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Today on Boing Boing Gadgets December 7, 2007

Today on Boing Boing Gadgets we saw this “Glucoboy” device which rewards blood sugar testing with Game Boy gaming, our first (and last) Tractor Fight Thursday, a horseshit AT&T “open” story in USA Today, safes for the rich made of exotic wood and gold, my question about the Seiko Final Fantasy watch, a mouse that thinks it’s a numeric keypad, a surprisingly intriguing fruit-shaped TV remote design, a cigarette pack that I though was clever but may not be, and the danger of knock-off goods. And you know what? Are you ready for it? Deals and clean-up links.

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Today on Boing Boing Gadgets December 3, 2007

Today on Boing Boing Gadgets, we saw this kickass “Power House” sustainable living project set, a vacuum that knows optimal suck, two little niggles with Facebook and Rock Band, candy mistaken for drugs, a knock-off Chinese Wii sold by infomercial, a mechanical espresso maker of dubious report, drankable aurt, a somber game-as-art blip, the “God-Cleaner” foot bath, an inflatable massage chair, a nice deal on a decent LCD dock for iPod, a wrapping paper cutter, a boring camera with an interesting way to suck power from lamps, a hand-cranked drill, an ugly watch, a risque video teaching us how Polish fantasy heroes sex up forest sprites, Verizon’s plans to do a dual-mode GSM/CDMA phone, MAKE’s open-source hardware guide, a vintage cork bathing suit, and a new LifeStraw. And deals.

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Today on Boing Boing Gadgets November 27, 2007

Today on Boing Boing Gadgets we saw these two fantastic (if I do say so myself) life-sized plush Weighted Companion Cubes that will be awarded as the grand prizes at this year’s Funde Razor (human test subject not included), an electric knife sharpener that might not suck, Verizon’s intriguing announcement that they will be opening up their wireless network to various and sundry devices, a clever and inexpensive way to turn iPod nano packaging into a speaker, Hello Kitty bike tires, an expensive aluminum sled with a shock absorber, a web game from Democrats about Missouri governor Matt Blunt, awesome branch-like wine decanters, the next thing in anti-mugger weaponry, Pigantics, an amazing gallery of retro flashlights, another old flashlight which prompted the previous find, Stephen Fry reviewing the Eco Media Player, another place to repair or recycle your iPod or game consoles, a white LED retro watch, a luggage store that looks like an aircraft interior, and a new cell phone game based on Magnum, P.I. And big, fat deals. I mean, like, orca fat.

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Today on Boing Boing Gadgets November 21, 2007

Today on Boing Boing Gadgets, in between cooking stuffing and pumpkin pies*, we looked at these nifty concept CFL light bulbs, a vintage brochure from a old Honda truck from 1964, a bedside clock with a gadget charger that happens to look like a book, holiday programming on LEGO TV, a couple of atypical shelves, a commercial starring Of Montreal, roll-up solar panels, a ladybug robot to clean rest-stop bathrooms, stories from an SR-71 pilot, a painfully kawaii Tachikoma robot, an old Austrian 6-in-1 carving tool for kids, a light that lets you know when to water your plants, and Target’s foray into refurbished gadgets. We did deals, too, but they were a bit crap.

* The trick is fresh pumpkin.

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Today on Boing Boing Gadgets November 19, 2007

No doubt about it: today the Amazon Kindle got the spotlight. Today on Boing Boing Gadgets, I liveblogged the launch, gave my first impressions, and then gave it a perfunctory (but accurate, I hope) review.

Then we looked at a Japanese exploding bomb piggy bank, a mysterious keyboard perhaps inspired by breasts, a sleek hand-held vacuum, a retractable tow rope, a lovely gift guide for gamers, a USB cable doubling as cell phone strap, an expensive but poor Guitar Hero controller made from a real guitar, the dangers of electronics recycling, a goo machine (my nickname at church camp), pens inspired by Nobel laureates, a strange laptop alarm, and an Amazon box robot that they’ll never send me now that I slagged the Kindle. And some deals.

