Google Goggles turns translator

Those of us not lucky/smart enough to read foreign languages have, until now, been fairly poorly served by technical replacements to the trusty travel phrase book. There are, of course, plenty of standalone handheld devices which are simply electronic phrase books with keypads, some of them offering text-to-speech features. An existing Google phone app attempts […]

What must-have features should every mobile phone have? What features would you easily give up?

Even though there are hundreds of mobile phone models out there, there is a single thing they all need to do, and do well, place phone calls. As surprising as it may seem, even though I run a blog that’s occasionally gadget-oriented, my mobile (or more specifically, my wife’s mobile) is somewhat limited feature-wise. I’ve […]

Restore Joss Whedon (Ignore Stephen Baldwin)

You may have heard that someone thinks Stephen Baldwin has been given such a raw deal that he deserves his own personal charity: Restore Stephen Baldwin (which, apparently, is entirely serious, though Baldwin himself had nothing to do with setting it up). Of course, as all science fiction geeks know, if there’s anyone who’s been […]