Gadget News

It's our 10th birthday, and to celebrate we'll be revisiting some of the key devices of the last decade. So please be kind, rewind. Motorola had been slinging its "hellomoto" campaign for several years by the time the RA...

With the right touch, most abandoned buildings can become something great. But to my eyes, this massive, crumbling factory in the jungle outside Shenzhen would've been beyond help. Not so for the architects at O-Office, ...

The idea that a nuclear disaster could actually drive innovation is definitely a new way to look at Japan's ongoing Fukushima debacle. But a new report from the AP does just that, suggesting that the long-term cleanup ef...

We know that the rocks of Stonehenge were carried there from over 200 miles away , but we've never known why. Now, researchers say they believe it was for the special sonic qualities of a particular kind of stone--and th...

Does anyone actually cable up to a printer anymore? Not if they're kitted out with Google Cloud Print, Apple AirPrint, or Sammy's new alternative: Samsung Cloud Print. The service will launch with an Android app in June,...

For all the popularity of fingerprint scanners, Fujitsu believes that it can go one better. The Japanese company has been working on palm-based systems for the last few years, and we've already seen turnstiles, wallets a...

Buying a house is a big deal. It's complicated. It's time-consuming. It's expensive. And then come the property taxes, which means it's even more expensive! Why not just live in a camper? Well, that depends on the camper...

Forget trying to be retro-cool by replacing your digital music with vinyl -- that's so 2013. Tumblr believes that this year's trendsetters will use its throwback dial-a-post service instead. You can now make an audio pos...

16 and 32GB battery cases try to solve three problems at once with mixed results.

The light microscope changed science and medicine forever , but in the 400-plus years since it was invented, this crucial piece of equipment has gotten pretty expensive and fragile. Manu Prakash and his team have designe...

SXSW is a veritable playground for journalists, with panels catering to media professionals and -- most importantly -- no shortage of free food. We're not surprised, then, that The New York Times chose Austin as the venu...

What goes on in the shrouded, secret meetings at NSA headquarters? How does the agency monitoring every electronic communication you ever sent or received figure out who to spy on every day? Turns out, it's a lot like th...

Well, this is awesome. California designer Yumi Yoshida has designed the perfect couch for those who just can't commit to giving up an entire chunk of their apartment to a sofa. Instead, her Origami Couch unfolds into a ...

The latest twist in the fall of Bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox is here, as CEO Mark Karpeles, personal blog, MagicalTux.net (along with his Tumblr and Reddit accounts) has apparently been hacked. Whoever has control now used t...

It's a bittersweet day in Austin, Texas for Aereo. The company's remote DVR service, which allows users to stream or record over-the-air broadcasts, just launched in the city this week against the backdrop of SXSW, makin...

The venerable U-2 'Dragon Lady' is a spy plane born from Cold War necessity that soldiered on operationally for decades past anyone's wildest dreams. She went from sleek design to a bulging beast of burden whose silhouet...

Those who live all by themselves have only one particular person to please, and that person would obviously be me, myself and I. After all, there is no need to actually pick up after your socks, or to put up the toilet s...

When you're the CEO of the second largest video game publisher in the world, people have a tendency to take what you say seriously. Case in point, Electronic Arts' Andrew Wilson recently revealed his company's plans for ...

I never solved the Rubik's Cube, so when I see this dude breaking the world record for solving six cubes of increasing complexity--2x2, 3x3, 4x4, 5x5, 6x6 and 7x7--in just 6 minutes and 23 seconds, I just can think two t...

Ran for ~1 orbit today. 12 miles on the treadmill while the station travelled more than 25,000 miles. I've now run around the world. -- Mike Hopkins (@AstroIllini) March 8, 2014

Bridging the gap between experiencing and learning is the Baxter Robot by Rethink Robotics. A group of undergrad students from the University of California, Berkeley, are currently learning how to …

Anne Wojcicki and her genetic sequencing company 23andMe are locked in a battle with the FDA. Even though it can't report results to customers right now, Wojcicki isn't letting herself get bogged down in the present. At ...