By David Ponce You gotta think we’ve achieved some new kind of sophistication as a species when you see a product like this. It’s quite simply some toilet paper that’s been treated with heaven knows what chemical in order to glow in the dark. Perfect for power outages as the website...

Macrovision is on the move. The company has changed its name to Rovi, unveiled a media guide called Liquid, and is partnering with Blockbuster OnDemand. Liquid seeks to solve the problem of digital-content overload. The media guide aims to connect consumers to entertainment content on the Internet and...

In late May, Microsoft unveiled Bing, its new Internet search engine, in front of an audience of skeptics: technology executives and other digerati who had gathered near San Diego for an industry conference. To that crowd, Microsoft’s efforts to take on Google and Yahoo in the search business had...

The emissary from Google came bearing a PowerPoint presentation. As the Ocean Spray team at ad agency Arnold Worldwide squeezed into a small conference room in its Boston headquarters, Jim Norton, Google’s Boston agency team manager, plugged in his laptop. “We want to help you any way we...

By Andrew Liszewski I don’t really see what’s stopping you from using this indoors, but the Weathershield BackPack Roller System from Dulux is actually designed to be used for sprucing up the outside of your home where ladders and hard to reach places makes painting particularly difficult....

By Shane McGlaun It seems like every other device that comes out today is designed to allow streaming of media from the Internet to your TV. The feature is being included in many Blu-ray players, new HDTVs, and some game consoles can stream content as well. Syabas has announced a new settop box called...

By Shane McGlaun Despite the swine flu, there are still lots of people who have to travel internationally for business or even for fun. I can understand, I wouldn’t let some pork disease keep me from working or going on that vacation to Italy. An even bigger problem for travelers than swine flu is...

By Evan Ackerman When it comes to charging gadgets, the most important criteria has to be versatility. Maybe you’ll find yourself near an outlet. Maybe you’ll find yourself with some AA batteries . Maybe you’ll find yourself drunk . Or maybe you’ll find yourself out in the sun,...

By Chris Scott Barr While yesterday’s support note didn’t specifically call out the Palm Pre by name, it was pretty obvious what they were talking about. Well Palm was listening, so now they have posted a rebuttal, which is below: Palm’s media sync works with the current version of...

By Chris Scott Barr It’s Monday, which means most people are back at work and not very happy about it. How was your weekend? Did you notice anything different when you turned on your TV? A bit of snow perhaps? Something tells me that you guys were smart enough to either upgrade your TV or buy...

By Chris Scott Barr Radar detectors are nothing new. Sure, they’ve gotten their fair share of upgrades to keep up with the latest police equipment, but how effective are they against speed and red-light cameras? I don’t know of any that are able to warn you of either device, which might...

By Shane McGlaun The digital transition finally happens tomorrow. I am looking forward to it because that will mean that those analog airwaves will be available for the wireless companies to start building out that nationwide broadband plan they talked about. I would love to get off my crappy DSL provider...