Kit Eaton wrote: OK, OK... so Dean Kamen actually dreamed up the Segway in the first place and other amazing things, so he's pretty clever. But then so is the guy who's put together this Arduway out of an Arduino controller board and , at 5:04 AM on October 2, 2008 more » [gizmodo]

Kit Eaton wrote: Keepon has been robotically dancing his way into our souls for quite a while, though until now he's been pretty much a hand-crafted one-off. But now his creators have started a company—BeatBots—to manufacture clones of the little guy. Keepon Pro , at 4:44 AM on October 2, 2008 more » [gizmodo]

Kit Eaton wrote: Projectors, unless they're of the mini- or HD-kind tend to have me thinking "meh..." apart from LG's new HS102. 'Cause though it has just 800 x 600 native resolution with switchable 4:3/16:9 ratios, it's got Phlatlight LED illumination tech that , at 10:34 AM on October 1, 2008 more » [gizmodo]

Kit Eaton wrote: Pac-Man-like padded seats, kitted out in leather and with accompanying power-pill-like stools...sounds like a fabulously retro way to pay furniture-y homage to the '80s arcade game. The Poufman seating sets come in a bunch of colors, but retro gamers keen , at 8:20 AM on October 1, 2008 more » [gizmodo]

Kit Eaton wrote: Over at Phonearena they've got their hands on one of those 8-megapixel Samsung M8800 Pixons, and they've given it a good preview prodding. In general the phone went down well: though it's a slightly fat device, the 8-megapixel camera (which , at 7:56 AM on October 1, 2008 more » [gizmodo]

Kit Eaton wrote: A bunch of programmer/hackers have come up with a driver solution that'll get your PS3 Eye off its lazy ass and functioning as a webcam for your PC. Why's this interesting? Because it's relatively cheap, and actually pretty high-spec'd: it , at 6:40 AM on October 1, 2008 more » [gizmodo]

Kit Eaton wrote: A bit like Dean Kamen's miraculous water distiller, only not quite so fancy or miraculous, is the WaterMill drinking water collector. It's basically a clever dehumidifier that collects airborne water and filters and purifies it with an ultraviolet sterilizer, providing , at 6:06 AM on October 1, 2008 more » [gizmodo]

Kit Eaton wrote: Laptopmag went ahead and tested out Xohm WiMax goodness, now that it's live in Baltimore. They jammed an ExpressCard Xohm into a Sony Vaio laptop, and compared it to a Kyocera EVDO card running on Verizon, at a spot where , at 5:05 AM on October 1, 2008 more » [gizmodo]