May 22 2008 5:31PM | Permalink | Email this | Comments (4) |

UBC flash drives have become a true fashion accessory. This YouTube video shows a variety of fancy UBC drives, including drives that look like jewelry, hot dogs, hamburgers, doughnuts, even wine bottles.

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Apr 9 2008 9:24AM | Permalink | Email this | Comments (25) |

Here's a gadget designed to stop annoying public cell phone calls. This is the perfect tool for teachers who want to stop the under-the-desk text messaging. Also great for bringing blessed silence to the restaurant.

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Mar 28 2008 9:27AM | Permalink | Email this | Comments (0) |

If you love your gadgets, you can now get clothing designed to hold every werid little electronic product. Here comes the Scott-E-Vest line. How about a jacket that holds an iPod in an inside pocket but lets you control it from the outside?

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Mar 12 2008 9:30PM | Permalink | Email this | Comments (2) |

Take a look at this new technology. Your keyboard may become nothing more than a light image on your desk and your connection may end up entirely wireless with the computer little more than a pocket pen.

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Feb 29 2008 6:32AM | Permalink | Email this | Comments (1) |

Here is a selection of recently released consumer gadgets. This video also includes examples of counterfeit products, showing how to detect the fakes.

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Feb 7 2008 3:30AM | Permalink | Email this | Comments (1) |

Here's a high-tech electronic gadget that gives you a 3D light show.

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Jan 24 2008 8:46AM | Permalink | Email this | Comments (1) |

Mick Fleetwood of Fleetwood Mac demonstrates the Atari Hotz Box, which is a vest that you can play like drums. The Hotz Box invented by Jimmy Hotz and first manufactured by Atari. Starting with an early Hotz MIDI vest and progressing to the Atari Hotz Box at NAMM shows, this includes show performances by Mick Fleetwood, Jon Anderson, Paul Haslinger, Scott Gershin and other friends.

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Jan 22 2008 7:22AM | Permalink | Email this | Comments (1) |

Here's a nifty gadget that carries your golf bag as you walk the course. Stewart Golf's X3R Remote Golf Caddie runs on its own power and follows you around the course.

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Jan 11 2008 10:23AM | Permalink | Email this | Comments (1) |

With gadget drumsticks like these, who needs drums? The sticks themselves produce the sound.

Dec 30 2007 5:22PM | Permalink | Email this | Comments (0) |

Here’s a fascinating montage of robot applications being previewed at Robo Business 2007. While some have clear utilitarian uses, others try to mimic human and animal movements.

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Dec 19 2007 12:03PM | Permalink | Email this | Comments (2) |

This cool electronic puzzle lets you know when you set the winning configuration. It also resets itself to a new puzzle design once you've won.

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Dec 13 2007 4:16AM | Permalink | Email this | Comments (4) |

Made by the Shadow Robot Company, this remarkable tactile robot hand has the strength to turn a bolt and the gentleness to pick up an egg.

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Dec 7 2007 9:04PM | Permalink | Email this | Comments (0) |

This Ferrofluid is a magnetic fluid. On these towers (one of the features at wired's NEXTFEST 2007) the ferrofluid actually reacts to sound. Soon you will be able to buy these. The white background is actually fluid in a well that has a light shining on it. It seems white because the fluid is incredibly reflective. The bad thing is that they take up a small table and you cant touch them or put metal near them.

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Nov 28 2007 9:51AM | Permalink | Email this | Comments (1) |

Here's a weird one. Shaking wireless gadgets together like a maraca can provide an easier way to pair them up. They compare accelerometer data to check they are shaken together
Read more at: http://technology.newscientist.com/article/dn12912

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Nov 19 2007 1:18PM | Permalink | Email this | Comments (1) |

Here's an odd bird -- a flying car prototype. At this point, the 125 kilo contraption can only carry a 10 kilo payload. The gadget is based on the principles of Tesla's flying car.

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