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Today on Boing Boing Gadgets November 16, 2007

Today on Boing Boing Gadgets we looked at this juice-infusing “Turkey Cannon,” the first in-game footage from the new Ghostbusters game, a device to discover hidden cameras in your home, old news footage from the Japan Tech Expo ‘95, a Chewbacca backpack (add your own wookie smell), an expensive ratcheting corkscrew, a company that makes motion-based microgenerators gets some funding, a strong, simple fridge magnet, a device that plays music when you’re on the can, a water filter that adds flavor, new fire-resistant hard drives and safes, a very nice yet overpriced dock radio, a lamp shaped like a mushroom (sadly just a concept, I think), a must-watch video that lays bare the utter failure of modern telco customer service, a man creating 300 game concepts, hearty all-beef calculators showing the Russians still like their gear Russiany, a folding keyboard, a surprisingly witty Ford Sync commercial, the latest in no-muss turkey roasting, a heart-stopping recreation of the battleship Yamato in LEGO, and an easy way to return your poison toys.

And some deals, including your chance to get in on that Amazon “Customers Vote” promotion. (Worth doing even if you don’t follow through.)

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Today on Boing Boing Gadgets November 12, 2007

Today on Boing Boing Gadgets, we saw this clever food warmer for use on radiators, a scooter that is crafted from old steel appliances (lovely as you’d expected), a prototype laptop cover partially in bamboo, a mourning dove I captured with my Birdcam, a simple but useful wireless keyboard with trackpad, some nice art being used to promote the Zune MP3 player from Microsoft, an old Intellivision game from Jack LaLanne, ten pleasantly substantial off switches, electric heated insoles (which a reader notes may be poorly made), my frustrated first minutes with the Zune 2, a new over-the-shoulder camera holder from Lowepro, the first alien lesbian sex scene in videogamedom, and a dustpan with a vacuum.

Then a few deals, most of which are stale, and a little links clean up. Kippis!

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Today on Boing Boing Gadgets November 10, 2007

Today we looked at AK-47 and speaker jewelry, a counter-top hybrid microwave, a tape-shaped GPS tracker, an inexpensive metal yo-yo, Om smacking down the Nokia N81, a trip to the candy convention, and reused products for retail. I made a video review of the Fujitsu U810 after I skimmed the deals.

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Today on Boing Boing Gadgets November 5, 2007

Today on Boing Boing Gadgets we looked that this downright majestic “Gamerator” arcade cabinet with a built-in beer tap, a touch-sensitive glow table, heat-reflective windows you can flip for the seasons, rubber laces for your shoes, magnetic nail polish from Lancome (yes!), a movie that does act like tech is strange, a winning self-navigating robo-car, an attractive upcoming plug-in hybrid car, a rubber-faced murder golem (in need of I.D.!), a water bottle with a space for a phone or MP3, a video from the World Toilet Summit, the announcement of the Google phone OS name of “Android,” a super-expensive mixer and my—and your—top 5 kitchen gadgets. And deals.

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Today on Boing Boing Gadgets November 2, 2007

Today we looked at a ticket-stub-eating robo-goat, the first look at the modular Bug Labs gadget kits, an early Nintendo computer prototype that used infrared instead of wires, tiny ornithopter drones that may or may not be spying on you right now, a weird tech talk show from AT&T, a mouse with a built-in label printer, a flashlight with a built-in videocamera, flat-folding pens, an mp3 player for dogs that costs two grand, and reminded about the Child’s Play Charity (and a fund raising event in Brooklyn and Denver). Also, quite a few deals. (The holiday shopping pre-season has begun!)

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Today on Boing Boing Gadgets November 1, 2007

Today we were subjected to the majesty that is Batter Blaster (pancakes in a can!), a strange oblong UMPC from Korea, Joss Whedon’s next TV series Dollhouse, Gundam-themed desk gadgets, breakaway Glove Guards, PC troubleshooting dice, expensive bamboo dry sacks, a bespoke corkscrew that costs €50,000, a wind-up light for developing nations, and tools “for girls.”

And deals. And extraneous links.

