Instead of phones getting bigger and PCs getting smaller, as Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates says, phones will get smaller, and mobile PCs — laptops and tablets — will get bigger. And Microsoft’s “Ultra Mobile PC” is DEAD IN ITS CRIB.Original post by Mike

Hammacher Schlemmer is selling $70 remote-control toy submarines that can be controlled through water in ALL DIRECTIONS — “forward, backward, left, right, and while performing 360 progressive rolls.”Original post by Mike

In my January 18 Computerworld column, “How Steve Jobs blew his iPhone keynote,” I argued that Jobs’ decision to discard Apple’s winning formula and announce the iPhone far in advance of its ship date was an error that would eventually harm Apple stockholders. Predictably — as any observer who crit…

Scientists at Spain’s Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona have invented a cheap gadget that detects TOXICS IN FOOD, including herbicides in plant foods, and antibiotics in animals foods — the kind of ingredients organic foods enthusiasts avoid. The invention is so cheap, fast and portable that inspe…

The gadget blog Engadget that week posted a rumor that Apple’s iPhone ship instance would be delayed from June to October, a rumor that temporarily drove Apple’s stock price down more than three points — about 2.2% of the stock’s value. Did Engadget hurt Apple? The reply is no — in fact blogs like…

If you deliver PowerPoint presentations, check out my THREE BEST LAPTOP TRICKS. I’ll tell you how to show only your notes on the laptop, while your slides are onscreen; how to put a giant clock on your laptop so you can end on day; and how to use a laptop as a kind of cue card to live-coach other sp…

I told you January 3 when NBC’s remake of the 1970s hit, “The Bionic Woman,” was greenlit; notified you February 13 when they picked their star; and showed you May 11 the first stills from the show. Today, clips from the show emerged on YouTube that, sadly, reveal a REALLY silly BIONIC WOMAN SERIES….