Chumby is the gadget that wants to be loved by developers and geeky dudes who didn’t have dates for Valentine’s Day. Sometimes, both of those consumer demographics signify the exact same people, and they might like this one if they can get over the fact that it looks like a toy for a 12-year-old girl.

This is frankly brilliant. A hands-free umbrella is perfect for walking to work while yapping on your phone with one hand and cradling a cup of coffee with the other. Unfortunately it’s just never going to make it past the “my friends will laugh at me” stage, because they will. They will laugh so very [...]

With each passing moment we grow ever closer to reaching the year 2193, thus, having some sort of futuristic pod / chair hybrid in your home is likely more acceptable today than yesterday. Nevertheless, we can’t recommend the Armchair Paradise to anyone with any level of self-respect with a straight face, though the amenities do [...]

Those inventive Italians have dreamed up another unusual design, this time in illuminated flowerpots to light up your life. Biosfera is ready to accommodate any plant, and if you put cool-running compact fluorescent bulbs inside, your plants might like their lit-up lifestyle just fine.
Yeah, those plants might get a bit optically confused if you leave [...]

I’m probably one of the few people who doesn’t like adding salt and pepper to my salads because I prefer sweet nutty flavors. Something like ginger honey vinaigrette or a sesame pear dressing. However many salad aficionados won’t do a salad without salt and pepper so to make tossing one a little more convenient, these [...]

Not to be outdone by the spy camera desktop printing calculator, Spy Techs has this seemingly normal clock radio available for $500. What makes the radio so expensive is the included and hidden black and white spy camera. The clock radio functions as a normal clock radio, but on the back hidden behind a standard [...]

There’s certainly no shortage of rugged tablet PCs out there, but those still undecided computing options for their next trek through the wilderness now have yet another possibility to consider, with Roper Mobile Technology introducing its new Duros tablet. On the ruggedness front, this one is sealed to IP-65 levels for dust and water protection [...]

There are those classic leather sofas we don’t really like. But others do, and they even make a tribute to them. Luckily. The others are the dutch bERT&dENNIS, and their tribute is the Chester lamp.

I believe that’s how crop circles are made.

The StitchLock Panda is a device that may put Swingline out of business forever. If you’re completely baffled looking at this device, allow me to explain it to you. The StitchLock Panda is an office tool that “stitches” together up to four sheets of paper. Think of it like a stapler minus the staples, hence [...]

Designer Yuta Watanabe has a thing about pencils— his seem simpler and more complex than the ones we’re used to. Above is the Peg Pencil, his take on the mechanical pencil. It’s made from a modified spring-loaded clothespin. You just squeeze its top to put a new stick of lead in. Or to make it [...]

After Arquitectura Organica’s Javier Senosiain created his organically-inspired Nautilus House, he’s done it again, this time with a wild design that looks like a serpent in repose. Quetzalcoatl Nest, named after the Aztec snake/bird god of learning and knowledge, snakes around a 12.36-acre lot, and the architect planned the house’s shape to be sure no [...]

Disney Online debuted its exciting new virtual world and Internet-connected toys at the 2008 Toy Fair. I received a personal tour of the Disney Fairies Pixie Hollow virtual world, based on the wildly popular Disney Fairies franchise. Kids visiting the new Flash-based online [...]

One of the biggest concerns for new parents in making any new purchase is whether or not a product will grow with their child. From clothing, to shoes, and even furniture, true value comes from any product that can last as long as possible. Double points are earned with parents when a design can [...]

Amidst the din of the internet whining about the features dropped from the MacBook air (ehternet, optical drive, weight) it might be a good time to remember the floppy disk, another dead tech which Apple booted out early.
Floppies are of course, long expired, but some people may still have boxes of them holding backup (exhibit [...]

Enough movie awards, music awards, and other awards. It’s TIME  for you to vote in the 2007 Engadget Awards!
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SSDs cost some serious cabbage, but that hasn’t stopped them from popping up in the latest Alienware models and in the much hyped MacBook Air.  I, for one, am not prepared to shell out my hard earned dollars on a low-capacity SSD at this point because the performance pay off just isn’t there.  I don’t [...]

You know I’m not sure if so-called ‘inventors’ will ever run out of things that can be crammed into a computer mouse. This time a simple 800dpi laser mouse with scroll wheel has been augmented with a miniature vacuum cleaner. There’s a power switch on the side for turning the vacuum function on and off, [...]

This very cool bookshelf concept designed by Arianna Vivenzio is basically a large elastic bandage stretched around 2 metal posts that are permanently fixed to the wall. The tension from the elastic allows you to fit a variety of different sized objects inside like books, CDs, DVDs and even boxes full of smaller items. However [...]

The new P22 Nova can be considered a copycat move made by Asus, with the victim being the Mac Mini. For $900 you get a good looking and useful computer for the living room, that even includes a Hi-Fi speaker so you don’t need to worry about external sound systems.What can you find inside the [...]

Musical DNA can be used as an educational music tool, language translation, child development, musical recording, music composition, and beyond. Musical DNA Software will be releasing in a week or so The Master Key Teaching Method: The Foundation for Piano—a handbook that teaches the fundamentals of music through visual learning—as well as the 1.0 release [...]