How explicitly can companies rip off Apple's designs? That's the question we posed recently to Christopher Carani, an IP lawyer with McAndrews, Held & Malloy. Now it's your turn--in this 10-question quiz!READ»
The tech press has gone crazy over Microsoft's Windows 8 OS demo. But there's a year's worth of innovation to come--including from Microsoft's competitors--before we can use it. READ»
Oki Sato, the low-profile principal of the Japanese firm Nendo, is the design world's James Franco, a man who can seemingly do just about anything. We’ve covered a sliver of the architect’s body of work at Co.Design: material ...READ»
Irene Fizzled, But NYC Was Well Prepared. We've yet to learn why Irene didn't turn into the mega-storm that meteorologists were expecting. But in the aftermath, civil engineers are lauding the foresight of city officials and their ...READ»
Post quake, Google finds its place in Japan. "Hey, I'm a Mac, I'm off to college!" New investment puts Twitter at $8 billion. This and more important news from your Fast Company editors, with updates all day.READ»
Microsoft's latest and greatest upgrade to its business productivity code--with a whole new cloud-based system--launches today. Will the cloud help or hurt Office's future?READ»
Kinect hacks are coming thick and fast, but here is one that will set millions of PC gamers' hearts a-flutter: A hack that lets you gesture control WoW.READ»
According to a new survey, close to 50% of Americans would give up their bed before their TV and computer. That's something to remember as the FCC rules about the future of the Net today.READ»
Intel has just announced it's going to buy one of the most well-known PC security firms, McAfee. It's going to be handing over $7.68 billion to seal the deal, too.READ»
Livescribe, makers of exceedingly smart pens, has just made public its latest. The Echo, which is available from today, is a computer in a pen that's aimed at anyone who spends their time taking notes--from students to ...READ»
Proof, if you needed it, that Barnes & Noble is one of the more dynamic retailers around: as well as hardware, it's just gone into software, with its free NOOKstudy application, a Mac- and PC-compatible program that lets students ...READ»
Microsoft's Partner Conference for 2010 is just getting underway, and already some big news is coming out of the event: MS is officially revealing its Azure cloud computing platform, and noting big first-run customers like eBay and ...READ»
Brain-computer interfaces are the stuff of sci-fi legend, used a million times to further the plot of a thousand different books. And now they're also real, (nearly) buyable products: Thanks to Intendix you can think your PC into ...READ»
OK, this isn't much about business, but if you travel a lot you probably want to play DVDs or Blu-ray discs on your laptop. The thing is did you know that you aren't getting the best quality? Here Cyberlink's new PowerDVD 9 player ...READ»
We mentioned how astonishing the entry price point for the iPad is, and how it might be its killer feature. But thinking about it, Apple's pulling off a magic trick that is going to cost you plenty of dollars over the next couple of ...READ»
Insider contacts have confirmed the new Apple Tablet set for release by mid-2010 likely won’t encompass a 3D interface. Although, there’s been enough background murmurings about the method users will employ to ...READ»
I told you what I thought of the Dell Mini 5, but let's face it, you really don't care. You just want to check it out in action. So enjoy this quick look at Dell's Android interface.
Dell Mini 5 Hands-ON from Gizmodo on Vimeo.
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Since time immemorial, gadget buyers have been discarding their most prized gizmos for newer, thinner, sleeker gizmos, often at the expense of practicality, durability, and stupendous amounts of money. But in the last few years, ...READ»
