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Are You a Tech Minimalist?
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Last week we saw Gregory featured on the New York Times, where he spoke candidly about living minimally with tech (in his case, life sans the cellular). Though primarily due to a constrained budget at...

A Life Without Certain Technologies

Well, there I am...smack dab on the front of the Technology section of the New York Times site today. A few days ago I was interviewed by Times reporter Claire Miller about my cell phone-free lifestyl...

OS X Dashboard Widgets For the Home Cook

I've rounded up a collection of useful widgets for the home cook that uses a Mac. From measurement conversions to reminders, you're sure to find these useful. Best of all, they are free!...

Technicolor: Blue

As retro as red goes, blue still does it for me. Blue like the ocean, the bright skies, and the color of my first Nike kicks. Oh, how I loved those shoes. In honor of childhood memories and the good o...

Bonhams Auction of Technology Antiques

Renowned auction house, Bonhams will be auctioning 758 items that represent some of the most unique and fascinating historical examples of early technological devices (record players, burglar alarms...

The Braille Phone Concept

For those with family or friends who suffer from impaired vision or blindness, this could be the first step in encouragement for them to learn Braille, streamlining a familiar interface with surface f...

Future of Lighting: Super-Efficient OLED Lamps

We all know that LEDs are become more and more popular, thanks to their low-power needs and their brightness. Frankly, it's inevitable that LEDs will finally easily surpass traditional incandescent li...

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...

What's the First Thing You Plug In After a Remodel?

We had a short discussion with a couple of friends last night over a few drinks. One of the topics that stuck with us is our heavy reliance on technology and the Internet, which becomes most apparent ...

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. ...

Air Writing: Using Your Cell Phone Like a Stylus

Tired of not being able to tweet or text while jogging or while you're otherwise busy? Have you decided that you wanted a more gesture-based form of input to your information world? Well, don't worry,...

More iPhone Apps for the Home Cook

Awhile back, we posted about iPhone apps for the home cook. Well, it's almost a year later, and the app market has grown by leaps and bounds, so we thought we'd round up some more fun and useful cooki...

The Incredible 2-in-1 Loo! Perfect for Men and Women

We can't remember the amount of times that we've heard people complain about the fact that the seat of the toilet was up and "someone" didn't put it down. It's almost always men who do this since they...

Geek Sugar's The Stylish Computers of Gossip Girl

You've got to love girly tech blog GeekSugar for their technological tie-ins with pop culture. GeekSugar took time to reflect on their year spent watching gorgeous and expensive Manhattan high school ...

Grohe's Digital Bathroom: Worth the Money?

Even though I take baths from time to time, I've always been a shower person. I take showers everyday and they are part of my morning routine. Usually, if I don't shower, I don't really wake up. Since...

Celsius: A Modular Refrigerator

We all have refrigerators. The trouble is that the basic design hasn't changed in about 100 years. Most of the fridges that I've had were pretty similar. They hide away food so that it doesn't go bad....

LG's Most Wanted Film Gadgets

Unplggd blogger Anthony put together his own list of what technology from movies we'd like to get our grubby little mits on in real life. Check it out if you haven't seen it already. But turns out, el...

Roundup: TVs In The Kitchen

Cozy or not, tech in the kitchen is so ubiquitous in our friends and families' homes that we figured, "Hey, why not just embrace it?" We've gathered a few ideas in case you're looking to toss a TV int...

The Most Techie Countries In The World
The US Doesn't Even Crack the Top 10

A detail from the 2008 Global Traffic Map from TeleGeography.Get ready for acronym vomit: ITU's IDI, or the International Telecommunications Union's ICT (Information and Communication Technologies) De...

Inspiration: Other Vintage Tech Worth Displaying?

We've been hitting the thrift stores and eBay a little bit more than usual lately ever since our recent obsession with vintage cameras. After a while, we started picking up other interesting things ra...

What Home Tech Items Are You Thankful For (And Can't Live Without)?

If being at home this holiday season has taught us one thing, it would be to avoid driving around on a Black Friday afternoon. With retailers desperate for your moneys and frantic savers trying to fig...

The First Thing to Know Before You Vote

Well, you should probably know who you want to vote for, so maybe this is the second thing to know. As you could tell by Maxwell's sincere apologies for any advertisements for parties or political pla...

Look! Old Tech Shelf Museum

We've seen, more than once, people that like to display old, outdated technology as if they were art pieces. This shelf display from Randy Pitchford's office, one of the founders of Gearbox Software, ...

Do You Trust Your GPS Navigator?

We've got some weird news: For the second time, a man in Bedford Hills, New York has trusted his GPS so much that he followed directions onto a set of train tracks last night. He made it out, but the ...

Which Platform Do Republican Candidates Use at Home?

Not really too surprised that all of the Republican candidates use Windows opposed to a Mac at home. But as The Huffington Post points out, John McCain's admittance that he cannot operate a compute...