New year, new gadgets
Brantford Expositor
By SYD BOLTON W hile it's a given that computers get faster, bigger and, arguably, better each year, it's easy to forget about all of the little gadgets out there that are also receiving improvements. Let's examine some of the ones that have improved …

Who really benefits from putting high-tech gadgets in classrooms?
Los Angeles Times
How much genuine value is there in fancy educational electronics? Don't let companies or politicians fool you. US Education Secretary Arne Duncan, left, and FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski speak at a Digital Learning Day event sponsored in part by …

and more »

Tech toys: A look at hot new gadgets
Vancouver Sun
Lumix DMC-ZS20 and DMC-ZS15, Panasonic - from $330 Panasonic Canada has just announced the newest additions to its point-and-shoot Lumix ZS series, the ZS20 at $400 and the ZS15 at $330. The ZS20 has a 20x optical zoom with a 24-mm wide-angle Leica …

and more »

Steve Jobs depicted as an angel in Taiwanese commerical for new gadget
JOE
Has Steve Jobs come back from the dead to sell us some more amazing Apple technology? Eh…no. But he is being depicted as an angel in a Taiwanese commercial promoting a different type of gadget. While Steve Jobs may have sworn that his “last dying …

and more »

New Super Bowl XLVI security gadgets: X-Rays, sewer caps and more
The Next Web
While Brady and Manning are tossing the pigskin inside Lucas Oil Stadium, the 44 surrounding blocks will be crawling with all kinds of new futuristic tech to make sure the fireworks, tackles, long bombs and fumbles are just inside the stadium.

and more »

5 More Cool Gadgets from Macworld
Crave Online
By Harmon Leon MaciWorld (Macworld | iWorld) is the kind of place where you'd see giant inflatable sports headphones dangling from the ceiling. If I didn't love tech gadgets, I wouldn't be writing a tech gadget. That's why one singular write up about …

and more »

The Best High-Tech Travel Gadgets (PHOTOS)
Huffington Post (blog)
Traveling is a means to get away. To escape. A way to leave behind a desk job, paperwork and, nowadays, technology. Lugging a laptop to the Bahamas? Most people would say, "Forget it." Still, high-tech gizmos surround us everywhere and the notion that …

Weird gadgets at Consumer Electronics Show
City Journal.in
LAS VEGAS: Innovation and creativity are two forces that have reigned supreme for more than four decades at the annual International Consumer Electronics Show. Consumer electronics is a global industry, and the show represents a fusion between consumer …

and more »

New fitness gadget offers school-loan program, low price
Yahoo! Philippines News
Wristworn devices to motivate kids to get moving are a hot trend, but the new MOVband works a little differently: the device is part of a loan program to schools in the US in its effort to combat childhood obesity. Created by a teacher and fitness …

and more »

The most absurd and embarrassing spy-fi gadgets ever, in Geisha Cop
io9
In this short film, known winningly as "Geisha Cop: Fearsome Geisha Corps - Go to Hell!", you'll witness the kinds of spy gadgets that James Bond only dreams of. Geisha Cop has infiltrated an evil corporation where office ladies drink the blood of …