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Mother's Day is Sunday, and if you haven't been thinking about it for months, you're probably scrambling for gift ideas now. Fortunately, the Web is full of suggestions for gifts for Mom. Unfortunately, many of them are bad, bad...
POSTED Thursday, May 8, 2008
Your lights, air conditioning, electricity, gas — it all comes at a price. Whether you've settled in as a homeowner or you're still dormin' it up, the excess energy you use and the waste you don't recycle hurts more...
POSTED Friday, April 25, 2008
We’re at the dawn of a new era. Electric cars promise to soon be ubiquitous, saving energy with their ability to plug into our power system that theoretically is more energy-efficient than directly burning fossil fuels. But keeping electrics...
POSTED Wednesday, April 23, 2008
Buying a Prius or adding solar panels to your roof may seem like great ways to be nicer to the planet, but there's just one problem: they're damn expensive. When did going green get so pricey? The thing is,...
POSTED Monday, April 21, 2008
Like melon balls wrapped in prosciutto, playing an iPod through such a vacuum-tube amplifier sounds like a ludicrous combination until you actually try it. Perhaps it has something to do with the warm sound of the aged technology of...
POSTED Wednesday, April 16, 2008
Our culture is driven by fear. Besides our own shadows, we’re afraid of flying, sharks, car accidents, dentists, terrorists, and lots of other stuff. But real-world stats show that most of these fears are completely unfounded; the objects of...
POSTED Thursday, April 10, 2008
NASA posted up some harrowing news to go along with their daily photo: In a surprising and potentially troubling request, the new space station robot known as Dextre demanded that astronauts refer to it in the future as "Dextre...
POSTED Tuesday, April 1, 2008
You don’t have to be a cat-stroking diabolical bad guy, hell-bent on destroying the world, to want some countermeasures to commonly-procured spy gear. Inspired by this article pointing out the “Top 10 barely-legal gadgets for the modern spy," we...
POSTED Thursday, March 20, 2008
Every week Josh Gates' braves the world of the unknown on SCI FI's Destination Truth (disclosure: SCI FI owns DVICE). As anyone who's seen The X-Files knows, investigating weird phenomena in the field requires quick thinking, unrelenting guile, and...
POSTED Tuesday, March 18, 2008
The world of Dungeons & Dragons needs no introduction. Recently, however, the D&D community suffered the loss of one close and dear as the game's co-founder Gary Gygax passed away after battling for some years with heart ailments. But...
POSTED Tuesday, March 18, 2008
The sudden popularity of digital photo frames has turned them into love-it-or-hate-it devices. The dichotomy goes like this: Tech-savvy folks tend to dislike them (sometimes intensely), while most others are fascinated by the technology, if statistics are to be...
POSTED Thursday, March 13, 2008
With the unveiling of the iPhone's software development kit, it turns out the iPhone may be a serious handheld contender in the mobile gaming market on top of being a smart phone killer. We're not just talking Pong and Tetris,...
POSTED Friday, March 7, 2008
It feels like the world just changed. Apple opened up its iPhone and iPod Touch platforms to developers, and putting muscle behind them is $100 million from Silicon Valley moneybags Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Beyers. With that kind of cash...
POSTED Thursday, March 6, 2008
What is this woman doing? Why is her head half-submerged in a bubble filled with bees? The bubble is a prototype of an invention that The Museum of Modern Art in New York (MoMA) is currently exhibiting called Design...
POSTED Tuesday, March 4, 2008
Hey, automobile industry, we need to talk. You've been making a lot of promises lately and, well, we're not really sure if we believe you anymore. How can you even ask why? Remember that whole "flying car" thing? Yeah, It's...
POSTED Wednesday, February 27, 2008
HD DVD is flopping about in the last of its death throes — player and disc prices are down across the board as anything HD DVD is headed for massive 30%-50% sales and bargain bins. For most consumers, however,...
POSTED Wednesday, February 20, 2008
We are all so petrified of germs, we turn to the highest tech to get rid of them, every last one. But that's not going to be easy. In sheer numbers, there are 20 times more creepy crawlies in...
POSTED Wednesday, February 20, 2008
Apple lowered the price of the 1GB iPod Shuffle today to the ultralow price of $49. That’s pretty damn cheap. Like, not-even-worth-stealing cheap. If price is the deciding factor for your MP3 player, you’ve got to get an iPod...
POSTED Tuesday, February 19, 2008
For all you girls who are alone on Valentine's Day — or you guys who want to get your GFs a little something more than just chocolate and roses — vibrators personal massagers are always a good option. The...
