Gadget News

You already know that Korus makes one spectacular speaker. The stand alone, portable unit, the V600 kicks the competition handily, with a fabulous wireless connection that allows no lag time, popping or dropping, and has...

GM is working on a new compact electric car for 2016, expected to cost around $30,000 and use a similar range-extending generator to the Chevrolet Volt and Cadillac ELR. The project, currently unnamed and with no confirm...

2013 was another good year for books, those dry old lumps of paper and ink, so we've rounded up the year's best in tech, science, design, architecture, urbanism, food, and more. We've also tapped our friends at Paleofutu...

San Francisco's tech companies are bringing it down, L.A.'s having trouble growing up, plus sexy cabbies, vertical cemeteries, Bloomberg's next act, and much, much more in this week's Urban Reads.

As wonderful as Apple's MagSafe connector is at preventing your laptop from accidentally getting yanked off a desk, it's far from perfect. Try actually using your laptop on your lap, or in bed, and you'll find your power...

This Christmas, my lucky friends are going to get printouts of original digital art. Made by my dog.

Our nation's talking heads love to blame real world crime on various forms of media. Whether it's sexual video games, poopmouth song lyrics, or violent movies, we're led to believe that junk media creates deviance. But t...

There is a feature on some phones that will allow you to set your flash to go off whenever you get a message. This has blinded me on far too many occasions, and normally scares the skin off of anyone around when it happe...

Short on cash? Amazon wants to sell you a Kindle Fire HDX anyway. As of today, you can pick up the shopping giant's flagship slate on a quarterly payment plan. Naturally, the amount of each installment varies based on th...

With the purchase of Boston Dynamics, Google has become the proud owner of a robotics company – for the 8th time. This is not Google’s first acquisition of a company in the robotics industry, nor will it be the last....

The original founders of TiVo are starting a new business venture called QPlay. It’s an adapter for streaming TV reminiscent of the plug-and-play ease of Google’s Chromecast dongle and app set, but with the all-under...

Three months after the launch of the Sony Xperia Z1, the flagship smartphone is coming to China Mobile -- but the handset as we currently know it isn't making the trip. This particular device (shown above) boasts nearly ...

Well, this is a bummer. FAT--the UK collective that's built some of the most annoyingly brilliant buildings of the past two decades--is no more. Haven't heard of FAT? Let us explain.

Facebook is rolling out a new feature whereby users can donate to any nonprofit on Facebook through the nonprofit’s page or by clicking a button on posts pushed by that page. This should theoretically make it easier to...

Here's what it looks like to fire a weapon. Oh? You're not impressed? Right. I understand. Because every first person shooter video game that kids play these days looks exactly like this. Hell, to be honest, the video ga...

Oh, the things humans will do to get their grubby hands on gold--a metal mostly prized for its ornamental use, hoarded in bank vaults and jewelry boxes, though we've arbitrarily decided it's worth, uh, its weight in gold...

This week in Washington a district judge by the name of Richard Leon has ruled that the NSA‘s data collection program on phone call data collection is unconstitutional. This ruling came amid a court case which had two ...

Everyone loves a little ambiance, and there are those who go a bit further out of their way to give a little extra ‘something’ to an experience. For example, you may have a friend who throws house parties that could ...

By now, you're most likely used to seeing promoted tweets (that's fancy for "sponsored ads") appear in your highly curated Twitter timeline. But promoted accounts? That's the stuff best left banished to the wilds of the ...

This photo of a Messerschmitt Bf 109 fighter being tested in a wind tunnel comes from the archives of the Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt, the national aeronautics and space research centre of Germany. It does...

From the sound if it, it's not a very good speaker. But then, that's not quite the point. What's particularly cool there is that a team of Cornell researchers created the whole thing using 3D printers -- the plastic shel...

While the Android Nokia Lumia device dreamed of by hackers and lovers of crossovers alike has been a subject of rumor for some time now, today’s news appears to dismiss the final product altogether. What we’re to und...