It’s “friggin’ huge,” as my colleague Jared Newman recently quipped, and Samsung’s Galaxy S III is also going to be friggin’ expensive if you’re in the U.S. and want firsties. While the phone’s stateside launch date is still …
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Apple’s Metal MacBook Gaming Problem: They’re Still Hot as You-Know-What
The other night I sat down to play Diablo III on my 11-inch MacBook Air, after installing Windows 7 in Bootcamp mode to eke a few extra frames per second from the Windows side’s arguably superior gaming performance. But…Diablo …
Comcast Joins 21st Century with ‘X1’ and ‘Project Dayview’ TV Interfaces
I live in a mystical, mysterious section of the world referred to simply as “Boston” by the townspeople. In this strange land, we have but one option for cable TV – we call it “Comcast” – yet whispers of newfangled fusions of …
Kinect This: Leap Motion’s $70 Sensor Is Cheaper, More Accurate
Microsoft’s Kinect motion sensor has revolutionary potential, but it’s pricey at $250 for the Windows version. Enter Leap, which plans to sell a more accurate motion-sensing device called the Leap Motion for just …
Technology’s Perfect Storm Is Coming This Fall
Thankfully, I’ve never been in a perfect storm. I have seen a movie about it, but the worst storms I’ve encountered were of the lightning, thunder and torrential downpour variety when I attended college in the Midwest. I came …
Photos: 14 Masterpieces of Gadget Design
From the View-Master to the iPhone, 14 memorable gizmos that exude a style all their own.
Remembering Andrew Fluegelman, a Quiet Giant of the PC Revolution
I’m Andrew Fluegelman. I have made some money giving away some software for free, and I’m also connected with a couple of big magazines who are supported by advertisers who don’t give their software away for free.
Those are the …
PC in Your Pocket: $74 Android Stick Goes on Sale
If you need a dirt-cheap desktop PC and don’t mind Android, $74 will get you one that fits in your pocket.
The MK802 “Android 4.0 Mini PC” just popped up at online retailer AliExpress. It has a single-core 1.5 GHz processor, …
Who Needs Walking When Honda’s ‘Personal Mobility Device’ Exists?
Walking! It takes so much effort, lifting one foot after the other. That’s why the good people of Honda have developed the Uni-Cub.
Think of it as a Segway but smaller, perfect for navigating the halls of your office or moving …
How to Stop Sleeping with Your Smartphone
In her new book, Sleeping with Your Smartphone, Harvard Business School professor Leslie Perlow details her years-long research project with The Boston Consulting Group, an attempt to improve the work-life balance at the hard-driving firm with incremental but meaningful changes in attitude and behavior.
New HTC Android Phones Tweaked to Evade Apple Patents
When a judge found HTC guilty of infringing two Apple patents last year, HTC said it would modify its phones to get around the infringement. Now we’re seeing exactly how that will affect users.
The patents deal with how the …
U Nye Loo Lay Doo? Brush Up on Your Furbish: New Furby Coming
Strap in, friends. There’s a new version of the Furby rolling out later this year.
If you don’t remember the great Furby craze of 1998, you missed out on some wonderfully weird toy-centric insanity. Still reeling from the …