POSTED Thursday, February 14, 2008
Myth: Women hate gadget gifts. Truth: We know (from experience, believe it or not) that isn't true. While the old adage about never giving a woman a gift that plugs in is generally good advice, it's more rooted in...
POSTED Tuesday, February 12, 2008
Let's say you're ready to chuck your DVD player and make the jump to renting digital content from a box near your television. Congratulations! You've discovered Pay Per View. But PPV has few choices and even less flexibility: What...
POSTED Wednesday, February 6, 2008
The Super Bowl, that pageant of 63 advertisements with a football game hidden somewhere within, has become an incubator of commercial creativity. Many of the most popular spots have something to do with animals, but we're more interested in...
POSTED Monday, February 4, 2008
Who hasn't occasionally lost his PDA an instead scrawled an important phone number, address, or reminder on his hand? It happens to the best of us. But if it's something you do frequently, you might consider purchasing a set...
POSTED Monday, February 4, 2008
Megapixels are so over. They've lost their marketing mojo. Now that sensors have stopped growing exponentially in terms of megapixels, new cameras don't even bother advertising their size. But we're cool with that, since it lets other camera technologies...
POSTED Friday, February 1, 2008
When Super Bowl XLII game hits the eyeballs of 158 million Americans this Sunday, its television images will have winded their way through enough high-tech gee-gaws to launch a squadron of space shuttles. The super broadcast racks up some...
POSTED Friday, February 1, 2008
Nearly 252 million people in the U.S. have a cellphone, according to the cellphone industry group CTIA. This ubiquitous pocket plaything is increasingly capable of wondrous and heretofore unthinkable technological feats both frivolous and necessary. Just a couple of...
POSTED Tuesday, January 29, 2008
The MacBook Air may be one of the thinnest laptops ever made, but Apple had to make some sacrifices to shed all that poundage. Did the company go too far? Some reviewers on the Web think so. Of course,...
POSTED Thursday, January 24, 2008
Tech mavens love toasters enough that the first screensaver ever made was full of them (flying, of course). And while we don't see a lot of crazy original concepts for new washing machines, refrigerators or air conditioners, designers are...
POSTED Thursday, January 24, 2008
Now that our favorite television shows are on a writers-strike hiatus, that TiVo Series 3 you spent your hard-earned money on is sitting there begging to be used. While your To-Do list may be bare, fear not as there...
POSTED Tuesday, January 22, 2008
The Apple iPhone is 202 days old, and that means we've had plenty of time to really live with it. Tuesday's firmware update added some welcome new features, but the coveted iPhone still isn't perfect. If you're thinking maybe...
POSTED Thursday, January 17, 2008
Athlete Oscar Pistorius, a 21-year-old from South Africa, has been ruled ineligible to compete in the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games on the grounds of an unfair mechanical advantage. Pistorius lost both his legs when he was 11 months old...
POSTED Tuesday, January 15, 2008
Gotta love Apple: Only the reclusive Cupertino company could command such a massive amount of attention for such underwhelming announcements. Oooo, HD movies on iTunes, only two months after Vudu started doing it. Then there's Apple TV Part 2,...
POSTED Tuesday, January 15, 2008
Something has to be done. I realize most of us appear content to continue down our increasingly self-centered path toward widespread social destruction, but far be it from me to take this Bluetooth invasion sitting down. It's time for...
POSTED Thursday, January 3, 2008
We spend a good chunk of our time here at DVICE writing about fun gadgets and cool pieces of gear (the butter cutter notwithstanding), and occasionally we come across something that’s truly amazing: a piece of technological wizardry so...
POSTED Monday, December 31, 2007
So, you want to be a Ghost Hunter? There's never been a better time: a lot of the tech tools hunters use in the field are available to everyone, letting you start your search for the paranormal as soon...
POSTED Friday, December 28, 2007
When most people think of the SCI FI series Battlestar Galactica, they think of super-sophisticated synthetic lifeforms (a.k.a. Cylons) and starships that travel faster than light. But those aren't the show's only high-tech wonders; check out these mind-blowing futuristic...
POSTED Monday, December 24, 2007
Now that most of us are finishing up our holiday shopping, we have a chance to reflect on those less fortunate… and those much, much more fortunate. That got us wondering: Just what are the ultra-rich getting their gadget-loving...
POSTED Thursday, December 20, 2007
We're all in the same boat: It's one week to go before Christmas, and you've still got a ton of shopping to do. Stumped about what to get some people, you turn to the Web. But where to turn?...
