As the clock continues to tick for brave Phoenix so far away on Mars, the discoveries keep on rolling: this time, that snow falls on Mars. A laser instrument called for pulsing the atmosphere and...

Toshiba's Satellite E105 is almost run-of-the-mill as far as new notebooks go-Centrino 2, latest Intel Core 2 Duo processors, 4GB of RAM, integrated graphics (boo), HDMI out-but a couple...

Targus has been making peripherals since before sliced bread was invented, but as part of its first line of notebook accessories specifically designed for Macs it's come up with two mice that are the...

Generally I think "laptop coolers... meh" when I come across them, but the new Chill Mat from Targus-part of the new range for Macs-is actually a fairly sweet device. Mainly because it's...

Combining the tradition of building towers in clusters with the coldly rational American skyscraper, apparently you wind up with a tower that has been cut, twirled and splayed apart, resulting in a...

Not the most practical DSLR bag, but Acme Made's Bowler is definitely the awesomest, if only for the strong odor of The Big Lebowski. You won't be able to cram a million lenses into its satin-lined...

A Nikon Coolpix camera belonging to the MI6—the British equivalent of the CIA—was sold on eBay for $30 with images of al Qaeda suspects, fingerprints, names, rocket launchers, and missiles inside....

If you've got an Xbox 360 and have been toying with the idea of trying out Rock Band or Guitar Hero, this Guitar Hero III bundle runs just $50 for the game and one wired guitar. Plus, this guitar...

Digital downloaders, we haven't forgotten about you while running This Week in Blu-ray. And to those in the audience with VUDU, a respectable 52 rentable HD movies have been added to the service in...

The humble USB socket has provided power for some weird gizmos, but I think this might just take the biscuit: it's a USB-powered volcano. A fake one (duh!) in fact, with plastic lava beads that erupt...

I like the 1940s Disney animation shorts. They may not get to the hilarity level of Chuck Jones and Tex Avery's work at Warner, but some of them are really good. This How to Hook Up Your Home Theater...

Giz pick of the week: Iron Man There's no doubt Iron Man was a guilty pleasure, but when executed with a very decent script, a superb cast of actors and unbelievable art design and special effects,...

This strangely sexy (for a networked storage device) Toshiba wireless media server concept on show at CEATEC takes a novel approach to design; as wires disappear, the necessity for an unimaginative...

A giant gun that fires bullets containing chilled bottles of Bollinger...sounds like a psychedelic James Bond-theme dream. But at least the bullet bit is nearly a reality. Bollinger has come up with...

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Toshiba's Super Charge Ion Batteries (SCiBs) have been floating around in various industrial applications for a while now, prompting some serious envy in the consumer space with their ridiculously...

Remember that time in Star Wars when R2-D2 shot out the lightsaber to Luke Skywalker? Yeah, well the only problem with that scene was that lightsabers don't freaking exist. And until they do, robots...

One of the OLPC's few successes-besides arguably sparking the whole netbook movement-was its Give 1, Get 1 program. Okay, it had some issues, but overall, the program was a success in...

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Relax, people who've been using mobile broadband internet: your scarily unbranded 'net surfing days are over. The GSM Association has coordinated 3 Group, Asus, Dell, ECS, Ericsson, Gemalto, Lenovo,...