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Securing his place as one of the greatest teachers of our time, Michael Molina's discussion of tectonic plates, continental drift, and how our world started out as one large land mass called Pangaea, is brought to life t...

The Quicktionary 2 Mobile Translator is a hand-held scanner and translator, in the sense that it can scan a word or a full line of text and immediately spit out a word-by-word translation of the scanned text. It will eve...

Most Mercedes-Benz owners wouldn't dream of driving their vehicles into the sea, but there's nothing wrong with wanting a little luxury while you're tackling a big wave. And since the carmaker is a sponsor of surfer Garr...

The Razer Mamba Gaming Mouse is an ergonomic wireless gaming mouse that frees you from the corded shackles of a mouse hooked to a computer. The 1ms response rate and 4G dual-sensor system ensure that your gaming abilitie...

This week the already burgeoning library of games available in NVIDIA GRID (Beta) to the NVIDIA SHIELD handheld gaming system is growing by two. This cloud-based gaming system will now …

To some, looks are everything. To others, it's all about what's inside. To Pinterest, it's a mixture of both. As such, don't be surprised to see a different look from the social discovery network the next time you use yo...

A team of former Google employees are taking on Sonos with a new music streamer, aiming to do for whole-home media playback what Google's own Chromecast did for easy video …

Redbox went from duking it out with Warner in 2012 over a proposed 56-day delay for rentals to cutting a deal for a shorter 28-day delay and implementing UltraViolet support in Redbox Intant, and now the relationship is ...

Whether you're watching for the noble pageantry or to mock the outlandish getups forced upon the athletes, the Opening Ceremonies are always the best part of the Olympics. Here's what you should watch out for tomorrow--b...

Following the Chromebox for Meetings offering announced by Google earlier in the day, HP has offered some further details on its Chromebox. There has yet to be any details released …

The 1950s were an optimistic time. Houses and cars were affordable, the economy and the birthrate were booming, and--oh yeah, America was detonating thousands of nuclear bombs in its own backyard.

Yes, folks, this is real life. In an interview with Wired, at the Apps World North America conference, Steve Wozniak revealed his belief that Apple should create a phone using Google's Android operating system. According...

Imagine a laser that fires super-powerful blasts of light ten times a second. A laser with one quadrillion watts of power. That's one powerful piece of equipment--the most powerful--and it's exactly what's being built fo...

By its nature, conventional TV offers limited coverage of large sports events like the Olympics -- much to the chagrin of fans. Comcast's Xfinity TV subscribers won't have that problem with the Sochi Olympics, though. Th...

Great news for globetrotters who like to impress their friends with their travels: Now, instead of having to sacrifice a big chunk of wall space for a giant map covered in thumbtacks, they can downgrade to this clever an...

Google announced the Nest Labs acquisition back in mid-January. The purchase price was set at $3.2 billion in cash, and as we learned, the Nest team would be welcomed into …

If you haven't heard of Sealand before, it is the site of one of Britain's Maunsell Naval Sea Forts that were utilized during WWII. This particular one was originally named HM Fort Roughs. The fort's primary function was...

General Motors' wind tunnels aren't only used to test the aerodynamics of the carmaker's latest vehicles. Here we see a member of the Canadian Alpine Ski Team working to improve his tuck position so he's as streamlined a...

Nicolas Felton is something of a data nut. (Hopefully he won't take umbrage with that characterization.) The man has been reporting various metrics of his personal life since 2005 in the annual Feltron Report. Eventually...

Supposing you missed the action/adventure title fused with heavy metal and the most metal of voices - Jack Black - the folks at Humble Bundle and Double Fine are bringing …

Thousands of images are pouring out of Sochi in the lead-up to the Olympics. And things don't look great. There are unfinished buildings, a lack of winter weather, and an abundance of trash. But don't believe every image...

Everybody knows that Bloomberg Businessweek's design team is damn good at what they do . What's truly impressive is how often they out-do themselves. Take this week's cover about e-cigarettes, for instance. It's a hypnot...