friday, December 21, 2007
Good news, prisoners! Well, relatively good news. I have no news relating to you getting out of prison. So, yeah, sorry about that. But good news for your time in jail! You might be getting fewer cavity searches in the...
POSTED Friday, December 21, 2007
Coffee time at the office may be one of the most aggressive and dangerous times of the day. Back in my corporate-life days I once drove my car through the building because someone had neglected to refill the coffee...
POSTED Friday, December 21, 2007
Biking in an urban environment can be pretty dangerous, as drivers aren't always looking out for cyclists and people getting out of cabs are prone to opening their doors without checking to see if anyone is coming. While this Cervellum...
POSTED Friday, December 21, 2007
In today's installment of "ridiculously expensive and over-the-top speakers that only the idiotic and rich would ever buy," we have the Genesis 2-Series Loudspeaker system. These hulking monstrosities claim to be well worth their $63,000 pricetag, which is something that...
POSTED Friday, December 21, 2007
Sure, you can be happy with the standard robotic woman's voice that came loaded on your GPS navigation device, but in the age of infinite customization, what's the fun in that? There's no fun in it, that's where. That's why...
POSTED Friday, December 21, 2007
Sure, you could always pick up a portable breathalyzer to have competitions with your friends and to determine when to give up the keys, but a silly breathalyzer couldn't give a flying hoot about your liver. Researchers at the...
POSTED Friday, December 21, 2007
Raise your hand if you had a View-Master as a kid. How cool was it to see your favorite characters and stories in what appeared to be a 3D world? The Loreo 3D Lens in a Cap allows you...
POSTED Friday, December 21, 2007
Remember how airlines in the United States announced that we'd all get Wi-Fi in the sky? Air France is fitting one of its Airbus A318 planes with the means to provide in-flight calling for a preliminary six month trial....
POSTED Friday, December 21, 2007
The iPhone, while certainly one of the top gadget's of 2007, has one big downside: It's expensive. You seemingly get a lot, but $400 is up there for a cellphone. Is it possible to get all the same features for $300 less? We put the Apple's darling head to head with Palm's bargain smartphone, the new Centro to find out.
POSTED Friday, December 21, 2007
So what do you look for in a coffee maker? I prefer one that keeps me on edge in fear of detonation, like this Saeco Etienne Louis espresso coffee machine — it looks a lot like an underwater mine....
POSTED Friday, December 21, 2007
Just because you traverse a road using a crosswalk, that doesn't mean you aren't in harms way. The School Zone crosswalk system tries to improve on the way we walk out into traffic. It sports a raised surface so...
POSTED Friday, December 21, 2007
Find that your workers are a little dopey? Maybe a power nap would work wonders for team efficiency. The NapShell is pretty much everything anyone needs to get away from the world for a little bit. It has an...
POSTED Friday, December 21, 2007
Being able to see through walls was something that only certain superheroes have ever been able to do, and it's something that many people have dreamt about, mostly for perverted reasons. Well, mortal crime fighters and perverts, I have good...
POSTED Friday, December 21, 2007
Now that most of us are finishing up our holiday shopping, we have a chance to reflect on those less fortunate… and those much, much more fortunate. That got us wondering: Just what are the ultra-rich getting their gadget-loving...
POSTED Thursday, December 20, 2007
It's the time of year: Stockings are hung by the chimney with care, and you hope that the saint of all things high-tech soon will be there. After one too many eggnogs, you slip off for a fitful night's...
POSTED Thursday, December 20, 2007
The Zoombak GPS locator is now officially available, giving you an easy way to immediately locate kids, family, car, or dogs with the help of a palm-sized GPS transmitter. Attach it to your dog's collar, hide it in your...
POSTED Thursday, December 20, 2007
The HOAP-3 is Fujitsu Automation's entry into the 2007 Robot Awards and it can keep track of its soccer ball, kick it and grab it, all while being controlled on a network (though it doesn't appear to be fully...
POSTED Thursday, December 20, 2007
Getting tired of wagging your lips all the time? Send a message with this Lampex USB Magic Wand, and give those skinny arms of yours a bit of a workout. The Wand connects to your computer via USB —...
