Even as basketball fans gear up for a weekend of NCAA semifinal action, NASA’s roster of 64 candidates for its “Greatest Mission of All Time” has been pared down to its own Final Four, and the remaining field is surprising, to say the least. Gone are heavyweights such as Apollo 11, the Hubble Space Telescope, [...]

There’s a wave of electronic books coming, suggests a Verizon Wireless exec, and it’s taking aim at markets the Amazon Kindle doesn’t cover. Speaking in Las Vegas, Tony Lewis, who heads an initiative within Verizon Wireless to provide cellular connections for new types of gadgets, said that his company had been approached by five companies [...]

Who needs to buy expensive flavoured vodkas when you can turn any piece of fruit into you own personal shot glass? The Lushlife Shot Carver basically looks like a slightly expensive and rebranded version of an apple corer only shaped to give you the perfect volume for a shot. You can, of course, dig [...]

I don’t know what happens with the manufacturers these days, but it seems that they’re on a very colorful path. Or mood or whatever you might want to call it. You can witness the apparition of all sorts of colorful products, from Dell’s new line of computers to the iLuv cases.

Some time ago, when people [...]

I know you’ve been down lately. All your friends went away: Ethan, Fox, that gold-digger Theresa. Nothing’s been the same since Passions was canceled.  Here are some tech deals to cheer you up.1. Now you can have a 6-channel surround sound experience, with Altec Lansing quality, and nobody has to know you paid only $39.99 [...]

Sony unveiled an irresistible compact video camera today, the HDR-TG5V. It combines the small shape of Flip cameras that have changed the consumer video market with high-end features previously found only in larger cameras.The HDR-TG5V shoots 1920-by-1080 high-def video and can snap 4-megapixel photos. You can save your work to the 16GB of internal flash [...]

I’ve slightly fallen in love with the Kaleidescape Mini System. I’d say my girlfriend would be upset if I brought it home but then she’d probably fall in love with it too. We could have some sort of beautiful endless threesome - me, Jenny and luxurious home entertainment system full of 1.5TB worth of [...]

Need to make a decision in a hurry online, with a group of people? Doodle’s got your back. It bills itself as a scheduling and choice-making site, and it pretty much does that - and nothing else - which is a breath of fresh air compared to most sites. The question-asker just puts in the [...]

I’ve never used an AA battery powered camera and I’m not quite sure if it’s supposed to be a plus point or not. Either way, that’s how the £239.99 Nikon Coolpix L100 works. It’s got plenty of good features from more powerful cameras without so much of the blink detection-type gimmicks but the question is, [...]

The headline feature of the Nintendo DSi is that it’s now packing a couple of low-resolution cameras. Because there aren’t currently any games that support the feature, Nintendo’s built some fun camera software into the device that will let do silly stuff with pictures. So we thought we’d show you what you can do with [...]

Goodmail Systems unveiled on Thursday its CertifiedVideo, [...]

In an art gallery on Pall Mall in London last night, Intel launched its search to find a Digital Artist of the Year. Digital Artist 2009 will be searching for the UK’s most talented artists in thirteen categories. One of those thirteen is a ‘Rising Star’ award, which will be given to five entrants under [...]