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Here are a few things you don’t have time to do when your car plunges into an icy lake: remove a Leatherman multitool from your glove compartment; unfold it; cut through your seatbelt; refold it; smash through your window. Thankfully there’s the ExiTool, a clever little gadget that attaches to your seat belt for quick access when your shit goes “glug, glug, glug.” It includes a high-carbon stainless steel slicer, a tungsten carbide smasher, and, just for good measure, an LED light. Sure, having an open blade attached to your seat belt all the time isn’t ideal, but it’s definitely more ideal than being trapped in your car at the bottom of some murky body of water. The ExiTool will be available soon for $27, so if you’re the type of person that worries about this thing it’s probably a worthwhile investment

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ExiTool: A More Practical Approach To Escaping Your Automobile [Multitools]

People of the world who hate hate HATE going to the dentist, rejoice: DentalVibe is a new device that completely eliminates the pain when they are sticking a stainless steel needle into your gums. All by cleverly fooling your brain. Developed by Dr. Steven G

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New Gadget Eliminates Pain in Dental Injections By Tricking Your Brain [Gadgets]

Your Technotronic playlist aside, running on a treadmill is inherently boring because you are stuck in a room running on the same platform. But what if you could switch things up and simulate actual, real world topography? The NordicTrack x7i Interactive Incline Trainer, $2,000, is loaded with Wi-Fi to interface with iFit Live, a fitness database that pulls actual trail and marathon routes from Google Maps (which, though not supported in the limited official workout library at this time, should really include Google Moon ). The corresponding information shifts your incline dynamically (40-degree incline, 6-degree decline), plus you get to see a bird’s eye view that allows you to track progress through your practice environment, or you can even take a look from the ground level through Google Street View

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NordicTrack x7i Could Allow You to Jog on the Moon [Exercise]

Buried at the bottom of Samsung’s MWC press kit was mention of an I8520 “Halo” projector phone. Sporting Android 2.1, a 3.7-inch Super AMOLED screen, and 720p video (to name a few), the phone will be officially revealed tomorrow. The phone will also support an eight megapixel camera, with flash; DivX/Xvid playback; Bluetooth 2.1; 802.11b/g/n WiFi; GPS; and 16GB storage. There’s a “Specialized Projector UI” feature in there too, hinting at the projector functionality to come

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Samsung to Debut I8520 "Halo" Android 2.1 AMOLED Projector Phone [Samsung]

No pics or concrete release date to speak of on this item at the moment, but we do know that Samsung will introduce a 10-inch Chrome OS -powered netbook sometime in 2010. And the specs? Specs! Here : – 10.1 inch screen – 2GB RAM – 64GB flash storage – similar in design to the N210 (pictured) – 3G – 1.5Ghz Snapdragon processor The info was announced officially, by way of Samsung’s Phil Newton. The coy executive offered nothing else on the Chrome OS netbook other than the amorphous “later in 2010″ release date.

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Samsung Teases 10-Inch Chrome OS Netbook for Sometime In 2010 [Samsung]

Folks at Usuda Research Institute and Systems Corp got tired of their Toshiba TG01s just not being sensitive enough. (Unlike that dreamy Wii MotionPlus!) So rather than calling it quits on the relationship, they built a super-sensitive motion sensor . If you hit the link for a pair of videos, you’ll see the DIY motion sensor in action. Those crazy tinkerers were able to make the attachment work by taking advantage of the TG01s USB host functionality, so this could be just one of the first examples of expansions for this gadget. Yeah, maybe the motion sensor isn’t very attractive and maybe using it to scroll through and zoom in and out of pictures isn’t that exciting, but I’m giddy that there could be a “shake to refresh” function reactive enough for me to not look like an idiot while shaking my phone. Oh! And the best part? The sleek and sexy TG01 has gotten through the FCC . [ wmpoweruser via MobileCrunch ]

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Toshiba TG01 Gets Super-Sensitive With Third-Party Motion Sensor [Toshiba]

The Loop-In transportation concept hopes to combine the sensations of surfing and skating in to one device that users can use anywhere. The outside wheels have the ability to maneuver on a wide variety of surfaces and rotate independently of the board. The designers expect their wheel/board setup will give users the feeling of “pushing on a wave continuously”. Hopefully there are plans to manufacture the Loop-In soon, though I doubt it will be able to replicate the thrill of getting barreled. [ Tuvie ]

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Loop-In Concept Allows Users To Surf on Sidewalks [Concept]

Can’t handle all the lovely ladies and crazy ass NSFW posts we do? Here’s how you can read Gizmodo without being bombarded with nips and ta tas: http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/not:nsfw You’ll see at the end of the URL above there is a “not:nsfw” tag which you can edit to rid Gizmodo of unwanted material.

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How To Read Gizmodo Without NSFW Posts [Announcements]

The Gadget : My Book World Edition II , a 4TB NAS in RAID configuration—in other words, a small networked hard drive with a ton of secure storage. The Price : $700 (4TB), $499 (2TB) The Verdict : It’s a NAS for normal people. With a simple curved white design highlighted by a single hypnotic bar of white LED, the diminutive My Book plugs in to your router via ethernet to give you up to 4TB of networked storage

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My Book World Edition II (4TB) Lightning Review [Review]

Companies like Wicked Lasers will sell you a Blu-ray diode laser . But this DIY keychain looks flat-out deadly in this photo, like a mini one-shot pistol of the future…that can fire for a whole hour before recharging.

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Blu-ray Laser Suggests That Lasers Have Still ‘Got It’ [Lasers]