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CES 2014: Razer Unveils A Smartwatch, Fitness Tracker Combo
Nabu Razer The last product I tried from Razer, a gaming hardware company producing some great, if expensive, gadgets, was the Edge, an unholy fusion of PC and tablet that turned out to be pretty...
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Mysterious Ferret Thefts Roil Southern England
Ferret Luciano Bernardi via Wikimedia Commons There are many things that are important to keep an eye on to prevent theft, such as your wallet, phone... and your ferrets. Throughout rural southern...
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CES 2014: Myris Makes A Personal Iris Scanner You'll Actually Want [Video]
Iris identification is great for its accuracy, but the gadgets to make it happen can be expensive or unwieldy--and usually not great for personal use. Enter Myris and its eyeLock, a cheap, beautiful,...
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CES 2014: Intel Shows Off Its Depth-Detecting Camera [Video]
For Intel’s big CES press conference, they promised an ambitious goal: make computer sensors more like human senses. And I don’t know if the product they announced, the RealSense 3-D camera, is quite...
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Suburbia's Carbon Footprint Is Four Times The Size Of Urban Residents', Study...
Carbon-Emitting Washington State House Democrats Congrats, city-dwellers! Your carbon footprint is just half the size of the national average. But… too bad, all the suburbs surrounding your city...
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CES 2014: Let's Talk About All These Curves
Samsung Curved UHD TV Samsung Electronics There's no shortage of flash on the Consumer Electronics Show press conference circuit. Samsung is particularly fond of its garish displays and celebrity...
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Brown Dwarfs Racked By Planet-Sized Storms Of Molten Iron
Artist's Rendition of a Storm on a Brown Dwarf NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Western Ontario/Stony Brook University Brown dwarfs may be cooler than stars like our sun, but that doesn't mean they're...
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CES 2014: Finally, An iPhone Stun Gun [Video]
The Yellow Jacket is the thing you probably didn't know you needed (and maybe still don't need but would like to see a video of): a combination iPhone case and stun gun. Put in your iPhone 4 or...
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How To Use Trees To Prospect For Gold
Gold iStockphoto They say money doesn't grow on trees, but gold and other precious metals can accumulate in plants. Researchers recently discovered relatively high levels of gold in the leaves of a...
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Burning Trash With Water [Video]
 Burn baby burn. Today, we use water to put out fires. But what if we could use it for the opposite effect? Astronaut researchers on the International Space Station are experimenting with water that...
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CES 2014: The Under-A-Pound Gaming PC
Maingear Spark Maingear Enthusiast gaming PCs tend to be big. In some cases, they're very, very big. But the Spark, from boutique system builder Maingear, bucks the trend by going small—and by desktop...
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CES 2014: Lenovo's Horizon 2 Tabletop PC Is A Media-Sharing Monster
Lenovo Horizon 2 Matt Safford Just when you thought it was time to give up on desktops, Lenovo has made one worth at least a little notice. With a large 27-inch touch display, Intel Core i7 internals,...
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CES 2014: Toyota's Three-Wheeled Car From The Future [Video]
All this week, we're showing off the coolest, most futuristic, and strangest gadgets from the Consumer Electronics Show. Here we have the Toyota i-Road, a one-person, three-wheeled car already moving...
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Washing Dollar Bills With Carbon Dioxide Could Save Billions
Old money Ildar Sagdejev via Wikimedia Commons Nothing is better than a crisp, brand new George Washington bill that a vending machine gobbles up. And nothing is more frustrating than trying to...
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A Glue That Seals Heart Defects
Leonardo da Vinci's Drawings of the Heart Digital file hosted on Wikimedia CommonsNearly a decade ago, Jeffrey Karp was playing around with a new, biodegradable polymer he'd made. He was a...
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Big Pic: An Electronic Membrane Thin Enough To Drape Over Human Hairs
Thin Film Transistor Membrane with Human Hairs Salvatore et al What's this? It's an electronic membrane that's so thin and flexible, it can drape itself over human hairs and continue to work. Yep,...
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CES 2014: Liquipel-Treated Clothes Can't Get Wet [Video]
http://ak.c.ooyala.com/JnbTJwajq3ixUOazi9bBggcUTnCi3KNX/3Gduepif0T1UGY8H... Please enable Javascript to watch this video Now that Liquipel has saved our phones (and apparently earbuds and Jamboxes)...
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CES 2014: A Portable Battery That Can Charge A Phone...And Jump Start A Car
PowerAll Amber Williams Amidst the never-ending phone accessories at CES, this one stood out: A portable battery that can charge your phone AND jumpstart your car. The PowerAll is a rechargeable...
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CES 2014: A Smartphone-Controlled Telescope for Amateur Stargazers
All this week, we're showing off the coolest, most futuristic, and strangest gadgets from the Consumer Electronics Show. Here we have Celestron's Cosmos 90GT WiFi Telescope. Check it out in this video...
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CES 2014: How to Experience Virtual Reality Without Tripping Over Furniture
Virtual reality that meets our expectations is finally happening with the Oculus Rift, and there are a handful of other companies, including Sony, announcing VR headsets as well. With the amazingly...
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