POSTED Thursday, December 20, 2007
The day and age of the traditional, four-burner symmetrical stove top is dwindling away thanks to the latest and greatest designs that maximize space efficiency and integrate next generation technology. This Kuppersbusch Profi-Cook Center has five efficiently placed burners...
POSTED Thursday, December 20, 2007
Here's a computer mod that's not exactly built for the long haul: an entire PC stuffed inside a pizza box. Delicious! Placed lovingly inside the box where a large pizza used to sit (from Little Ceasers? Really? Gross.) are all...
POSTED Thursday, December 20, 2007
These leaked photos are allegedly of the upcoming N96 from Nokia, the update to the highly popular N95 smartphone that was released here in the States earlier this year. The new phone is a dual slider, with a horizontal...
POSTED Thursday, December 20, 2007
Still intimidated by the maniacal and condescending Roomba that struts its stuff all around the house? You should be. It continues to shuffle around your home and none of your other cleaning tools want to compete, right? Eye-Vac has...
POSTED Thursday, December 20, 2007
Underwater photography is fun, allowing you to take pictures of fish, coral, and people in bathing suits who are unaware that they're being photographed. The problem is, however, that it's tough to look through a viewfinder underwater, and you're...
POSTED Thursday, December 20, 2007
Mixing business and pleasure must be a common occurrence at Asus HQ. Its new line of 2-megapixel webcams include the added feature of being able to scan business cards with ease. This is thanks to the webcam's base, which...
POSTED Thursday, December 20, 2007
InstyMeds is like an ATM, but instead of dispensing money, it dispenses drugs. Legal drugs, of course. It simply cuts out the need for a pharmacist by reading a barcode on your prescription, then doling out the medication you...
POSTED Thursday, December 20, 2007
So how many gigabytes do you have in your pocket? If you had a Buffalo SHD-UHRS 100GB solid-state hard drive, you'd probably have more than anyone you come across. Take note of the USB plug at the end of...
POSTED Thursday, December 20, 2007
Here's a design for people who refuse to accept the tyranny of the shoe. Sure, footwear is often considered one of the great milestones of civilization, but the Disposable Sole boils it down to the basics. It's a sole-shaped...
POSTED Thursday, December 20, 2007
Just as mental dust bunnies begin multiplying in the minds of baby boomers, here come computer games designed to improve memory, focus and reflexes. Cool as jug of fiber drink, right? I thought exactly that when I saw Lumos...
POSTED Thursday, December 20, 2007
Apparently, the market for luxury goods that outright announce how rich you are has gotten so out of hand that people feel the need to bring bling into the bathroom. First we saw gold pills that would literally make...
POSTED Thursday, December 20, 2007
As little as a year ago, only the hardiest contrarians mocked the iPod. Then Apple released a questionable new generation. Buyers of the Classic give it just three and a half stars on Amazon, complaining you could grow old...
POSTED Wednesday, December 19, 2007
We always write about things like computers and cellphones that are constantly being given updates, but what about more lowly, traditional gadgets? You know, like the toaster? When does it get its day in the sun? Well, how's about today?...
POSTED Wednesday, December 19, 2007
If only the most realistic car-racing simulator will do, you might want to check out the VRX Mach 4, a gaming system that goes to incredible lengths to give you the most gut-wrenching driving experience you could possibly have...
POSTED Wednesday, December 19, 2007
The folks over at the US Air Force Research Lab came up with an idea to allow spy drones to procure energy in the field: have them hang from power lines and leech some juice. Of course, there are...
POSTED Wednesday, December 19, 2007
PC gamers, you know that in order to run the latest games such as Crysis and Unreal Tournament III, you need a really serious computer. And to run them at top speed, you need a really, really serious computer with...
POSTED Wednesday, December 19, 2007
Bandages for the Heart are Band-Aids made from jewelry-grade materials. You probably won't want to use one to staunch just any wound (unless you make a habit of throwing away 18 karat gold) — instead, Bandages for the Heart...
POSTED Wednesday, December 19, 2007
This little CD-shaped device is actually a synthesizer. The Chimera Synthesizer to be exact. So what's it do?The Chimera bC16 is a miniature patch synthesizer that can crank out a cacauphany of analog beeps, blips and bleets. Each of...