POSTED Tuesday, December 18, 2007
'Tis the holiday season. While not everyone busts out the real or fake tree, it is always a symbol of the beginning of winter and the end of the calendar year. With the latest generation of kids striving to...
POSTED Wednesday, December 12, 2007
There's always a time and a place for cheap gifts. Secret Santas, family members you don't like, exes and others always need a gift, but just because you don't want to spend more than $30 on them doesn't mean...
POSTED Tuesday, December 11, 2007
Architecture these days has never been more advanced: Buildings are making their own energy and using ice as air conditioning. Creative buildings don't always involve special technology, however. One could build a home shaped like a giant toilet or...
POSTED Monday, December 10, 2007
We're constantly searching for these electronic monstrosities so far ahead of their time that only concept designers dare tackle giving such products a face and a name. After the jump, take a peek into our future fetish and 10 nonexistent — but awesome — tech toys that take our gadget lust to a more advanced level.
POSTED Tuesday, December 4, 2007
You love robots. I love robots. With the dizzying variety of them out there, don't you sometimes get down that you'll never be able to get your hands on one? After all, most of the 'bots we see are for...
POSTED Wednesday, November 28, 2007
Gadget lovers can't resist browsing the catalogs of the Sharper Image and SkyMall, especially around the holidays. Both have fun products: funky stuff like spy cameras and everyone's personal favorite — turbocharged nose-hair trimmers. And then there are those...
POSTED Tuesday, November 27, 2007
Video games have come a long way from the days of the side scroller and computer-generated voices. Gaming companies like Halo 3 creator Bungie Software have been nabbing top voice talent for years, and you may not have noticed,...
POSTED Thursday, November 22, 2007
NBC Universal's Green Week is here, focusing on topics that affect the environment. All week long we'll be bringing you special stories to help get you on Gaia's good side. Electronics account for a bigger and bigger part of...
POSTED Friday, November 9, 2007
NBC Universal's Green Week is here, focusing on topics that affect the environment. All week long we'll be bringing you special stories to help get you on Gaia's good side. Renewable energy is still just a small part of...
POSTED Thursday, November 8, 2007
NBC Universal's Green Week is here, focusing on topics that affect the environment. All week long we'll be bringing you special stories to help get you on Gaia's good side. Plugging in your cell phone every night may not...
POSTED Tuesday, November 6, 2007
NBC Universal's Green Week is here, focusing on topics that affect the environment. All week long we'll be bringing you special stories to help get you on Gaia's good side. Every month you spend money on energy — it's...
POSTED Monday, November 5, 2007
While we spend a great deal of time drooling over expensive toys, you've gotta head back to ground level at some point. While things may not be quite as shiny down here, there are other pleasures — like being...
POSTED Wednesday, August 29, 2007
Just as cell phones are becoming ever more powerful übergadgets, and flat TV screens get larger even as their prices drop, so, too, do the gadgets of the upper crust further distance themselves from the trinkets of the masses....
POSTED Tuesday, August 28, 2007
I'm in the market for a new cell phone, which pretty much means I'm preparing to voluntarily submit myself to the 21st-century version of the rack. Sure, many people (especially females under the age of, oh, 19) love to...
POSTED Friday, July 27, 2007
Faster than a speeding bullet. More powerful than a locomotive. Able to leap tall buildings in a single bound. Look! Up in the sky! It's a bird. It's a plane. It's… you? Admit it — you've fantasized about soaring...
POSTED Friday, May 4, 2007
Don't call Second Life a game. Every time I use the word to describe the megapopular online virtual world as I talk with a couple of reps from Linden Labs, the company behind the phenomenon, they correct me. Instead...
POSTED Wednesday, April 18, 2007
The new movie 300 is the story of an epic battle between the Greeks and the Persians set in 480 BC. Even as far back as that era, the state of technology played a critical role in warfare. Better...
POSTED Friday, March 9, 2007
For anyone who wants to get out of this easy, here's what to get your girlfriend for Valentine's Day: jewelry. Also, flowers and a nice dinner. Get off this site now and go somewhere classy. But you should know...
POSTED Tuesday, February 13, 2007
As gadget shows go, the annual Consumer Electronics Show is… what's the word? Freakin' huge. Over 140,000 people attended CES this year, all of them pushing, buying, or covering supercool new tech toys. Among the thousands of devices shown...
POSTED Tuesday, January 16, 2007
It's a funny thing, reporting on a show about electronics, because the gadgets you're covering are often the same things as (or very similar to) the products you're using to cover them. Personal electronics are more than just a...
