Toshiba has invented a cute robot that learns what you’re doing with your TV remote and will then do it for you on spoken command:
Fed up with increasingly hard-to-use remote controls? Researchers at Japan’s Toshiba have developed a small, talking robot that can learn how to do it for you.
Instead of trying to remember which [...]

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All of a sudden, Sony is advertising the hell out of their Reader Digital Book, something that’s been in their product catalog for a while. In some Metro stations here in DC, they’ve bought up all the poster ad space coming into and out of the platforms. 
It definitely looks slicker than Amazon’s Kindle, but I [...]

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After my gift guide, you probably figure I got enough cool stuff this year to last me a while. And it’s true - I really don’t need anything else for Christmas, because I feel like I’m the guy who has it all (in the stuff department, anyway).
And yet there was one thing missing that I needed [...]

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From the perspective of cool gadgets, this has been a very good year for me. A big part of this is because I work for a communications consulting firm that tries to keep its finger squarely on the pulse of current trends in culture and technology. We get the occasional gift from the office that’s [...]

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