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Able Planet Releases Noise Cancelling Headphones for Business Travelers

If you're anything like me you're easily distracted when you're working, you listen to your iPod at dangerously high levels, and your attempts to remedy the former by opting for the latter prove pretty futile in most instances. I've ...READ»

Dell Does Its Little Turn on the Catwalk

Dell welcomed journalists to Macy's Herald Square today for the unveiling of a super-neat new mystery product. Seated next to a makeshift runway in the juniors department, we writers/bloggers/etc. chattily speculated about what the ...READ»

Martha, Squared

Martha Stewart is throwing her mega-brand power behind the self-styled “Apple” of carpet, FLOR, to sell a new line of its square, eco-friendly home carpet tiles in Martha-approved colors and textures. FLOR was founded in spring ...READ»

Going to a Greener Place

Death is taking on a whole new image. The grim reaper is ditching his black robe for a green one. Since we are, as the New York Times puts it, in the era of "An Inconvenient Truth," it seems only natural that even the death industry ...READ»

Know When to Hold 'Em

Up next for the title of BlackBerry killer: The not-so-originally named Samsung BlackJack, which comes awfully close to claiming the belt, but loses out on a few technicalities. (And here you thought I was going to use a poker ...READ»

Tappa-tappa-tappa

One of the biggest conundrums facing cell phone makers these days is how to cram an entire keyboard into an ever-shrinking plastic case. As more and more people are looking to their cell phones for more than just talking, the need ...READ»

Now Batting: The XM Inno

Have you ever tried to surreptitiously listen in your office to that baseball game that's being played so inconveniently in the middle of the afternoon (like today's Yankees/Rangers game)? Wanted to listen to it while walking around, ...READ»

Product Review: Kensington Travel Plug Adapter with USB Charger

Going strictly by its function, the Travel Plug Adapter ($39.99) is nothing new nor special--there are dozens of plugs out there to let you use your electric shaver overseas. But what Kensington's product has going for it is its ...READ»