By Andrew Liszewski
Besides the wheel the invention of the chain is probably what made the modern bicycle possible but ironically it's also the bike's biggest downside. The chain usually needs a lot of maintenance and care to keep it...
We know how we can be when we travel. We can have our guards down because we're trying to taste the moment. This FindX Item Tracker lets you succumb to wanderlust without letting you lose your valuables. Attach it...
By Andrew Liszewski
The two largest telcos in Canada, Rogers and Bell recently announced the availability of what they're calling 'portable high-speed internet.' Typically high-speed access flows into a home via the phone lines or though cable tv and in...
By Andrew Liszewski
I would have never referred to any vacuum cleaner as a 'cool gadget' until a friend of mine introduced me to the Dyson a few years ago. Not only did they manage to vastly improve the way...
By David Ponce
We've covered creations that had the potential to remove your sorry, adrenaline-craving little ass from the gene pool many times before. For an idea, go here, here, here, here or here. And now, we bring...
By Evan Ackerman
Leave it to the MIT Media Lab to come up with a concept as innovative as this. The Bar of Soap is a prototype gadget that figures out what it's supposed to be doing based on the...
By Bruce Eaton
In a very unique mod that changes an Oral-B Humming Bird from fighting the evils of plaque to helping the evils of lockpicking, comes the Vibrating Lock Pick by Jared Bouck. What a lot of people do...
By Andrew Liszewski
I did get the 'Labor Day' memo but for those rare few who end up actually having to labor on this holiday (like me) I figured I'd throw up a couple of stories for when you needed...
By David Ponce
I'll admit it right away. I'm totally out of my depth on this one. But, I can read technolese, and here's what I'm getting. The Hettlage drive is a completely different kind of traction...
By Andrew Liszewski
A group of four mechanical engineering students at Johns Hopkins University have come up with a cheap hand-held braille writer as a result of a class project that challenged them to create such an instrument for under...