Monthly Archives: February 2011

How Thunderbolt Could Hook Up Notebooks With Powerful Peripherals

Posted on 2/24/2011 by Dylan Tweney

Intel’s new high-speed port technology is called Thunderbolt. But what is it, exactly? Think of Thunderbolt (formerly code named “Light Peak”) as two cables in one. One is a fast PCI Express cable for transferring data, and the other is … Continue reading →

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Video: Internet, Gadgets Make Corvette Even More Awesome

Posted on 2/18/2011 by Dylan Tweney

Within a few years, your car may become a hub of interconnected devices, media and online services. And you thought it was for getting you around town. I recently spent a little time in a tricked-out 2009 Corvette whose dashboard … Continue reading →

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Hands-On: Eccentric YikeBike Gives Segway a Run for Its Money

Posted on 2/11/2011 by Dylan Tweney

When the tentacled aliens from Gliese 581g arrive on Earth, they’ll probably be riding a YikeBike. At least, that’s how the YikeBike looks. In reality, it’s made for the posteriors of humans, not the glistening thoraxes of our future Gliesean … Continue reading →

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Hands-On With HP’s Tiny Veer Smartphone

Posted on 2/9/2011 by Dylan Tweney

SAN FRANCISCO — HP’s diminutive Veer might be named that because the company wants to emphasize that it’s swerving in a different direction than most phone makers. And it is: In a gadget season dominated by 4-inch and bigger smartphones, … Continue reading →

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Vintage Posters Highlight a Century of Innovation

Posted on 2/3/2011 by Dylan Tweney

It may be hard to believe as you read Wired on your iPad, but heating oil and metal plumbing pipes were hot tech topics just 100 years ago. They were businesses, too, on which inventors pinned their hopes and corporations … Continue reading →

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No Easy Fixes as Internet Runs Out of Addresses

Posted on 2/3/2011 by Dylan Tweney

The internet has run out of room. Like a prairie with no more vacant land to homestead or a hip area code with no more cellphone numbers, the pool of available numeric internet addresses has been completely allocated as of … Continue reading →

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