The legendary designs of 1960s Braun gadgets show the secret to Apple's future. And if today's event includes a…
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Zip Disks were at one time a tiny miracle. In 1996, 100 MB of storage sounded endless. Well, the name is back, but…
There's a good old-fashioned knob on the front of Whirlpool's new Duet washer and dryer pair. But there's also a…
Once upon a time, standing around and waiting involved exactly that: Standing around, waiting, and not doing much…
No kitchen drawer should go without a little power screwdriver. any of the four in our recent test will do. But even…
A team of researchers at ETH Zurich has developed a rooftop mat made of a five-millimeter-thick polymer that can…
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Since the iPhone 5 Lightning adapter has a chip that prevents you from using third-party cables, you can forget…
Confession: I can tolerate some pretty mediocre coffee. I'm sipping a K-Cup right now. I grew up in the south…
When cordless power tools started getting good, back around 2006, manufacturers always said a cordless…
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You have to love engineers willing to come up with the best product possible, price be damned. That's the Texas…
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A cordless drill used to be a poor choice as a power tool—too heavy to take up a ladder and too weak to do the…
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The guys behind South Park might laugh a lot during the process, but the making of the weekly animated show is a…
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A storm this weekend knocked out power to millions of buildings in the mid-Atlantic region. About 443,000 lost…
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