Now that the Windows 8 Release Preview is here, PC makers are getting ready to announce their Windows 8 tablets.
Bloomberg, citing the all-knowing “people with knowledge of the matter,” reports that Acer, Toshiba and Asus will …
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Newton, Reconsidered
A hands-on assessment of Apple’s pioneering, ill-fated Personal Digital Assistant, twenty years after its original unveiling.
Go Home, Folks: ‘Guitar Pee’ Urinal Tops Everything (Times Infinity)
My uncle built a home several years ago and to reward himself for a lifetime of hard work, his sprawling, unfinished basement is filled with tools, gadgets and other items of whimsy. He also had a urinal installed in the …
Prepaid iPhone Plan to Cost $55 for Unlimited Talk, Text and Data
Cricket Wireless is getting set to roll out a prepaid mobile plan for the iPhone 4 and iPhone 4S here in the U.S.
On June 22, you’ll be able to pick up a 16GB iPhone 4S for $500 or an 8GB iPhone 4 for $400, paired with a …
Lightest Ultrabook on the Planet? Gigabyte Unveils X11 Carbon Fiber Laptop
When you’re down to fighting over tenths of a pound, claims of “world’s lightest” are more about marketing than utility, but Gigabyte’s X11 appears to fit the company’s billing as such: Gigabyte just confirmed its 11.6-inch …
Play-A-Grill: Bling That Plays Music Through Your Teeth
Lil’ Wayne sporting a grill is cool. Lil’ Wayne listening to Lil’ Wayne through his grill is even cooler. Presenting the Play-A-Grill, a device that uses bone conduction to transmit sound from an MP3 player through the teeth, …
Next-Gen iPhone Images Leak as Tim Cook Drops a Hint
What do we have here? It’s the backside of Apple’s next iPhone, at least according to 9to5Mac’s supply chain sources.
The image shows a smaller bezel on the top and bottom of the phone, possibly to make room for that 4-inch …
Future Smartphone Tech: 6 Advancements to Watch
Over the past few years, smartphones have made some incredible leaps and bounds in terms of hardware — to the point that it’s hard to imagine how the technology will continue to impress.
Still, there are a handful of new …
Amazon Instant Video Challenges Netflix with App for the Xbox 360
The Xbox 360 has long ceased to be just a gaming machine, which is why today’s announcement that Amazon’s Instant Video service is coming to the console makes sense.
The Amazon Instant Video app will allow subscribers to …
Facebook Phone Rumored Again, but Fundamental Questions Remain
Facebook is working on its own smartphone — no, seriously this time.
The New York Times reports that Facebook intends to launch a phone by next year, citing unnamed Facebook employees, engineers that the company sought to …
Samsung Galaxy S III ‘Blue’ Model Delayed for Weeks
It sounds like Samsung’s having trouble manufacturing the “pebble blue” variant of its just-launched Galaxy S III smartphone, and that could wind up delaying its availability to mid or even late June. The rumor started a few days …
WebOS: Dead? Oh, Sure, Almost Certainly — But Not Definitely
In January of 2009, Palm unveiled WebOS, its next-generation mobile operating system. A lot of us got really, really excited over it. It turned out, however, that WebOS’s launch day was its first and only moment of unalloyed …