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We can't yet pop a tablet to get our daily nutritional needs, but a future where food is select on a touchscreen and then printed out from ingredients capsules is looking more likely than ever. Foodini is a 3D printer th...

Modern mining for precious commodities has gone digital, and with that comes what may be the first big digital mining disaster. A Bitcoin mining facility in Thailand recently went up in flames, with three buildings burni...

Hang all your notes, photos or memos directly on the fridge door without making them look messy using the extremely innovative TOMM Magnet Board. It's a 3 piece set which has 1 small red magnet with 1 recess, 1 medium bl...

Rocks, cellphones, chairs, people on chairs, bicycles, motorbikes, washing machines--it doesn't matter. If it has mass and it's hard, Rocky Byun will make it balance on any point, miraculously making it stand still in se...

The tablet market hasn't seen the turnover that smartphones have enjoyed, but there's still a steady stream of new and improved slates coming out. However, this time around we've only seen fit to add a couple of new devi...

To encapsulate any person's life into a 90 minute film is no mean feat, but when that person is one of history's most brilliant minds? That's a real toughie - and one that director James Marsh was eager to take on with T...

Welp, that was pretty fast: just two days after springing into life on the Play Store, Primecast, a $2.99 app that put Amazon Instant Video-streaming capability onto your Chromecast , has ceased to be.

DARPA, the military's mad science division, is also a master of PR -- we all cheer them on, even though they may be building a robot army that one day hunts us down. But the robots have become a cliche, of course. DARPA ...

In one of its more bizarre PR ideas ever, the CIA toyed with using heat-sensitive Osama dolls that turned into demons to scare little kiddies away from joining al-Qaeda. Although someone in the chain of command saw sense...

If you paid for an Office 365 subscription so that you could spreadsheet on the go, and then were understandably miffed when Microsoft offered up editing capabilities for iOS for free , never fear: Microsoft will refund ...

Here's a fun but depressing Saturday afternoon fact: taking and sharing photos of the Eiffel tower at night is a copyright violation that could land you with a hefty fine (not that it's stopped the selfie-snapping masses...

Sure, there are plenty of consumer-focused gadgets in our Insert Coin competition. But at least one group has a much more altruistic vision. Public Lab wants everyone to have a spectrometer in their home that allows peop...

This past week and a half we've been working with the DROID Turbo non-stop. With a body that replicates the popular DROID series from last year - this time in bright red - a massive battery, and specifications that match...

Pre-orders have opened for the Withings Activité, the beautiful-looking watch that also happens to be a fitness tracker. Unfortunately, the price is right in line with other quality watches: four hundred and fifty of yo...

Elon Musk, the founder of SpaceX and Tesla Motors, is said to be working with a former satellite executive from Google in a venture that aims to provide affordable internet to the globe. This comes from sources speaking ...

It is said that the 20th century is the bloodiest century of all, where more lives have been lost in this particular century alone on the battlefield compared to the wars of all the previous centuries combined. Having sa...

Between social networks, video games and the endless void of procrastination we call "the internet," computers can make pretty poor writing devices. Isn't there something better? Insert Coin contenders Adam Leeb and Patr...

The Skylanders universe is massive. Inside you'll find a younger audience-oriented gaming world where you're able to play on a console or on your tablet - more so now than ever. With the Skylanders Trap Team Tablet Start...

Microsoft's Xbox division head Phil Spencer took to Twitter this week to announce the company had officially completed its purchase of open-world Lego simulator Minecraft, along with its developer Mojang. The acquisition...

It is the Year Of Our Lord two thousand and fourteen, but somehow, nearly half of all people on this email-infested landfill we call 'Earth' are still falling for simple phishing scams.

When it comes to being fun and imaginative, there is no need to pile on the work. After all, wasn't it Jack who ended up being a dull boy after having nothing else to do but work? Having said that, too much play on the o...

In just a matter of three months, the Noke smart padlock managed to make its way from Kickstarter to our Expand event as an Insert Coin contender, so of course it's rather special. First of all, it's a Bluetooth 4.0-enab...