Gadget News

NASA must think our moon is getting lonely, because it's mulling the idea of capturing an asteroid and placing it in lunar orbit, so it has a rocky satellite all of its own. More

Corning has made it known that next week, the company will tell us all about its latest ultra tough gadget glass. Are you ready for Gorilla Glass 3? [Corning] More

Thunderbolt enthusiasts have only been able to rely on the use of copper core cables -- which offer significant limitations on distance -- for their data transfer needs, but hope is close at hand. This afternoon, Corning...

Tired of Ikea's instructions telling you exactly how you should assemble and mount your shelves? Fight back against the company's illustrated tyranny with this felt Organize shelf that's flexible in more ways than one. M...

Joining the fray of other companies ready to jump the pre-CES gun, iHome's announcing its full product suite just prior to its official Vegas showcase. Billed as a first for the audio solutions outfit, the iDL100 and iDL...

The Wall Street Journal has analyzed the top 50 sites in the United States plus 20 other top sites in sensitive categories like dating or health. They found that 25 of these sites--including OKCupid, Pinterest, YouTube, ...

Even most hardcore Lego enthusiasts don't need a machine that can automatically sort axle pieces by length. But that probably means that Akiyuki is on a whole other level compared to most Lego maniacs, particularly since...

There are plenty of ways to get Android on your TV -- from smartphone docks, to dongles and even the officially sanctioned Google TV. But most of them are missing something, be it a simple way to control them or access t...

Starting January 28th, Foursquare will divulge more of your private information to complete strangers. If that freaks you out, it's time to lockdown your privacy. Luckily, it's very easy. More

Online shopping seems like a straightforward process: hunt down the perfect item, trudge through the checkout pipeline and await a package's inevitable arrival. The trip between a warehouse and your doorstep, however, in...

This Dell U2713HM monitor is one of the best consumer monitors you can buy and Dell's running a great sale on it today. Its primary feature is that it is a 2560x1440 IPS panel--also known as WQHD--and that's a lot of pix...

Did you know that the DNA information in a single sperm contains 37.5 MB worth of data? Which means that an average ejaculation almost instantly transfers roughly 1.5 terabytes of data. Suddenly USB 3.0 doesn't look that...

This year's Consumer Electronics Show has yet to officially kick off, but that's not stopping early birds like MSI from getting their news out ahead of the flood. Announced as part of its upcoming showcase, the company's...

Google's drawn the ire of the Federal Trade Commission for myriad reasons over the past year, and so the FTC began a formal investigation into those transgressions. Today, Chairman Jon Leibowitz announced that the invest...

Good news for your brittle bird bones--Nokia is apparently working on a new batch of Lumias for 2013, and they're supposed to be much lighter. More

There's a cloud hanging over the second city and it belongs to Microsoft. In a release issued today, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel announced plans to migrate the city's 30,000 civil servants to a cloud-based solution for em...

Penguin publishing just rereleased five of George Orwell's best works--1984, Animal Farm, Down and Out in Paris and London, Homage to Catalonia, and Politics and the English Language--as "Great Orwell" editions. More

It wasn't too much of a surprise to see Starbucks begin accepting Square payments at many of its coffee shops last year, but the company's latest expansion of that partnership is a bit more unexpected. It's announced tod...

TVs and robotic vacuums aren't the only Smart-branded devices Samsung will be showing off at this year's CES. We just met with the company here in NYC to take a look at its newest entrant into the camera game, dubbed the...

The Samsung NX300's a big revamp of last year's NX210 including a lot of common sense improvements to Samsung's mid-range mirrorless camera. And then there's the 3D photo and movie mode. Nobody asked for a brilliant new ...

As major online retailers are being shoved further into the physical realm to keep competitive, eBay's doing everything it can to stay in the fray with the announcement of two new pilot programs. More

The FTC just announced a settlement with Google, which the commission had been investigating for illegal, anti-competitive behavior. And it's mostly good news for everyone except Google: less patent warfare, less search ...