POSTED Tuesday, January 16, 2007
Christmas doesn't really come for gadget lovers until early January. That's when the annual Consumer Electronics Show hits Las Vegas, bringing over 140,000 people for a city-wide show and tell of the latest tech toys. Technology writers from all...
POSTED Wednesday, January 3, 2007
Don't let the flowing locks, chiseled jaw, and hundreds of kitschy romance-novel covers fool you. Turns out everyone's favorite male model (sorry, Ryan Seacrest, you need at least one Y chromosome to qualify), the one, the only Fabio Lanzoni...
POSTED Thursday, December 21, 2006
Whether it's something as basic as Orange Tang or a far more sophisticated gadget like the GPS navigation network, a surprising amount of the cool stuff we use every day has its origins in taxpayer-funded research done by the...
POSTED Tuesday, December 19, 2006
When companies support charities with their products, everybody wins. The buyers get to look like concerned citizens while buying stuff. The companies seem benevolent because their ad campaigns create "awareness." And the charity gets some cash — sometimes more,...
POSTED Friday, November 3, 2006
Classifieds ads for gadgets hold a special place in our ADD-addled minds. We've all seen them, usually in the back pages of the tech or business magazine left behind by the last guy who had the same seat on...
POSTED Wednesday, November 1, 2006
For the average American, travelling in style is probably defined by that one time you rented a limousine on your way to the high school prom. For that other, more fickle überclass of America, the notion of luxury travel...
POSTED Wednesday, August 30, 2006
Take those earbuds that came with your iPod and throw them in the garbage. No, wait. Cut the cords into little pieces, then throw them in the garbage. Then go out and buy one of these great-sounding earbuds or...
POSTED Tuesday, July 18, 2006
Image by Matt Krueger On Sunday, the war between the new high-definition-disc formats officially began. Sure, HD DVD has been available since May, but as of June 25th, Samsung's BD-P1000 Blu-ray player is now available in stores for anyone who...
POSTED Tuesday, June 27, 2006
Considering Bono's been singing in those Apple commercials since the video iPod came out, it's really about time U2 gave the go-ahead on the U2 video iPod. Featuring a red clickwheel and a bunch of preloaded videos from the...
POSTED Tuesday, June 6, 2006
Now that we've drooled over the Top 10 Gadgets for the Filthy Rich, it's time to stop playing Trump and return to this thing called "reality." This decidedly thriftier zone isn't such a bad place, since there are plenty...
POSTED Thursday, May 25, 2006
Image by Matt Krueger Do you travel in private jets? Decorate your foyer with real Renoirs? Use the word "foyer"? Then there's no way you're going to get your gadget fix from anything you can get at Best Buy. You...
POSTED Wednesday, May 24, 2006
It's the main thing on your mind when you walk into an electronics store: Don't get ripped off. Whether you're shopping for a digital camera, computer, or HDTV, you want to know what's a fair price, and what's a...
POSTED Thursday, May 18, 2006
Moms: everyone has one, and they're all different. The way we see it, Mother's Day isn't a holiday meant to celebrate some generic "mother" but each one of our individual moms. Any list that presumes throws out a few...
POSTED Monday, May 8, 2006
You just spent $400 on an iPod, and all you're using it for is music? Come on, you might as well get a little more out of that big purchase of yours. Why not use it to help you...
POSTED Wednesday, April 26, 2006
We all work hard for our money, so it's important to make sure that we get the best value possible when we decide to splurge on a new toy. Although most deals at retail are just fine, there are...
POSTED Tuesday, April 18, 2006
While most of us don't have the need for band saws or drill presses in our daily lives, some tools are still necessities — at least until those maintenance droids arrive to do the work for us. Simple tools like...
POSTED Thursday, February 9, 2006
Officially, there are more than a 1,000 iPod accessories and counting. But just because these add-ons are labeled "Made for iPod" doesn't mean they're made well. January yielded a bumper crop of interesting ideas executed badly, and we've harvested...
POSTED Friday, February 3, 2006
Kicked off by CES, the New Year always brings with it mucho promises from electronics manufacturers of soon-to-come breakthrough gadgets. Too often, however, cool products get heralded with gala coming-out parties only to be never heard from again. 2006...
POSTED Wednesday, January 25, 2006
The Consumer Electronics Show (CES) may be a rapidly receding memory, but it usually pays to go back and take a second look after all the dust clears. After all, given the sheer enormity of the show, there's no...
POSTED Wednesday, January 25, 2006
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