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Everyone has that friend or relative who you never see without a camera. Here are some gift ideas for sure-fire ways into their photo-snapping hearts.

The Porkfolio Smart Piggy Bank from Quirky does a whole lot more than just store coins. This is one smart piggy that knows how to count and keep track of how many coins it has, and also knows how to...

If you have the LED Music Click Clock from Gingko Electronics, you can throw out a lot of junk that's cluttering up your desk or bedside table. The Music Click Clock is housed in a clean-cut wooden casing with an...

Picture this sexy cyborg future: Bored of headphones and hungry for bass, people roam the city with speakers strapped to their bodies. You don't listen to music any more; you feel it. Well, thanks to a partnership betwee...

If you're an American abroad, the NSA could find out where you are right now, if they wanted to. According to documents leaked by Edward Snowden, the agency's collecting 5 billion records a day on cell phone locations ar...

The best gifts are the ones that aren't obvious. Oh you're going to get your sister another pair of earrings? Nah. This time you should go for a set that were 3D printed instead. In order to wow your family and everyone ...

The Los Angeles City Council ruled last week to give landmark status to Johnie's Coffee Shop, a blue-and-white striped diner in the city's Miracle Mile district. Opened in 1956, the building's dramatic angles and flashy ...

Shouting at your smart home like it’s the Starship Enterprise is one step closer, with the ivee Sleek internet connected hands-free digital assistant finally on sale. Born of a Kickstarter earlier this year, and headed...

The world is ever changing, and in the next half a decade or so, we could find ourselves living in a science fiction-esque world where our goods are delivered by drones – except when hijacked by other drones. Such seem...

This week we’ve gotten the opportunity to work with the Moto G, the international off-contract hero phone for Motorola. This device was designed to attract users who no longer want to deal with the payment plans involv...

The NASA Van Allen twin probes launched last year have revealed that the Earth is a giant particle accelerator. Recently it was reported that particles in the magnetosphere sometimes accelerate across distances of a few ...

As much as Google's search business revolves around the web, the company knows that mobile apps sometimes have more relevant info. Accordingly, Google has updated Android's native search app and its web-based search to t...

We tend to look at new buildings--especially tall ones--as evidence of a city's economic health (or sickness ). But renovations are a way deeper statistical pool--which is why this new map of a decade of filings from the...

Nintendo has revealed two new 2DS bundles aiming to push Pokémon for the holidays, building on the multi-million selling Pokémon X and Pokémon Y as the company tries to claw gaming attention away from Xbox One and Pla...

If you were walking down the street and someone handed you a completely colorless Rubik's cube and asked if you wanted to have a go, chances are you'd hand it back with a quick, "nahhhh, I'm cool." And you would just kee...

Everybody and their mother has brought an activity tracker to market in the last year, but it actually makes sense that Polar--a company with a long history making heart rate monitors--would get into the game. Unfortunat...

I don’t know how it is for the rest of us, but at my house, pets are part of the family. The holidays can’t come and go without our little buddies getting a present or two. So I set my sights on finding something for...

The German retailer Conrad Electronics has started taking pre-orders and posted an availability date for the Mac Pro, and it’s Dec. 16. But hold your horses. We don’t know if that’s an inside scoop or if the retail...

Bluetooth is making a play for being the wireless glue that holds the future smart home together, with the Bluetooth 4.1 Core Specification adding key technologies to support the Internet of Things (IoT). Aiming to make ...

Many car shoppers use Google for research well before they set foot into a dealership. It only makes sense, then, that the company has just rolled vehicle stats into its Knowledge Graph. Look for a new ride and you'll ge...

"Once upon a time computers were for thinking... That's no longer true. Computers are for communicating now, and networks allowed that to happen."

While December brings no shortage of events to attend in the City by the Bay, we're hosting one of our own, minus the mistletoe. This Thursday, we're bringing Engadget Live to Temple Nightclub in the heart of San Francis...