CHEAP TABLETS

Results are coming in from the outer precincts and counties, and they’re all saying the same thing: When it comes to tablet computers, you get… Read more

SNIP, BURN, SOLDER, SHRED

“Snip, Burn, Solder, Shred,” by David Erik Nelson; $25 from No Starch Press, nostarch.com. The subtitle on this book is: Seriously Geeky… Read more

DIGITAL TEXTBOOKS

McGraw Hill’s top 100 textbooks will be available on the iPad, using the “Inkling” app. The catch is they’ll cost 80 percent of the print editions…. Read more

COUCH SURFING

Logitech’s new “Couch Mouse” lets you use a pillow, your pants or just about anything for a mousepad when you’re surfing the web from… Read more

THE E-INK WATCH

Joy likes reading on the Kindle, because the “E-Ink” display is easy on the eyes. Now the same technology is going into watches. Some… Read more

GRIP IT

This sounds totally dangerous to us, but for $20 the “Spiderpodium” will attach a handheld gadget, like an iPhone, to your car dashboard, bicycle… Read more

THEY’RE ONLY AS OLD AS THEY FEEL

We have four computers and two of them are nine years old. We found that out by running a utility program that found old files going back to… Read more

MAKING STUFF SMARTER

Here’s a recap of “Making Stuff Smarter,” the last episode in New York Times columnist David Pogue’s excellent four-part series, in case you missed… Read more

THE GOOGLE ART PROJECT

We are total museum buffs. (Bob was even trained to be a museum curator). The Google Art Project, at GoogleArtProject.com, makes it possible to view… Read more

THIS WRITING IS WROTE ROTTEN

TechCrunch.com is the number one tech blog and we look at it just about every day.  What drives us nuts, however, is their creative… Read more