Save the Date!

April 15 will be a prime time for the life of GadgetCore. We are feeling good about this blog. So good that we are going to make some big changes, for the better of course. Be expecting a snazzy new layout, a sister blog (gossip?), and maybe even something else on April 15.

Robotic Arm Made Easy

What can you do with $50, a PS1 controller, and some wood? Make a robotic arm, of course! The Wooden Menace, what the designer calls it, is made completely out of wood. It’s simple design insures that anyone can make a robotic arm just like his. The arm has similar humanoid features. Grabbing, gripping, twisting, [...]

Before GPS

The days before GPS were grim. Road atlases inside the glove compartment were your only means to find your way around. That was before GPS, and Sat-Nav. Honda cleverly designed a system that could track where you were without use of a satellite (Why it’s called Sat-Nav, beats me). You simply choose a plastic cellophane [...]

Hydrogen + Bike = Genius

The Pearl Hydrogen Fuel Bicycle can get a good 15 MPH and keep going for 80 miles on each fuel cell. When the juice runs low, you can petal along. The extra folding feature makes the bike portable so you can bring the green side of you everywhere. If your in the UK, you won’t [...]

miShare, Transfer Songs Between iPods

 
There is only one piece of hardware that let you transfer not only songs, but also pictures and movies between iPods. That new gadget is called miShare. Priced at a $99.95, the miShare has two iPod ports. The battery powered song swapper can share songs at 500 Kb/s, not too sluggish. Plug your iPods in, [...]

The Full Crysis (Demo) Review

Story
What’s it all about anyways? Well, the demo doesn’t really reveal that. But you can get a good idea. It is 2020, your name is Jake Dunn, otherwise known as Nomad by your companions. You are part of the United States Delta Force. The mission, ambush the Korean Army on an island in the South [...]

Can’t Afford a Wii? Get a Vii!

Those knockoff artists in China sure take advantage of the copyright laws. Just recently, they have announced the Vii, an obvious copy of the Wii. Personally, I think it looks like Nyko decided to make a new controller for the Wii and they packaged the whole thing as a new product.
The free games that come [...]

Crysis Demo Released!

EA’s biggest game release ever, the extremely graphic intensive Crysis is now available to download as a demo. If you want to play it, you’ll have to have the following requirements:
OS - Windows XP or Windows Vista
Processor - 2.8 GHz or faster (XP) or 3.2 GHz or faster (Vista)
Memory - 1.0 GB RAM (XP) or [...]

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