Logitech just announced a revamp of their Gamepad line of PC controllers, taking a little bit of visual inspiration from here and little from there (that means Xbox and Playstation) for three affordabl... [Continue...]

OK, maybe not "dogs" plural, but the (regular size) creator of this tiny grill, made from an Altoids Sours tin, says it can cook a small hamburger or a single hot dog, cut down to size, with ease. Awww... [Continue...]

Considering it less uncomfortable than other methods of sneaking cellphones into prisons, a Brazilian gang hired a local teenager to launch phones over prison walls with a bow and arrow. Their plot was... [Continue...]

Let the grand effort to bring wireless music to every room in your house begin (I'm starting with the bathroom). iHome's teasing an Airplay-enabled stump that will have rechargeable batteries and be av... [Continue...]

If you happen to find yourself at the ARS Electronica Center in Linz, Austria thinking, "that facade could do with a bit more color," you're in luck—a special smartphone application lets passers... [Continue...]

OK, maybe not "dogs" plural, but the (regular size) creator of this tiny grill, made from an Altoids Sours tin, says it can cook a small hamburger or a single hot dog, cut down to size, with ease. Awww... [Continue...]

There are tons of ways to tap text into your Android (y'know, when you're not just talking to it). CareAce looked at the stock 2.1 keyboard, Better, Swype Beta, TouchPal, SwiftKey Beta, and ThickButto... [Continue...]

Amazon is offering a whole slew of cases, covers, sleeves and skins for the new Kindle, including nice looking stuff from Diane von Furstenberg, Timbuk2, Belkin, BUILT, and, my favorite, LeSportsac. Wh... [Continue...]

A boombox your laptop is not, and speakers that are both portable and powerful are hard to come by. Depending on your needs, Logitech's Z305, a 360 degree sound bar, and Z515, a 50' wireless speaker, m... [Continue...]

When we heard about Wicked Lasers' Spyder III Pro Arctic laser, an ultra powerful portable laser with a lightsaberesque design selling for only $200, it almost seemed too good to be true. Turns out it ... [Continue...]

Nerf guns these days are very scary. They have reloadable magazines and fire automatically and look like they could provide a suitable defense during an alien invasion. But how to render one even scari... [Continue...]

When Steve Jobs singled out Steve Wozniak as his "partner in crime" at yesterday's event, he wasn't just speaking figuratively. Here's a clip recounting the time Woz, Jobs, and infamous Captain Crunch... [Continue...]

Before there was the NES, there was the Nintendo Family Computer AKA Famicom, an early version of the ultra-popular console sold in Asian markets starting in 1983. So, wanna see what the guts of a vide... [Continue...]

Inductive chargers have been kicking around for a while now, but Energizer's new charging platter is the first to utilize Qi technology—the new universal standard for inductive charging. That's o... [Continue...]

Ars got the official word from an Apple spokesperson: there will be no new software update for old AppleTVs. That means no sexy Netflix*, though you'll be able to keep on buying movies and TV shows ins... [Continue...]

I'm happy admiring most do-it-yourself projects from the remove of the internet, but this, an electronic meat smoker than buzzes you with a text when your shanks are adequately smoked, is one I need to... [Continue...]

That? That's the Gossamer Penguin, an experimental solar-powered aircraft cruising above a dry lakebed at NASA Dryden's Flight Research Center in July 1979. It's just one of the many strange, spectacul... [Continue...]

Apple's not the only place you can get TV episodes for a buck a pop; Amazon's currently serving up a host of shows from ABC and FOX for only 99 cents. Grab a Roku and get watchin'. [Amazon via Engadget... [Continue...]

In addition to streaming to AppleTVs and Airport Expresseses, Apple's new wireless streaming feature, AirPlay, will beam music (and metadata) to docks, receivers, and speakers from the likes of Denon, ... [Continue...]

The new iPod Nano hardly bigger than an oversized stamp. It does away with the click wheel (and all things video) in favor of a multitouch screen. But how do you use it? More » ... [Continue...]

The most surprising nugget Apple's including in iOS 4.1 is the ability to take HDR photos. You've seen plenty of these before—photographs with vibrant, unreal colors—but what are they exact... [Continue...]

The ever-impressive Swedish interface gurus The Astonishing Tribe just posted a new video envisioning what kinds of screens we'll be using in the year 2014. They stretch fluidly and share seamlessly, ... [Continue...]

Yesterday, there were three Predator drones keeping watch over the Southwest Border; today, with the launch of a fourth Predator, in Texas, the entire border between the United States and Mexico is pat... [Continue...]

Shrinking an entire beloved comic book universe down to an iPhone game is a dangerous prospect, but that's just what Spider-Man: Total Mayhem does, allowing you to swing from buildings, battle baddies,... [Continue...]

Panasonic just coughed up two new SDHC cards, the RP-SDY08G and RP-SDY16G holding 8GB and 16GB respectively, both of which adhere to the new UHS-I standard for snappy read speeds of up to 60MB/s.... [Continue...]