GADGETS - Part 79

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Make Your Own Rainbow With The Handheld Rainbow Projector

GADGETS

Ever wondered what’s at the end of a rainbow? It’s this thing, the Handheld Rainbow Projector, a little clamshell box that projects a bow-shaped display of colors onto a wall (which, if you do it right, will look like it’s actually floating on air, like in the photo above). While real rainbows are caused by the refraction and reflection of the sun’s rays through rain, this one needs neither the sun nor the sky. Instead, all you have to do [...]

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Levitron Revolution Will Make Stuff Around Your Home Magically Fly

GADGETS, HOME

Want to see some small items in your house levitating? Quit trying to learn magic and just wait a few months for the Levitron Revolution, a levitating disk with an illuminated base that you can put lightweight household items in. Think of it like a small tabletop pedestal where you can set items on for display. Instead of resting on the table’s surface, though, it floats a few inches up in the air. As such, you can take your Barbie [...]

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L-3 Link’s Simusphere, The World’s Most Accurate Flight Simulator

ENTERTAINMENT, FEATURED, GADGETS

Want to have the most realistic flight simulator setup money can buy? Take a gander at the Simusphere, an ultra-high-definition F-16 simulator running on a backbone of 120 Intel Dual Core machines, each one fitted with off-the-shelf $400 graphic cards. The resulting images are then showed off on nine high-resolution projectors, arranged to display the visuals in a 180-degree field of view. It’s the flight sim to trump all other computer-aided flying rigs, providing a 20-40 acuity – just a [...]

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Fingertip Mini Cube Speaker

GADGETS

Tired of portable speakers that aren’t all that easy to carry? Feast your ears on the Fingertip Mini Cube Speaker a 1-inch block that claims to play music from your media player for all the world to hear. Just slightly bigger than a dice, the sound-pumping contraption should fit handily in most any available pocket on your clothing. Weighing a mere 17g, you can put a double-sided tape on its backside and stick it to your shirt, without feeling any [...]

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Wine Thermometer Takes The Guesswork Out Of Chilling Your Wine

GADGETS

Serving wine to discerning guests? You’re a braver person than me. Having to gauge whether a bottle’s chilled enough for consumption is as much an art as the wine-making itself. That’s why you’ll appreciate the Wine Thermometer, a bottle-hugging device that gives you an accurate reading of the wine’s current temperature. Taking the guesswork out of the process, it allows you to serve your Pinot and Shiraz knowing full well that they’re chilled just right. If some know-it-all guest happens [...]

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Metal Detecting Sandals Finds Buried Treasure Covertly

FEATURED, GADGETS

I don’t know where you’re from, but metal detectors have never been cool around our parts. If you want scrap metal, just hit the junk yard; if you want spare chage, do some chores and you’ll be justly rewarded. I reckon there’s some charm about finding coins and other “hidden treasures”, though. Just in case there really is buried loot somewhere in them beaches, make sure you find them without looking like a dork. Ditch the large metal detector with [...]

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NECs CRV43 Desktop Display Curves, Covers Your Whole Periphery

GADGETS

A two-monitor setup not wide enough for you? Try NEC’s latest desktop display, a curved 43-inch ultra-widescreen monitor called the CRV43, which lets you take up all that visual range so that you see nothing but a computer screen all day. Encompassing the entire range of your periphery, it kicks even three-monitor displays squarely in the ass, showing ultra-wide portraits without any bezel to break your line of sight. NEC is purporting it will be perfect for numerous applications requiring [...]

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Atari Keychains With Builtin Games

GADGETS

Atari Keychains…well for some of us this would be ’nuff said, we would already be ordering. But, not all of us can recall the Atari systems so some need a bit more explaining to understand. Atari is da Bomb, that’s all I can really say. There is no reason to love the horrible graphics and poorly designed games that fit in bulky game consoles with like…2 foot controller cords…but we love Atari anyway..kind of like the first girl we ever…well [...]

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e-Volve Gadget Holster 2.0: For Macho Techies Of The Dainty Variety

FASHION, GADGETS

Need a fashionable way to carry your load of gadgets for daily use? Try the latest evolution of the Man Purse – e-Volve’s Gadget Holster 2.0, a shoulder-strapping contraption that lets you load up on handhelds and accessories so well that it will make you forget how unmanly it makes you look (note: check out the guy above, whose ambivalence makes me both laugh and cry). Designed particularly for the iPhone, e-Volve claims the Gadget Holster 2.0 should be able [...]

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Sony PSP Go: A Smaller, Lighter PSP

GADGETS

Want a smaller PSP? Sony just launched a more compact version of its vaunted gaming handheld in the PSP Go, which sports the exact same guts as the larger PSP-3000, all while fitting nicely in your pocket. Officially unveiled at E3 2009, Go ditches the UMD drive to facilitate the decrease in size, while offering all the same niceties as the PSP’s previous incarnations. Instead of the old single panel form factor, it also sports slide-down controls to keep the [...]

