December 16, 2010

Spabba is a service quickly put together by Blippy co-founder Philip Kaplan to help you preserve all of your Del.ic.io.us bookmarks, in case its days are numbered. Kaplan wrote most of…

This would be one of those “once in a lifetime” opportunities. Nikon has announced a contest that will allow an aspiring photographer to go on an exclusive photo excursion with…

Just hours after LG’s unveiling of the dual-core, Android-powered Optimus 2X, a different Android-powered LG superphone rocketed out of the rumor mill: the LG “B”. In a totally out-of-character move…

We’ll file this one in the Duh drawer of the Department of Obvious Things. It turns out that Apple’s self-branded batteries, which are of course just Sanyo Eneloops with a…

Intel and AMD have agreed to phase our their support for VGA by 2013, and expect it to disappear completely by 2015. Sad news, but it had to happen sometime.

Is it just me, or is this iPod watchband thing getting old? Jobs makes one off-hand comment during a product announcement and suddenly a cottage industry pops up.

While this thing looks for all the world like a late night infomercial product, I don’t see why it shouldn’t work. After all, gripping the iPad isn’t the most natural…

It’s that time again… and iFixit is sending another gadget to the big parts bin in the sky. This time around it’s the much-hyped Nexus S. But isn’t it basically…

Short Version: The Dodocase is about as close to perfection as iPad cases get. The materials are beautiful, and the craftsmanship is spectacular. It has a few quirks inherent to…

Ever been confused at a restaurant in a foreign country and wish you could just scan your menu with your iPhone and get an instant translation? Well as of today…

When the British Prime Minister announced that the East of London would become an officially recognised technology cluster for the UK, there were two reactions in the tech community. One…

OH NOES! Stargate Universe got an NBC-issued boot right in the ol’ fart maker. The remaining episodes will be aired in the spring, but then it will come to an…

About a month ago, we wrote about how the TikTok and LunaTik multi-touch watch kits were about to become the all-time leader in funding through Kickstarter, the crowdsourced fundraising startup.…

After many long months of waiting, the Ple0rb (Pleo Reborn, I guess they’re trying to say) is ready to ship. If you recall, the Pleo was the fun little dinosaur…

A competition for water-related clean tech startups, Imagine H2O, announced its 2010 finalists today. The competition focuses on water startups that save energy, especially in the areas of sourcing, distributing,…

Tsovet makes some nice avator-inspired timepieces. That’s a fact. The Tsovet CS79 is one of them with a massive casing, unique face, and great price point of $425. But the…

MODERN TIMES from BC2010 on Vimeo. Click through for the behind the scenes video, which is just as impressive.

When I started reading the headline over at the EU Playstation Blog, I thought “This is it! They’re announcing all that new stuff we’ve heard about! The Playstation phone cometh!”…

We wrote about the Foursquare for websites OneTrueFan, at the startup’s launch at TechCrunch Disrupt in September. After three months in Alpha, OneTrueFan is opening its doors and launching in…

We were lucky enough to be one of the first outlets to have the exclusive Hyundai Equus for a long-term review. It turned out to be an awesome ride, but…

Wikleaks head Julian Assange is to be freed on bail today. He will leave either from the High Court (pictured, with Media Scrum) or from Wandsworth Prison Prison, either today…

When I think of Booq, I tend to think of their roomy, semi-rigid backpacks, but this handsome messenger bag might change the way I think of them. It’s in the…

Bad news, sports fans. It looks like Square Enix has had to delay to the release of Deus Ex: Human Revolution from early 2011 to sometime in April. And that’s…

White label daily deals platform and TC Disrupt finalist Chompon today launches what it is calling an “Adsense platform for daily deals.” Rolling out today is a new Chompon affiliate…

AdTaily, the self-service advertising network, has launched its global marketplace for advertisers. It builds on top of the company’s existing self-serve ad widget for publishers which lets them sell ads…

I posted a story earlier today about a cool company called Bonobos, which makes better-fitting hipster pants and just raised $18.5 million in funding. I did an extensive interview with…

Presenting… a new trailer of Valve’s Portal 2! You know you love it.

A new study, Digital Music Nation 2010, published by the British Phonographic Industry (the BPI, essentially their version of the RIAA) says that Britons download four times as many songs…

Research from mobile ad network provider InMobi has found that iPhone OS currently dominates the European mobile ad market with a 31.9% share, while Nokia’s share has slide to 19.7%,…

Gift giving can be so hard, especially if you have a bunch of hipster friends who turn their noses at anything even slightly pedestrian. (“A box of See’s Candy that…