Oden’s Temple

If you're like us, you have an attic, closet, or garage stuffed with unused, outdated tech junk. Oh, you think you'll recycle it -- but you don't, do you? Wouldn't you like to do something useful with them?

The onus is on us: It is our choices, our demands from the market, that will bring about the necessary actions and changes in the fashion industry. Smart fabrics and wearable technology offer us an opportunity for a more sustainable future, but the promise will be bittersweet if the entire product life cycle isn’t taken into consideration.

Researchers at MIT have demonstrated the first laser that uses the element germanium. The laser, which operates at room temperature, could prove to be an important step toward computer chips that move data using light instead of electricity, say the researchers.

With today's launch of the USB friendly copycat iTablet and rumors that Mac has a second tablet in the works, we thought we'd make the March 14th decision to buy or not to buy easier for you.

Software freedom requires more than just a license. It also needs an open market to be meaningful--witness Apple, Canonical, and others flirting with Microsoft. Read this blog post by Matt Asay on The Open Road.

Even with Mr. Jobs’ generous pricing model for the recently revealed iPad, with the economy being what it is, many people will still find themselves priced out of the market for an Apple product. Thankfully it is now possible to own an Apple laptop for even the lowest of computing budgets!

On the Chromium projects site, Google has quietly posted some pictures and video of their ideas of what a future Chrome OS tablet would look like.

When I am asked the question "Which is more secure, Mac or PC?" I find myself stumbling around for a response because I don't have a clear-cut answer. I use both. And I use antivirus software with both.

Amazon has reported a net profit for quarter 4, 2009; of $384m (£238m), up from $225m a year ago. Sales have rose 42% up to $9.2bn, is this a sign of the popularity of the kindle and what may be expected for the iPad?

An interesting tidbit of jobs data came out this week from the IEEE-USA, which said the total pool of employed software engineers fell by nearly 2%. Are they retiring, leaving the workforce, or just building iPhone and iPad apps down at the local coffeeshop?