The Nuu Mini Key case takes a perfectly respectable iPhone 4 and turns it into a big, fat, ugly slab of corporate crap, which looks and works just like every other smartphone with a slide-out landscape QWERTY. I might not be the best person to judge, as I actually type faster on virtual keyboards than [...]

While winding down from Wednesday’s iPod announcements, Apple CEO Steve Jobs appears to have taken some time to respond to an e-mail criticizing the new look of the iTunes icon. Joshua Kopac, who oversees design work for advertising firm ValuLeads, sent Jobs an e-mail blasting the new iTunes icon (right) — a blue bubble containing [...]

Last weekend Jeremy Hart — Wired.com contributor and a global traveller with 120 countries under his belt — left Los Angeles for a 60 day, 21 country, 15,000 mile drive around the world — in a Ford Fiesta. Jeremy will be filing occasional updates here and on our sister blog Autopia. Here, he’ll be reporting [...]

This weekend, I’m going to be sparking up the grill with the Looftlighter, an electric firestarter that looks like an oversized curling iron, sounds like a hair dryer, and gets a good-sized pile of charcoal briquettes ready to grill in just a few minutes. I’ll admit I was skeptical about the $80 Looftlighter, which comes [...]

<< Previous | Next >> A photo of a train making a stop. Standard version on top, HDR version on bottom. << Previous | Next >> View all A software update for Apple’s mobile operating system is due for release next week, and Wired.com has had hands-on time with a major new feature of the [...]

<< Previous | Next >> << Previous | Next >> View all This is adorable: a tiny charcoal BBQ grill using an Altoids Sours tin, two metal computer fan guards, and some sheet metal screws for legs. It looks like it fits one regular-sized briquette. As one of the commentors notes, this is great for [...]

                    This week’s episode of the Gadget Lab podcast is heavy on fruits. High on vitamin A, Dylan Tweney gushes over the pluot, a plum-apricot hybrid, while yours truly dishes out this week’s announcements of brand new Apple gear. Apple’s iPod family all scored major upgrades. [...]

Kindle DX Promotional Photo from Amazon.com It’s easy to figure out why e-readers and tablets are the size that they are: They’re all about the size of paperback books, whether trade (iPad) or mass-market (the Kindle 3). Some oversized models, like the Kindle DX, are closer to big hardcovers. But why are books the size [...]

<< Previous | Next >> << Previous | Next >> View all After weeks of leaked photos and videos, Samsung’s 7-inch tablet called the Galaxy Tab is finally here. Samsung has announced the launch of the tablet that could become the first major Android-powered challenger to the Apple iPad. The Galaxy Tab runs Android 2.2 [...]

Interactive Map of Afghanistan for iPad. Image By/Used Courtesy Of Development Seed GPS maps for smartphones generally require a fairly high-speed wireless internet connection, consume significant processor resources, and are optimized for driving. But what if your 3G connection is unreliable or unavailable, and you still need to get from point A to point B [...]