- Learning to Love the Kindle DX
- Digital Trends Talk Backs - July 7, 2009
- I’ve been using the Kindle DX for several weeks now, and it was anything but love at first sight. This is my third Kindle: I was one of the first with the initial Kindle, got the Kindle 2 when it first shipped, and figured, what the heck, I&rsq...
- Testing Clear's WiMax Internet Service
- Digital Trends Features - July 2, 2009
- We’ve huddled under awnings on the sidewalk in the rain to tap weak Wi-Fi signals, slipped into hotels as “guests,” and paid big bucks from cell carriers for a wireless modem, all to get our mobile Internet fix. And every option see...
- Lusting After the Fisker Karma
- Digital Trends Talk Backs - July 2, 2009
- I’m in the market for a new car, and I’m struggling with what to buy. Currently, I have a 2003 Infinite FX45, which I love, but it is starting to feel its age. I tried the new FX50, but it seems that, to get ahead of the technology curve,...
- Quick and Easy Home Theater Enhancements
- Digital Trends Guides - July 1, 2009
- Spending a lot of money on your home theater and then not getting the most out of it is like eating pizza without tomato sauce. It’s really just a bunch of cheesy bread. To get that special sauce for your room, we recommend making a few simple ...
- Top Digital Camera Accessories
- Digital Trends Guides - July 1, 2009
- Whether you just picked up Panasonic’s amazing Lumix DMC-LX3 or dropped some more coin for a starter DSLR like Sony’s excellent DSC-HX1, your investment is far from over. Now that you’ve got the camera, it’s time to get the ge...
- Robots that Live Among Us
- Digital Trends Features - June 30, 2009
- As we all learned from Terminator, artificially intelligent machines will one day conduct a systematic extermination of all human life forms and turn the Earth into one gigantic robot playground. But until that day comes, robots are our friends.From ...
- Top 10 Touch-Screen Devices
- Digital Trends Guides - June 29, 2009
- Buttons belong to 20th century. While we’re sure that making electrical contact with the press of finger seemed nigh-miraculous at the same time that most people were still using the bathroom outside, the little switches and levers that brought...
- Print Green by Recycling Ink Cartridges
- Digital Trends Guides - June 24, 2009
- You may not give much thought to what happens to your ink-encrusted old print cartridges after the new ones come out of the foil wrapper, but tossing them away should be about the last thing you consider. Like paper, plastic, glass and all the other ...
- Hands-On with a Monster: Alienware's M17x
- Digital Trends Talk Backs - June 24, 2009
- I can't tell you how much I look forward to getting a new notebook from Alienware. This is one of the few companies that seem to understand that a gaming notebook needs to look like it eats Apple products for lunch and scares the hell out of small ...
- Imagining the Sony PlayStation 4
- Digital Trends Features - June 22, 2009
- It’s never too early to begin peeking down the pipe at what’s to come. Though Sony just finished showing off its wares for the PlayStation 3 at this year’s E3, and wants you to believe it will be peddling new games on them for anoth...
- Upgrade Your Laptop
- Digital Trends Guides - June 19, 2009
- The old axiom that you can’t upgrade a laptop has never been less true. Sure, your nay-saying, desktop-bound friends who repeat it have a basic kernel of truth in their favor – the core guts of a mobile machine are pretty much set in ston...
- Waiting in line for the iPhone 3G S, Why I Wished I stayed in Bed
- Digital Trends Talk Backs - June 19, 2009
- It was supposed to be a dark and stormy night. In New York City, two-thirds of the Gillette triumvirate (Tiger Woods and Derek Jeter) got rained on and nearly out. Not only does Steve Jobs' control a couple of the coolest companies on the planet, he ...
- DIY Home Theater Tips
- Digital Trends Guides - June 18, 2009
- We don’t know about you, but we’re tired of hearing about the economy. Who says you can’t have a little fun during tough times? While building a home theater may not sound like the most prudent idea, you can do it for relatively che...
- iPhone OS 3.0 - Installation and Overview
- Digital Trends Guides - June 18, 2009
- Apple's new (and much-hyped) operating system update is already bundled inside the iPhone 3G S, but existing iPhone owners can now download iPhone OS 3.0 right from iTunes – though be patient, as Apple's servers are currently experiencing traff...
- Best Budget Mini HD Camcorders Reviewed
- Digital Trends Features - June 17, 2009
- When Pure Digital released the very first Flip handheld camcorder back in 2006 and promptly captured 13 percent of the entire camcorder market with a single year, the video landscape changed. Despite the ranting of pro photographers that little handh...