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Amazon Kindle DX: Textbooks And Newspapers Find Their Way Into E-Readers

GADGETS

An update in the gadget world typically points to something smaller. Not so for Amazon’s highly-touted ebook reader, whose latest incarnation is a large format device called the Kindle DX. While the smaller Kindle and Kindle 2 would be the perfect electronic reader for those who enjoy books, they are hardly the most ideal for another subset of consumers. After all, there are more reading materials out there than pocket-sized volumes, many of which would never port well to such [...]

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Woodway EcoMill: A Non-Motorized Treadmill With Electronic Displays

GADGETS

Want the power savings of a manual treadmill but want to see displays of how much energy you’re using up? Run a mile in the Woodway EcoMill, an unplugged treadmill with a bevy of digital displays on the panel and an electronically-controlled elevation system. Designed with a kinetic generator built into its frame, running and walking on the EcoMill should generate just enough energy to light up the basic display, as well as allow a nifty one-touch control of the [...]

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Mow-Aerators: Apocalypse Battle Tank Spikes Find Domestic Use In Lawn Mowing

GADGETS, WHEELS

The last time I saw Mad Max was over a decade ago, so forgive my fuzzy recollection, but I’m pretty sure something like the Mow-Aerator made a cameo there somewhere. Instead of an apocalypse-era tank customization, however, it’s a set of brackets and spikes designed to fit into lawnmower tires, so you can ride wet, uneven ground without slipping, as well aerate your lawn. Regardless of your feelings about spike aeration (like it, hate it or don’t know what it’s [...]

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Manual Hard Disk Destroyer Mangles HDDs In 15 Seconds

GADGETS

Do you keep dark, mysterious secrets in your hard drive? If you do, best make sure that you toast that storage good before you get rid of it, lest put all that digital information about you accessible to anyone with enough savvy to recover them. The Manual Hard Drive Destroyer (MHDD), as its name implies, adds another level of destruction to your hard drive in the undying quest to render any data footprint irrecoverable. Perfect for paranoid privacy types, secret [...]

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Brando’s Hard Disk Dock Brings Multimedia Talents To Cheap PC Accessories

GADGETS

Need a hard disk dock for your PC? Before you fork out the cash for any peripheral, make sure to check out the latest in Brando’s line of all-in-one docking solutions: the SATA HDD Multimedia Player Adapter, which combines attractive storage-docking features, along with a host of input slots, multimedia playback and an HDMI out. While I’ve heard of all-in-one docks before, I doubt anything this full-featured ever came along. As a hard disk dock, it can perform typical 480Mbps [...]

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Venexx Perfume Watches Hide Fragrances Inconspicuously, Ready To Spray All Day

FASHION, FEATURED, GADGETS

Need to smell good during inopportune times? Designed for women who might need to freshen up their scents while on the go, this series of Venexx Perfume Watches let you keep a few dozen sprays of your favorite fragrance right on your wrist. Styled like ordinary watches, the timepieces come with a filling kit (funnel, vial and pipette), which integrates seamlessly into the body. There are four different models, with a choice of either 39 mm or 36 mm [...]

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Seiko G757 Sports 100 James Bond Watch

GADGETS

All the old Bond films came with a plethora of gadgets that were truly cutting-edge back in the day. If you’ve been hoping to get your dirty paws on one of them, here’s your chance. Several original units of the Seiko G757 Sports 100 Watch, which was modified to track a transmitter in the 1983 film Octopussy, are currently available and are yours for the taking (if you can afford the ransom they’re asking for it). Sporting 80s-style digital aesthetics [...]

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Rescue Reel Lets You Escape From Burning Skyscrapers Batman-Style

FEATURED, GADGETS, SIMPLY COOL

Paranoid much? Allay your nervous fear of being trapped atop a high-rise building with the Rescue Reel, a device intended to help you vacate your office at the 30th floor in case of emergencies (without resorting to jumping off the window and hoping you’ll survive). The naming is supposed to be a take on the fishing reel, from which the escape contraption reportedly derived its concept. Looking at it though, getting down via the Rescue Reel looks a lot more [...]

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Never Run Out Of USB Slots With The 49-Port USB Hub

GADGETS

At this day and age when gadgets and peripherals rule our roost, you can never have enough USB slots – or so you thought. When your 4-port hub just doesn’t do the trick anymore, you know it’s time to upgrade. Apparently, some company has exactly what you need – and probably more. If you thought eight-port hubs and 10-port motherboards were extremely generous, it’s time to broaden your horizons with this 49-port USB hub from Cambrionix. Think about it: you [...]

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