Gadget News

Elastic-powered toys don't sound particularly exciting these days when you can get a buy a flying toy helicopter that fits in the palm of your hand. But three students at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena crea...

The iON SnapCam™ isn't your typical camera. Sure, it takes amazing video and connects wirelessly to your smartphone for instant uploading, but here's the SnapCam difference: You wear it. At 1.5 inches square and weighi...

Meet the Pocket Monkey Wallet Multitool – It's small enough to fit in your wallet and sturdy to work as a bottle opener housing a toolbox. That makes it a comfortable utility device you can access whenever necessary, d...

It didn't take long for those "Will it Blend?" videos to get long in the tooth. You can only watch so many smartphones being torn to shreds before the novelty wears off. But to celebrate the birth of his 40th grandkid, T...

Lower Manhattan of the 1880s was a wonderland of futuristic technology and engineering: The city's first cable car arced over the harbor. A spindly new steel bridge was forming to connect Williamsburg to the city. And on...

If you spend a lot of time on your laptop, then you know all of the various odd angles you put yourself in trying to get comfortable. Your legs are toasted if you sit with it on your lap for too long, and there aren’t ...

Microsoft appears to be well past the days when it was writing off unsold Surface tablets and struggling to match Sony in game console sales. The Windows developer reports that its Devices and Consumer group's revenue gr...

Microsoft has released their Q2 2015 earning report, which show the company had $26.5 billion in revenue with $5.8 billion in net income. That's an 8% uptick in revenue over last year, but an even greater loss in income ...

Time and again, we've seen that Dr. Oz peddles garbage cures . So it's no surprise that the government has gone after the company that makes one of his favorite supplements. Today the FTC announced that the people who pr...

In his new book Illuminating Disease, chemist Marc Zimmer explains how fluorescent proteins have changed science. Taken from glowing jellyfish, these proteins are now one of the most important tools in medicine, used in ...

As a winter storm starts to drop several inches of snow on the northeast United States, Amazon's advising Prime Now customers in New York City not to rely on its one-hour deliveries. The service started dropping off orde...

Playing music is supposed to be fun! Remember? Sometimes electronic instruments we choose to play are so complicated that using them is a chore, or at least requires a ton of practice. It doesn't have to be that way.

While Google hasn't said anything about a supposed WiFi and Cellular service as of yet, rumors surrounding such a move have been popping up for years. Today we've seen word of Google dealing with both Sprint and T-Mobile...

With all the CES hype earlier this month, one company did a great job at quietly wowing us. Sony brought forth some great new imaging devices, as well as a grown-up version of their Smartwatch. SmartEyeglass might be the...

Everyone is focused on iPhone sales numbers and rightly so. It’s going to be a historic and unprecedented quarter for Apple’s iPhone. However, there is a data point I’m very interested in I think may …

Catfishing is what we call it when people lie about their identity online. It's unsettling, and it happens often: Last week, I wrote about how the DEA catfished drug dealers on Facebook by impersonating a woman arrested ...

It goes without saying that each edition of the Consumer Electronics Show over in Las Vegas would bring along with it its fair share of interesting hardware – ranging from which will obviously include products from som...

Have you ever wondered if a regular human could carry the health packs, guns, chainsaw and all the other stuff from Doom? Well, it looks like we're about to find out. The disproving duo of Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman t...

Outstanding illustration of the new Ultron on the cover of Empire this week. I remember how fascinated I was the first time I saw Ultron in Avengers. It was issue #162, published in 1977--I saw it much later because it a...

There's a new Need for Speed game coming to your iOS and/or Android devices this week, one that'll charge for gas. It's a "wait or pay" sort of game, as many in-app purchase-toting games today are. You can also pay to cu...

Smart people think that movies--not games--will be the first killer app for virtual reality. Maybe that's why Oculus is poaching Pixar veterans for its very own virtual reality film studio, and showing off its very first...

Your homes are warm and toasty after treating yourselves to the great recommendations in last week's Best Space Heater vote , but now your air is dry, and we need to balance that out with a humidifier. But which one? Hea...