My favorite work by the Hungarian-born painter, sculptor, photographer, filmmaker, designer, writer, teacher, and all-around modernizing visionary László Moholy-Nagy, the subject of a powerful retrospective at the Guggenheim Museum, is a one-of-a-kind gizmo: "Light Prop for an Electric Stage" (1930).
Or you might want to fit your study population with some kind of gizmo that can collect (and maybe even transmit) data in your absence.
The reason everyone loves Square is that it involves an actual credit-card reader that you attach to your iPhone, the kind of gizmo that nobody except Steve Jobs or a Chinese manufacturer now considers building.
The reason everyone loves Square is that it involves an actual credit-card reader that you attach to your iPhone, the kind of gizmo that nobody except Steve Jobs or a Chinese manufacturer now considers building.
Leikr's maps are powered by OpenStreetMap, which the team claims is a first for this kind of gizmo (Nike+'s SportWatch GPS is powered by TomTom, for instance), while the watch integrates with social fitness tracker community Endomondo for analysing training, sharing and comparing with friends.
Quite how much depends on who buys it and whether it ends up as a kind of gizmo-filled James Bond villain's hideaway or minimalist new age retreat.
Sure, Pebble has proved there's a market for some kind of wrist-mounted gizmo that connects to your smartphone and extends the experience of carrying a pocket-sized computer around with you all day every day — but boy it better be worth it.
From now on, when I get a new gizmo of any kind, I'm going to push myself to read the instructions carefully.
The day is likely coming when we begin to embed our respective individualities into one seamless hive-mind with the help of some kind of implantable "augmented reality" gizmo.
Because we were lean, fresh and free to do as we saw fit, we could take risks on ideas no one else in our community could commit to, as a kind of lab testing the latest gizmo.
I want a gizmo to liberate me from gizmos.