POSTED Wednesday, December 19, 2007
No offense to those wearing calculator watches — not only are they so 1994, but they are also obsolete now that watches are capable of making calls, helping you sleep and now detecting Wi-Fi networks. This watch includes the...
POSTED Wednesday, December 19, 2007
The excellent inventors over at Evil Mad Science Laboratories have done it again. Their newest innovation is a tiny robot made from the head of a toothbrush. They noticed that newfangled toothbrushes with angled bristles want to move in...
POSTED Wednesday, December 19, 2007
Unless you are the lead vocalist who happens to pound on a tambourine while singing, the tambourine player needs all of the help he or she can get. This tambourine contains 14 LEDs that will light up when the...
POSTED Wednesday, December 19, 2007
Recycling is a great thing to do, but do you know what's even better? Conspicuously recycling. Yes, if you're going to do something good, you'd better do it so everyone can see. I mean, that's the point, isn't it?...
POSTED Wednesday, December 19, 2007
Why purchase a generator for your compound when you could power your home or apartment building with a mini-nuclear reactor, built by a reliable, brand name company? Why indeed. Toshiba has designed what it calls a micro nuclear reactor....
POSTED Wednesday, December 19, 2007
Taking a page out of NASA's book, Nicole Schmiedel has designed the COR Insulin Wristwatch. This watch is designed for those with type 1 diabetes. Using piezo-electric technology, similar to what is used on satellites, the watch will power...
POSTED Wednesday, December 19, 2007
Sooner or later someone was going to figure out if you want to make people feel good about saving the environment, you need to make something that can be used for everyday activities. The Solar Table seems to fit...
POSTED Wednesday, December 19, 2007
The Peak Bath helps you conserve water in the most simple way: by using less of it. It's still a full tub, but has a section in the middle cut out of the bottom that is supposed to allow...
POSTED Wednesday, December 19, 2007
Tired of tripping over an unsightly bulge every time you walk to your couch because you ran your surround-speaker wires under the living room carpet? Or worse, because you're like us and just left the wires sitting on top...
POSTED Wednesday, December 19, 2007
If you ever find yourself out in Graz, Austria, you may want to pay a visit to Aiola Island, a man-made structure that bridges the banks of the Mur River. Opened in 2003, Aiola Island not only has a...
POSTED Wednesday, December 19, 2007
I always love it when designers take what are normally pretty boring devices and add a simple yet elegant element to them that makes them immediately more desirable. That's the case with this IVY external hard drive, which features...
POSTED Wednesday, December 19, 2007
With the debut of innovative products like the iPhone and Amazon's Kindle, 2007 was good to the gadget world. Now it's time for the gadget world to be good to you — DVICE is giving away five of this...
POSTED Tuesday, December 18, 2007
Are you really easily entertained? Do you need little more than a bunch of flashing lights to hold your attention? Well, I'd make fun of you, but maybe it's for the best. More sophisticated varieties of entertainment tend to...
POSTED Tuesday, December 18, 2007
When Elvis the cat lost the use of his hind legs because of a run-in with a truck, BattleBot builder Carlo Bertocchini wasn't going to acccept his cat's lost mobility. Instead, he fashioned the robotic carriage you see in...
POSTED Tuesday, December 18, 2007
Toshiba has a new smartphone coming soon dubbed the Portege. Featuring a full QWERTY keyboard, it's loaded with options that should make power users happy. Features are set to include "GSM 900/1800/1900, WCDMA, Bluetooth, WLAN , USB 2.0 connectivity,...
POSTED Tuesday, December 18, 2007
We're all in the same boat: It's one week to go before Christmas, and you've still got a ton of shopping to do. Stumped about what to get some people, you turn to the Web. But where to turn?...
POSTED Tuesday, December 18, 2007
It starts off as an ordinary shipping container, but throw a switch and ninety seconds later the Illy Push Button House has magically expanded into a five-room abode. Architect and designer Adam Kalkin created this jack-in-the-box-like dwelling, whose sections...
POSTED Tuesday, December 18, 2007
Apparently, in the world of high-end home theater speakers, bigger is better. If that's the case, then these Nucleus Reference 5LS Loudspeakers have got to be some of the best-sounding speakers around, as they stand at a whopping 6-feet...
