Free-range electrons: Wireless electricity is here (seriously) "We both shift our gaze to an unplugged Toshiba television set sitting five feet away on a folding table. He's got to be kidding: There is no power cord attached to it. It's off. Dark. Silent. 'You ready?' he asks. If Soljacic is correct ...

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Note: This story has been updated to reflect Obama's new stance on the DTV issue. In the latest bump on the road to all-digital TV signals, the influential Consumers Union, publishers of Consumer Reports, asked Congress to shape up or push back the February deadline for the DTV transition. The federal program ...

As the traditional television broadcast model struggles to live up to its looming digital-only deadline, TV manufacturers are blazing forward at a pace that threatens to leave cable companies and broadcast outlets in the dust. We've already discussed Netflix streaming movies directly to TVs. Now even more players are entering ...

The International Consumer Electronics Show is still a day away. But with 2,700 exhibits fighting for attention this year, vendors have trotted out several of their best inventions early. LG's Watch Phone LG Electronics has captured a piece of Dick Tracy fiction this year with its impressively sleek wristwatch/telephone. The working prototype ...

Year-end reviews of top news stories often reek of gloom and doom. Not so with top science/technology stories. Lists assembled by scientific organizations and publications tend to glow with discovery and promise. A small sampling makes the point. Major advances in geneticists’ ability to reprogram living cells made most of those ...

The Consumer Electronics Show doesn't technically start until Thursday, but announcements are already flowing. This enormous trade show – the Super Bowl for technology reporters – sets the gadget tone for the rest of the year, and often years to come. Here are some of the sleak machines, software, and ...

The messages are sent by friends, family, and trusted acquaintances. Some appear to carry embedded images or videos. Most arrive under innocuous subject lines: “You look just awesome in this new movie,” or “Funny moments.” But when users of popular social networks Facebook, MySpace, and Bebo click on the link inside ...

This year's Macworld keynote had the potential to be a real stinker – what with über-CEO Steve Jobs sitting things out for health reasons and the company's announcement that this was the last time it would attend the annual trade show. But even with Jobs out, the Cupertino-based company ...

While Nintendo's Wii grabs most of the media buzz, the 8-year-old PlayStation 2 is still 2008's most played video system in America, in terms of actual minutes used. That was one of several interesting stats that came out of Nielsen's top ten of everything list for 2008. Here are some ...