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If you own a modern Android smartphone, there's a reasonable chance you're familiar with MHL for video out to a TV. The format saves the trouble of adding an extra port, but it's really only intended for HDMI-based destinations and occasionally runs ...

Sure, it's both awesome and creepy at the same time, but this custom-built human skull-shaped electric violin doesn't come cheap. You'll have to shell out $3000 to Stratton Violin for one of their Stratton Skull 5-String Electric Violins. Continu...

Back in the 1920s, Thomas Edison's dream of an electric automobile was ultimately foiled by those meddling petroleum engines. But thanks to nanotube research from Stanford University, one legacy from that era may regain some glory: nickel-iron batteri...

Looks like town and gown communities will be among the first to experience "super WiFi," the high-speed broadband made possible, in part, by TV. After getting the FCC nod back in the fall of 2010, the white spaces harboring these unused television fr...

Looks like town and gown communities will be among the first to experience "super WiFi," the high-speed broadband made possible, in part, by TV. After getting the FCC nod back in the fall of 2010, the white spaces harboring these unused television fr...

In 1995, long before Tom Cruise was waving his hands around in now eerily true-to-life vision of the future that was "Minority Report," another science fiction drama was also painting a picture of the darker side of technology. In director Kathryn Bigelow's "Strange Days," (written by James Cameron and Jay Cocks), people and the technology they used to record their lives had practically merged.

You don't need much to live comfortably, as Rishi Sowa proves. He used 100,00 plastic bottles wrapped in fruit bags, along with some wooden pallets to create a private floating island in Mexico. This floating paradise has all that needs to get by...

There's no love lost between Android and Apple users, or at least among the fanboys and fangirls. The flamewar between the passionate adopters of the top two mobile operating systems has persisted for awhile now, even in spite of our pleas for a detente. Luckily, one startup is on a mission to bridge the gap between the Open and Walled Gardens, so that we can all join hands and walk off into the sunset. At Google I/O today, BlueStacks staged a mock wedding between Android and Apple as the backdrop for the launch of its Android App Player for Mac -- software that aims to bring 400K+ Android apps to iOS.

Virtually every corner of the Google universe is being touched at Google I/O, and that now includes Google Drive. A version 2 update to the Drive SDK gives Android and iOS developers the option of building the cloud storage into their mobile apps, wh...

This may look like a soundstage for an upcoming movie, but it's actually Inventionland, one of the coolest - if not the coolest - workplaces ever. This company invents nearly 2,000 new items each year, and the environment they've created for thei...