TechGrinch Was Not Impressed By Google’s “Jingle Bells” Doodle

When I visited Google.com this morning, I was as excited as the kids sprinting from bed to tree. But all I found was a lump of sonic coal. Oh joy, after months of Christmas music, I get to hear a crummy elevator music version of "Jingle Bells" one more time? *sigh*

But wait, is it a game where I guess

Sony sells its stake in Samsung LCD team-up for $939 million

Sony and Samsung have decided to part ways on their seven-year-old LCD venture. Possibly due to Sony’s recent struggles in the increasingly competitive world of TV division, Samsung will buy up its 50 percent share for around $939 million. The Japanese company has agreed to a new strategic agreement

Tetris played on microscopic level with lasers, thanks to Amsterdam’s rigorous curriculum (video)

Ostensibly speaking, it appears that university goers in the Netherlands have a bit too much time on their hands. You see, in between visits to coffee shops, students at VU University Amsterdam have developed a way to play Tetris with lasers, or in this case, a light-trapping device known as optical

Entrevista con Jung Edward

El director tecnológico de Intellectual Ventures cree que necesitamos un nuevo modelo de innovación para resolver los mayores problemas.

Human Birdwings combines Wiimote, smartphone in DIY flying initiative (video)

Somewhere, somehow, the Wright Brothers are smiling. Jarnos Smeets, a mechanical engineer from the Netherlands, has been plugging away on his Human Birdwings project for many, many months now, and his latest breakthroughs are absolutely worthy of a peek. Put simply, the bloke has married an HTC Wildfire

How would you change Logitech’s Harmony Link?

Remote controls suck, but touchscreen phones and tablets aren’t smart enough to replace them, yet. Logitech’s Harmony Link is there to bridge the gap between your WiFi device and TV, but we found it inflexible, unreliable and unspectacular. Some of those issues might have been fixed in the recent update

LG’s 55-inch ‘world’s largest’ OLED HDTV panel is official, coming to CES 2012

We only have a few more days left until the festivities truly kick off at CES 2012 in Las Vegas, but LG has already tipped its hand with a press release promising the "world’s largest" OLED panel for the show. We’ve seen smaller screens from LG before and it had already promised a 55-inch OLED HDTV for

XDA dev provides means to block Nook Tablet OTA updates

Worried that an OTA update will put a crimp in your Nook Tablet modding activities? Then you may want to follow the lead of xda-developers member Indirect, who has managed to tweak the tablet to block all OTA updates and kindly provided the means for you to do the same. That involves installing a few

Inhabitat’s Week in Green: hydrogen fuel cell-powered laptop, hybrid buses and bioluminescent bacteria

Each week our friends at Inhabitat recap the week’s most interesting green developments and clean tech news for us — it’s the Week in Green.

The newswires were buzzing with alternative energy developments this week as Inhabitat reported that Apple filed a patent for a hydrogen fuel cell-powered

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