A device that transmits content from laptop to HDTV would seem to be an absolute no-brainer for this reviewer. After all, to my teenage kids (as to most members of the iGeneration), most anything posted on YouTube is preferable to just about every TV show you could name. Blame it on short, iPod-honed attention spans, more »

Ryan Gosling once again proves himself as one of today’s finest young actors in the excellent 2011 noir thriller Drive. Playing a character only identified as Driver, he’s a stunt driver and mechanic by day, and at night he’s a getaway driver for heists. His troubles begin when he gets interested in a neighbor (Carey more »

If you think you’ve heard Rodrigo Y Gabriela, you haven’t heard anything until you’ve given their new Cuban-influenced album Area 52 a spin. And if you really haven’t heard RYG before, well, what the heck? For the uninitiated, Rodrigo Y Gabriela — in the most basic terms — are a Mexican acoustic guitar-playing duo influenced as much more »

Quick Summary! If you like Big Star, you need to own this album called Free Again: the ’1970′ Sessions by Alex Chilton.  If you like bands that jangle and swagger like Wilco, Son Volt, The Posies, The Byrds (pre- and post-Crosby), Badfinger, Tom Petty, Superdrag, The Bongos, R.E.M., The dBs, and Matthew Sweet, you will want to more »

My friend Erik once said to me, “Dennis, you don’t just like anything. You either hate it or you’re obsessed.” Which some people may be quick to blame on my high-functioning autism, but I tend to blame it on the fact that there are just so darned many things worth obsessing over that I don’t more »

It’s long been speculated that Apple’s iTV strategy would somehow involve Siri, the voice command assistant introduced with the iPhone 4S, but perhaps Steve Jobs had something else in mind. AppleInsider has uncovered a new patent, filed in September 2011, that illustrates how he may have “cracked it.” The product described goes with the theory more »

SCI-Arc and Caltech have designed the Compact Hyper-Insulated Prototype (CHIP) Solar house in a successful bid to win the Department of Energy’s Solar Decathalon. Featuring 45 solar panels on the roof, the domicile can generate up to three times its energy requirements, enough power to charge two electric cars on top of keeping everything running. more »

In an exclusive one-on-one interview with CTPG, Head Monster Noel Lee tells Krissy Rushing about the company’s new line of fashion-forward headphones and the company’s transition away from the Monster Cable name. Click on the image below to check it out: Via: [Dealerscope]

Steve Jobs makes one little comment about having “finally cracked it” and the electronics world as we know it holds it breath and starts running around in circles in a tizzy. Surely, “cracking it” meant that El Jobso figured out a solution to replace the horrible, completely impossible to master, caveman-like encumbrance known as the more »

Whether you’re a Trekker or not, if you grew up any time in the past three decades, Star Trek: The Next Generation is unquestionably a part of your popular culture. The founding father of the ’90s syndication boom, ST:TNG owned Saturday nights in most markets, beating out network programming, and leaving a lasting impact as more »