POSTED Tuesday, December 18, 2007
So the earth is around 4 billion years old? Well, that is 4 billion sad and unfortunate years that this device has not existed, but it should have. The Sno-baller is the cherry on top of the lazy sundae...
POSTED Tuesday, December 18, 2007
The Gphone isn't coming, but Android phones certainly are. The new cellphone operating system by the Google-initiated Open Handset Alliance is currently under development, and phones with it loaded onboard should be dropping in the second half of 2008....
POSTED Tuesday, December 18, 2007
No, not that Halo, but a different Halo, one that is less about killing the flood and more about killing the bacteria living in your carpet. It pains me to see how much devices as simple as vacuum cleaners...
POSTED Tuesday, December 18, 2007
The Mobiblu Cube 2 was a cute little 512 MB or 1GB MP3 player, just larger than your standard gaming die. It had some major advantages over the iPod Shuffle, including a LED-screen, built-in FM tuner, and voice recorder....
POSTED Tuesday, December 18, 2007
The Sony Little TV manages to exude quite a bit of character despite being small enough to comfortably fit in your hand. The set has a silicone body covered by highly elastic "super-knit" fabric. The television is able to...
POSTED Tuesday, December 18, 2007
We can't imagine that a folding cardboard boombox will get terrific sound out of your iPod, even with working speakers. (Having to clarify that the iPod speakers you're selling actually work is kind of a warning sign right there.)...
POSTED Tuesday, December 18, 2007
The Barcode Clock is pretty much exactly what you think it is — a clock that looks like a barcode. You can tell the time by looking at the little LEDs above the numbers along the bottom, which are...
POSTED Tuesday, December 18, 2007
Feeling like a pig after eating too many holiday cookies at the office party the other day? Then step on the Animal Scale and see if you're really as heavy as a hog, or any of a bunch of...
POSTED Tuesday, December 18, 2007
The gumEase G100 promises to alleviate the pain that goes along with having dental work done by chilling nerves until they're numb — no need for drugs or needles. The G100 is a flexible container filled with a solution...
POSTED Tuesday, December 18, 2007
Need to tune your guitar in a pinch? Gudmundur Freyr Jónasson of Iceland has a program that runs off your cell phone and it compares the notes you're playing to how they should sound. Jónasson's idea is still in...
POSTED Tuesday, December 18, 2007
The Digital Veil is an art piece by Soomi Park that combines black and white flash animations with a wearable LCD screen. The wearer's face is visible through the white parts of the animations and obscured by the black...
POSTED Tuesday, December 18, 2007
Modding old video game consoles into small, handheld cases is all the rage these days. So is wrapping otherwise normal devices in pretty, pretty wood. So it's really no surprise at all that we're a little bit taken with...
POSTED Tuesday, December 18, 2007
A huge underground art installation in Vienna will show you your reflection against a backdrop of real-time sociological statistics, like the number of days until Chernobyl will be safe for human habitation (hint: don't plan on moving there anytime...
POSTED Monday, December 17, 2007
There are your standard GPS navigation units, and then there's the Dash. The Dash takes navigation to the next level, as it communicates two ways: back and forth from your car. That means you can search for stuff from...
POSTED Monday, December 17, 2007
Do you ever want to tell the annoying driver on your tail just what you think of him? You could use a bumper sticker, but that would involve being rude all the time, but you just want to express...
POSTED Monday, December 17, 2007
Cops have had a way to record their every move from the driver's perspective for a long time now, and now it's time for the rest of us to keep track of all of our driving antics for posterity....
POSTED Monday, December 17, 2007
Everybody knows that rich guys like to golf. It's just in their nature, like wearing shorts with high white socks and enjoying cigars. But once all their other rich, golf-loving buddies have dropped loads of money on fancy clubs,...
POSTED Monday, December 17, 2007
For some neat-freaks out there, being clean could be treated as a matter of life or death. That must be the inspiration behind the design of the BigGun Brush. Either that, or the daily frustrations of the cubicle warrior...
POSTED Monday, December 17, 2007
We've told you before that SSD flash memory drives are the future, but we've been waiting for them to catch up with our expectations. While laptop and mp3-player-sized drives are still pretty prohibitively expensive, they're dropping in price rapidly....
