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Now We Feel Old!: "Things Your Kids May Never Know"

I was born in the 1980's. I'm hardly entering mid-life, let alone applying for my AARP card. But Wired has found a way to make my twenty-something years feel like a lifetime. The online magazine's tec...

Color-Shift Particles: The Future of Outdoor Displays

The outdoor home theater of the future is going to be super-high-tech if this new display technology catches on: Tiny nanoparticles that shift colors in response to external changing magnetic fields. ...

Side Wired Desk: Saves You the Trouble of Bending Over

We all have problems with wires. In a perfect world, everything would be unplggd, but since we can't have that yet, we have to find other solutions to manage the mess of wires that are found underneat...

Use Twitter to Keep Motivated Through Dirty Work

CNN news producer Peter Wilkinson and Latitude Group CEO Alex Hoye recently ran the London Marathon. It's a great feat to finish the 26-mile marathon, but possibly the coolest thing about their journe...

Close-Up: Working from the Road
Part One

click for more pics As many of you may already know, when I'm not blogging I occasionally write for more traditional fare – magazines. In the April issue of Wired I wrote a guide of sorts on how to ...

Switching Up the Office Layout

Maybe it hasn't happened at your workspace, but all around America offices are being redecorated. Not to make things stylish or at least not make you want to gauge your eyes out, but instead to increa...

America's Top 10 Most Tech-Friendly Cities

Forbes' anuual list of the most broadband-connected cities in the U.S. is out! Since 2007, Forbes has measured cities' wired quotient by computing the percentage of Internet users with high-speed conn...

Bathomatic: Luxury Tech for the Tub

Put another score on the board for "wired" bathrooms being the newest home trend. The Bathomatic is a fully automated digital bath filler that allows you to fill up your bathtub remotely, even going s...

Blogging Wired: Antisocial Gadgets that Should be Banned

Sometimes technology designed to advance communication can actually work to set communication back a few years (We're looking at you, Bluetooth headset guy that looks like he's talking to himself whil...