We've all got a few friends and family members that haven't quite yet hopped onto the technology train, right? The kind that prefer VHS tapes to those newfangled discs and still transfer the bulk of their communications through the postal service. I've got one uncle…
Coming soon to a bike near (under?) you: the iHome iH85B speaker, built to safely take your iPod tunes wherever your wheels may carry you. Cyclists and motorists alike have voiced their concerns about people riding through cities with earbuds that distract the…
Suddenly we're one step closer to Jetson-era pneumatic transportation tubes and automated dressing machines. The Asahi Beerbot Robocco is angling to become your new best friend (when they're back in stock, of course -- the sudden product availability had enthusiasts…
It never fails: anytime I go to a client meeting or take my computer to the local cafe, someone will come up to ask me where I got my laptop bag. It's a real eye-catcher with a slick green carbon fiber face and heavy duty buckles, but what makes it most fabulous is…
Here's your chance to turn that black-thumb green. The Streamgarden makes cultivating plants so easy that even a trained plant-killer can come out a winner. Using the same techniques used in space stations and greenhouses, Green Fortune is transferring the methods that…
Has this ever happened to you? You've got an 80G external hard drive that you use to store all of your precious data -- documents, family photos, movies, the whole nine -- and then one day, in a caffeinated fit of clumsiness, some stray finger catches on the USB cord…
Meet the little camera with a big zoom. We've had the chance to play with the Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ8 this month and had fun putting it to the test around town (photo slideshow below). With 12x optical zoom, this 7.2 megapixel camera is still compact enough to…
Who needs friends? In a pinch, when there's no one around to throw you some balls in the backyard to perfect your batting style, the Electronic Pitching Machine is ready to stand in -- and won't require heavy lifting or multiple credit cards to pay off. …
How many online passwords do you wrangle with on any given day? You've got Gmail, MySpace, Facebook, your credit cards and banking accounts, utilities, Flickr, Blogger... and they're all different, so remembering just one password and username combo is out the window…
If you've ever traveled off the resort map, you're probably familiar with all of the tabs and tinctures available to help purify water when traveling abroad. Smart, effective... and tastes like metal, mostly. SteriPEN comes to the rescue with its genius SteriPEN…
Forget all those nuts that tell you spiders are harmless and having them in your home is no big deal -- thousands of spider bite victims would beg to disagree, along with millions of namby-pamby's that are freaked out at the sight of an eight legger scurrying along a…
Are you frustrated when downloading all of your photos only to find half of them too blurry to proudly display, or fed up with precariously balancing your camera on rocks and odd perches to capture yourself in the outdoors? We've got you covered -- this weekend Gadizmo…