Filed under: Cellphones The tried-and-true Hamburger phone is still our fav (what, there a problem with that?), but Marc Schömann's baton-styled concept phone is...

Filed under: Show and Tell This week, to celebrate the release of Final Fantasy IV, we're dedicating Show and Tell to the series as a whole. While FF swag is not nearly...

Digital Cowboy from Japan has unleashed its Acrylic Cowboy computer case range that does away with exterior case walls, which is a two-edged sword IMHO. It leaves your...

If your laptop's battery life just doesn't quite make the cut when it comes to superior battery life, then Philips has just the item to deal with such emergencies. The...

Martyn Williams has an interesting look at the Japanese mobile content market. He notes that for the calendar year 2007, more than $100 billion was spent on mobile...

Drupal’s hook system is making me almost as happy as Emacs’ hook system does. =) There’s a hook_mail_alter function that allows you to modify any...

I was given a Nestle Nespresso machine by my partner and their best mate as a thank you for sorting out some travel for them. I have been hankering after one of them for...

I'm back working at Microsoft. I'm no longer on the IE team but working on Windows Embedded. It's a different area and a lot of fun. I'm at tech-ed this week in Orlando....

Sometimes you just have to find something to do on a Saturday night. And sometimes there isn't much to do, even in the big city. Or in Charlotte. So we had to look a...

I’m sparing you drafts of my book as I write it and instead discussing the ideas here and getting smarter for it. But I thought I’d share just a few graphs...

Finally, Blog Mastermind is open to the public once again. I joined Blog Mastermind a while ago, and I was really satisfied with the course. It’s an easy way to...

In the movies, smart homes automatically greet you when you return after a hard day's work. But in reality, this hasn't been very easy to do. In this article, Gordon...

I had a great meeting yesterday with Jack Martin Leith, who has done more thinking about things like innovation and change and is refreshingly cynical about much...

Despite my complaints about trying to run Processing in JavaScript in a browser, the recent port of Processing’s syntax to JavaScript has a lot of potential. Part...

Earlier today we saw a big increase in e-mails going around with all sorts of interesting subjects, not totally unlike the ones used by the latest Storm.So far we've seen...

Prices seem to be increasing everywhere on pretty much everything from fuel to groceries, making finding good deals more and more important. So whether you’re an...

Hey MindPetalers, I’ve been out here is Northern California, Humboldt County, for 4 weeks now. As you saw from my video, I came up here to help save and protect...

Because they’re typically steeped in subjectivity, product reviews tend to be more effective when grouped together. This is generally why you, the consumer, often...

At the heart (pun!) of every city or country branding effort is a zealous desire to portray the destination as world-class and home to the greatest people on earth...

While Tiger is out for knee rehabilitation, all sorts of competitors are stepping up to take his place. The most notable (and by notable we mean adorable) challenger may...