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It may sound like a sales pitch by a used car dealership, but the way Reviveaphone brings your dead-as-a-doorknob water-damaged phone back to life is miraculous. Reviving a phone after you dunk it into the bathtub or sin...

We wanted a wallet that was convenient to use, looked great, and was thin at the same time. Money clips are one solution to keeping it thin, but we found it very inconvenient folding your bills to put them away....

Maybe changing the perspective on the original Legend of Zelda is a little weird--everything looks so different here--but that's exactly what makes this Oculus Rift version of the game interesting. Its almost like you're...

This is the Tolbachik volcano, laying down roads of magma over the Peninsula of Kamchatka for condemned Russians to drive on their way to hell in cars equipped with dashcams. At least, that's what it looks like in Lusika...

If our articles have been tagged properly, the first mention of Oppo on Engadget dates back to August 2005. No one would have thought that this then-fledgling DVD player manufacturer -- a spin-off from Vivo's parent comp...

He might have favored email over physical post, but a document obtained by The Washington Post suggests that Steve Jobs' face is set to appear on a US Postal Service stamp in 2015.

Not all clocks are created equal, and when it comes to a wall clock, you might want to settle for something as ordinary as a regular IKEA timepiece, or you could opt to fork out a decent amount of coin for something whic...

Are you currently playing pretty fast and loose with your Facebook privacy options? Probably! Against our best judgement, must of us do at some point or another, whether it's an unwise public status or an embarrassing pr...

2013 was a banner year for our fledgling series of gadget get-togethers, Engadget Live. Now that 2014 is here, we're running it back with a slate of events across the country that'll be better than ever. For the uninitia...

Ahead of Xbox One's second spring update Microsoft is inviting a handful of gamers to test the patch's mutiplayer features. As Major Nelson tells it, the invite process starts today and if picked, you'll be first in line...

Time doesn't stop for anybody. Seasons keep rolling one after the other. Weather could care less if you're cold or hot or just right. And life eventually ends. This new stop motion music video directed by Toby and Pete f...

Notice your Netflix has had a hell of a time streaming in good quality lately? That's because the companies that carry its traffic can't seem to agree who's supposed to shoulder the cost of passing it along, Ars Technica...

Facebook is changing how it deals with the profiles of social network users who die, memorializing their timelines while also allowing family and friends to request to see their custom-curated …

Hookahs, despite their long history in Middle Eastern cultures, are often treated as little more than fancy water pipes here in the US--something to be tucked away in a corner or stowed on a shelf when not in use. But th...

It's not a topic we discuss often here, but if you're active online, you may (or may not, ultimately) be concerned with how your data is handled after you die. On Facebook, accounts can be "memorialized" by a friend or f...

Mobile World Congress is upon us again, the cellularly-centric Barcelona show expected to see Nokia reveal its first Android device, Samsung its latest Galaxy flagship ahead of the iPhone 6 …

Only 1.7 percent of customers are affected by rashes caused by Fitbit, company says.     

The chance to live in a land of childhood nightmares only comes around once in a lifetime. Spreepark, an amusement park in Berlin that's been closed for over a decade, could now be yours. The property was recently listed...

In the ongoing he said/she said saga surrounding Netflix streaming potentially being throttled, we've got a new, potentially volatile piece of information: the CEO of the company that provides Netflix's bandwidth (Cogent...

There was plenty going on this week, but it didn’t take long for Mark Zuckerberg to spend $19 billion for Facebook’s acquisition of WhatsApp to become the week’s dominant news. Fortunately, a number of writer who h...

This week in our time capsule news round-up we have a mystery capsule in Michigan that will finally get a public unveiling, some confused time capsule hunters in Australia who really have their work cut out for them, and...

Nearly a year and a half after being acquired by Google, BufferBox is finally planning to shut down its delivery lockers. In a blog post, BufferBox states that closing the standalone service was a pretty hard decision to...