Gadget takes aim at stress

Stressed? Maybe the emWave Personal Stress Reliever can help. According to the gadget's maker, all you have to do is place your thumb on the sensor, or if you prefer, attach its ear sensor. After it detects your pulse, its breathing pacer will get in sync with your heart rhythms while you employ stress-reducing techniques included in its guide. At the very least, playing with the gadget is sure to take your mind off your worries, at least for a while. Read more...

Tollway gadget saves lives

A revolutionary safety device installed at the North Luzon Expressway recently had its litmus test and passed with flying colors—saving lives and limbs and minimizing property damage in an accident.
The accident took place last Feb. 9 when a Fuzo jeepney, with three persons on board and a big load of mangoes, rammed into an Impact Attenuator at the Bocaue toll plaza.
The device, called Impact Attenuator, prevented a potentially disastrous road Read more...

TECH: Chumby inks Broadcom deal

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Wacky Wearable Gadget: World’s Smallest Watch For Your Finger Nail

Timex and Core77 have collaborated to introduce one of the world's smallest watches. This unique, wearable gadget is disposable timepiece designed to mould to your fingernail and with its light up function makes a bold fashion statement.
has not officially been released on the market, so there's not yet any information regarding availability in stores or price point. This unique wearable gadget won Timex's 2154 The Future of Time Competition based Read more...

Then and Now: A Fast-Forward Tour of Gadget History

Astonishing breakthrough. Household object. Funny anachronism. Such is the journey that nearly every great gadget travels. (Sometimes it takes several generations; sometimes it takes just a few years.) And then it happens all over again with whatever hot new gizmo rendered the old one obsolete.
recently, I was moved to compare some significant devices of the past with their modern-day counterparts. In some cases, old and new are connected by seamless Read more...

My Final Gadget Will and Testament

I, Mark Wilson, being of sound and disposing mind and memory, do declare this to be my last
.
While at the time of this writing, I am a spry (OK, a bit soft) 26-year-old man, I realize that I could, at any moment in time, die. In such an unfortunate circumstance, should the world ever recover from its loss, I'd like my most important possessions (my gadgets and digital media) to be well-tended pending their obsolescence (two or three months from Read more...

Chumby: An application gadget

Here’s an interesting idea, what if you could take the best bits of being online and put them into a device to play with offline? Yes, kind of like a smartphone… without the phone.
Well some imaginative people have thought that this is a good idea, and the result is Chumby.
Chumby is a wireless device that allows you to download widget-like applications for use whenever you want. This means your Chumby can have the functionality of Read more...

Cell Phone Data Extractor: A Spy Tool For the Masses?

I'm quite disturbed that there are so many products that one can use to spy on a spouse.  And though there are other applications these things can be used for (such as national security-you know... little things like that), these items are marketed toward finding out what your wife or husband does when you're not around.
.  And now we have another cell phone gadget that, while having numerous applications, seems to be geared toward gathering information Read more...

UK gadget geeks get the GD910 by Christmas

by Stevie Smith - Feb 19 2009, 15:00
After giving the innovative GD910 phone watch some well-deserved advanced coverage at the end of 2008, we are thrilled to reveal that maker South Korea-based LG Electronics has now graced its ‘wristset’ with an official UK retail release date.
Having raised more than a few industry and consumer eyebrows during its appearance at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas earlier this year, the James Read more...

Gadget Lab Podcast #64: Sprint and Palm

Could being tied to Sprint hurt the Palm Pre's chances when it launches later this year? Maybe so, given the carrier's economic woes. The Gadget Lab crew discusses the
in this week's episode.
Plus, we talk about industrial designers' latest fascination:
from notebooks to computer mice to bicycle frames. And we review the
, a rugged watch that's both solar-powered and atomic, and the
-- an inexpensive, all-in-one "kitchen PC."
This week's Read more...