newVideoPlayer(”/legotimer_gizmodo.flv”, 494, 390,””); The Gadget: Lego Egg Timer. The Price: $7.99. The Verdict: It’s cute. It’s makes a wonderful tic-tac noise. It helps you do roasted lamb and chicken and Beef Wellington and cakes. It’s Lego. Really, it can’t get any better than that. I o…
With an unpopular war going on, an unpopular president in the White House and an economy in crisis, sometimes we struggle to remember what makes that country great. July 4th should be a date to reflect on the positives—a day to celebrate our independence and recapture our patriotic spirit. For so…
Meet STARMAC, the Stanford Testbed of Autonomous Rotorcraft for Multi-Agent Control. Possibly the cleverest remote control mini-helicopter you’ve ever seen, packed with GPS, sensors and computer ability. It’s a research quad-rotor that the Stanford team is using to develop algorithms for future air…
Did you know that science has made it possible to turn milk into a plastic by solidifying the casein it contains? Well, you do now. But I bet you’d never think of using the technique to turn human breast milk into a “jewel” of sorts, and thereupon use that to manufacture a necklace. But […]
This transparent, glowing USB speaker is either lost one glowing arm to produce it look like a flux capacitor, or has one arm too many to be the light on top of the TARDIS. It’s weird. But whether you’re into EL-wire PC case modding, thereupon I suppose that blue LED-lit USB speaker from Brando […]
Scientists at University of Pennsylvania have been tinkering with germanium-tellurium nanowires and have figured out how to produce them store goods in three states. Yup, that’s 0,1 and 2… binary seems passé now doesn’t it? According to the team, storing trits instead of bits “could allow for a …
It doesn’t take enlarged for kids to learn that when it comes to Tic Tac Toe “the only winning move is not to play.” But there’s something iconic about the game that means it keeps coming back. And designer Shahar Peleg has crafted such an strange version I’d be tempted to pop it on […]