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Today if your car breaks down or you're in an accident, help is little more than a phone call away. It's something that many drivers of the 21st century take for granted, what with our Space Age smartphone technology. Th...

Outside of pen input, pressure sensors don't get much love these days. However, Georgia Tech has just built an extremely accurate sensor that could give pressure-based devices their due. When a user pushes down on the ne...

Even in prime locations, vacant stores can go tenantless for months or years, costing landlords quite a bit in uncollected rent. One real estate owner in Sherbrooke, Quebec is hoping to move a property a bit more quickly...

I have been connecting compute devices to my TVs for nearly 20 years, the first being a Compaq Presario hooked to a massive RCA 35" tube TV via an NTSC converter. Back then, there wasn't online audio ...

Anti-Gay group Straight Pride UK is abusing the DMCA takedown process to censor work by a journalist. No surprise there--the DMCA is twisted for all kinds of dumb purposes. The inexplicable part? The hate group filed a t...

Both NASA and Planetary Resources dream of capturing asteroids, but they need viable targets -- many space rocks aren't easily moved. The University of Strathclyde just gave those organizations some help by identifying 1...

When I was a kid and we'd visit places with fragile things, my mom would order me to "look with your eyes, not with your hands." But exactly the opposite is encouraged in a new exhibit called Ghosts, Underpants, and Star...

See that tiny green pinprick of light? That's a speck of diamond dust trapped in the grip of a laser beam. And with its help, researchers hope to better understand the border-world between macro and quantum physics.

There are almost as many external battery pack options for your smartphone as there are cases, and given the multitude of options there are probably two important factors to seriously consider: capacity and design. And a...

Could 3D printing be the future of office supply stores? Staples, for one, has been dipping its toes in those rising waters, offering a limited selection of devices on its site. Office Depot's following suit, making the ...

It may not be quite as fast as Elon Musk's plan for the Hyperloop, but back at the turn of the 20th century the moving sidewalk was The Future™!

Sprint's eggplant-colored Galaxy S III must have proven a hit, as the carrier is already following up with a version of the Galaxy S 4 in Purple Mirage. Like its ancestor, the purple GS4 is strictly a palette swap; the $...

It looks like a keyboard, but with a chunk missing.

Amazon's Android-flavored reading app is offering up a couple more of its own e-reader's features for those with Google-fied devices. Just like folks with Kindles have already encountered, the Kindle for Android app now ...

Developers of third-party apps can insert voice commands into Glass's main menu.

Indirect glimpses of skylines, sailboats, signage, and selfies. Sometimes the indirect approach can yield amazing results.

Proximity-based content sharing systems tend to focus on one-at-a-time transfers -- see Android Beam and Apple's upcoming AirDrop as examples. Google, however, has just patented an interface that would simplify sharing c...

Errant retail listing outs cheap console before Sony can.

You've probably heard the myth that eating lots of carrots will make magically improve your vision. The bad news is that it's a total lie. The good news? It's one that helped the Allies defeat the Nazis.

And also a sweet deal on a Dell multitouch monitor.

Facebook is testing out a new VIP-only app that encourages celeb(rity publicist) interaction with fans. By trying to get famous Facebookers to interact with the people liking and sharing their statuses and photos, Facebo...

Calling all app developers: Amazon just launched a new tool that you'll no doubt want to take a peek at. The company's Web Services (AWS) division has just introduced Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) with ...