Homemade Shock Collar Peripheral Adds a New Dimension to Gaming

More About: Gaming, hacking, sega genesis, trending

Lenovo IdeaPad U410 (Intel Core i5, Ivy Bridge) Review

Lenovo has launched its latest line of IdeaPads, and they’re targeted directly at the mainstream consumer. The Lenovo IdeaPad U410 comes with an eye-catching colored aluminum chassis – we received one in Sapphire Blue, but the U410 is also available in Graphite Grey and Ruby Red – but is this laptop

Unbaby.me? Unfriend.me Instead

Seriously, people? Unbaby.me? You hate seeing baby pictures on Facebook so much that you have to use a Chrome extension to block them? Look, I get it. Parents and non-parents sort of can’t stand each other. For god’s sake, we can’t even hang out at the same bar together without it turning into some kind

Mobile Miscellany: week of July 30th, 2012

Not all mobile news is destined for the front page, but if you’re like us and really want to know what’s going on, then you’ve come to the right place. This past week, the Galaxy Nexus for Sprint and Verizon Wireless each became available for free, while in the MVNO world, Simple Mobile dropped the price

‘Simon’s Cat’ Partakes in the Animal Olympics [VIDEO]

More About: YouTube, cats, trending, viral videos

Predictors Of The Fundraising Market

Editor’s Note: This is Redpoint VC Tomasz Tunguz’s third article in a series examining trends in the public and private technology markets. (Here are one and two.)

It is widely believed that the stock market is a leading health indicator for the venture industry. In reality, however, the performance

AT&T Will Shut Down 2G Wireless Network in Five Years

More About: 2G, 3g, 4G, ATT Wireless

TakkTile turns digital barometers into open-source robot touch sensors

Freescale Semiconductor’s MPL115A2 is a tiny thing that will sit quite comfortably on the tip of your finger. It’s hard not to marvel at the engineering that went into the creation of something so small, yet so sensitive. The little metal square is minute enough to be plunked into a cell phone, offering

iPad Mini rear shell spotted in the wild

Well this is interesting: as we’re being inundated with rumors that Apple is set to reveal an iPad Mini, pictures of what appear to be the rear shell of such a device have surfaced on the Internet. The photos you see below were originally posted by Chinese microblogging site Sina Weibo and later

Fly Or Die: iCases!

It’s almost silly to own an iPad or iPhone without a case — they’re such fragile devices. But not every case is a good one. In fact, we learned in this episode of Fly or Die that not every case even fits.

We decided to look at TwelveSouth’s BookBook iPhone case, Hard Candy’s BubbleSlider iPhone