The new iPod Shuffle's capacity has been doubled to 4GB, and now the minuscule music player doesn't have a control wheel. But how will you ever reign over your music? Simple -- with controls on the earbud cord. WHEE! The new design keeps the clip and adds VoiceOver -- a new feature that gets around ...

That's right, thanks to Kazuhiro Taniguchi of Osaka University, soon stopping the music on your iPod will be as simple as sticking out your ass-shaped tongue. The Ear Switch looks like a normal set of headphones, according to an Agence France Press report, but includes a set of sensors that allows i...

Image via CrunchBase The UK / EU web is buzzing with the news that Youtube (Google) has started to block or remove UK music videos because they have not been able to strike a new music licensing deal with the PRS-For-Music, the UK rights society which represents the songwriters and the publishers. I...

This week the random gaze of Clutter Control fell on a recent album by a group of local hard rockers...

Wall Street Journal: The Dutch are embarking on a decades-long plan to improve their flood-control system because they're afraid that rising sea levels from global warming will threaten their low-lying country. The effort, which the government says could cost EUR1 billion ($1.27 billion) a year thro...

Filed under: Audio/Video, iPod For some reason, whenever gadgetry and smiling cross paths, things tend to get a little creepy. Where the smile trainer was mostly a curiosity, the Orwellian implications of the Okao Catch technology were a bit much -- even for the hardened tech blogger. Sure, the Mimi...

Wall Street Journal: The Dutch are embarking on a decades-long plan to improve their flood-control system because they're afraid that rising sea levels from global warming will threaten their low-lying country. The effort, which the government says could cost EUR1 billion ($1.27 billion) a year thro...

My clients often tell me that they waste too much time at work. There seems to be a common belief among ADDers that they spend too much time screwing around, while everyone else focuses intently and works productively all day long. I've always asserted that this simply isn't true! Everyone slacks of...

Quite often, among our friends or acquaintances, there is someone who has astonished - or appalled! - us with a few magic tricks. The Ease of Learning and Performing Basic Magic Tricks Most children and adult libraries have a selection of books on the how-to of a wide range of magic tricks. These sh...

Quite often, among our friends or acquaintances, there is someone who has astonished - or appalled! - us with a few magic tricks. The Ease of Learning and Performing Basic Magic Tricks Most children and adult libraries have a selection of books on the how-to of a wide range of magic tricks. These sh...