Tag: DAMAGE

Some of us treat laptops like tanks, but that hard, plastic casing can only stand up to so much punishment. And if you've ever had the misfortune of paying for a laptop repair, you know the fix doesn't come cheap. CNET News wrote about computer repair company MicroReplay's list of the most common ways people send their laptops to the grave. According to the list, liquid on the keyboard is the ...

Yes, video games are both exhilarating and frustrating. And what with all that violence, it's no wonder that actual stuff breaks when we jump for joy after winning or throw our controllers at the wall after getting fragged to death, again. Injuries, and actual broken stuff often ensues, which is why we thought last week's Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) in Los Angeles would be the perfect ...

You probably already know Blendtec as the company that feeds its nuclear-grade blenders stuff like gardening equipment and consumer electronics. Its commercials have become viral sensations on the Web because the razor-mouthed magarita mixers can blend just about anything that's thrown at them ... hey, did we just fall for a clever marketing gimmick? Check out the company's latest commercial ...

If there's one thing the British know less about caring for than their teeth, it's their cell phones. A recent study by SimplySwitch.com, a U.K.-based comparison site for mobile plans, found that out of the 4.5 million cell phones Britons lose or damage each year, 885,000 meet a watery death by getting dropped in the toilet. That's £342 million, or roughly $679 million U.S. dollars, flushed ...

Researchers out of British Telecom's Ipswitch labs have grabbed the motion-sensing technology from Nintendo's Wiimote and built an adapter for tablet PCs, which the company says in a press release, "removes the need for a keyboard and mouse." Dubbed the BT Balance System, the adapter contains what's known as an accelerometer – a motion-sensing chip used elsewhere to deploy airbags and to ...