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We know you've got questions, and if you're brave enough to ask the world for answers, then here's the outlet to do so. This week's Ask Engadget inquiry is from Icy, who wants to embrace their metro (geddit?) side. If yo...

Back in 2008, Jason Koger had the misfortune of running over a downed power line on his four-wheeler, being shocked with 7,200 volts of electricity, and ultimately having both his hands amputated. Now, he's had the good ...

A floor lamp isn't typically a place you'd expect to find a lot of personality, but this one showcased at the Milan furniture fair has plenty of it. You'd half expect to see it prancing around on screen before a Pixar mo...

If you didn't get enough mobile news during the week, not to worry, because we've opened the firehose for the truly hardcore. This week, we were treated to a peek at the Lumia 928 in white, Canada's upstart carriers made...

Kick back and relax with some of our cream of the Internet crop this week. We've got a giant hornets nest you'll be glad you've never seen in person, a phone that's (probably) bigger than your penis, lasers, the future o...

Samsung may not have shaken up its mirrorless camera line with the very evolutionary NX1100, but there's hints at the FCC of bigger things in store. A filing at the US agency has confirmed the existence of an unannounced...

Facebook Home is here, and although it's not tied to its flagship hardware, the list of phones that officially support it is kind of underwhelming. If the phone you have isn't listed, have no fear: you can try out Facebo...

In addition to the long curly cords, and the part where they are permanently attached to a wall, old-fashioned landlines have something else that we've lost in the cell phone revolution: a dial tone. What happened to tha...

Alt-week takes a look at the best science and alternative tech stories from the last seven days. Brains are complex things. Man's quest to understand this lump of gray mass has become something of an obsession. In this e...

When North Korea isn't busy shooting missiles into the sea or photoshopping its navy to make it look a little less pathetic, it takes to a very global hobby: torrenting. TorrentFreak took a peek into exactly what the wou...

While you are sinking into you soft, pillow-top mattress--or pile of trash--there are a handful of human beings in space who take to their nightly respite a little differently, by strapping themselves into a zero-g space...

When it comes to developing music apps, Leap Motion's naturalistic interface seems like a no-brainer. Sure it doesn't offer the sort of tactile feedback you get from an actual instrument, but it certainly beats the heck ...

We like pinball. We like classic NES games. Accordingly, it doesn't take much deduction to know that we really, really like Skit-B Pinball's Duck Hunt pinball machine. It has a fully mechanical, themed pinball machine be...

Despite an early leak on Monday, once again the internet lit-up with chatter about the release of Facebook Home in the Google Play store. All good and well if you find yourself in the right place with the right phone, bu...

Can you imagine a world where Photoshop doesn't exist? A world where we can take every picture at face value and believe that there was no airbrushing, no retouching, no nothing? I can't. Photoshop has made it impossible...

Canadians have been enjoying a minor renaissance in wireless competition since its AWS auction allowed a slew of smaller carriers to join the fray. Unfortunately, that diversity might be shrinking soon. The Globe and Mai...

And you thought the Warner Bros. cat and mouse duo had outlandish chase sequences? Psh. This CGI reboot by Brian Jin combine Tom and Jerry's slapstick humor with an anime motiff and Michael Bay-caliber explosions as the ...

Like the wonderful Libby Cooper before her, this girl is just beyond awesome. She remixes her Facebook Cover Photo so that her profile picture pops up seamlessly in movie sequences, TV shows and video games. It's perfect...

4K TVs are visual deliciousness in a box but are a little (to put it lightly) out of reach for peasants like us as they come with a price tag either equal to the cost of a car or are only considered cheap because they're...

When you're the one guy in the police lineup who doesn't know everyone else, chances are it's gonna be a bad day. Especially if you're stuck there with these bozos. More

Companies know how important it is to make their products as friendly as can be with third-party social websites, and Microsoft, for one, has done a pretty fantastic job at making sure the team behind Bing's doing exactl...

It's funny how fondly we look back at classic ads--print, commercials, anything--compared to how we react to ads today. That Apple 1984 commercial? Perfection. Those old VW Bug print ads? Soooo cute! Today? Ew banner ads...