Gadgets

Who isn't happy for another three-day weekend? With Memorial Day as the unofficial start of summer, you better get your gears prepared for spending the day outdoors. Here's our list of seven awesome gadgets to make your Memorial Day hangout fun, convenient, and mostly hassle-free. Vulcan Cooler Tote ($190) Don't have that much backyard space, or going out camping for the holiday weekend? That doesn't mean you can't… Read More

Swimming is an excellent exercise, but it scares a lot of people due to the lack of constant breaths of air and the fear of drowning. Forcing yourself to turn your head above the water during sidestrokes can sometimes feel unnatural, and when you use snorkels to help breathe, you have to keep your head straight so water doesn't get inside the tube. With the new Powerbreather, you no longer have to worry about either issues. The German… Read More

If it's anything that makes us instantly sad, it's seeing precious gadgets purposely smashed and torn apart just for the heck of it. But you have to admit, no matter how extreme these tests are, you still want to watch the videos to see how the gadgets fare. The usual victims of these tests are smartphones and tablets since they're prone to more accidental drops, but what about digital cameras? Kai of DigitalRev TV received a… Read More

With the cost of portable 3D printers more affordable than ever, more blueprints for 3D prints you can experiment with at home are emerging in all sorts of open source communities. Of the many useful items, we're digging the Ear Adapter which can turn your earbuds into headphones whenever you please. There are advantages and disadvantages to earbuds versus headphones, of course. Buds are smaller and easier to take around, but some people… Read More

As announced this week within a press release, the United States Postal Service is banning shipment of devices using lithium batteries to anyone residing overseas starting on May 16. This includes a wide range of devices such as laptop computers, tablets, smartphones, handheld gaming systems, GPS devices, digital cameras, bluetooth headsets, radio controlled toys, portable shavers, standalone MP3 players and e-readers. While this ban… Read More

Once the king of consumer electronics, Sony continued its slide into oblivion this week, posting a record annual loss of approximately $5.7 billion for the past fiscal year, which ended on March 31. This is the fourth year in a row that Sony has lost money, and the worst financial showing in the company's 66-year history. Sony says that its financial losses were exacerbated by the devastation caused by the earthquakes and tsunami in… Read More

So, you’ve been watching Paranormal Activity and all its sequels, and are now keen to catch the poltergeist in your home on camera. Well, Logitech’s new Alert 750n Indoor Master System is exactly what you need to capture all the ghostly happenings, and better still it has a night vision mode for when all the lights are out too. Included in the box is a camera with a 130 degree wide-angle lens, which shoots video at a resolution of 960 x 720 at… Read More

With a little over a week left in its Kickstarter project, and nearly $10 million in funding, Eric Migicovsky, creater of the smartphone-connected Pebble watch is a happy camper. To celebrate the announcement of Pebble’s support of Bluetooth 4.0, Migicovsky took to Reddit in an AMA ("Ask Me Anything") interview, and revealed everything that we’ve been waiting to hear about the hot little wrist-piece. Migicovsky began working on… Read More

For as much as I love technology, sometimes I really hate it.  Several pieces of hardware come to mind when I think about the tech devices with which I am least satisfied, but three stick out as especially annoying. Unfortunately, those are also some of the devices I depend on most. Here are three of the most double-edged devices in my gadget arsenal, and why it seems to be that the gadgets we rely upon more than any others also seem to grate… Read More

The common wisdom at the moment is that Amazon has a solid hit on its hands with the Kindle Fire: after all, ComScore says the Kindle Fire is the most successful Android tablet on the market, accounting for more than half of all tablets sold in the United States that, well, aren't iPads. Amazon recently trumpeted that its Kindle sales during the 2011 end-of-year holidays were triple the previous year, and Amazon just posted results for… Read More

Motorola’s war on Microsoft escalated on Wednesday after the company won an injunction against the company in Germany. What ground did the smartphone maker gain against the house of Windows? Microsoft cannot distribute and sell Windows 7, Internet Explorer, Windows Media Player, or the Xbox 360 in the country. A Manheimm court determined that Microsoft’s products infringe on two patents held by Motorola, both of which describe technology… Read More