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If you've played every expansion available, and have mixed up the rules six ways from Sunday, but are still finding yourself bored of The Settlers of Catan, here's a hail mary pass that might just make it interesting aga...

The Paladone Pac-Man Paper Clips are clever paper clips shaped like Pac-Man and the colorful ghosts. You get a full box of clips in different colors. Use of them to clip together a bunch of papers, and it's sure to...

Worst Ad, Best Product... Happy Super Bowl from BUG-A-SALT! Humanity will finally realize its power over the evasive fly... BUG-A-SALT technology kills pesky insects by firing a pinch of ordinary table salt at 142 ft/sec...

For a lot of us, just thinking about the Super Bowl elicits a craving for deep-fried goodness. If you're without a dedicated fryer, don't fear. Modernist Cuisine at Home will show you how to achieve the same effect with ...

Arduino, Raspberry Pi, and power tools help an engineer build the greatest thing ever.     

HTC must feel that it's best to underpromise and overdeliver. While the company told American One owners that they wouldn't get KitKat on time, the 535MB Android upgrade is already available on Sprint; eager subscribers ...

In this week's Tech Reads: robot ethics, training to fly in space, the history of the selfie, and so much more.

If you didn't spend this week stranded on an icy highway, you spent it reading about people stranded on an icy highway. But there was plenty of other stuff going on, including our review of LG's puzzling curved phone and...

With the AT&T version of the LG G Flex, we're getting another look at what it means to work with what this manufacturer calls the world's first curved, flexible display. …

Pebble shipped its new all-metal "Steel" smartwatch earlier this week, and now reveals that app store updates for its iOS and Android companion software will roll out on Monday. Until now, wearers have had to hunt throug...

Are you a huge Doctor Who fan? If you have answered in the affirmative, then you would know that if there is anything at all to do with Doctor Who, merchandise included, it would be worth checking out the $199.99 Doctor ...

AT&T's current Mobile Share plans can be quite expensive for families and small offices that don't want to be tied to a contract. However, service is potentially more affordable through a new plan launching Sunday. The t...

NASA scientists are poring over their most detailed snapshots of our universe, searching for the hallmark shapes that indicate a planet being formed. And you can help them, even if you never got that Ph.D. in astronomy, ...

Intel's mini desktop handles four prominent distros with a few headaches.     

You've probably seen plenty of headlines this week proclaiming "Stephen Hawking Says Black Holes Don't Exist," and heard people who read those headlines chattering excitedly about this seemingly huge shift in astrophysic...

This graphic by NASA shows the ISS compared to a football field. They're more or less the same size, although the solar panels make the ISS a lot wider: A football field is 360 by 160 foot. The space station is 356 by 23...

Long-rumored wearable may horn in on Nike's, Fitbit's, and Jawbone's turf.     

Richard Clarkson, a student at New York's School of Visual Arts, has used a combination of pneumatics and 3D-printed flexible-materials to create an artificial flower that "blooms," and the result is pretty neat. When ai...

It looks like a 3D-printed mousetrap, or maybe some sort of torturous orthopedic device for your hand; in actual fact it's what startup Tivitas believes will pave the way for …

The Department of Energy's Fermilab is building a gargantuan detector to examine uncharged subatomic neutrinos that can blast through the earth unimpeded. The 14,000-ton detector in Minnesota will capture neutrinos shot ...

Welcome to Feedback Loop, a weekly roundup of the most interesting discussions happening within the Engadget community. There's so much technology to talk about and so little time to enjoy it, but you have a lot of great...

They say that practice makes perfect, and in just about any and every case, this particular saying holds true. After all, repetitive movement of a particular muscle group leads to muscle memory – and hopefully, perfect...