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Will Bendable Screens Become The New 3-D?

Since screens became part of our everyday life, they've been rigid and inflexible, but a quiet revolution means the next batch of gadgets could be sporting bendy bodies and displays. Faddish, but clever.READ»

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Disney Reinvents The Vibrator ... For Sensational Movies And Gaming

Disney researchers want to install tiny vibrators all over your body to give you delicate digital sensations--even on the sole of your foot.READ»

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Trade Phones For Cash With EcoATM

How an unmanned kiosk dispenses cash for old electronics and turns a profit.READ»

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The New Political (Smartphone) Platforms

The battle over "platforms" is as frenzied and vital as a presidential campaign.READ»

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Brits Explore the Final Android Frontier, Power Satellite With Google Phone

Androids in space are standard sci-fi fare, but a British research firm plans to actually power a satellite with one--it's using a Google Android phone as the spacecraft's brains.READ»

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Smartphones to the Rescue in Burundi

The UN World Food Programme's latest experiment is with smartphones as data collectors.READ»

Microsoft's Windows Phone 7 Launch Could Crash and Burn Without Verizon

Verizon announced that they will not carry any of Microsoft's do-or-die Windows Phone 7 phones at launch--or any time this year. That could well doom Windows Phone 7 to a Palm-like demise.READ»

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Vonage App: Call Facebook Friends for Free

The new Vonage app for iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad, and Android devices lets you call any Facebook friend using data rather than voice. In other words: Forget your carrier.READ»

Android Outsells iPhone for the First Time

The second quarter of 2010, just ended, marks a big achievement for Android: The two-year-old operating system passed Apple's iPhone in marketshare.READ»

The Oft-Unhappy Marriage of Apple and AT&T: "We're Apple. We Don't Wear Suits."

Wired has a great, extensive piece about the tumultuous relationship between Apple and AT&T since 2007. Particularly juicy tidbits include Apple's refusal to compromise and ever more information about the mythical Verizon iPhone.READ»

RIM Rumored to Have New BlackBerry Touchscreen Smartphone and Tablet in the Works

According to the Wall Street Journal, RIM has a couple of interesting new BlackBerry products in the works, including a vertical slider with a touchscreen interface and a companion tablet.READ»

HTC's Evo 4G: Everything You Like About This Smartphone Costs Extra

HTC's Evo 4G is the most exciting Android phone since...well, fine, I guess the Nexus One wasn't that long ago. But it does look amazing, and Sprint announced full pricing and release dates.READ»

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Microsoft's Project Pink Social Networking Phones Coming Monday

A slip of the tongue from memory card maker SanDisk revealed that Microsoft's Monday announcement will, in fact, be its Project Pink phones. So what do we know about them?READ»

Sony Ericsson Releasing Phones Made From CD Cases and Water Bottles

Sony Ericsson released two new phones fashioned out of recycled materials today--the long-awaited GreenHeart C901 and the Naite--in an attempt to both boost its environmental credibility and reduce company carbon emissions 20% ...READ»

Vertu's Solid-Gold Boucheron 150 Cellphone

Vertu's high-end cellphones always mix luxury components with off-the-beaten-track designs and luxuriously high price tags, but with this latest product you have to wonder if Vertu's company dictionary even includes the word ...READ»