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Google TV has helped bring some recognition to TV that is web-based in the home even if the major networks have gelded the service by blocking it from accessing their websites for streaming content. The Android TV from Swedish firm People of Lava are different than Google TV and all run Android 1.5 for the operating system. The things are [...]

We talked a bit about the PLX Devices XWave back in September when the brainwave interface first surfaced. Last Christmas toys for kids that were controlled using the brain were popular and sold with Star Wars branding and under other brands. The XWave is very much like those toys in that it turns the brain into an interface for the [...]

It's been a tough couple of weeks for the world's two premier builders of large commercial jets. An Airbus A380, the new crown jewel in Airbus's fleet, suffered an engine explosion after taking off from Singapore earlier this month, forcing a harrowing emergency landing. Then a test-flight of Boeing's 787 Dreamliner had to make an emergency landing after smoke filled [...]

Boeing has received the first signals from SkyTerra 1, a communications satellite it built for LightSquared that was hurled into orbit aboard a Proton rocket launched from Kazakhstan yesterday. The satellite, which will provide signal coverage where terrestrial towers can't reach, is part of a new LightSquared 4G-LTE mobile broadband wireless system and boasts the largest antenna reflector ever launched [...]

Proporta has announced a new case for the iPhone 4 that has a battery pack inside to extend the runtime of the device. The case is called the TurboCharger Back Pack. The device has an internal 1700mAh battery pack that can store enough power to completely recharge the iPhone 4 one time. That should mean about twice the runtime for [...]

When the multinational corporation began tempting us to purchase a network-connected camera to place in our living rooms, the Orwellian parts of us should have predicted this: Microsoft is hinting that it would like to use the Kinect to better target its content to users. That means gathering data from the camera – everything from basic demographics to what shirt [...]

When my son was an infant, he would be fine if you took a single pic of him with flash. If you shot a second picture, you could bet he was going to cry. The bright flash scared him, many babies are like that, and some pets and adults are too. If you want to take your pics this holiday [...]