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Logitech Builds Its Ultrathin iPad Keyboard into a Case
The keyboard kingpin’s latest iPad model protects both sides of the tablet.
How an 83-Year-Old Inventor Beat the High Cost of 3D Printing
A contest to design a machine to produce low-cost filament for 3D printing has been won — by a Washington State retiree.
OptiShot Golf Simulator Review: Play Indoors with Your Own Clubs All Winter Long
The OptiShot Infrared Golf Simulator lets you use your own clubs to hit the links indoors.
Seagate Wireless Plus Review: A Terabyte for Your Tablet
Seagate’s improved wireless hard drive and app are a boon for maxed-out mobile devices.
Should Mobile Device Use Expand on Planes? FCC Tells FAA It’s Time (Because It Is)
The scientific evidence for disabling electronics on planes during takeoff and landing is scant to nonexistent, so why are we still being asked to disable our laptops, tablets and cellphones?
Want to Keep Your Teens (or Employees) from Texting Behind the Wheel?
You’ve probably heard of mobile phone jamming tech — blocking a cellphone from communicating with a signal tower, but have you heard about texting-blocking technology?
eBay Now: The Promise and Pitfalls of Same-Day Delivery
The e-commerce behemoth’s experimental service aims to deliver an array of products in about an hour — which is even harder than it sounds.
The Trouble with Windows Phone 8: It’s Not the Apps, It’s the Basics
After two years of iteration by Microsoft, I can’t get into Windows Phone, and the paucity of apps–real or perceived–has nothing to do with it.
How Best Buy Picks Its Windows 8 Tablets (and Why Its Stores Have So Few of Them)
Walk around the PC section of a Best Buy right now, and it won’t look drastically different than it did before the launch of Windows 8. That may change over the next six to nine months.
Why Microsoft May (or May Not) Build Its Own Windows Phone
The tech world always needs a good rumor to obsess over, and lately it’s been the idea of a Windows Phone made by Microsoft.
Google Announces New Nexus Phone and Tablets
Although Hurricane Sandy wiped out Google’s big New York press-event plans, the company went ahead and announced its new Nexus phone and tablets anyway.
