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Even before the viewer catches a glimpse his first Mogwai, Joe Dante’s Gremlins establishes the link between the titular goblins and malfunctioning technology by way of Randy Peltzer and his many incompetent inventions. It’s a film very much of its time, with many fascinating things to say about the way Reagan-era Americans looked at technology. It’s also a movie that would be impossible to remake today, for one big reason: the smartphone is our Bathroom Buddy. Continue reading

No this is not a list of helpful first aid gadgets, but rather an introduction to a robot named “Gizmo”. Designed by college graduate student Javier Rodriguez Molina, Gizmo could one day help collect and transmit real-time communications in real life emergency situations. While we’ve seen an over-abundance of life saving robots (and some not so life-saving), we’re not quite ready to kiss any of their asses yet. The original version of Gizmo was made to fit into areas that... Continue reading

Don’t let its appearance deceive you. The Choculator is not edible, of course unless you eat plastic. In which case this could be your dessert after scarfing down the Tempura Phone Charm. Choculator looks scarily close to being an actual chocolate bar, except that most chocolate bars don’t have a display screen on them. Choculator comes packaged in a candy bar-like wrapping that adds to the disillusion. You wanna see something funny? Give this to a kid on Halloween. Just... Continue reading

It’s super hard for people with hearing problems to have any fun at movie theaters or the like without there being someone narrating the whole audio component of the film. The Subtitle-Reading Glasses aims to give access to subtitles even for movies with no subtitles on the screen. The gadget snaps onto the frame of glasses to display subtitles from the device. To get this gizmo to work, movie theaters would have subtitle “projectors” that would wirelessly sync subtitles with... Continue reading

Stationary products are generally small and easy to lose. In fact, I have no idea where the hell my staple removers are right now. That’s right. Removers. Plural, bitches. Maybe if we had learned about something like the Stationoli earlier, we wouldn’t be in the pickle we are now, with many staples in need of removing. The Stationoli provides a way to keep all of your stationary together as one unit. Stationoli includes a stapler, a staple remover, sticky notes,... Continue reading

[ev type="youtube" data="ltQNlqo3vmQ"][/ev] The level of excitement 12-year-old Kyle Krichbaum gets from vacuums is simply disturbing. He’s had an obsession of them since he was born and now owns over 150 of them. There’s really no reason anybody should know so much about cleaning machines, which is why we bow down to him in humble envy of his fanatic gizmo-loving. Check out his reaction when he recieves the vacuum he always wanted. With that said, I hope I never have... Continue reading

Coming to you from Japan is the Retro Dot LED clock. This snazzy looking gizmo comes in your choice of blue or green LED’s and is a minimalistic beauty. The clock display features circular LED’s rather than the traditional long slashes. If you take a look at it, the dots really make the difference in making this a unique clock. Another feature that caught our eye is the clock’s ability to automatically sync time via radio broadcast signal waves. In... Continue reading