Gadget News

A new Asus notebook computer has landed for purchase in the US this week. The new machine is called the Asus ZenBook Pro UX501 and one glance at the svelte profile and shiny metal chassis of the machine and its clear Asu...

You no longer have to wait for AT&T (or go through an importer) to buy LG's ritzy-looking Watch Urbane in the US -- it's available to order today. Google is now carrying the upscale Android Wear timepiece in its store wi...

If Frank Herbert was around today, the tagline of Dune would probably be "those that control their own operating system, controls the universe." It's an idea that China's tech firms have taken to heart, crafting their ow...

BAE Systems recently announced that it has adapted the active damping suspension originally made for F1 cars to a Swedish Combat Vehicle, the CV90. This is reportedly the first system of its kind for a tracked vehicle, a...

SwiftKey makes third-party keyboard apps for Android and iOS. The company is best known for its main predictive keyboard which suggests words that you can select with a quick tap. SwiftKey's latest release is an experime...

In an ideal, pollution-free world, everyone would be driving electric and hydrogen fuel cell cars. Audi knows society isn't quite there yet, however, so it has a stopgap if you still get around using conventional vehicle...

Perhaps you've heard a thing or two about "Valve" and "Skyrim" and "mods" recently. What does it all mean? The company that built the world's most successful video game marketplace started an app store that pays people t...

If you're over the age of thirty, you're a musical dinosaur. You probably don't understand the garbage those "damn kids" are listening to and you don't want to. You're not cool. When did this happen? Spotify may have jus...

DARPA announced that its self-steering bullet program, dubbed the Extreme Accuracy Tasked Ordnance (EXACTO), passed another developmental milestone in late February. Per an administration release, and the video below, ex...

Perhaps the better way to phrase this is, "Hamsters now work inside person wheels," because the person wheel definitely came first. These comic-looking but useful devices helped build many of the landmarks we now cherish...

Just as Uber emerged as an alternative to public taxis, automated vehicles might represent the next wave of urban transportation. A new study shows how shared self-driving cars could not only improve city streets but als...

Due to the unprecedented drought, many of California's farmers won't be allocated any water this year, thanks to the way that the state's water rights work. But what actually happens to the farms that don't get water? So...

GoPro is expanding its horizons... in a very literal sense. The action camera maker has just acquired Kolor, a French outfit that specializes in videos for virtual reality and 360-degree viewers. It doesn't take much div...

Ron Dorff, 83, uses dial-up to connect to the Internet as one of AOL's 2.2 million remaining customers. In the space of two months, he racked up $24,000 in AT&T charges when his modem erroneously dialed an international ...

While it might seem strange to call Milk Video "Samsung's YouTube" since it contains actual YouTube content, know this: it's what this software feels like that counts. Over the past few weeks I've been using Samsung's Mi...

SoundCloud is treading more heavily into the domain of podcasts, announcing that it is taking its podcasting features out of beta and allowing its users to enjoy those features with their own podcasting efforts. The podc...

Making good on its promise back in January, the Livescribe 3 smartpen now works with Android devices. A preview version of the requisite app is now available for download, ready to equip devices running KitKat and newer ...

Amazing. Blair Bunting recently photographed the F-22 Raptor and created the coolest pictures of the fighter jet yet. The head on view of the plane looks absolutely killer and the side view is stunning, like from a movie...

This is a "what if" scenario. I have no proof. But I think it's pretty damn likely that GoPro is building a virtual reality camera. A GoPro that captures your adventures in 360 degrees--and lets people experience them as...

Oh, May, you're such a crazy month. According to Lerner & Loewe's Guinevere, May is "lusty" (and we hear she would know these things). Also according to JoCo. The pools open. The schools let out. There's a lot of...

The Kodak Pixpro SP360 Action Camera works with the ability to capture photos and video with a spherical lens. The data you capture with this lens can be viewed in a number of ways, the most interesting of these being an...

If you ever went to the beach when you were a little kid, you know how amazing sand seemed. It could be dry and take on no shape, slightly wet and malleable, or sludgy and awesome. Regardless of how you played with sand,...