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10:44AM on Sep 2, 2010

Samsung's Galaxy Tab: the iPad's first true competitor

The iPad has enjoyed a long period of being the only game in town when it came to tablets, but that's about to change with the introduction of Samsung's freshly announced 7-inch Galaxy Tab.

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back to the future • power laces • shoes

Back to the Future's power laces finally become real

Of all the cool stuff shown off in the future of Back to the Future, the most iconic were definitely the hoverboard and the Nike shoes with power laces. We're still a little ways off from the hoverboard, but you can go ahead and cross real-deal power laces off your list. MORE

10:00AM on Sep 2, 2010

Apple • iPhone 4 • iTunes

6 things apple didn't announce today, but should soon

Apple came out swinging with plenty of big announcements: a relaunch of Apple TV, some nice new iPods, and even a social networking service. Still, there are plenty of things Apple didn't — perhaps even failed — to make official. Here are six of those. MORE

11:14PM on Sep 1, 2010

Apple • convergence

By Stewart Wolpin

6:31PM on Sep 1, 2010

The Apple TV we really wanted to see

"Hobby," my ass. As expected, Steve Jobs poked out of his magic turtleneck and presented us more cooler-than-thou iPods. And they are really cool. Regardless, today's big news is for a product Steve Jobs once famously referred to as a hobby: Apple TV. Far from being an afterthought, the new Apple TV is a big deal, and it sets the stage for a future Apple product — an actual TV.

Apple • evolution • iPod Nano

Infographic: How the iPod Nano has changed over the years

Apple just unveiled a new iPod Nano, and the new model is the most radical redesign yet. The 6G Nano is about half the size of the previous version, with a multi-touch screen and a clip on the back. The Nano's come a long way since its debut in 2005 — check out the graphic below that summarizes the big changes it's experienced over the years. MORE

By Chris Kalb

5:57PM on Sep 1, 2010

auto theft • car hacking • thieves

Geeky car thieves are switching from carjacking to car hacking

New cars have a tremendous pile of electronics that control almost every feature of the car, but a group of researchers at UC San Diego and University of Washington says that thieves are starting to hack at these very systems to gain control over the car. MORE

5:23PM on Sep 1, 2010

iTunes • Opinion • Ping

Apple's Ping is a bald-faced marketing ploy doomed for failure

Call me a cynic, but I can't imagine that Apple's new, ambitious social network Ping is going to take off. Built into iTunes and the iTunes Store iPhone app, it's designed to let you share what music you're enjoying with your friends while also following your favorite musicians. MORE

4:29PM on Sep 1, 2010

3d laptop • gaming • sony vaio

Sony bringing sweet 3D video to their laptops next year

3D video may have started in the home theater world with big TVs from the likes of Panasonic and Samsung, but now Sony wants to move that experience into your lap with a new range of 3D capable VAIO laptops. MORE

3:43PM on Sep 1, 2010

Apple • Apple TV • iTunes

New Apple TV: smaller, cheaper... and actually useful?

Apple TV has always been the ugly duckling of the Cupertino company's line-up. It was convenient, sure, but it really didn't have enough content on its own to justify a purchase. All that's about to change, thanks to ABC, Fox and Netflix. MORE

2:51PM on Sep 1, 2010

Apple • iTunes • Ping

iTunes 10 adds serious Facebook-like social networking, drops TODAY

Well now, this is pretty big: iTunes 10 is getting its own mini social network called "Ping," and will toss in crazy features such as friend lists, social music discovery, concert listings, artists' pages and more. MORE

1:56PM on Sep 1, 2010

Apple • Events • iPhone

1:33PM on Sep 1, 2010

Apple unveils redesigned iPods, introduces game network

Today Apple completely overhauled its iPod line while also showing off coming updates to iOS, promising impressive new features for iPhones and iPod Touches. Besides completely redesigned versions of the iPod Shuffle and Nano, Apple unveiled iOS 4.1, which introduces a Game Center, a new system that will tie iOS users together in a network similar to Xbox Live. But wait, there's more!

Apple • Contests • Twitter

Follow DVICE on Twitter for Apple updates and a chance to win!

Apple is having an event later today and we'll be tweeting the news live as it happens on our Twitter feed. The instant updates start happening at 1 p.m. Eastern, so just give us a follow and start refreshing like crazy once the action starts. As a bonus, we'll be giving away a prize to one lucky follower. MORE

By Peter Pachal

11:14AM on Sep 1, 2010

architecture • horizontal skyscraper

Horizontal skyscraper is like the Empire State Building on its side

The Horizontal Skyscraper is an absolutely massive structure, clocking in at 1,296,459 square feet. It's like the Empire State Building, only horizontal. And with branching arms. MORE

10:58AM on Sep 1, 2010

Digg • Internet

Timeline of the Digg/Reddit revolt

Social-news site Digg, apparently in the hope of not needing people to describe it as a "social-news site" when talking about it, completely revamped its website last week. Since then its users have been in open revolt, going so far as gaming the site to steer Digg visitors to competitor Reddit. What's all the fuss about? We've distilled the drama into a graphical timeline. MORE

By Peter Pachal

9:32AM on Sep 1, 2010

design • green energy • japan • vehicles

Electric folding vehicle shrinks your carbon footprint "and" your parking bills

Japan's recent Good Design Expo 2010 was the site for the unveiling of a design prototype called the X-Frame Folding vehicle, an innovation in urban mobility that could ultimately replace the common motorcycle. MORE

By Adario Strange

6:24AM on Sep 1, 2010

Antennagate • Apple • iPhone 4

The iPhone 4 could be getting a new antenna

After blaming users, besmirching competitors and finally offering a free iPhone 4 case to appease customers, rumor has it that Apple could relent in the biggest way: revising the antenna on the iPhone 4. MORE

3:04PM on Aug 31, 2010

doctor • heart • istethoscope

Doctors are tossing out their stethoscopes for a free iPhone app

The classic image of a Doctor in scrubs with a stethoscope draped over his or her neck could soon be history, as Physicians by the hundreds have started checking their patients using a free iPhone app called iStethoscope. MORE

2:06PM on Aug 31, 2010

babel fisk • glasses • speech to text

Speech to text glasses let the deaf read what you're saying

A lot of deaf people learn to read lips, but that's got to be a tough learning curve, with inexact results at best. Wouldn't if be great if you could simply give the hearing impaired a written transcript of what you're saying in real time? MORE

1:19PM on Aug 31, 2010

car electronics • ipod docks • sony

Sony's cup holder speaker forgets about car stereos

This is Sony's new portable speaker and iPod dock. It can either be used as a standard dock or the speaker can be removed and stuck in your car's cup holder. You know, just in case your car doesn't have a stereo of its own. MORE

12:30PM on Aug 31, 2010

corneas • medical

Yeast combined with human DNA to create artificial corneas

Yeast is a magical substance, one that we have to thank for beer and bread, two essential foodstuffs. But they have nothing on the new discovery that yeast can also be used to create synthetic corneas. MORE