Nexus Q: Google Play Invades Your Living Room With a Media Streaming Orb [Video]

The Nexus Q is Google’s $299 cloud service-streaming box—er—orb. It’s only for Google Play and YouTube. Plus! It has trippy flashing lights and looks like an alien weapon. But is it any good? More »

Our Google I/O Liveblog Kicks Off Right Now [Google I/o 2012]

Happy Google I/O Day! In just a few short hours, Google’s going to lay out the state of the Android union-and we’ll be covering it live, right here. We’ll definitely be seeing Android Jelly Bean, and almost certainly an Asus-built Nexus Tablet, but who knows what else Larry and Sergei have in store? More »

Nvidia’s Fastest GPU Cooled in Total Silence [Guts]

The Nvidia GTX 680 is a beast of a graphics chomper, delivering some of the fastest speeds you can possibly get from a single processor. But video cards are often loud as hell. Fans! Ugh! Not this one. More »

What’s Google Announcing at I/O Today? [Google I/O]

With WWDC behind us and Microsoft’s Surface tablet out of the bag, it’s Google’s turn to take the lid off its latest. Its annual I/O developer conference, which kicks off today at 12:30EST, should offer a heaping buffet of new products and software developments. But let’s start with the usual amuse-bouche: a crapload of rumors. So what might I/O bring this year? More »

Apple AirPort Express (2012) Lightning Review: Probably the Best Router Ever [Lightning Review]

It’s hard to have significant feelings about a router—it’s supposed to just work and shut up, or not. But no router has ever just worked and shut up like Apple’s newest AirPort—a white inch closer to networking perfection. More »

A Wonderfully Weird Interview with @Sweden’s Sonja Abrahamsson [Video]

Earlier this month, representing her country from the @sweden Twitter account, Sonja Abrahamsson grabbed her 15 minutes by the balls and gave them an impressive tug. Irreverent, frank, and wildly popular, the 27-year-old mother of two doubled the account’s followers with her controversial statements. Now that she’s off Twitter duty, Sonja was nice enough to sit down to answer a few questions. More »

I Hope Polaroid’s Instagramish Camera Works as Great as It Looks [Photography]

I don’t know how well this would perform, but I love the retro front design of the new Polaroid Z2300 instant digital camera. It has a 10 megapixel sensor and can produce 2 x 3-inch prints using ink-less Zink technology. More »

Every Major Android Skin Compared [Android]

Android 4.0 (a.k.a. Ice Cream Sandwich) is the prettiest, most intuitive version of Google’s mobile OS yet, but hardware manufacturers still insist on dirtying it up. Android skins are inevitable, but who does it best? See for yourself. More »

The War Zone Cargo Copter That Lifts 6,000 Pounds Without a Pilot [Video]

Rugged doesn’t even begin to describe Afghanistan’s terrain. Delivering supplies to distant outposts over land through hostile territory is a difficult and deadly proposition—and even helicopter transports are not immune from RPG fire. So, to make essential cargo drops without risking the lives of American servicemen, Lockheed Martin simply removed the pilot. More »

Dell XPS 14 Review: Beautiful and Powerful, but Wait for Windows 8 [Video]

The Dell XPS 14 follows the XPS 13 ultrabook as the latest addition to the revamped product line. Equipped with a 14-inch screen, dual-core Intel Core i7 running at 2.4 GHz, 8 gigabytes of RAM, 500 gigabyte HDD (with a 32 gig SSD for quick caching), and discrete NVIDIA GeForce GT 630M graphics, it certainly has horsepower to spare. But is it worthy of its $1500 pricetag? More »