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Where Were You?
I was sitting on an uncomfortable wooden stool in an Apple Store, holding my iPhone. My butt was hurting.
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OMG APPLE CAN I PLEASE MERGE MY APPLE ID AND MOBILEME ACCOUNTS FOR ICLOUD
I'm super excited for iCloud but I'm still wondering what the hell I'm going to do with my two separate Apple ID accounts: my original one, which I made to buy stuff on iTunes—and still use to buy...
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Your First Look at Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich Happens Oct. 19th
Google and Samsung have put their Ice Cream Sandwich and Nexus Prime Galaxy back on the table, confirming the announcement will go down in Hong Kong six days from now, on Oct. 19 at 3am London-time....
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3D Gaming on PCs Is Looking Bigger and Brighter (Literally)
I would be lying if I said I was going to rush out to buy a new PC and 3D monitor so I can stab zombies in the brain in 3D, but I can honestly tell you Nvidia's 3D Vision 2 is much better than the...
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Canon 1D X: Quite Possibly the Most Epic DSLR Ever
There's a lot of reasons the 1D X might be the most ridiculous DSLR ever made, but the numbers seem like a good place to start. A full-frame 18-megapixel sensor. ISO 204,800. 12fps RAW shooting....
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The Nerdiest Thing I’ve Ever Wanted
Wi-Fi sucks. Well, it sucks if your router is lurking in a subterranean realm of your flat and your gaming rig is located aboveground with an iron staircase in between the two and you don't want to run...
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HTC Titan II: Your Favourite Gargantuan Windows Phone, But With a Titanic...
It just came out. The Titan, I mean. But here's the Titan II. Which is more titanic than before, with a gigantic 16-megapixel camera. Holy god.
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The Best of CES: Day 0
CES didn't officially kick off until today, but by the end of the day yesterday, we'd seen so many amazing giant TVs and little-giant phones and little-little ultrabooks that our eyes are ready to...
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I Just Held the Future of PC Gaming in My Hands and It’s Called Project Fiona
Just stop me when this sounds ridiculous: A tablet. Built for gaming. Like, really built for gaming. With twin analogue joysticks. That are permanently built into it. That's Razer's Project Fiona. And...
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The New Windows 8 First Touch: This Is Windows?
It doesn't sound like particularly shimmery compliment, but the best thing that I can say about Microsoft's Metro UI is that after over a year of using it in various iterations, it still feels new. Not...
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How to Cover a Ginormous Show With a Million Gadgets in the Middle of the...
Covering something as massive and amazing and crushing and utterly divorced from reality as CES is half art, half science, and if you want to do it well, all heart.
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Bodum’s Automatic Pourover Coffee Machine Isn’t Just Prettier Than Yours—It’s...
Okay, it's official: Pourover coffee is over, thanks to Bodum's new pourover machine. Just kidding. Sort of. But Bodum's new Bistro Pourover is one supremely interesting home coffee device.
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Mass Effect 3 Kinect Voice On: You’re About to Start Yelling at Your TV for a...
Kinect launched a little over a year ago. I'll bet you can't name very many games for it, and if you can, they probably fall in one of two or three categories: sports/exercise and dance, and they're...
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A Story About Apple and Textbooks
It was almost definitely not the first time Apple thought about how to revolutionise textbooks and education, but Joe Peters and a couple of Apple interns won its annual iContest, "sort of an American...
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Chemistry and Sugar: The Secrets of a Great Pastry Chef
Cooking is science, as Momofuku's David Chang says. But perhaps no branch more so than the arcane practices of pastry chefs—it's all chemistry and physics.
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Designing Windows 8, or: How to Redesign a Religion
There are lot of hard jobs at Microsoft. Like the guy who collects Steve Ballmer's dry cleaning. But Sam Moreau just might have the hardest gig in Redmond. Or at least the most harrowing. Over the past...
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Braun BNC400 Alarm Clock Lightning Review: How to Ruin Good Design
I have something of a sleep problem. Or I guess, more accurately, a waking up problem. And my alarm clock died. So I bought this re-issue of Braun's Dietrich Labs and Dieter Rams-designed BNC004 travel...
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Where Microsoft Prints Out Prototype Xbox Controllers—and Then Tortures Them
It's kind of striking just how much this room looks like every other workshop I've ever set foot into. Plain, unassuming. Exposed concrete and wood. Power tools. Work tables. Dust. But this is where...
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Seagate Momentus XT Solid State Hybrid Drive Lightning Review: A Taste of...
My computer takes too long to boot up. Around a minute and 18 seconds, to be precise(r). Which is why I want a solid state drive. But I don't want to pay ~£400 for 256 gigs of storage. Enter Seagate's...
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Razer Blade Review: Sharp, But…
There's something fundamentally broken in the world of PC laptops: Machines designed nearly four years ago still provide the basic model for how to build one correctly today. The Razer Blade is, in...
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