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We don't know what the LED X found on the side of this Asus Blu-ray drive is supposed to symbolize to the people of Earth, but we aren...

This whole global economic crisis, and its resulting massive loss of jobs got us thinking. We here at Engadget didn't want to stand help...

WikipediaSwifts, described in the Times as "those soaring harbingers of summer", have declined in population by 47% in the last tw...

We reported last week that the Nike Air Max 180 White/Ultramarine had released at select Nike accounts nationwide. The timeless runner is d...

You will be able to take advantage of this as long as you're running Windows Mobile 6.

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photo: Brian Snelson via flickHopefully you already are aware of the plight of orangutans in Borneo and Sumatra as logging and palm oil plan...

Here's what happens when you give a 13-year-old from 2009 a Sony Walkman—the tape kind—and ask him to figure it out without any outside ...

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Photo: Reuters, from Mail OnlineThis is a very unsettling and sad example of development gone terribly wrong. A newly built 13-storey apartm...

Photo courtesy of Steinbrener-DempfTrouble in Paradise--an art installation at Vienna's Schönbrunn Zoo--shows the troubling impact of m...

newVideoPlayer("/WatchmenDirectorscut_gizmodo.flv", 506, 423,""); Most Blu-ray features leave me a little cold, but the...

This week is Carnival of the Green #186 and it's being hosted by Conserve Plastic Bags, an informative blog whose goal is to raise publi...

photo: Natalie Maynor via flickr By then end of this century, somewhere between 3,800-5,200 square miles of coastal land around New Orleans ...

Photo credit: AP/Colorado Division of WildlifeSpring brought a surprise delivery from the stork: A litter of 10 lynx kittensâ€"the firs...

If you're one of the hapless folks out there still having trouble tracking down a new iPhone 3GS, Apple is making things a little bit ea...

Epson's started volume production of what it believes to be the "world's smallest" XGA high temperature polysilicon TFT (...

Michael Fitzgerald writes an interesting article in the Boston Globe with a number of suggestions for "retrofitting. In the past severa...

photo: Rodrigo Soldon via flickBrazil is renowned for being a world leader in ethanol use and this telling statistic bears that out: Accordi...

If you want to get an idea of just how fast technology moves, a brilliant piece from the BBC should help light the way. The setup is simple ...

Images via ShedworkingSeaside towns in the UK have had a rough go of it in the last few years; the weather can often be described as "c...

Photo via chefrandenAfter the housing bubble burst and the subsequent economic muck thickened around our feet, the fear of investment bubble...

"There are lots of questions"To meet its ambitious goals -- a 20 percent increase in energy productivity and a ten percent decreas...

The good news: two models of Asus Eee, the 1101HA and 1005HA, are eligible for free upgrades to Windows 7. The bad news: your 1101HA needs t...

It's June, and most of us reading this post are stuck at work instead of wasting a summer vacation away with lemonade and the dreaded ...

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Here's something I'd expect to see whipped up by MAKE Magazine on Martha Stewart: A paper speaker kit that comes with all the paste ...

Image via NRDCThe questions are still swirling around the Waxman-Markey climate bill, which just passed the House of Reps by the narrowest m...

According to a mag called Netbook Italia (which might have something to do with computers) Samsung is developing a new NVIDIA Ion-powered ne...

When you were in college, you spent your free time drinking tallboys of Bud Ice and playing Mario Kart 64 until 5am. These MIT students, on ...

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I am a big fan of Rick Smith, and the work he has done at Environmental Defence. He has been a leader of the campaign to get Bisphenol A, ph...

While the free-market works pretty well when, uh, left alone to be free, sometimes it needs a push from a visible hand. Case in point, phone...

exterior photos by Kelly RossiterThe same week that Alice Rawsthorn was writing about A Prefab House That Dazzles Still, the Pacific Palisad...

Seems scientists have isolated the chemicals responsible for creating and maintaining memories. More interesting is the discovery of a chemi...

By Andrew LiszewskiI’m sure one day space tourism will be affordable for almost anyone, but at the moment it’s still a privilege reserved fo...