Lithium-ion batteries are notorious for developing internal electrical shorts that can ignite a battery’s liquid electrolytes, leading to explosions and fires.

The Galaxy Chromebook is total overkill — and I would like one now, please. The thinnest Chromebook ever, this laptop boasts a gorgeous 4K AMOLED display, a powerful 10th gen Core i5 CPU and a flexible 2-in-1 design with a built-in pen. But is this thing worth $999? I went hands-on with the Galaxy Chromebook at CES 2020, and it’s one of the best-looking laptops I’ve ever seen.

New research from Apple details many different ways of making batteries flexible enough to be used with foldable displays in an iPhone or iPad, or to save space inside regular devices.

Searching the best gadget for your kids can be a trickier task than it seems. The kids’ toy market is always flooded with expensive junk fated to finish

Google finally started shipping the second-generation Pixel Buds, and with them came a slew of new features for Android's Bluetooth stack. The 2nd-gen Pixel Buds are Google's first truly wireless headphones, and they are finally on sale for $179 in the US. They were announced a whopping six months ago at Google's annual hardware event, alongside the Pixel 4, Pixelbook Go, and Nest Wi-Fi. They have an always-on Google Assistant, a charging case, and no active noise cancellation.

Everyone's a victim of bad timing sometimes. These gadgets brought revolutionary new features to the market. They just did it a little too soon.

It's an interesting time to buy an all-in-one PC, that's for sure. The iMac is thinner and more powerful than ever, and Windows machines finally have touchscreens that appeal to an average user.

AfterShokz recently released its second generation headphones that transfer sound via bone conduction.

Last week, before committing one of the worst mass shootings in modern American history, Adam Lanza tried to destroy the hard drive on his computer. But whatever he was trying to hide might still be recoverable.

designboom takes a look back at hartmut esslinger's designs of the early 80's, overviewing prototypes, concepts and explorations of apple's first computers, laptops and tablets.

Arcade cabinets, robots, wearable computers and more built by Pi hobbyists.

A plea to TV makers in 2013: give me radically simply voice-control for changing channels.

It was a very bad year for the country's gadget makers.

Acer will mainly focus on x86 Windows 8 devices going forward, even though it plans to release a few Windows RT-themed products.

There's still a market for light, small, cheap laptops.

Now that 2012 is over, the Wall Street Journal is pondering whether the e-reader era is coming to an end. Is it time to write e-readers' obituary?

Extreme has (luckily) lost most of its buzz-word status. It’s mostly back to meaning things on the fringe, way out near the edges, where they blow our minds with their extremeness, rather than simply having 3 times the corn syrup and colors nature never intended.

Plair is a new app-cessory that aims to fix the problem of sharing digital media with friends. Crafted by NewDealDesign, Plair is a Wi-Fi-enabled USB dongle that can connect any smartphone to any television (that has a USB port).

Traditional batteries may never be the same again since Tetherboard displayed its working Tethercell prototype at CES 2013. It embeds Bluetooth into a traditional AA battery form.

The Pebble smartwatch is a lot more than just a watch — it’s the latest attempt to turn your wrist into the launchpad for a wearable computing revolution. It’s also the preeminent symbol of...