POSTED Monday, December 17, 2007
Hey SanDisk, I have some beef with you! This SanDisk Photo Album is only going to make my holiday experience that much more painful. Let me set the scene — it's Christmas day, everyone is sitting around talking, that...
POSTED Monday, December 17, 2007
We're at least a year into the release of the three next-generation gaming console — the Nintendo Wii, Sony Playstation 3 and Xbox 360. That has given you plenty of time to brush up on your knowledge. Put your...
POSTED Monday, December 17, 2007
If you've ever hosted a party, you can understand why this is such a great idea, although the concept seems a little farfetched on paper. You know the circumstances, you are hosting a party and prior to the guests...
POSTED Monday, December 17, 2007
Ah Rubik's Cube — that mathematical contraption designed to get student thinking was a phenomenon 20 years ago, and it's still finding ways to impress people today. Solving a Rubik's Cube quickly is one way to impress, and Cube-Kun,...
POSTED Monday, December 17, 2007
Just because cats don't have eyes or ears for vintage audio equipment doesn't give you the right to hog all of the ghetto blaster fun for yourself. This ghetto blaster cat condo is the work of some individuals with...
POSTED Monday, December 17, 2007
If you want to have a slick little speaker for your iPod and torture a fish at the same time, the iPond was designed with you in mind. While it's certainly a unique little product and is pretty cool...
POSTED Monday, December 17, 2007
This little Dual-Fuel Cocktail Shaker airplane only offers bumpy flights — to better mix your drinks, that is.The fuselage of the craft is the cocktail shaker with a detachable prop-cap, and the wings are actually flasks so you can...
POSTED Monday, December 17, 2007
Most cool tech gadgets have a frighteningly short shelf life, which is why I find it amusing when people bling them up with gold or platinum and a pile of precious stones. This ultra exclusive gold and 180 diamond...
POSTED Monday, December 17, 2007
The Kanguru USB Duplicator allows you to plug in up to 24 thumb drives at once and dictate what information goes onto all of them. An LCD on the unit helps you to know what you're doing, and you...
POSTED Monday, December 17, 2007
Sure, drinking is basically America's favorite pastime, but did you know that sometimes it can be unsafe? I know, I was surprised too. But apparently, if you drink too much, you start acting like an idiot and are prone...
POSTED Monday, December 17, 2007
So you are keeping tabs on that special someone at work, at home and even in the bathroom, but what about in public? Putting on sunglasses and trekking out with a camera is still too obvious. That's where this...
POSTED Sunday, December 16, 2007
Nicholas Negroponte's One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) program has been around for a few years now, but it is only in the last couple of months that real, live OLPC laptops have been shipping, not just to third world...
POSTED Sunday, December 16, 2007
Don't know what you are looking at? Think it is a hot plate or other kitchen gadget? Think again. This is a conceptual design of an MP3 player designed for the kiddos. Designer Sung-kyu Nam is the brainchild of...
POSTED Saturday, December 15, 2007
The Pisa clock is inspired after the Italian leaning tower, which is pretty apparent from the slanted backing to the clock. While keeping with the Italian design, this clock includes swappable numbers in the traditional and roman numeral style....
POSTED Saturday, December 15, 2007
Nicholas Tavlas has spent a lot of time developing a keyboard that perfects keyboard ergonomics. The unfortunate fact is through the creation process he never took a step back to see what an ugly duckling has been created. A...
POSTED Saturday, December 15, 2007
NEC’s Tasting Robot has been singled out by the 2008 Guinness World Records as the world's very first robot sommelier. Developed by NEC System Technologies Ltd. and professor Atsushi Hashimoto's team at Mie University the robot can accurately assess...
POSTED Saturday, December 15, 2007
This week we saw nine crazily shaped buildings, 10 do-it-yourself projects that fall short, 12 geeky presents that cost less than $30 and 18 whacky Christmas trees. We also reviewed Pleo the cuddly dinosaur (without all the slapping and......
POSTED Friday, December 14, 2007
Have you been desperately searching for a Nintendo Wii this holiday season but refuse to be degraded by being forced to wait outside in the cold for a few hours early some morning in order to snag one? Nintendo feels...
