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If you've ever wanted to star in a Ron Howard film, you might just have your chance now, thanks to his exciting new collaboration "Long Live Imagination" with Canon. This exciting project and "Project Imagin8ion" photography contest is k…

Every mom knows that fear of letting a toddler turn the faucet on and off by herself for the first time. I remember loving my daughter's independence, but being a wee bit panicked that she'd crank the hot water too high and scald herself…

You can't frame your beloved Mac, but now you can frame those classic Mac icons in a demonstration of love for your old school Apple computer. Besides, if the Apple logo is au courant, then these prints are more like...an apple seed. Eac…

You have to be pretty hard core about your Easter Eggs to invest $195 in a machine that makes them look awesome. But that's just what the creators of the Egg-Bot were thinking when they invented this open-source robot that applies comput…

Now that I'm about to get my hands on a shiny new iPad2 (yay!) I've been on the lookout for cool new accessories for my tablet, like the PadPivot that I saw on crowd-funding site Kickstarter a little while back. Now Kickstarter has intro…

I can't believe my kids are old enough for me to say things like, "Well...we didn't have that when my kid was a baby," but a mere six years later and I'm already waxing nostalgia about how much different it was before all the advances in…

When I find myself doing the really icky chores around the house, like scrubbing the floor under my kids' breakfast chairs, or getting on my hands and knees around the toilet, I think: In this enlightened age, shouldn't there be a button…

As cool as our Samsung Galaxy tablet is, I can't help but wish I had an extra hand to prop it up when I'm trying to follow a recipe off a website or scrolling Twitter while we watch a movie together. Hey, I like two hands for popcorn, th…

We're all for greening up our homes and lives wherever we can, and sometimes that comes from the manufacturers, who give us better options in the first place. We read this week that General Electric plans to introduce the first HFC-free …

I know people that I can describe as a man or woman of their word, but that's being taken to a whole new level when words become a style of personalization for gadgets. A pair of The Street Headphones are a holy, major, unabashed splurge…

With my husband being a pilot, we do our fair share of traveling. However with four kids, you can bet we're heavily reliant on technology to make the trip as smooth as possible. So when I got wind of a revolutionary change that's coming …

Every time I've tried to lose my postpartum baby weight (that's uh, four times for those of you keeping count) I find I have the most success when I keep a journal of what I'm eating and how I'm working out. So as I try to lose those las…