Buffalo just announced the world’s fastest Blu-ray recorder capable of burning through your data at an 8x clip. The problem? BDA-approved media maxes out at 6x (assuming you can find one). That’s a funny bit of math, no? Available in Japan starting in August, the external USB 2.0 and eSATA BR-816SU2 and internal SATA BR-816FBS models hit 8x [...]

MSI has been pretty successful grabbing headlines with their Wind — and it seems they’ve impressed LG, too. Today’s DigiTimes is reporting that LG is hoping to solicit MSI’s services in order to build its own X110 netbook. The mini laptop is said to boast an 8.9-inch panel, 120GB hard drive, 2GB of RAM and Windows [...]

Traveling lightly is a must these days, but Jim Martin found two gadgets worthy of a spot in the carry-on.

I keep waiting for the day I can view my Google Calendar entries while I'm offline--without having to export the entries to Outlook or another standalone calendar program. Until that day, here are five ways to get make better use of Google's free calendar service.

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We test five new apps that make saving--and restoring--your vital data a lot easier than tools you've tried in the past.

Portable printer cuts the Web out of photo sharing.

Sure, it’s not a gadget per se, but I just thought it was the most interesting and simple app I’ve seen thus far for the iPhone. A-Level is a virtual, digital level (or ’spirit level’). It uses the iPhone’s motion detectors to determine whether the phone is flat. If not, a numerical readout tells you by [...]

Steve Bass finds 20 percent of the ink he paid for left in supposedly empty cartridges, but Brother has a logical (if not legal) explanation.

You may be stuck with Vista, but with a few tweaks and tricks you can make it look and feel just like its predecessor.

A new ad at Microsoft.com tries to make the case for a fresh look at Vista by pointing out that "at one point, everyone thought the earth was flat." Aligning its most vocal Vista critics with the Flat Earth Society is a clever way to get people's attention, but can this approach really overcome the overwhelming negative buzz about Windows Vista?