5 months after making its initial appearance, the Samsung ChromeBox is now appearing for sale online. TigerDirect now has both the Intel Celeron-based model unboxed here, as well as one powered by a Intel Core i5. Some comments on the out-of-box hardware… more »

I will admit that the average life-cycle of a gadget in the 'WERKZ is somewhere between 6 and 9 months [although I am trying to get better]. Still, there are some devices that meet some incredibly practical need and are able to keep their lease on servic… more »

It is no secret that I am an introvert. And one of the things I have struggled with is keeping in touch with friends and family. I have been through my phase of "when gaming, I accept no phone calls"; actually that phase is probably still in practice. I… more »

  Just before midnight last night (US East Coast Time), images of what is expected to be T-Mobile's riff on the Samsung Galaxy S II hit the web. For anyone not familiar, Samsung's approach is to take a reference design smartphone and then pump out many… more »

It's time to hit up Newegg again and see what we can find. After some feedback from the last few missions, we are assigned a slightly different challenge. Again, we are going out in search of a 15" rig, but this time some readers want us to find a rig ta… more »

I think a lot. That is not something I am bragging about. It's more so a problem, because I can rarely remember more than 5 minutes later what the so-called brilliant idea was that I had in my cranium. For times like these, it is a good thing that there… more »