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Sushi lovers rejoice! Making sushi at home is usually a messy task, especially trying to tightly pack all the ingredients into the nori and rice, so they don't fall all over the place. Introducing the Sushezi. Simply "stuff some sticky rice and y...

If you didn't head down to Comic-Con and check out the Marvel Cinematic Universe Blu-ray boxed set and its special case for yourself, Marvel has put together a video trailer. From the S.H.I.E.L.D. briefcase itself to the custom artwork and tesseract ...

The "Slo Mo Guys" from YouTube are known for their creative ultra slow motion videos, all shot with a Phantom Flex - capable of shooting 1600-frames-per-second - camera. Their latest stunt involved spending 20-minutes wrapping 500 rubber bands ar...

Kyocera has already committed to launching the Hydro with Boost Mobile next month, but the Rise is still the bridesmaid, and not a bride -- at least, not until a blink-and-you'll-miss-it leak that emerged this weekend. A Twitter update by EV leaks ha...

Have you always wondered what a Super Mario Bros.-themed ski park would look like? If so, then wonder no more, as Kumi Yama has created the first example in the world, complete with warp pipes, coin boxes, flag poles, and more. Continue reading f...

The Financial Times has reported that Nokia is in "exploratory" talks with several European carriers to share revenue for its upcoming Windows Phone 8 handsets in exchange for dedicated support. This would be a shift from its normal modus operandi, w...

Editor’s Note: Nir Eyal is a founder of two startups and an advisor to several Bay Area companies and incubators. He is a Lecturer in Marketing at the Stanford Graduate School of Business and blogs about the intersection of psychology, technology, and business at NirAndFar.com. Follow him on Twitter @nireyal. The belief that products should always be as easy to use as possible is a sacred cow of the tech world. The rise of design thinking, coinciding with beautiful new products like the iPhone, has led some to conclude that creating slick interfaces is a hallmark of great design. But, like all attempts to create absolute rules about how we should interact with technology, the law that design should always decrease the amount of effort users expend doesn't always hold true. In fact, putting users to work is critical in creating products people love.

Editor’s Note: Nir Eyal is a founder of two startups and an advisor to several Bay Area companies and incubators. He is a Lecturer in Marketing at the Stanford Graduate School of Business and blogs about the intersection of psychology, technology, and business at NirAndFar.com. Follow him on Twitter @nireyal. The belief that products should always be as easy to use as possible is a sacred cow of the tech world. The rise of design thinking, coinciding with beautiful new products like the iPhone, has led some to conclude that creating slick interfaces is a hallmark of great design. But, like all attempts to create absolute rules about how we should interact with technology, the law that design should always decrease the amount of effort users expend doesn't always hold true. In fact, putting users to work is critical in creating products people love.

There are some things in life that you just can't avoid, such as procrastinating on a paper. Fortunately, there are a few quick and easy fixes for these problems should they arise. We've rounded up seven of the best for your viewing enjoyment. Co...

Video conferencing startup Vidyo has been working over the past several years to provide a software-based, interoperable service that will allow companies with various disparate video conferencing systems to communicate with one another. Now it's making that capability available to even more businesses, with the launch of VidyoWay, which provides free, multi-vendor and multi-party video conferencing. VidyoWay provides an easy way for users to connect their own video conferencing systems with those from industry leaders Cisco, Polycom, and Lifesize, as well as other H.323 and SIP-based room systems, Microsoft Lync clients, and mobile devices. The result is unified communications and interconnectivity without having to worry about legacy installed systems from multiple vendors.