Household Tech Category - Page 6

While it’s not quite as weird as if Barnes & Noble made the Nook Color unavailable over the Christmas holiday, the latest development with the bookseller’s biggest high tech device is nearly as odd. After rumors began circulating that the Nook Color was being made unavailable for two weeks right [...]

While the home phone handset is a device that is rapidly going out of style, there is a particular phone handset that is actually gaining popularity and actually drew quite a bit of attention at Macworld was the iFusion from Altigen.

While there haven’t been all that many changes to ovens over the last couple of decades, the Gorenje iChef oven makes the usual kitchen stove take a giant step forward in the “evolutionary” stage. Obviously the oven can cook whatever you want it to but the real intrigue is the [...]

While the bedside table and lamp has been a staple of our lives since there was such a thing as a bed and a table, there is now a new invention being floated around by French firm Quarks that may make it obsolete.

Out of all the Kinect news that we’ve heard over the last few months, and there has been a whole lot of Kinect news, perhaps one of the most bizarre is the revelation that engineering students out at the University of Washington have taken a Kinect and turned it into [...]

If you’ve ever had an endoscopy–I, thankfully, have not–it kind of makes you question just how valuable modern medicine really is as, basically, they jam a tube-based camera (sometimes called a tentacle) down your throat in a bid to see what’s going on down to your stomach. But German scientists [...]

While there are a veritable plethora of printers available on the open market, there are decidedly fewer printers that can do the work needed by professional photographers. Epson is trying to fill the hole in the market with their new Epson R3000 which was just recently announced.

While more and more people are joining in on the eBook craze the simple fact is that most people hadn’t heard of an eBook reader just three years ago. That’s why most people who like to read still have a sizable paper book collection. What is someone who has an [...]

Sometimes gadget news can’t help but freak you out, even when it comes from major companies like Samsung, who recently showed off its new wi-fi capable RF4289.  And that sounds pretty impressive, as it stands, until you consider that the RF4289 isn’t a netbook, or a laptop, or even a [...]

Yes, it’s winter…the gray, dark, kind of depressing lacunae between the joy of the holiday season and the hopeful start of spring. And for a lot of people, winter is more than just a kind of depressing thing to slog through on your way to warm and sunshiny spring, but [...]