Today on Boing Boing Gadgets, the day started as it always does: deus ex machina. Then Kafka hit the Apple Store.
Rob looked at Frotz for the iPhone and a wrist-wearable 1920s GPS unit. He also discovered a wonderful MAME cabinet that looks like an old console pulled out of a Buck Rogers episode. Swoon.
Brownlee found a Terminator skull DVD player and a new Casio that perfectly captures the rust-aesthetic of Star Wars. RFID allows an elderly Japanese wife to have an unsettling discussion with her dead husband. The early BBS cowboys were re-examined through the antiquarian literature of GIF News. Dell has some great plans and pants to match for tackling the iTunes juggernaut. And we discovered some amazing tech to enhance videos with high-res photographs.
Meanwhile, Joel — rushing off to Burning Man — considered some luminescent clubbing attire, "useful tools to illuminate your drink, making it more difficult for slimebags to slip Rohypnol into your drink." He also looked at RCA's $2,000 television from way back in 1969. iPhone developers find the App Store soul killing and booze now comes in juice pack form.
Also perhaps of scientific note: Sony claims their VCRs will cure cancer.
