Gadget News
Early Rider Belter - $408
The Gadget Flow - 27 Dec 2013 08:00
The Early Rider Belter is an award-winning ultra-light bicycle for kids. The bike is designed to make life easy for little kids who would otherwise end up pumping away furiously at the pedals trying to get large and heav...
Netflix hit with streaming problems in US, Canada, and Latin America
Slash Gear - 27 Dec 2013 06:30
Netflix had fired off a tweet this evening on its customer support Twitter account announcing that some users in the United States, Canada, and Latin America were experiencing streaming problems. …
The Naked Metal Core of a Dead Planet Is Circling the Sun
Gizmodo - 27 Dec 2013 01:30
You know about those plans to visit an asteroid in the next few years? Well, a select group of astronauts would like to sweeten the deal. Why visit a regular asteroid, when there's a planet's solid metal floating up ther...
Most Read Columns of 2013: Learning to Love Chromebooks and Succeeding
TechPinions - 27 Dec 2013 11:03
I have been a skeptic about Chromebooks since Google announced them. What could you really do on a pseudo-laptop whose only native application was the Chrome browser and which depended on an internet connection for most ...
This Alpine House Looks Like It Was Beamed Down From Outer Space
Gizmodo - 27 Dec 2013 23:00
Sure, the larch-wood cladding gives Ufogel a kind of rustic charm, but I'll be damned if this Austrian guest house doesn't really look like it just beamed down from a quaint corner of outer space.
The 10 Most-Pirated TV Shows of 2013
Gizmodo - 27 Dec 2013 20:30
Another year comes to a close, and another year of gratuitous television show pirating is in the bag. Who wins the award for the most illicit views? According to numbers from TorrentFreak, Game of Thrones keeps the crown...
Tesla Model S software updated with power fluctuation safeguard
Slash Gear - 27 Dec 2013 04:49
Tesla's Model S has been the subject of note when it comes to electric cars, lately due to a spat of fires that have affected a few of the units. …
UPS and FedEx buckle under holiday load, leaving retailers and families in the lurch
Engadget - 27 Dec 2013 23:52
Didn't get your Christmas presents in time? You're far from alone. Seems that both FedEx and UPS greatly underestimated the number of packages that would be passing through their systems this holiday season. More consume...
Kung Fury trailer takes retro-futuristic camp to a new level
Slash Gear - 27 Dec 2013 23:42
If you've always wondered what it'd be like to see the special effects environment of Machete and the acting skills of those involved in Lethal Weapon 6* combined, it's your …
Archive vintage games collection enhanced: holiday blues defeated!
Slash Gear - 27 Dec 2013 22:40
This week the folks at the Internet Archive have released a new collection of in-browser emulated games, a whole mess of vintage titles released recently into the public domain. This …
How the New York Botanical Garden Digitizes Nearly 300 Plants a Day
Gizmodo - 27 Dec 2013 22:30
The New York Botanical Garden is packed with over 7.3 million specimens from all over the world. And when you've got that many plants, you need to get a little creative when it's time to take their picture. It's a high t...
Popular Science and the self-destruction of print media
Slash Gear - 27 Dec 2013 22:19
One of the most surprising gifts I received this Christmas was a subscription to National Geographic. I didn't expect to get signed up for a printed publication, but I did …
Ice climber impossibly survives a punishing fall from ice wall
Gizmodo - 27 Dec 2013 22:17
Ouch. That has got to hurt. Ice climber Mark R. was climbing up a mountain when he was sent plummeting down by a piece of falling ice that hit him. He then basically avalanches down the mountain side and hits every rock ...
The Snow2 will help you slowly become a cyborg
Coolest Gadgets - 27 Dec 2013 22:00
When you’re taking a trip to a new location, you more often than not rely on some sort of GPS device to guide you there. The best way to do this is with a HUD so you won’t be terribly distracted from the road. Those ...
This Gorgeous Stained Glass Landscape Is Actually a Rice Field
Gizmodo - 27 Dec 2013 22:00
Who knew growing rice on a mountain could be so beautiful? The Ailao Mountains in Yunnan, China, have been carved into thousands of gradual steps, each a paddy growing red rice. The rice terraces stretch out over some 40...
Sherlock Holmes original works enter Public Domain
Slash Gear - 27 Dec 2013 21:45
Copyright has officially expired for the original set of works surrounding the sleuth known as Sherlock Holmes according to a US Federal Judge this week. This includes the original 50 …
The iMpulse will make gaming and playing music on your phone much easier
Coolest Gadgets - 27 Dec 2013 21:30
We use our phones for just about everything. They play the part of taking and receiving calls of course, but we also have texting, games, answering emails, surfing the web, and listening to music. It has our whole lives ...
Family Opens Beats Headphones on Christmas, Finds Tuna Instead
Gizmodo - 27 Dec 2013 21:30
It's Christmas Day. You've carefully wrapped the Beats headphones your daughter's been dreaming of, and she's just about to see that dream become a reality. You look on with glee as she tears the paper from her brand new...
Target: never mind, they've got the PINs
Slash Gear - 27 Dec 2013 21:05
It would appear that the debacle Target is facing this holiday season is turning over as we speak. Though they'd previously suggested that findings showed no PIN data to have …
Stonehenge's New Visitor Center Looks Positively Neolithic
Gizmodo - 27 Dec 2013 21:00
The decrepit old visitor center at Stonehenge has been too small and too old for decades. In fact, it's been described with typical Brit candor as "disgraceful" and an "embarrassment" to England. Finally, this month, a n...
Rdio shutters Vdio movie streaming service, offers Amazon gift cards as compensation
Engadget - 27 Dec 2013 20:36The Stainless Steel Travel Cup water, water, every where, and now you can drink it!
Coolest Gadgets - 27 Dec 2013 20:30
Some people are a tad picky about what they drink. It can be anything from the type of liquid, to the container in comes in. Maybe the rim has to be wiped it off before lips dare to touch it, or more than that, the conte...