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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.

Major Banks Give Employees Choice of iPhone or BlackBerry

Major Banks Give Employees Choice of iPhone or BlackBerry

Standard Chartered bankers are now being given a choice in which smartphone they would like to use. The moneylender is...

Has Talking On A Cell Phone Become A Taboo?

Has Talking On A Cell Phone Become A Taboo?

When was the last time you had a lengthy chat with someone on the phone? A few weeks? Months? Years,...

How’s Your Internet Feeling Today?

How’s Your Internet Feeling Today?

The boon of a slow news day (or morning, at the very least) is that it gives an intrepid internetsman...

Palm Apologizes For App Store Outage – Wait, Palm Has An App Store?

Palm Apologizes For App Store Outage – Wait, Palm Has An App Store?

Palm yesterday acknowledged that a recent bug in it's App Catalog which caused downloads of free and paid apps to...

Swarovski Crystals Bling Out Your iPhone or BlackBerry

Swarovski Crystals Bling Out Your iPhone or BlackBerry

Swarovski has decided to dazzle us with a sparkly technicolored jeweled case. This iced-out case is made up of  1,500...

Mobile Banjo/Guitar Uses Smartphones to Make Music

Mobile Banjo/Guitar Uses Smartphones to Make Music

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ilEdroh3uzM&feature=player_embedded#! Using the iPhone OS, a Belgian man managed to make a wonderfully sounding guitar. Drums and background music can...

Mini-ITX Test Bench Looks Like a Transformer

Mini-ITX Test Bench Looks Like a Transformer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=052l5ESJDKQ&feature=player_embedded#! This robotic creature transforms into a Mini-ITX test bench.  The four adjustable legs create a spider-like effect. Designer Lian...

Blackberry Tablet is… Your Existing Blackberry, HD?

Blackberry Tablet is… Your Existing Blackberry, HD?

My phone sucks. No keyboard, the 6 key is broken, FORGET emails... it's just terrible. I was thinking about trashing...

Hulu Improves Its Website But Continues With Flash

Hulu Improves Its Website But Continues With Flash

Hulu, unfortunately, will not be offering an HTML5 player. Instead the website, offering commercial-supported streaming video, has decided to stick...

Toshiba Promises to Hurt So Good with True Tactile Feedback

Toshiba Promises to Hurt So Good with True Tactile Feedback

Apple really likes to tout the iPod Touch (and, by extension, the iPhone and iPad) as a gaming platform. In...

Space Tourism Costs Cut In Half by Space Adventures

Space Tourism Costs Cut In Half by Space Adventures

I think it is safe to say that it was everyone has had at least one point in their lives...

Stylus Knob Brings Rotation to the iPhone

Stylus Knob Brings Rotation to the iPhone

  http://vimeo.com/11080086 Twist, turn and twist it again. That pretty much sums up this neat little invention. The people at...

Virtual Reality Puts Men in Women’s Bodies

Virtual Reality Puts Men in Women’s Bodies

Are virtual sex changes on the horizon? It’s doubtful, but scientists have seemingly taken their first step towards such a...

The HTC Evo 4G is Landing on June 4th

The HTC Evo 4G is Landing on June 4th

The sleek phone is coming out on June 4th of this year from the phone provider Sprint for $200...too cheap...

Skype /shuns Windows Mobile 7 for iPhone and Android

Skype /shuns Windows Mobile 7 for iPhone and Android

Dan Neary, the Vice President for Skype, spoke at an event in Sydney today  stating that Skype will not be...

Facepalmingly Unsurprising News of the Day: Land Lines Are Dead

Facepalmingly Unsurprising News of the Day: Land Lines Are Dead

I actually talk about this often with friends: how it's interesting that nobody seemed to notice when the shorthand 'phone'...

The Next-Gen iPhone Cost Prediction

The Next-Gen iPhone Cost Prediction

According to analysts, the next-generation iPhone 4 could have a bill of materials costing between $169 to $175. That’s a...

HOLO Makes Multi Touch Look Out Of Touch

HOLO Makes Multi Touch Look Out Of Touch

Don't be confused by the picture, HOLO 2.0 is more than a child's plastic bracelet with some iPhone Skype screen...

iPhone Leak Reveals A4 Processor

iPhone Leak Reveals A4 Processor

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6AAnUHePbe4&feature=player_embedded Slowly the iPhone 4G is being put together right in front us...literally. More next generation iPhone pictures have been...

Google and Verizon To Launch Tablet Computer

Google and Verizon To Launch Tablet Computer

Verizon is planning to release their own version of the tablet computer with a as-yet-unnamed manufacturer who will be using...