With each passing year, personal technology — phones, gadgets, media electronics, and more — gets better, smaller and cheaper. With the introduction of the Apple iPhone and other milestones, 2007 was an incredible year. But fasten your seat belts: 2008 is going to be even better. Here are the tren…

Over at Gearlive, Andrew has just upped Episode 195 of Bleeding Edge confirming everything that has been said about the new iPhone firmware version 1.1.3. Earlier that was all thought to be a big scam to get Gearlive a bunch of traffic, but it actually appears to be legit.

Hit the cut for the Gearl…

Or so we think. I’ve been checking out that video on Gizmodo of the obvious v1.1.3 iPhone firmware update that Apple should be releasing soon. The video shows a guy moving around the iPhone’s icons changing the order. Apparently the updated firmware version breaks all unlocks, and jailbr…

Honda is planning a spectacular, 22-ton drift for the New Year’s Day Rose Parade that will feature a truck that transforms into a rocket. The pilot of that monstrosity will be a REPLICA OF HONDA’S ASIMO humanoid robot. I guess the real ASIMO was busy.

Researchers at Taiwan’s National Kaohsiung University of Applied Sciences are working on a cheap and light THREE-SEAT SOLAR-POWERED CAR optimistically predicted to go on sale to consumers next year for $25,000 each. Sadly, the commercial version of the car will top out at just 43 miles per hour, and…

Never before has a major consumer electronics device remained so mysterious so enlarged after shipping. Amazon won’t tell the press even the most basic questions, including: 1) who designed it?; 2) how many have been sold?; 3) how is Kindle Book money divided amidst Amazon and publisher? and MANY OT…

A South Korean company called Shinhan Card unveiled yesterday a new kind of USB CREDIT CARD. The device functions as a contactless credit card at stores. In order to use it for online purchases, you just insert it into your PC’s USB drive. It enters your credit card knowledge for you.