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How to Tell if Your Phone Is Tapped
If you have reason to believe that your cell phone or landline phone might be tapped, there are a few clues you can look for that can support your suspicions. Many of these indicators can be caused by...
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EU to require that EVs and hybrids make noise to alert pedestrians
The EU has been talking for years about requiring pedestrian alert noises on electric cars and hybrids, and some vehicles already do. In the future, however, those warning systems will be mandatory....
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Taking Photos With an iPad or Another Tablet: Ridiculous or Smart?
Go anywhere people are taking photos and you’ll see someone taking photos with an iPad or some ort of Android tablet. Everyone’s already pointed out how silly this looks — but is it really a bad idea?...
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Inhabitat’s Week in Green: WarkaWater Tower, kangaroo-like robot and an...
Each week our friends at Inhabitat recap the week’s most interesting green developments and clean tech news for us — it’s the Week in Green. The world is flooded with electronic devices, which add up...
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Windows Phone 8.1 does Miracast media sharing, but most devices won’t cut it
Windows Phone 8.1 includes many, many upgrades, not the least of which is Miracast media sharing; it should be easier than ever to send content to your TV and other gadgets. However, it’s now very...
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Gadget Rewind 2006: Sony Reader PRS-500
It’s our 10th birthday, and to celebrate we’ll be revisiting some of the key devices of the last decade. So please be kind, rewind. Sony may not have been at the forefront of the digital music...
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IRL: Going skiing with Smith I/O Recon goggles
Welcome to IRL, an ongoing feature where we talk about the gadgets, apps and toys we’re using in real life and take a second look at products that already got the formal review treatment. Does a...
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Windows Phone 8.1 does Miracast media sharing, but most devices won’t cut it...
Windows Phone 8.1 includes many, many upgrades, not the least of which is Miracast media sharing; it should be easier than ever to send content to your TV and other gadgets. However, it’s now very...
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Geek Trivia: Which Serial Killer Was Caught Via The Metadata In A Microsoft...
Which Serial Killer Was Caught Via The Metadata In A Microsoft Word Document? Jeffrey Dahmer Ted Bundy David Berkowitz Dennis Rader Think you know the answer? Continued: Geek Trivia: Which Serial...
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UK’s Ministry of Defence has its own creepy hazmat testing robot (video)
Boston Dymanics’ Petman now has serious competition in the “eerie human-like robots” category, courtesy of the UK’s Ministry of Defence. This new contender is a £1.1 million ($1.8 million) masterpiece...
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Windows Phone may come to your car with Cortana as copilot
Microsoft has a home in the automotive world, but it doesn’t have a way to bring a phone’s interface to your car’s infotainment system — there’s no Windows Phone equivalent to Apple’s CarPlay. That...
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3play is a Bluetooth audio dongle that begs to be misused
We think it’s fair to say that Grace Digital has a colorful catalog of products. Everything it makes seems to have a quirk or a twist that, at the very least, stops us ever getting bored hearing about...
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How to Catch a Hamster
Hamsters love to scurry about, especially after being cooped up, so it’s no wonder that they try to escape from the friendly confines of their cage every once in a while. Firstly, don’t fret. The...
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DJI improves stabilization, tilt and flying speed with Phantom 2 Vision+ drone
It was just this January that we tested DJI’s Phantom 2 Vision drone, a $1,199 quadcopter with an integrated 14-megapixel/1080p camera and tilt-axis gimbal. Now at NAB, DJI’s back with a “plus”...
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DJI brings its smooth video tech to the ground with Ronin camera gimbal
DJI’s best known for its versatile photography drones, but the company’s bringing its stabilization technology to ground-based shoots with the Ronin camera gimbal. The compact device, which appears to...
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Watch this massive game of Tetris play out on a Philly skyscraper (video)
Tetris is turning 30 (yes, thirty!) in June, so some folks threw it one epic pre-birthday party at Philly Tech Week’s kickoff event this April 5th. What’d they do, you ask? They used the 29-story Cira...
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Sony announces full-frame Alpha A7s with 4K video output
It wouldn’t be NAB without a major 4K announcement from Sony, and that’s exactly what we’ve got here. The company introduced the Alpha A7s at its Las Vegas press event today, bringing 4K video to the...
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How would you change Nintendo’s Wii U?
The Wii was, undoubtedly, the success story of the previous console generation, encouraging millions of novice gamers to wave their arms around like a crazy person. The Wii U’s big gimmick,...
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White House has had legal talks with Samsung about that presidential selfie
It isn’t quite the selfie-retweeted-’round-the-world, but that hasn’t stopped the White House from answering questions about David Ortiz’s impromptu snapshot with the president. Obama’s senior advisor...
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C Spire will carry the Samsung Galaxy S5 in May
C Spire customers had to wait months after the initial launch to get the Galaxy S 4, but they won’t have to be nearly so patient with the Galaxy S5. The southern US carrier has revealed that it will...
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