Here I sit blogging in my hotel room at the Renaissance in Austin, Texas before a full day of search and social marketing brain dump at Pubcon South. Immediately after that is SXSWi for a few days. A few days after that it’s NYC for a PRSA thing followed by SES New York.  I speak at 15 plus e...

[CrunchGear] OMG, Apple will burn in hell over latest iPod Shuffle Overzealous watchmaker vandalized Lincoln’s watch in 1861 A modest proposal: Radio DJs should ....

What do you get when you mix a glo-plug, a large binder clip, flash cotton, a momentary pushbutton switch, and a few other ingredients? One serious way to get someone's attention! Back in lucky MAKE Volume 13, Joel Johnson showed us how to shoot fireballs from the palm of our hands with the Orpheus ...

Trust the Japanese to come up with the weirder devices in the market - today we'll take a look at the Eye Vibrato. Judging by the name alone, you can tell that this mask will offer some semblance of relief after a long, hard day at work, providing heat, vibration, and four different intensities of p...

Ok, now the iPhone Kindle application is earning its keep–even though it was already free. As mentioned before, The Cook’s Illustrated How-To-Cook Library is freely available from Amazon’s kindle and it’s big. I’m already a big fan of Cook’s Illustrated and Americ...

“Paper is dying, but it’s just a device.” So says Nick Bilton, editor in the New York Times research and development lab. Bilton talked with Wired about what he sees as the future of news delivery, and paper, in his view,  is not going to go away, but it will play a smaller role i...

By Casey Lynn Contributing Writer, [GAS] Whatever your opinion of the Wii as a gaming platform, one thing is for sure: it’s a lot more interesting to watch someone else playing a Wii than the more traditional videogame consoles. Not since the invention of the home DDR mat has there been such o...

• Apple released a new iPod. Isn't it a beauty? But note the proprietary headphones. • Shamwow illustrates the human condition. • Laptop Lifts help keep cool air flowing around your crotch baker. • Behold! Black iPig. • French gadget bags are pretty. • Make your own net...

If I had to choose one store to not do without in Philly, it would probably be Foster's Urban Homeware. I loved their two individual stores, one in Reading Terminal Market and one in Old City, from a few years ago. I love their superstore at 399 Market St. I love to just walk through the store ...

Want to go fast and not pedal too hard? Want to leave fixie mounted hipsters in your dust at stoplights? Want to ride what's essentially an electric moped? If you've got a spare $9,000 to spare — and really who doesn't — you can pick up an Optibike to cart your posterior about town in style. Thi...