Gadget News

We're not sure how many of you will be lucky enough to receive a spanking new notebook for the holidays, but just in case you've got one on your list (or are shopping for someone else), we've got a newly updated laptop b...

Microsoft this weekend rolled out a few descriptions of how the voice and gesture controls will work in Internet Explorer for Xbox One. In a post on Exploring IE, the company explained that you will be able to say “Xbo...

I pretty much universally hate streaming music services. They all promise to broaden my horizons, analyzing my tastes to bring me music I never knew I couldn't live with out. They can all go to hell.

Currently, doctors use ultrasound to measure blood flow in the body. Doppler effect, just like bats! But it can't detect flow in the small, slow-moving vessels where diseases often start. The solution? Sonic blasts that ...

Flying is fun. Here's a Turkish F-16 diving and rolling while firing flares.

Feast your eyes! From a photographic flashback to the days of hair metal, to a brand-new iPad Mini that finally satisfies your eyes, this week's best stories were all about the visuals. Give your peepers a quick Cliff's ...

Scientists have just taken quantum computing a big leap closer to consumer viability. In a paper published in Science, it was shown that qubits–the atomic particles used in ludicrously fast quantum computers–can be m...

Many streaming-savvy DVRs either lean heavily on cloud services or are linked to traditional TV -- neither of which is ideal for cord cutters trying to lower their long-term costs. Nuvyyo is promising what could be a mor...

Astronaut Mike Hopkins tweeted this picture last night, taken from the International Space Station. Pretty cool, huh? It looks more like an oil painting of a tiger than the surface of what we call a "blue" planet. Just m...

In a little less than two weeks, Americans will engage in the county's annual combat ritual: Holiday Travel Season--a brutal tradition pitting travelers against the monolithic security and transportation apparatus in a r...

The US Army, Department of Energy, Department of Health and Human Services, and other US government agencies were infiltrated by the Adobe software breaches that came to light last month, the FBI said in a memo this week...

The FDA put out a warning this week that knockoffs of ExtenZe Maximum Strength have been found containing sildenafil -- the active ingredient in Viagra and other ED prescriptions. Meaning hopeful pill-poppers may have th...

Quantum computing will change our world. But currently, it's just about impossible . Qubits, the bits that power quantum computing, require crazy-cold temps to create, and they only survive about 3 minutes at room temp. ...

Great screen and drastically better performance both come at a price.     

Despite recent successes in the field, creating a quantum computer is really hard. For one thing quantum bits in a super positioned state (or qubits, the basic unit of data for quantum computing) have a hard time survivi...

A bunch of Twitter's alpha and beta testers for Android might have fired up their apps today, and thought they'd been kicked out of the program. After all, the social network recently scrapped the new design it debuted t...

Talking at a US Army demonstration of autonomous weaponized robots at Fort Benning, Georgia, experts said that "ten years from now, there will probably be one soldier for every 10 robots. Each soldier could have one or f...

Airplanes aren’t known for being the most roomy vessels one can travel in, and dealing with matters concerning personal space and passenger size has been a touchy — and sometimes heated — topic. Various solutions h...

The objective behind Karlita project was to develop an exceedingly effective universal accessory to handle large PET bottles that are more and more available on the market. Karlita, as a universal tool, makes indeed easy...

There are many ways to show how big a Star Wars fan you are, but none as big as the Star Wars Ensemble Wall Mural from Retro Planet. The humungous 126×72-inch wallpaper mural will cover an entire wall in your...

The Bose SoundLink Mini Speaker is a compact and lightweight Bluetooth enabled portable speaker that connects wirelessly to your smartphone, tablet and other mobile devices. The speaker is one of Bose's smallest mobile s...

These Chopstick Drumsticks from Suck UK perform a very important function. They help you irritate everyone around you and make them want to bang their heads on the table to get rid of the pain of listening to your drummi...