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Chinese company Dexta Robotics set out to develop a hand motion-capturing device last year, but instead of creating a glove like everybody else, they designed an impressively affordable exoskeleton. This device called De...

Even if you can't afford a swanky Equinox membership but can't stand packing in among the masses at 24 Hour Fitness, you've got no excuse for letting your body go to pot over the winter. With these websites at your dispo...

Not all keyboards are created equal, where some of them are a whole lot more advanced than the rest. Well, I cannot vouch enough for a good keyboard if you happen to be involved in a line of work where there is plenty of...

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This week we saw an insane amount of new apps. Facebook Creative Labs revealed mobile-friendly message boards for iOS . Google wants completely reimagine your inbox . Even Skype had a doodle-centric tweak for Windows Pho...

This week Amazon announced it would take a $170 million hit due to the struggling Fire Phone, but there's no sign of issues with the Fire TV. Amazon isn't sharing any sales numbers so all we know for sure is that its sel...

Microsoft's budget Windows Phone is often outdone by its predecessor.

Hello, and welcome to another weekend installment of Reading List where we show off some of the great science and tech reads you might have missed (while continually reading gizmodo dot com, of course). This week's narra...

Last year's Lumia 720 was an awkward middle child. It was more powerful than its 620 cousin, but not so much so that you'd consider it over the 820 unless you just had to have the first budget Lumia with LTE. If you're g...

A giant sex toy is enraging Paris, high rents are challenging Brooklyn's churches, and one mayoral candidate has a rather interesting idea for tackling Oakland's transportation crisis. It's What's Ruining Our Cities!

Twitpic, the photo-sharing service built to be used with and almost completely reliant on Twitter itself, was forced into shutting down back in September, but its archive, full of years of user photos, was on its way to ...

Chris Hadfield is known primarily for his internet-friendly personality, his love of David Bowie and being one of the most charismatic commanders aboard the ISS. But he's also an amazing photographer, and he had the oppo...

Whisper, the social network/app built on the premise of allowing users to post brief statements and images in complete anonymity, has put its editorial staff on suspension, a decision made by CEO Michael Heyward. The dec...

Say hello to J-deite Quarter, a four-foot tall, 77-pound real working transformer. Built by two Japanese engineers with their companies' support, the bipedal robot can walk at a speed of 0.6 mph, and change into the shap...

Lenovo likes to do its own thing. Sometimes that pays off, such as the company's lovable Yoga laptops, other times you end up with tablets with weird kickstands and built-in projectors . Now, Lenovo has quietly posted it...

Italy is a country known for delicious food and amazing sights, but not so much for decent broadband internet access. The nation's government recognizes this, and a group of lawmakers have proposed a $6.3 million project...

Following Microsoft’s Earnings, a lot of people started talking about how “successful” the Surface 2-in-1 computer was becoming. That reminded me of the following anecdote: Tristan Bernard (1866-1947), was a French...

It appears that Germany's luxury automobile manufacturers are waking up to the threat that California's Tesla poses. Porsche, Mercedes-Benz, and Audi are all said to already be in development of their own all-electric mo...

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. Highways are big, dark surfaces that soak in lots of sun. Wouldn't it make mor...

Technology is tough to create and even tougher to predict. What can seem like a breakthrough product one minute, can quickly turn into a nightmarish mistake.

It's only been a little over a day since internal documents revealed that pharmacy chain Rite Aid was discontinuing support for Apple Pay at its stores' registers, and now it appears that fellow pharmacy outlet CVS is do...

There comes a time when one would need to bid adieu to the past and consign history to, well, history. After all, there is not much point in trying to keep an old standard going when the rest of the world has moved on to...