High Tech News and Reviews

Lenovo IdeaPad S10-3t
Tech Gifts: The Lenovo IdeaPad S10-3t convertible Netbook tablet is priced to compete with the iPad, but underwhelming battery life and unpredictable touch response mar an otherwise sharp-looking portable.

Toshiba Satellite L505-ES5018
Tech Gifts: The Toshiba Satellite L505-ES5018 is about the cheapest dual-core laptop that you'll find, and it provides a predictably basic feature set, but boasts competitive performance, respectable battery life, and zero bloatware.

Samsung Trill (U.S. Cellular)
Tech Gifts: The Samsung Trill is a really great music phone with superb audio quality for U.S. Cellular customers.

HP Mini 210 (Intel Atom N450, 1GB RAM, 250GB HDD)
Tech Gifts: The versatile HP Mini 210 adds best-of features from other HP laptops, but the HD video card requires a still-in-beta Flash update for streaming Flash video.

TomTom Ease (U.S. version) - white
Tech Gifts: The TomTom Ease succeeds in being a good low-cost GPS device for first-time navigators, and its small size and good battery life make it easy to toss into a bag and keep handy.

Nokia Files Patent for Self-Charging Phone
Tech Gifts: Kinetically powered cell phones have been relegated to futuristic concepts..or have they? Nokia files a patent that could lead to the first real piezoelectric mobile phone.

Are you obsessed with your cell phone? [Graphic]
Tech Gifts: You know you are when you stop to answer your phone in the middle of... Take a guess, what do you think?

Exclusive pictures of Microsoft Courier!
Tech Gifts: We're told Courier will function as a "digital journal," and it's designed to be seriously portable: it's under an inch thick, weighs a little over a pound, and isn't much bigger than a 5x7 photo when closed.

1st Shots and Specs of Microsoft's Secret Project Pink Phone
Tech Gifts: These are the first photos of Microsoft's Project Pink phones, snatched from deep within the bowels of the Microsoft/Verizon industrio-complex --not the Turtle, but the larger, Sidekick-like Pure. This doesn't look like Windows Phone 7, so what is it?

Sharing a Passion for Pinball
Tech Gifts: For some 25 years, Silverman has been buying arcade pinball machines, those gaudily colored, delightfully cacophonic games of skill that involve a steel ball, a bunch of rubber bumpers amid a sea of flashing lights and a pair of electronic flippers that serve as the only thing between million-point success and hole-in-the-floor oblivion.