POSTED Friday, December 14, 2007
We could scarcely believe it ourselves, but Batter Blaster is a real product, and the company that makes it was kind enough to send us a sample can for testing. The good news is that it works. If you spray Batter Blaster batter onto a hot greased pan, you will get pancakes. The first bite of pancake was surprisingly delicious.
POSTED Friday, December 14, 2007
Even though the United States may think otherwise, soccer is the most popular sport in the world. And when each game if filled with tens of thousands of angry, drunk hooligans, it is important for a referee to make...
POSTED Friday, December 14, 2007
We've seen musical toilets, stealthy toilets, waterless toilets, pimped-out toilets and even toilets that'll improve your upper body strength. You know what's missing from that list? Take a guess. Peek to the right and then come back over here....
POSTED Friday, December 14, 2007
You're probably used to bikes with a fixed number of gears. You know, like a 21-speed bike or a 14-speed bike. But this fancy-pants bike dubbed "The Ride" has an infinite number of gears. Yep, infinite. How?Twist a dial...
POSTED Friday, December 14, 2007
I'm not sure which is more absurd, the fact that this is actually a desktop printing calculator, or the fact that a company thought they would be clever enough to put a spy camera in it. This little piece...
POSTED Friday, December 14, 2007
The race to build a working and dependable scramjet is happening all the world over — the United States, China, Australia and who knows who else all want one. DARPA's HTV-3X, also known as Blackswift, is an unmanned scramjet-powered...
POSTED Friday, December 14, 2007
Nothing's worse than stepping into a freezing cold shower. Sure, you could have checked the water with your hand to make sure it was warm enough to enter, but who has the time for such things? Time is money,...
POSTED Friday, December 14, 2007
Scientists in Japan have created a thin sheet of plastic that allows gadgets sitting on it to communicate with each other wirelessly. The sheet also serves as a wireless charger for the devices touching it. That makes it an...
POSTED Friday, December 14, 2007
When you drink way too much, it makes your liver sad. Unfortunately, the only way your liver can tell you just how sad you're making it is by failing, which is a pretty extreme way of getting the message...
POSTED Friday, December 14, 2007
Outdoor types who are into extreme sports: listen up. You don't have to rely on some wired-up coat that controls your MP3 player when there's a helmet that can do it for you. Hammacher Schlemmer has a winter sports...
POSTED Friday, December 14, 2007
The Portable PC Theater probably won't replace your PC, even if you do use it as a media center. It will come in handy, though, if you want a computer that you can tote around and take to show...
POSTED Friday, December 14, 2007
Remember those basketball games you'd see in the arcade next to the skee ball machines and the ball pit? The Fold-Out Basketball Game looks a lot like one of those, and it even collapses back into a 24 inches...
POSTED Friday, December 14, 2007
This slick little flip phone is the Motorola Ming 2, and it's got a bevy of features on board. It has quad-band GSM connectivity to start with, and the camera onboard is a 3.2-megapixel number with autofocus. It's got...
POSTED Friday, December 14, 2007
I have always thought that the tech nerds and the tree huggers were pretty much mutually exclusive groups. It seems however that there must be some people who identify with both camps, at least if Nigel's Eco Store expects...
POSTED Friday, December 14, 2007
In Korea, a country where gadgets might as well be their national currency, electronic dictionaries are all the rage. Why? I have no idea. You'd think they'd have them built into their phones or their arms by now, but...
POSTED Friday, December 14, 2007
The list of fun and fascinating Japanese keitai (cell phone) trinkets is long, but one curio is raising eyebrows more than usual. With the Yutan Alien Detector you simply have your sci-fi associate place his finger on the device's...
POSTED Friday, December 14, 2007
With the annual Consumer Electronics Show fast approaching, prepare to be tsumanied by new gadgets that defy a credo every engineer and designer should have tattooed on their foreheads: Just because you can, doesn't mean you should. It's not...
POSTED Thursday, December 13, 2007
Etsy is an amazingly useful site that gives people a chance to sell DIY crafts that you often can't find anywhere. There are some truly great things to buy on Etsy, but you won't find any of them on...
POSTED Thursday, December 13, 2007
Plans are underway for China's capital city of Beijing to have the longest a subway system in the world by 2015. The expansion calls for five new subway lines with nearly 350 miles of track between them, and would...
