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There are refrigerators out now that have screens which will let you watch TV, tweet, and all sorts of useful Internet-connected applications. It’s primary function though, is to keep your food fresh. While we always t...

Drawing its inspiration from one of the most terrifying Arachnids, the Parrot Rolling Spider is your own smartphone controlled drone with exquisite features and functionalities. Having a 360px mini-camera onboard, this d...

Hilton, spurred by growing competition, has announced that its hotels will allow customers to take self-check-ins one step further, using their iPhone or Android handset as a room key. The feature won't start arriving un...

If you are a fan of taking long hot baths, then the idea of having a hot tub you can actually stretch out in is likely something you would not be adverse to. Of course, purchasing, installing, and setting up one of them ...

Remember equalizers? You know, the little dials that used to keep your tiny boombox speakers from tweaking out at high volume but have sort of disappeared in the world of digital music. Well, they're making a comeback in...

A few years ago, an 18th-century ship was discovered at the former World Trade Center site in New York City. Researchers had suspected at the time that the ship was a Hudson River merchant vessel, and over the years have...

Until scientists deliver zero-gravity fruit bowls, this clever creation from Scaleno is going to have to be our next best thing for keeping fruit from getting bruised. The Wassily bowl uses a web of stretchy silicone ela...

In late 2004, a trio of small cities in Illinois were preparing to vote on what would amount to a municipal fiber Internet offering, something that would have undercut both Comcast and AT&T-owned SBC Communications. In a...

Remember that 2006 movie Idiocracy? The one where Luke Wilson plays an average underachiever who wakes up 500 years in the future, only to realize that he's now the smartest person on Earth? And everyone else is dumb -- ...

Looking to get that novel you've been plugging away at in your "spare time" published with ease? Well, Evernote now offers an option for doing just that, thanks to a partnership with FastPencil. The note-taking and produ...

The Raspberry Pi has proved a massive success with developers and students alike--and now Microsoft has decided to get in on the act with an Atom-powered Windows board. But it fails to compete on one of the most importan...

I don't know why this happened (or if the truck somehow stumbled upon some secret Mario Kart item that lets it shoot out fiery smoke rings like a red shell) but it's such a cool effect. The smoke that blows out of the tr...

Automakers aren't the only ones working to implement self-driving technology. The US Marine Corps has teamed up with TORC Robotics' (among others) to work on a Jeep-esque option outfitted with the company's Ground Unmann...

Amazon has given its Prime subscribers a new perk, and it comes in the form of slower shipping. What's the benefit of choosing the slower free shipping option? A $1 Amazon Instant Video Credit, potentially shaving down t...

The hottest new Snapchat rival has launched for iOS and Android - but you can't have it yet. Not unless you live in New Zealand, South Africa, or Singapore. That's where the developers behind Instagram have decided to la...

Apple's cheapest Mac was last updated in October of 2012.

Scientists have found the secrets of the old ship unearthed in 2010 under the ruins of the Twin Towers. First, the large vessel--buried under 22 feet (6.7 meters) of soil and wreckage--was built around the same time the ...

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If ThinkGeek's Star Trek Borg Cube mini-fridge didn't do it for you, maybe its follow-up effort will get your geeky juices flowing. Drawing inspiration from another cubic pop culture icon, this Rubik's Cube fridge doesn'...

We knew Instagram's effort to nab a bit of Snapchat's thunder was imminent thanks to leaked promo banners, and now, the app has officially arrived... for some. Bolt, the filter-driven photo app's own ephemeral messenger ...

Instagram's new messaging app Bolt has launched in Singapore, New Zealand, and South Africa.

One of Twitter's primary concerns is that the number of active users -- those who use the network at least once a month -- continues to grow at a healthy pace, and its latest quarterly earnings confirm that the social ne...