You might think that tool makers come up with a new product and then put it on sale, leaving it there indefinitely. After all, if you're like me your power tools are vintage models -- ancient but still going strong. In fact, tools are subject to the same incremental updates as any other gadget, and ...

Last week, Palm investor Roger McNamee said this in an interview with Bloomberg: “You know the beautiful thing: June 29, 2009, is the two- year anniversary of the first shipment of the iPhone. Not one of those people will still be using an iPhone a month later.� Gadget Lab reader Theglenvoid com...

This picture shows, quite astonishingly, a real iPhone. It is one of two prototypes currently for sale on Ebay, although this is the only one that works. The phone that works is pretty neat to use. It does make calls (with my ATT sim), and I can surf the net.  However when I did get to web page...

Berlin is a curious place, a city with an extraordinary amount of layered textures. This is most obvious in the bars and streets, where you see old, peeling walls and graffiti alongside organic produce and gleaming coffee machines. It is also seen in the city's tech, most interesting of which is lef...

We love it when you guys take our how-to posts and make them better. In fact, that's one of the reasons we started the Gadget Lab Flickr Pool, as a place for you to show off your gadgeteering. This time, though, Gadget Lab reader Wilfurd has posted the results of his home made stealth camera bag on ...

Forget the $10 laptop from India. Down in Venezuala, Hugo Chavez is planning to make a cheap cellphone for his democratically-challenged subjects. The handset, to be named El Vergatario, will cost the equivalent of $14 and will contain an MP3 player, a camera and a radio. This seems like a smart mov...

This yummy looking keyboard is not, sadly, a Bluetooth accessory for the LG Chocolate. It would, though, be the perfect romantic geek-gift for the sweet-toothed nerd in your life. Teclado de chocolate blanco [Noquedanblogs]...

One neat feature of Apple's new Time Capsule and Airport Extreme base stations is the ability to access them remotely via Mobile Me's Back to My Mac service (stop sniggering at the back -- we know Back to My Mac doesn't work, even with hard-wired drives). Previously, Back to My Mac would only fail t...

The Boston Globe's Big Picture is probably one of last year's best new blogs, featuring in-depth galleries of news events. The twist is that the photos are huge (you'll be hitting the maximize button on your browser window) and that the picture editors choose some exquisite images. Normally the Gadg...

The best, nerdiest and probably funniest cartoon from the stickman comic XKCD was the sandwich strip seen above. If you don't get it, then it doesn't matter. If you do get it, it is quite amazingly hilarious. Sadly, trying it out in real life won't work -- it's about as likely a transition from comi...