davemosher
at 10:19 AM Dec 19 2014

High above rural Arkansas, I'm jammed in the back of a small four-seat airplane. Andrew Barker pilots the aircraft while Austin Meyer sits beside him. Everything is going great—until the engine suddenly quits at 5,000 feet.

Dan Nosowitz
at 05:30 AM Sep 18 2013
Gadgets // 

Microsoft's Kinect, a depth-sensor that has the ability to map the world around it in three directions, was a huge step forward for 3D imaging. The Structure Sensor, which is currently burning up Kickstarter in only its first day on the crowdfunding site, wants to take the tech a step further.

Dan Nosowitz
at 07:31 AM Nov 14 2012
Mobile // 

Whether you'll like the iPad Mini has a lot more to do with your physical health than you'd think it would. How healthy are your eyes? How big are your hands? How strong are your forearms? How acute are your ears?

Dan Nosowitz
at 04:39 AM Oct 24 2012
Gadgets // 

Alright folks, event over. Here's what we learned:

Dan Nosowitz
at 02:32 AM Oct 24 2012
Mobile // 

So today is the day of the iPad Mini announcement. I tried to do a story about what small tablets are better at than big tablets, aside from costing fewer dollars, but the only thing I could come up with was book-reading. And then I wondered: which would be better at book-reading, a 7-inch tablet like the Kindle Fire, or a 7.85-inch tablet like the iPad Mini?

Dan Nosowitz
at 03:39 AM Jul 14 2012
Mobile // 

The Nexus 7, built by Asus with close oversight from Google, is the best Android tablet and the best seven-inch tablet. If you have already convinced yourself that you want either of those, this is the one you want. It's nice to be able to say that so concretely! But where the best seven-inch, or even the best Android tablet falls in the overall tablet market is the more important question.

Nick Gilbert
at 12:18 PM Jun 22 2012

A California man has made himself a large LED 'wall' , that displays different colours, words and patterns thanks to a customised software suite that responds to music and runs on your iPad.

 
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