I'm sitting in Leah Buechley's Lilypad Electronic Fashion tutorial. Where we'll be playing with Lilypad Arduino kits, a collection of sewable electronic pieces that lets you build soft electronic devices. Essentially it's a specially packaged Arduino, a sewable computer. The materials are strange an...

I must admint that netbooks are a tech that puzzled me somewhat.  For a time I felt they were too small and, more importantly for me, too underpowered.  Of course, what I was thinking about were mini laptops that I tested over the years - there was no netbook category.  They were ultraportable la...

Over the years I have tried a number of tablet PCs in an attempt to have something that I could write my notes on and they'd then exist on my computer.  Try and try again, no matter what devices I've tried, the promise of enhanced note taking just hasn't been there for me unfortunately.  This lack...

Bra manufacturer Vanity Fair has created an all-girl band who are contractually obligated to perform topless except for their bras, according to Ad Age. The Vassarettes (pictured) have only one song (see video below), but two YouTube videos and an elaborate web site. They sound a bit like the Donnas...

How social are these mega social networks? Well social enough for Facebook to have courted Twitter most recently...to only be rebuffed as a lustful suitor too eager to get to third base before the first pitch ......

The 9-11 attack was a significant event that changed the way individuals, organizations and governments viewed privacy, personal rights and security. Some think that in our effort to feel more secure, we were willing to give up too much, while others believe that without security, little else matter...

Lunch talks at the Berkman Center usually promise a challenging room, filled with smart people asking tough questions. But it’s rare that speakers have as tough an act to follow as Peter Semmelhack of Bug Labs whose lunch talk fell directly on the tail of President Obama’s inaugural addr...

pureSilicon is announcing the highest-density SSD available today—the 1TB Nitro Series. This represents a major advance for the storage industry since it combines maximum density with high performance and low power demand. Four of these drives deliver 4TB in the same space as a standard 3.5-inch H...

Micro-Star Int'l has announced the MSI U115 Hybrid , a 10-inch mini laptop with Hybrid Storage technology that combines solid state drive and hard drive storage....

Believe it or not, with advances in SSD (Solid State Drives), they just might. read more...