Filed under: Editor's Picks, Switched Video SHOP HOP: In this new series, the Switched Video crew will be touring shops around the country in search of great gadgets and gear. For the first episode, we show up at AC Gears in New York City to sample some of its newer wares: AC Gears in New York City ...

Filed under: Computers So imagine this -- you're sitting at your desk. You decided to skip the bra, because it's summer and pretty warm out. But, of course, some jerk at the office has the AC blasting. It's probably about 50 degrees in the office, and now the girls are getting a bit chilly. So you o...

Filed under: Computers Trying to parse the vagaries of the economic future may be as difficult as peering into a fortune teller's crystal ball - but many Japanese are forking over their hard-earned Yen to do just that, even while cutting back on other expenses. Zappallas Inc. is a Japanese company t...

Filed under: Editor's Picks, Holiday Gift Guide 2008 Looking for something sleek and cool and design-y that can pretty much guarantee you won't find anywhere else? (That is, unless you feel like schlepping all the way to Tokyo, and then schlepping all the way back with a heavy paper shredder.) If th...

Filed under: Food and Drink, North America, United States, News It is kind of sad when a country needs to wrap a reality show around foreign travel. At the same time, if this is the way to get more Americans to travel abroad, more power to ABC. ABC has ordered a new unscripted show from the producer...

Filed under: Audio/Video, TV Back in October, Sony wowed us with delicious pictures of a ridiculously thin television, the XEL-1 OLED TV. Its screen enclosure was just three millimeters (about .1-inches!) thick -- or thin rather. Okay, so it's only 11-inches across, meaning you wouldn't want to make...