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This section honors the most innovative technological innovations, ranging from robots and drones to ground-breaking devices. It keeps readers motivated by the limitless possibilities of human creativity by showcasing future ideas and visionary concepts that push the envelope of what is possible.

Microsoft Pretends They Were Down With Kinect Hacking All Along

Microsoft Pretends They Were Down With Kinect Hacking All Along

Surely you've seen your share of Kinect hacks in the last little while - hell, even last week I posted...

Sony Ericsson XPERIA X12 Specs Leaked This Week

Sony Ericsson XPERIA X12 Specs Leaked This Week

Sony Ericsson is one company which failed to make the most of the Google's free mobile OS, Android. The HTC...

RIM Flaunts Flashier Browser – Apple Fans Gon’ Hate

RIM Flaunts Flashier Browser – Apple Fans Gon’ Hate

You just hit 'play' on a video touting the PlayBook's allegedly 'faster' and all-around more awesome browser than the iPad's....

Hacked Kinect Art Program Totally Rules Despite Current Uselessness

Hacked Kinect Art Program Totally Rules Despite Current Uselessness

http://vimeo.com/16818988 Because you're awesome, have this quick video of Mehmet Akten playing with his prototype for a 3D art program...

Three Ways The Playbook Can Compete With the iPad

Three Ways The Playbook Can Compete With the iPad

When rumors that RIM, the makers of the Blackberry, were about to announce a tablet, you could have been forgiven...

Samsung Pwns FPD 2010 with Scores of Cool Tech

Samsung Pwns FPD 2010 with Scores of Cool Tech

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dY_ADCTBKVE Hold on a second while I plug something I like. That thing is Samsung's mastery of all things display-related....

PlayBook to Launch for ‘under $500’

PlayBook to Launch for ‘under $500’

According to RIM's co.CEO Jim Balsillie, the BlackBerry PlayBook will launch in Q1 2011 - and cost less than $500....

Apple claims (unofficially) to have fixed the iPhone 4 Antenna problem

Apple claims (unofficially) to have fixed the iPhone 4 Antenna problem

A couple of months ago, rumours and speculations started to surface about a revised version of the iPhone 4 being...

Instagram: Four Lessons For a Wildly Successful App

Instagram: Four Lessons For a Wildly Successful App

With Apple's App Store and the Android Market now literally filled with hundreds of thousands of apps, it's getting increasingly...

Sharp, Fujitsu Shows Faith In Symbian, Plans 11 New Phones

Sharp, Fujitsu Shows Faith In Symbian, Plans 11 New Phones

In what could only be considered an awkward move, Sharp and Fujitsu have announced that they intend on releasing 11...

Sharp Loses Its Marbles, Designs Possibly Edible Phone

Sharp Loses Its Marbles, Designs Possibly Edible Phone

No one can ever say Sharp didn't make unique phones. Actually, 'unique' may be a bit of an understatement in...

Wii Remote for Android Smartphones Lets You Use Wii Controller For Nintendo Classics On The Go

Wii Remote for Android Smartphones Lets You Use Wii Controller For Nintendo Classics On The Go

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0yHTxoAVqc For all those Wii gamers out there, here’s something cool that you can use to play the Wii on...

How To Make a Juno iBurger Mobile Phone

How To Make a Juno iBurger Mobile Phone

Nothing screams hipster like anything from "Juno", most notably her iconic hamburger phone. Now, you too can haz Juno hamburger,...

Mount Everest Gets 3G Broadband Service

Mount Everest Gets 3G Broadband Service

Nepali telecom company Ncell touted its new setup at the base camp of Mount Everest. This means Everest trekkers can...

Axsotic Spheric Mouse is Perhaps the Most Radly-Named (And Raddest-Looking) PC Accessory In History

Axsotic Spheric Mouse is Perhaps the Most Radly-Named (And Raddest-Looking) PC Accessory In History

[vimeo]http://vimeo.com/16253164[/vimeo] Better wash up your loins, guys, 'cuz they 'bout to get blown. For all the readers out there who...

Cellphone-Wielding Time Traveler Spotted In Charlie Chaplin Film

Cellphone-Wielding Time Traveler Spotted In Charlie Chaplin Film

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6a4T2tJaSU I've been engaged in a hot debate over the last hour with a friend of mine over just what...

Where in the World is the White iPhone 4?

Where in the World is the White iPhone 4?

So, uh... hey, how you holdin' up? Doin' okay? You feelin' alright today? Yeah? Bein' strong? That's a relief. Because...

No More Gunking Your Screen With Your Filthy, Filthy Hands While You Text

No More Gunking Your Screen With Your Filthy, Filthy Hands While You Text

One of the deciding factors that made me go Blackberry instead of picking up an iPhone 4 was the tactile...

PayPal Vending Machine Lets You Shop Online, Offline

PayPal Vending Machine Lets You Shop Online, Offline

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vryxediu7uY For those of you who would really, really like some candy, but don't have a quarter kicking around, don't...

The Droid X Review: Does It Kick Ass or Get Its Ass Kicked?

The Droid X Review: Does It Kick Ass or Get Its Ass Kicked?

Why bring a pistol to a gun battle when you could bring a rocket launcher instead? That was the question...