Compared to years past, CES 2013 was pretty light on phones. The focus was more on health/fitness gadgets and 4K UHD TVs. But among the few phones at the show, we some good ones. Here are the top five. Read More >>

What better way to start the year than to make predictions – some obvious, some not so obvious – as to what trends will become more widely used in the design community. Each year seems to bring new ideas to the community and once they gain enough traction, they eventually become the norm (we're looking at you, "pull to refresh"). Read More >>

Recently, I've been conducting a bit of an experiment: rather than going to see lots of films in grimy mulitplexes, I've been shunning the mainstream and going to fewer blockbuster releases, but all of them in awesome, luxury cinemas. "Oh, you dirty hipster" I hear you cry -- but while I might be perilously close to skinny-jeans-and-gratuitous-glasses territory, I can promise you that ditching the mulitplex is totally worth it. Here's why. Read More >>

Surface RT was an enormous letdown—not because it was bad, but because it could have been so, so good. But Microsoft brought the Pro version to Vegas and let us play—and I couldn't be happier. Read More >>

The good old selfie; outside of photos of food, they're the staple diet of every teenager/wannabe Instagram/Facebook photo feed around the globe. I've had a hankering to do a Shooting Challenge on this topic for some time, but wanted to do more than just the usual 'take a photo of yourself without pulling a duckface' or posing in front of the bathroom mirror. Read More >>

Much as I might gripe about the Tube (and boy, do I love to gripe), it's still an awesome machine and an incredible achievement -- 270 stations, 402 kilometres of track and an insane 1.2 billion journeys per year. And today it turns 150! Do you think trains like birthday cake? Read More >>

The scene: your girlfriend and/or boyfriend (hey, nothing wrong with polyamory) got you tickets to The Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo. You've been waiting your whole life to see those goats up close, so naturally, you want to post pictures of your beloved gift on Facebook, rubbing it in all your friends' rodeo-less faces. Here's a tip: don't. Because someone will steal it. Read More >>

Adobe's giving us all a late Christmas present. You can grab yourself a free, legitimate copy of Photoshop and the rest of the Creative Suite 2, right now, direct from Adobe. No catch. Read More >>

It's January. You read Twitter and The Blogs and have a vague recollection of every major news outlet in the country sending some poor reporter to Las Vegas this month, every year, to stand in a convention center and talk about technology. This is CES, the Consumer Electronics Show. But it's more than just a collection of gadgets. Read More >>

Technology is supposed to make our lives better: our meat easier to chew, our water easier to carry, our ox carts easier to move. But all too often we weak, squishy, meat sacks of the human variety find ourselves on the wrong side of innovation. Read More >>

Sometimes you just don't have the right resources to make a decent drink. But if you get enough sober, thirsty minds focused on the problem, humans can find some pretty creative ways to come up with alcohol. Read More >>

Good news, people! The gigantic Aeroscraft—a new type of rigid aircraft that is neither a blimp nor an airplane—is complete. This thing can change the way we understand travelling, as well as military transportation. You can see a video of its first move here. Read More >>

For all of next week, if you dare show your face on the internet you're going to be slapped -- hard -- by more Consumer Electronics Show news that your poor brain can stand. Yet, over the years, some significant stuff has still managed to wrestle its way through the metric tonne of crap that also gets released. Read More >>

Pixar's shorts and movies are the stuff of legend. Gloriously colourful, often full of humour, and infinitely watchable, even if it does feel weird if you don't have a kid. The same goes for its concept art, which Pixar has been showing off for its incoming awesome-looking movies. Read More >>

Yeah, I know: you're back at work, hungover, tired, still picking bits of turkey out of your teeth. The world sucks right now. But at least there's some medical justification for you feeling like a pile of crap -- Seasonal Affective Disorder. Read More >>