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Movie buffs may be able to copy (or rip in underground lingo) movies from Blu-ray Discs to PCs and gadgets come early December. This is after the studios, electronics makers and ...

Beamer, an iPhone case with a built-in LED light, will only be available for purchase if at least 500 people preorder it. It's not like us to get too excited about ...

Singapore operator StarHub this morning announced that it will be offering the Apple iPhone for sale later this year. In its press statement, the network provider said it has reached an ...

You can pay the full price for an unlocked iPhone from Apple's Hong Kong online store. With the iPhone 3GS of late, Apple has been shedding its one-operator-per-country model and working ...

There's long been speculation that US carrier Verizon would sooner or later be offering the Apple smartphone, which since its launch has been solely in the hands of AT&T in the ...

If you have been eyeing the latest fashion Netbook from HP, the wait is over. The Palo Alto company is retailing the HP Mini by Studio Tord Boontje exclusively through StarHub's ...

Feeling grumpy? Add a "dislike" button to Facebook. Facebook's "like" feature has been around since February, but the massive social network never provided users with a way to quickly voice their ...

From the back, you'd think this New Yorker has a disability, thanks to the neck and body braces. We've heard of sleep pod facilities in New York for sleep-deprived cubicle dwellers ...

Ford's inflatable seat belts are designed for the rear seat. Ford recently announced a new seat belt innovation: Seat belts that inflate during a collision. Designed for rear-seat passengers, Ford claims ...

TAIWAN--We got a bit of air time with the HTC HD2, announced for Asia yesterday. The first thing you'll see in this video is how the ringtone volume decreases as the ...

We have all seen how fashion frequently goes full circle and brings back designs which our grandparents wore, but we would never have guessed the same for dowsing. Popular during ancient ...

No, the digitally remastered Beatles catalog hasn't come to Apple's iTunes. But it has come to an apple-shaped USB device. Retailing for US$279.99, the collection will be released December 8 in ...

Talk about shades of Cabbage Patch Kids. The rather unsettling Baby and Me Wii game brings baby to life in a child-rearing sim that not only ships with a Wiimote-ready doll, ...

We've seen slides and videos of Microsoft's Courier dual-screen booklet in action, but nothing has quite explained how all of these things actually work. This document explains Courier's interface, gestures, and ...

Earlier today I was discussing Windows 7 with a colleague in the tech department at work. We're both impressed by the slick new interface and how the Win 7 bootup and ...

Taiwanese actress Lin Chi-ling stole the spotlight at the LG event. (Photo credit: Reuben Lee/CNET Asia) HONG KONG--Following its launch in the UK in September, the new LG Chocolate BL40 made ...

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer on stage showing off his personalized HTC HD2 presented by HTC's Peter Chou. TAIWAN--HTC today officially announced the HD2 for Asia in a press event held in ...

The iAudio E2 from Cowon offers an interesting alternative to the iPod Shuffle. Hey, at least it has buttons. Is the iPod Shuffle just a little too boring for you? If ...

The music may be horrible, but if you rub a tape head over these ties you can actually hear jumbled sound collages recorded from the NYC metro system. This is possible ...

Direct Methanol Fuel Cell has licensed a patent from CalTech to build methanol-based gadget chargers, a week after Toshiba took the wraps off its own portable fuel cell. Toshiba introduced a ...

For a stereo, the Wall of Sound isn't massive. But for an iPod dock, it's gargantuan. Pitched as "the world's most powerful iPod speaker," the Wall of Sound is a US$4,500, ...

Somehow, I just cannot take the Spy Coke Can DVR seriously. No, it's not the misspelled "Classic" on the red can. But rather, I'm trying to imagine how people will react ...

Robots with full articulated parts used to be pretty expensive. But when Robosapien from WowWee first hit toy stores, it was surprisingly affordable at US$59.99 despite having movable limbs and programmable ...

More colors, too, please. Obsolescence, thy name is dilemma! Now that leaks are saying the reimagined Wii coming up in Q3 2010--which is just a blink away--will likely sport a Blu-ray ...

If Japan-based NEC has its way, people who act as language translators could one day be replaced with head-mounted displays that project translations onto a retinal display. Come again? The Tele ...

Hard to believe that before Apple made multitouch cool, the most we ever "touched" our PC was touch typing. Now, here's photoelastic touch, a more tactile form of interaction that enters ...

Most Netbooks are unable to render high-definition videos, not to mention run 3D games. In fact, the standard Intel Atom processor and integrated graphics chipset can barely handle Flash-heavy Web sites. ...

When not making tires, Bridgestone is working on e-book readers so flexible they'd probably survive being driven over. They've even got a prototype ready for testing, but no plans to commercialize ...

The internet, for its 40th birthday this week, got quite a shake-up: for the first time ever Internet domain extensions can comprise non-Latin characters. After the domination of .com, .net, .co.jp, ...

Last week, US operator Verizon Wireless announced the CDMA-based Motorola Droid, the first smartphone to come with Android 2.0 which is the latest version of Google's mobile operating system. Unfortunately, there ...