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The Volkswagen Slug Bug Toaster will take you back in time to the 70s for breakfast. When the toast rolls in on VW Slug Bug, your kids will be fighting each other to pile into the classic camper and dig...

Congrats, America, we're all illiterate assholes. Or at least, according to this map, we read a hell of a lot less than the rest of the world.

Ten years ago today (in fact, exactly 10 years ago, if you're reading this post in real time), Engadget was born. Our first post featured T-Flash, a new memory card format created to serve cellphone users who wanted extr...

Welcome to IRL, an ongoing feature where we talk about the gadgets, apps and toys we're using in real life and take a second look at products that already got the formal review treatment. We're not sure how long it takes...

Whatever you think of Apple's products, there's no denying that Tim Cook has played a large role in making them profitable, first as an operations executive and later in running the company. But just what kind of a leade...

Supposing you've not dismissed this title as another tried-and-failed movie-to-game translation, you'll be glad to know what The LEGO Movie Videogame is just about as smooth a delivery as we've …

Potential buzzkill alert: you're at a concert, and your section runs out of beer. But magically, your phone gets a message that says you should head one section over where there's plenty of Buds to be had. Thanks to a de...

There is a perfect GIF for every moment, but spend too much time hunting for it, and the moment is lost. That's why you need GIFwrapped--an iOS app that lets you sync and share your favorite animated GIFs across all your...

These Metal Hanging Wall Letters are large letters meant to be used as part of signage or just as a wall decoration at home. The letters are designed and made to look like vintage marquee lights. Each letter has a...

IBM recently sold its x86 server business to Lenovo, and that unfortunately has consequences for the company's workers. The computing pioneer has confirmed to CNET that it's cutting jobs as it concentrates its efforts on...

Each week Ross Rubin contributes Switched On, a column about consumer technology. The last Switched On discussed how many of the Risks and Challenges sections of Kickstarter campaigns fail to portray an accurate picture ...

There's that one movie you always meant to see, but never did. For our Ashley Feinberg, that was Ghostbusters until last week. What's yours?

Nope, you're not looking at stills from the Oscar-nominated film Gravity. They're all real photos, straight from NASA, and they were all shot in space.

As Nokia X is introduced to the world, Nokia suggests that they're opening up a new door, aiming for a segment in the affordable international smartphone market that they'd not …

When HTC pulled the plug on its Watch service in a number of European countries last year, it told us that it was merely streamlining its efforts, and that movie rentals and purchases would continue to be offered in plac...

You're looking at a rabbit's heart beating outside the animal that once hosted it. It's alive, pumping blood on its own thanks to a revolutionary electronic membrane that may save your life by keeping your heart beating ...

Researchers call it the Fly Mind-Altering Device (aka "FlyMAD"), and to demonstrate the system's effectiveness, they've shown that firing a laser at the head of a fly can compel it to flirt, and attempt to copulate, with...

Goddammit Siri pic.twitter.com/kbAb89NuTV -- kyle wagner (@kylenw) March 2, 2014

Ironically enough, in 2013 the studio responsible for the crazy CGI tiger in Life of Pi won the Oscar for best visual effects just 11 days after declaring bankruptcy. Its story--seen in the short doc above--is indicative...

Each week our friends at Inhabitat recap the week's most interesting green developments and clean tech news for us -- it's the Week in Green. Extreme weather is dominating the headlines yet again this winter. California ...

These ephemeral pics capture alcohol exploding at high speeds. They look like the mushroom clouds of atomic bombs or scans of the human brain. And to think, these are substances we put in our bodies on a regular basis.

Job adverts aren't most reliable way to hear about new technology, but interesting ones do crop up from time to time, and that's why our eyes are drawn to one recently posted by Daimler, the parent company of Mercedes-Be...