Be The Robot (BERO for short) is the latest Kickstarter project to cause a blip on my gadget radar. You’ve probably seen the small Green Android figurines on the market that seem to sell out as fast as they are made. BERO is about that same size (4″), but has up to 6 motors for […]
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Hammacher Schlemmer is offering what they call the World’s Lightest Packable Electric Guitar. It weighs 3 pounds and is 28″ long overall, and it is a “full-scale length 24 3/4″ guitar with 22 frets, enabling accurate chord and finger placement without adjusting one’s playing style.” The tuning pegs are placed inside the “body” of the
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This LEGO Star Wars Darth Vader Lamp from ThinkGeek sheds some dark light on your desk. The Darth Vader figure is 7.5″ tall and has poseable arms and legs. He can even be used off his stand. The lightsaber has 12 bright, red LEDs and is powered by 3 AAA batteries (or optional USB power).
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So you’ve bought a Google Nexus 7 Android tablet and want to keep it looking shiny and new, right? The Rickshaw Nexus 7 Sleeve will easily do that for you and you can even have it made to your own favorite color specifications. SHARE ON TwitterFacebookPin It
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What makes the TABU Universal Mini Stand phone / small tablet stand worth spending your hard earned cash for a Kickstarter pledge? First of all, it won’t cost you very much. A pledge of only $9 will get you two of these little stands that can be used in a variety of ways. Your phone
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Here’s a cool concept for the road warriors out there who need to move their gear as efficiently as possible. The Flat Pack Mouse from designer Taewon Hwang allows you to store your mouse in your empty, unused and pretty much obsolete CD/DVD drive while traveling. Get on site, fold your mouse , insert the
With the introduction of the new AP.3 Sleeve, LaunchPort brings cable-free, inductive charging to the new iPad and the iPad 2. The LaunchPort System consists of a Sleeve and one or more Stations. The new AP.3 sleeve is available in gloss white or black, and it has a miniUSB port for syncing the iPad and
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Do you love bass – the deeper and thumping-er, the better? If so, you’ll need the ZO2 Personal Subwoofer from digiZoid to give your music the punch you’ve been missing. The ZO2 uses “digiZoid’s patent-pending SmartVektor™ technology to deliver 5X more bass at sub-low frequencies, which outperforms bass boost and EQs.” The ZO2 plugs into
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When Spotlight offered to send me a few samples of their flashlights, I was really happy to recieve 3 of their different models. It wasn’t till I was doing a quick search for information on the Spotlight Turbo that I found that Julie had already done a review of the Turbo in April 2008. It’s
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The MG is a new Kickstarter project looking to score a whopping $950,000 in pledges. What is it? It’s a handheld Android WiFi gaming device. They are calling it the first portable Android gaming system, but I disagree. First of all, this device is not really that much different than the non-smartphone Android handhelds already on
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Lenovo (in conjunction with N-Trig) has just released OTA 3.5, a firmware-only update that addresses two of the major issues that still exist with their Thinkpad Tablet. Issues fixed 1) Tablet Pen input not recognized sometimes 2) Screen Unlock not spontaneous Already released for US, WE and UK roms, reports have so far been good.
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I want to see a show of hands… who remembers the Tapwave Zodiac Palm OS PDA? Back in 2003 it was a very cool device that merged a PDA with built in gaming controls. The new GamePad from ARCHOS reminds me a little bit of the Zodiac because it offers a full set of analog
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You know the old saying “time flies when you’re having fun”? It is so true. I can’t believe that I’ve been doing The Gadgeteer for 15 years. I started this site back in 1997, which seems like the stone age as far as gadgets are concerned. Back in those days, cutting edge meant a Palm
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To promote physical fitness and as another tool to help fight childhood obesity, GeoPalz is pairing their kid styled pedometers with an online rewards based gaming website. Through the online arcade, users (5-10yrs old) can report their steps walked, which are logged through their pedometers and exchange steps for time with games such as Avalanche, Snow-Drift,
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The Sweteez antimicrobial workout towel starts with a thick, plush toweling material with 100% premium ring spun cotton loops for absorbancy. They then add a non-toxic AM 500 anti-microbial finish to protect you from germs and bacteria like staph and MRSA; this treatment will last through up to 100 washings. Finally they add a 12″
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About two years ago, I reviewed the netTALK DUO. Since then the people at netTALK have been keeping themselves busy by coming out with a new version, the netTALK DUO WiFi, which allows you to place the device anywhere there’s power and a WiFi signal. You’re no longer tethered to either the computer or a router.
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We spend more and more time on our computers these day, and according to two students at the University of Munich, we need reminding to get outside and excercise. The Personal Energy Orb Aruino (PEO) is an energy device that limits computer usage depending on the distance you travel on your bike. You charge the PEO
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The new Red Swingline Stack-and-Shred 60X Hands-Free Shredder is a heavy-duty shredder that makes short work of papers, staples, paperclips and credit cards. Like other household shredders, you can feed papers by hand, but this Swingline shredder also allows you to stack up to 60 pages inside for hand-free shredding. It securely disposes of your
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We’ve all seen those little desktop weather stations that show the indoor and outdoor temperatures and maybe humidity. They’re useful, but there are many other parameters that could prove more useful in an urban environment, like air quality. Netatmo has introduced the Personal Urban Weather Station, the first to use your iPhone, iPod touch, or
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Despite all of the gesture-based user interface systems that have become popular in the past few years (think Wii, XBox Kinect, and of course smartphone touchscreens), the mouse is still the go-to workhorse of input devices for desktops and laptops. But nearly all mouse devices have basically the same functionality, and many share near-identical styling.
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