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If this Nerd Energy Drink could actually increase memory retention and "brain focus" as its makers claim, it would probably sell for $100 a can. But heck, if it makes you think you feel sharper,...

Ash over at Kotaku has the scoop on a tarted-up PSP supposedly headed our way sometime soon. According to his sources, the new PSP isn't PSP2, but a slimmer, faster version of the original. The PSP...

For those of you with short memories, Sony and Nintendo were working together in the mid '90s on a CD-based Nintendo console when negotiations fell apart and both Japanese companies went their...

What better way to celebrate Father's Day (Sunday, June 17th) than a good old lightsaber fight? Here's the next best thing, a Hasbro Star Wars Father's Day card with figurines of Darth Vader and...

Now those eggheads at MIT have done something truly magic, figuring out a way to send power seven feet away, and look ma, no wires. Their trick uses resonant coupling, turning electricity into...

Remember that Astute-class nuclear submarine that looked like a whale? Well, scrap that, because it really looks like a Calamari Cruiser or a Zentraedi mothership. At least, that's what people must...

Kids who don't want to go to bed when it gets dark now have an alternative: swinging on glowing slabs in unlighted parks. The Swing Lamp is a concept by BCXSY, a joint endeavor by designers Boaz...

Park this Auto LED flashlight by Coast in your car's cigarette lighter, and it stands at the ready whenever you need to shine some light on the subject. It sucks power from that accessory outlet,...

Charlie had a first encounter with it at PMA'07, but Simon Joinson from Digital Photography Review now has an exhaustive review on the Canon TX1, the camera with personality problems. The video...

You been hurtin' for a DS browser for soooo long. Well, guess what? It's finally here. That's not to say it's going to change your life or anything. Super-early reviews were not so psyched. Still, a...

For mothers who simply aren't going fast enough when carting around their pint-sized overlords, a German company offers the Mama Board. Apparently, it latches to the rear axle of any stroller, after...

The UK city of Liverpool is playing host to a rather kooky piece of artwork for the next 18 months. Called Turning The Place Over (I do hope that's not a reference to Scousers being nifty burglars)...

JVC's monster 110-inch hybrid-tech HDTV is now available for sale. Yep, get your credit card ready and sit the kids down, as they're not getting help paying for college anymore. This $53,000 behemoth...

Internet devices are popping up all over the place nowadays, and the latest comes from the folks at EB. It reminds us of the Amtek a little bit...and the OQO2 a lot...but this one will pack Mobile...

Big ups to our sponsors this week who consistently keep us clothed, fed, and inebriated throughout the weekend. We raise a glass to Amazon Unbox, AT&T, Audi, Cazadores Tequila, Canon, Casio, Don...

A total rethinking of the traditional fold-up table and chair with, it appears, whole new ways to pinch your fingers in the process. Note: Failure to operate with black turtleneck and air of...

Of all the things that you need to keep locked up and secure, how far down the list is your console gaming controller? Is it even on the list? Yeah, it's not on mine either. But hey, apparently some...

So you got your Darth Vader phone, your Star Wars lightsaber, and if you're lucky, maybe you got one of these figures. Now you can pair all of that with the ultimate Star Wars accessory, a Darth...

Looking for some DirectX 10 action on the cheap? The guys at ExtremeTech are claiming Nvidia will release a sub-$100 GeForce 8400 card on the 19th of June. It'll come in 256MB ($79) and 128MB ($50)...

Admit it, you've always been jealous of console gamers getting all the chicks, living the high life, while you, you're stuck in line at the post office, utterly dominating Bejeweled, yet nobody...

Once a year in Tokyo, Sony invites some lucky people to check out the super-secret stuff their Computer Science Laboratories (CSL) have been cooking up. What's the CSL? It's the R&D division that...

Good old NASA is giving their Mars Rover a hardcore makeover. The next-gen Rover (the Mars Science Laboratory) is gonna weigh in at 1,800 pounds and pack rock-crushing lasers. As a matter of fact,...

I don't know if I like these wood-made peripherals by Marubeni Infotec or not. I mean, take this beautiful keyboard: I love the clean lines, the nice texture and the great clickity-clack sound it...

Typically, the most shoddy work journalists put out is the ubiquitous trendspotting piece. And today's NY Times article, "To Appeal to Women, Too, Gadgets Go Beyond 'Cute' and 'Pink,' " excels at...

You following this Monster Cable debate we've been having? They showed us some tested differences between their cables and the cheap stuff. One issue I have with the test is that they used...

Sony's $300 Bravia Internet Video Link hits stores this July. It's one of the most elegant systems yet availablevailable that delivers Internet video to the TV. Your first question: What Internet video...

Remember when we gave you deets on the new Parallels 3.0 last week? Good news: it's done and released already. So if you've been waiting for it with sweaty anticipation, clean yourself up and go grab...

Multitaskers rejoice, Intel is going to start using seperate decoders for HD DVD and Blu-ray playback in certain versions of their Santa Rosa chips. Now your pewny graphics card won't have put up...

Own a Mac? Get a copy of DivX Pro free, today only. Don't own a Mac? What the hell, grab a copy anyway. You never know when you'll get one/sell it to someone for $5. – Jason Chen Update: Not...

According to sources very familiar with Apple displays and MacBook development, there is no discernible difference between CCFL MacBook Pro displays and the new LED MacBook Pro displays. All the...

Businessweek claims two sources told them Apple will have 3 million iPhones ready for the launch on June 29. This is an absurdly high number. For comparison, Nintendo's Wii had 1 Million units. The...

Some of you might recall my recent article about Monster Cable. If you read it through, you'd remember it as the piece that outlined Monster's more credible scientific claims, culminating in my sober...

We seriously don't know how you IBM keyboard lovers get any work done when it sounds like Optimus Prime pleasuring himself with a jackhammer. Us? We like things quiet. Quiet like this Thanko Silent...

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The problem we had with buying a whole bunch of backup laptop batteries for CES and liveblogging was that we could only charge them inside the laptops themselves. This means waking up in the middle...

This is much better than the Apple Bearbricks. It's Jack Bauer. Enough said. P.S. Please don't make next season suck as bad as this one. – Jason Chen Product Page [HMV]

Laptops are much more convenient than desktops in most cases, but there are still some things you can do with a desktop that make laptop users such as myself jealous. Like having three monitors, for...

Remember when we talked about inconsistent Blu-ray BD-Java implementation and how it would cause problems for users? This video illustrates what we mean. A guy recorded himself updating the firmware...

If we had to name the most ridiculous phone concept yet, this Yo Yo phone would probably be in the top three. Not only is it shaped like a Yo Yo (or maybe even an ice cream sandwich), you wrap your...

Got three minutes to kill? Check out this video of an extreme closeup of how a watch works. It's very odd, and unless you were a watchmaker, something you've never seen before. Careful not to watch...

We've seen portable battery packs before, but XPower's Xantrex Mobile Mini charges two things at once. Two. That's double the amount of things charged as one. Just FYI. The Mobile Mini has a USB...