POSTED Thursday, December 13, 2007
So there you are, walking down the street, when you hear a voice in your head. And instead of the regular voice, the one that tells you that you want a cheeseburger or that you should buy more video games,...
POSTED Thursday, December 13, 2007
I'm starting to get the feeling that when car designers go through a midlife crisis, they don't go buy a sweet sportscar — instead, they design a car that feels a lot like a plane. Well, we're better off...
POSTED Thursday, December 13, 2007
Sony's showing off a prototype camera they've designed dubbed the "Twirl n Take." It's unique because it's rechargeable by winding a crank on the camera's body. Simply wind it up for 15 seconds to give it enough juice to...
POSTED Thursday, December 13, 2007
Remember those glow in the dark stars that you could stick on your ceiling and that would glow for a few minutes before you fell asleep? MPK Co., a company that makes glow paint, is working on a technology...
POSTED Thursday, December 13, 2007
Bicycle theft is a huge problem in major cities, with no locks seemingly being strong enough to ward off thieves armed with wire cutters and lock picks. It seems that there's no way to lock your bike up outside...
POSTED Thursday, December 13, 2007
You know how you will see movies like Minority Report and always wonder when and if the technology used will be really available? Yeah, O'Neill has kind of done that, but backwards with the recently announced Navjacket. This jacket...
POSTED Thursday, December 13, 2007
Someday I would like to shake the hand of the man that invented the letter opener. This sadistic person managed to find a way to get happy, delightful and cheerful greeting card stores to essentially sell knives. This so-called...
POSTED Thursday, December 13, 2007
Forget about curing cancer and diabetes. The real way I know that we have come a long way as as a civilization is by this saxophone-playing robot. Before you try to think of why the world would need a...
POSTED Thursday, December 13, 2007
USB flash drives have become the portable storage medium of choice for, well, pretty much everybody who knows about them, offering a relatively cheap, rewritable alternative to blank CDs with an increasingly large capacity. And while most affordable models...
POSTED Thursday, December 13, 2007
The Chocolate Portable HDD is made up of modular flash memory blocks that you plug into the central unit as you need more space. The hub features a touchscreen display so you can manage whatever files you have loaded...
POSTED Thursday, December 13, 2007
Lets face it, some hand motions are just more natural than others, and operating a standard mouse isn't one of them. With the SafeType mouse you can hold your hand in a natural position, a grip with the thumb...
POSTED Thursday, December 13, 2007
A Brazilian ice cream company has figured out a great way to give away iPod shuffles in an upcoming contest: freeze them in popsicles. Yep, they're giving away 10,000 iPod shuffles to people who are lucky enough to buy...
POSTED Thursday, December 13, 2007
Not every gadget under the sun needs to have a 50-function list of amazing capabilities. Sometimes marrying cool technology with attractive visuals is enough. Such is the case with the RGBy, a gadget that captures any color it’s placed...
POSTED Thursday, December 13, 2007
'Tis the holiday season. While not everyone busts out the real or fake tree, it is always a symbol of the beginning of winter and the end of the calendar year. With the latest generation of kids striving to...
POSTED Wednesday, December 12, 2007
It's easy to track the tidal movements of the ocean by looking at waves, but all of that energy is moved around under the surface of the water as well. Florida Atlantic University's Center of Excellence in Ocean Energy...
POSTED Wednesday, December 12, 2007
Some South Korean scientists with experience with cloning have created a genetically engineered cat that glows in the dark. Yes, it's creepy. How'd they do it? To clone the cats, Kong's team used skin cells of the mother cat....
POSTED Wednesday, December 12, 2007
For anything light enough like leaves or insects such as a water strider, a body of water's surface tension gives the uppermost areas of the liquid a bit of elasticity. In effect, it becomes a virtual solid that can...
POSTED Wednesday, December 12, 2007
There was a time when I spent more hours logged in as my brazen, orange-bearded gun-nut of a dwarven hunter on World of Warcraft (a bit like the guy above, minus the wussy bow) than I did walking around...
POSTED Wednesday, December 12, 2007
Some of your best ideas might just come to you when you have nothing but a pad of paper handy, be they plans for a flying car, an angry letter to your boss, or an absentminded doodle of an...
POSTED Wednesday, December 12, 2007