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Today on Boing Boing Gadgets October 31, 2007

Today on Boing Boing Gadgets we saw a disgusting automatic donut maker, an interview with the writer of Portal, a bungee-strap for your laptop case, another rentable tank, the Asus Eee sub-notebook on sale, new versions of The Secret Life of Machines, a better painter’s masking tape, a 900-lumen metal halide flashlight, a calculator belt buckle, and Portal papercraft.

Today’s also the last day to get in on our latest contest with the prize of one Neuros OSD. (Team bOING bOING has taken second place overall in the Cosmology@Home distributed computing program!)

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Today on Boing Boing Gadgets October 25, 2007

Today on Boing Boing Gadgets we looked at this gorgeous Mitsubishi Fuso dump truck concept, the first review of the Asus Eee mini-laptop, smart ways to recycle your gadgets, a ginormous $1,000 Swiss Army knife, inside-out barware, an iPod alarm clock that looks surprisingly nice, tiny R/C trench compactors, a simple prototype folding electric scooter, the top ten patent holders in the U.S., a light-activated flute, a laptop stand that handles grabs your cables (although perhaps not your laptop), Texas Instruments’ latest graphing calculator, robots that can learn to hug it out, a globe covered with blackboard, a multi-tool for demolition folk, an unlikely cardboard toilet, and Tomy’s entry into the indoor R/C helicopter market.

And as required by the code, random gadget links and deals.

We also rebooted our contest with Neuros—it’s the set-top box for those who hate DRM!—and made it easier for everyone to have a chance to win a Neuros OSD and NAS. I’ve also tossed in a bonus prize: an unlocked Nokia N95. Contest details live here.

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Today on Boing Boing Gadgets

Today we saw a electric roller skates, Venn diagram of Playstation 3 models, a multi-track audio editor for Windows Mobile PDAs, handy little depth of field calculators (which I was then told are as old as the hills), a new version of the dead-in-the-water PocketSurfer2, a new sleep-tracking watch with REM cycle history software, perhaps the most badass motorcycle in recent memory, a new cheapish Wacom Cintiq tablet screen, a self-adjusting wrench, Japanese manhole covers (and I don’t mean Hard Gay’s tailor), the just-high-enough-tech EpiSurveyor project, a strange clock that tells time with only noise, a watch with a barometer and more, a plug-in Prius, cameras that are starting to come with ample embedded memory, a spy mirror clock, and Gmail <3ing IMAP.

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Today on Boing Boing Gadgets October 15, 2007

Today we looked at two electric kettles (one bad and one unreleased, the Kenwood above, which glows red when boiling); a bike that cane switch from standard to recumbent, perhaps the most wasteful disposable cutlery I’ve ever seen, a scratch-and-snif phone, an unnecessary but modestly nifty sunlight calculator for gardening, a wristwatch phone that has a industry-standard low for suck, ways to use 35mm lens on DV cameras to emulate film, a book about rocketbelts, a computer stuffed into the dismembered torso of a French maid (I am lobbying for this to become the staff machine of Boing Boing, an MP3 player shaped like a guitar with a real amp speaker, silly clothing-mounted mirrors for bikers, and Portal papercraft.

As per usual, random gadget links and deals.

Who knew there were such advanced electric tea kettles?

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Today on Boing Boing Gadgets October 12, 2007

Today at Boing Boing Gadgets we saw a bed-mounted gun rack, twelve unlocked phones you can easily hack (without getting the stinkeye from Apple), turret-on-weighted-companion-cube porn, Simon Pegg as the next Star Trek Scotty, possible inadvertent Israeli jamming of satellite TV, paintings you have to plug into a wall, another attempt at music subscription from Universal, a nifty riff on a “see through touch screen,” the new Zune interface, yet another asshole airline, me deciding baby wipes are the greatest keyboard cleaner, a water bottle I inexplicably didn’t realize could be used as a bong [pictured], and a prototype “Clapper” TV remote.

And of course: Deals and hypertext links.

All these gadgets will be lost in time, like tears in rain.

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