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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.

Square Launches iPhone Payment System

Square Launches iPhone Payment System

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3BP5ax1qs5o Square, the long awaited iPhone payment system officially launched today, albeit only within the US. The brain child of...

6 Exciting Apple Patents Hint At Innovation On Steroids

6 Exciting Apple Patents Hint At Innovation On Steroids

Apple has a host of patents to its name, and rifling through them can offer some fascinating insights into the...

Now You Can Have Knight Rider Mow Your Lawn

Now You Can Have Knight Rider Mow Your Lawn

Electric robot lawnmowers? It's been done to death. Nothing is cooler than eco-tech right now, but this gadget takes it...

Was Apple right to dump Flash on iPhone?

Was Apple right to dump Flash on iPhone?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0y7XJI4NN7k Fresh in from the historical inevitability department comes news of a failed Adobe Flash demo -- and an all-new...

Google Android Surpasses iPhone As #2 Mobile Operating System

Google Android Surpasses iPhone As #2 Mobile Operating System

Google has topped the iPhone in the race to become the best-selling operating system in the U.S. consumer smartphone market...

Video: iPad-touting Waiters Take Orders With An Apple Smile

Video: iPad-touting Waiters Take Orders With An Apple Smile

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=inRsSyJ2bNY Next time you sit down for a slap-up meal out keep an eye on the waiter - he (or...

SmartSwipe Card Reader Keeps You Safe Shopping Online

SmartSwipe Card Reader Keeps You Safe Shopping Online

Cool UK gadget retailer, Firebox, has begun selling the SmartSwipe, a handy USB device which reads, encrypts and transmits your...

Nirvana Revenge In Bloom For iPhone

Nirvana Revenge In Bloom For iPhone

The tragic Kurt Cobain might have left us but this doesn’t mean Nirvana’s record label don’t continue to seek out...

Girls, Not Boys, Drive Download Culture New Info Shows

Girls, Not Boys, Drive Download Culture New Info Shows

Forget preconceived ideas that the techi world's digital destiny is run by the boys, for the boys - it looks...

Cell Phone Robots Make Calling Out Really Bulky and Awkward, But Are Totally Adorable

Cell Phone Robots Make Calling Out Really Bulky and Awkward, But Are Totally Adorable

Robots, man. Freaking robots. Your robotic fix today comes from PhD student Ji-Dong Yim, who has built two cell phone...

A Radio In Your Ball, So You Can Radio While You Ball

A Radio In Your Ball, So You Can Radio While You Ball

Universal axiom: things are way more awesome when they come in ball form. The Teague Radio Ball needs no explanation...

Obama Calls Tech Gadgets ‘Distractions’. Well, YEAH, Is There a Problem With That?

Obama Calls Tech Gadgets ‘Distractions’. Well, YEAH, Is There a Problem With That?

“With iPods and iPads and Xboxes and PlayStations — none of which I know how to work — information becomes...

Mouse App for iPad: Because Multi-Touch is SO Yesterday

Mouse App for iPad: Because Multi-Touch is SO Yesterday

Anyone who's familiar with my posts by now is probably aware I'm not a fan of the iPad. Now, let's...

Weekly geek tool review: The Digital Measuring Tape

Weekly geek tool review: The Digital Measuring Tape

Ok, so yes we might be nerdy, yes we might have a passion for Star Wars, but that doesn't mean...

Hacker Mods His iPhone to Run Android

Hacker Mods His iPhone to Run Android

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJj0kHQgC9w&feature=player_embedded He may not be able to call anyone on his Android-iPhone hybrid, but blogger and erstwhile hacker David Wang...

Star Trek’s Universal Translator is Rendered Real Through Google Goggles

Star Trek’s Universal Translator is Rendered Real Through Google Goggles

Straight outta the Enterprise's engineering lab comes the newly-launched Google Goggles for mobile platforms, which can translate text from photographs...

iPad’s First Spyware is Intentional. Er, what?

iPad’s First Spyware is Intentional. Er, what?

It was only a matter of time before the iPad started seeing spyware surface. But I, for one, sure couldn't...

HP Gambles With Palm, Apple Gains Edge With Siri

HP Gambles With Palm, Apple Gains Edge With Siri

Recently two Silicon Valley giants made big investments in their future. But while HP’s purchase of Palm got all the...

The Droid Really Is All That: Commands Lego, Solves Rubik’s Cube

The Droid Really Is All That: Commands Lego, Solves Rubik’s Cube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZWoAHS120g This isn't the first Rubik's-cube-solving Lego robot that's been viral in the last few months, nor is it the...

And The Whole World Goes Geek: 10% of People Under 25 Say Yes to Texts During Sex

And The Whole World Goes Geek: 10% of People Under 25 Say Yes to Texts During Sex

The headline pretty much says it all. Keep reading anyway. It's true: in a recent study by self-proclaimed ultimate electronics...