Gadget News
JBL Horizon Alarm Clock
The Gadget Flow - 11 Jan 2015 09:00
Wake up with the empowering sound of JBL with ambient light creating that perfect mood by replacing your existing alarm clock with this JBL Horizon Alarm Clock. The additional features include USB charging facility for y...
Budweiser Is Building A Life-Size Pacman Arena For The Super Bowl
Gizmodo - 11 Jan 2015 00:00
Every year, we get to watch a series of commericals interspersed with occasional shots of people running into each other. But for this year's Super Bowl commercial, Budweiser has upped the ante: it's built a life-size Pa...
I Wish This Doom Toaster Hack Was Real
Gizmodo - 11 Jan 2015 23:00
Did you know that you can hack toasters to play Doom? Well, with this four-minute clip of hacker fiction you can!
Young adults flock to Instagram, while more seniors sign up on Facebook
Engadget - 11 Jan 2015 07:22
When we wrote about that survey, which found that working adults care more about email than social media, we said that might be why grandparents are some of the most active on Facebook. Well, according to this new study ...
Restaurants will soon take any mobile payment at the table
Engadget - 11 Jan 2015 05:11
Sure, your local drug store or theme park may let you buy things with your phone at the counter, but what about paying at the table in your favorite restaurant? Never fear, as Verifone will soon have you covered. Its upc...
Google Now code hints at spoken notifications and third-party services
Engadget - 11 Jan 2015 03:14
As convenient as Google Now may be, it has its limits: you're limited to Google's official services, and it's not very useful when you're driving or otherwise can't stare at your phone. A recent Android Police teardown o...
These are the most amazing aerial photos of New York ever, period
Gizmodo - 11 Jan 2015 02:52
It's always exciting to receive a message from a master like Vincent Laforet telling you about his new photos. This time he has outdone himself (once again!) so I had to share it right away. Never in my life I've seen Ne...
Google's translation app will soon turn speech into text on the fly
Engadget - 11 Jan 2015 23:49
Converting unfamiliar speech to text in Google Translate is currently an awkward affair: you have to start a recording and wait until a moment after you're done to find out what the other person said. That's not exactly ...
Philips hue heats up to fight smart bulb tide: Interview
Slash Gear - 11 Jan 2015 22:50
You could hardly walk five paces through the halls at CES 2015 without stumbling over a wireless light bulb. Connected lighting seems determined to be the point of entry to domestic home automation, and there are plenty ...
Silk Road Reloaded Ditches Tor for a More Anonymous Network
Gizmodo - 11 Jan 2015 22:20
Trying to shut down Silk Road, and any of its many-headed hydra reiterations, seems to be the ultimate lesson in futility. According to Motherboard, a new version of the online black market, called Silk Road Reloaded, la...
That's a wrap: The Consumer Electronics Show distilled to 2 minutes
Ars Technica - 11 Jan 2015 22:00
The last CES post you'll ever begrudgingly click but then think is kinda fun.
Why California's High-Speed Rail Matters
Gizmodo - 11 Jan 2015 21:00
Welcome to Reading List, a breakdown of some wonderfully constructed words, phrases, and sentences you should really be reading this week. Before you get too excited, take a second to take a peek over all our exhaustive ...
Electric scooters and fiber-optic shirts land on Engadget's CES stage
Engadget - 11 Jan 2015 20:44
From one angle, there are so many similarities between Gogoro and Cambridge Consultants that it's hard to tell them apart. For instance, both are visionary companies that seek to redefine an existing market and both come...
Taking The Minecraft Vegetarian Challenge
Gizmodo - 11 Jan 2015 20:02
Minecraft is a lot of different things to a lot of different people; a place to build a word processor , recreate Westeros or trap incredible monsters . For many players it's simply about survival, which means making sur...
SpaceX fails in ambitious rocket re-use test
Slash Gear - 11 Jan 2015 19:30
SpaceX's attempt to land a reusable rocket on a floating recovery platform ended in failure this week, with outspoken founder Elon Musk admitting it was "close, but no cigar" for the technology. The ambitious mission was...
8 Gadgets With the Dumbest Names
Gizmodo - 11 Jan 2015 19:00
What's in a name?
Sony Xperia Z3 Tablet Compact review: light in the hand, heavy on the wallet
Engadget - 11 Jan 2015 19:00
Sony's consumer electronics division is in an ongoing state of flux. Having already given up on PCs and e-readers, the company recently pledged to make fewer TVs and smartphones in a bid to get its books back in the blac...
Samsung Could Make More Windows Phones in 2015
Gizmodo - 11 Jan 2015 18:10
The last time Samsung made a Windows Phone it was the Windows 8 Samsung ATIV SE, a Verizon Wireless exclusive back in the spring of last year. Samsung hasn't even bothered with an out-of-the-box 8.1 device since. But the...
2016 Buick Cascada drops top with compact convertible
Slash Gear - 11 Jan 2015 18:00
If there's one thing Detroit in January needs, it's a new convertible, but GM couldn't resist bringing the new 2016 Buick Cascada drop-top along to the show. The 2+2 has a soft-top, rather than the more fashionable retra...
Men Who Post Selfies Online Show Signs of Psychopathy, Says Study
Gizmodo - 11 Jan 2015 17:05
A massive study surveying the social media habits of 800 men confirmed with science what we've always known in our hearts--if you constantly take a bunch of selfies and post them online, you might have some mild psycholo...
Inhabitat's Week in Green: Warka Water Tower, self-driving cars and purifying water with sunlight
Engadget - 11 Jan 2015 17:00
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. High-speed rail projects have been slow to catch on in the United States, but ...
Chevrolet Bolt EV tipped to take on Tesla Model 3
Slash Gear - 11 Jan 2015 16:30
Chevrolet is set to reveal a second hybrid EV, the Chevrolet Bolt, in concept form at the Detroit Auto Show on Monday, insiders claims, as a pre-emptive strike against the upcoming cheaper Tesla. The Bolt - its name a no...