Evil iPod Shuffle Case – If you love your iPod shuffle, and you’re a little on the evil side yourself, then you’ll love this little guy. In exchange for $1 (and possibly your immortal soul) you can stow your tunes and your Shuffle inside his skin. Be careful putting him in your pocket though; you never know where he might poke you!
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Muji CD Player – This CD player isn’t your standard “walk-around-very-carefully” music device. As a matter of fact, it looks a lot like a little lamp. The Muji CD Player is wall ounted, and absolutely indispensable, at around $180. You mount it, and turn it on by pulling the string. It’s flat, with its own built in speakers, and the CD faces out, so there’s nothing jutting fron the wall that your annoying roommate can knock off when he’s jogging around the house.
Dj Hero – Apparently the rest of the music genre world was feeling a little left out, and called Activision to complain. As of Fall 2009, Activision is premiering “DJ Hero“. Players will be using a mini-turntable controller device to spin original records and tracks by some of the world’s most popular hip-hop, club techno and dance artists. Prices are TBA, but we know it won’t be cheap!
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We often use the words Gizmo and Gadget here at Gizmos for Geeks (as the name suggests), but what do they mean? The first thing is that “Gizmo” and “Gadget” pretty much mean the same thing, so this post could easily be titled ‘What Is A Gadget?‘
Princeton defines gizmos as ‘devices or controls that are very useful for a particular job’. A good starting point, although Answers.com defines a gizmo as something ‘whose name is forgotten or unknown’ or a ‘novelty item used as a gimmick’. These definitions echo around the internet on various dictionary sites.
So a gizmo/gadget can be one of 2 things: something that is really helpful and useful to get a job done, or something that is completely useless and is just made for the novelty factor.
But, we like to think a gadget is anything that’s technologically cool, like most of the stuff we feature here on Gizmos for Geeks!
Here’s our usual weekly summary of featured items from Gizmos For Geeks:
Starting off the week were a set of novelty Stone Ice Cubes – just the ticket if you worry about harming the planet when making ice cubes. We also featured a set of kitchen scales that has a neat pull out display.
We wondered out loud about whether or not you should jump on the Twitter bandwagon.
For those of you worried about security or just like the added conveniences and coolness factor, this doorlock might just be for you, or maybe you could just travel to the future to see if you’re going to need one with this Flux Capacitor!
Jobs have been in the news recently, so it seemed fair to post an interesting video about the Job Market and reported that workers who are allowed to surf the web at work have increased productivity!
Finally, poor ol’ Silicon Graphics Inc. has filed for bankruptcy once again and has been bought out by Rackable Sytems.
Here is last week’s featured gadgets and news items at Gizmos for Geeks:
To start off the week, we took a look at Legacy Locker – a rather needed innovation that allows you to pass down important account details for your online ‘assets’ in the case of your death.
We found two interesting pieces of software: Claymation’s Stop-Motion Studio Tool that allows the user to make their own stop-motion movies and Palringo – a mobile messaging service that allows you to mix up all the major IMs with and chat to groups all in one.
Dell just rolled out their Adamo Notebook which is essentially Dell’s response to the MacBook Air – thin & stylish.
Rebit’s 160GB Automatic Backup Device makes it quite easy to backup your data regularly.
Got $40k laying around? Get a Novelquest Emporer Workspace – a very high end workspace that puts you inside the spine of what can only be described as a giant dinosaur. On a more practical note, the Just One Club Card’ allows you to put all of your loyalty cards’ barcodes onto just one card.
Sony got together with Google to put 500,000 free public domain books onto their eReaders. You can save money (possibly up to 90%) on international calls by using Vopium on your mobile.
In perhaps a sign of things to come, a new magazine from Popular Science called the Genius Guide is being rolled out online only.
For the fifth straight year the Geeks are preparing for our annual pilgrimage to the holy land of consumer electronics… the Consumer Electronics Show. Rather than report on every gadget at CES, we’ll provide our slant on the larger trends and focus on the few groundbreaking gizmos similar to what we’ve done over the past two years. Stay tuned to the site – best way is to subscribe to our RSS feed.
If you are a fellow blogger coming to the show, learn from our past mistakes and read our articles on what to bring and tips for effectively covering the show. With technology advances and lessons learned, we plan to update the list of what we are bringing later today.
Jeremy at LiveDigitally has analyzed and has CES down to a science for marketeers and bloggers. He has a list of why CES this year will be awesome or lame. Jeremy also maintains a CES survival tips list that is a must read if you are going to CES (chapstick – chapstick – chapstick).
If you are in town for CES and want to meet up at some point with the Geeks, shoot us an email. This is the best opportunity to network with other CE fans and followers.
Here’s to yet another year at CES… hopefully all our gadget dreams will be fulfilled this year!
Like smoking but don’t want to quit? Well UK company Myvic is touting their Electronic Cigarette as the answer. Instead of the usual tobacco, tar and a gazillion other chemicals, the electronic cigarette is mostly nicotine. Yep, so you can stay addicted to that one chemical.
You still get smoke which is mostly water vapor, and you do have to refill your cigarette with a mixture of nicotine and propylene glycol. I do find it interesting that Myvic is touting this as a ‘health product’. Over the long haul, these will also save your wallet some heartache if not your lungs.
