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A late entry into the pocket-camcorder field, Sony's Bloggie is overdesigned and underfunctional. The swiveling lens offers flexibility, but the slow and unintuitive controls make it a tough sell.

A lot of people seem to think the iTunes 10 icon is hideous, so why not design your own? Wired.com invites readers to make a better iTunes icon than Apple's and submit it for a chance to win an iPod Shuffle.

The U.S. military's efforts to assist the 17 million victims of the Pakistan flood are still pretty tech-lite. So a group of civilian aid workers, Pakistani and international, have home-brewed a series of social media apps to help coordinate relief work — everything from crisis Wikis to crowd-sourced maps to SMS calls for help.

Daimler uses social media and smartphones to help people find carpool buddies who don't suck.

Genuinely ingenious new book The Sounds of Star Wars amplifies the concept of interactive show and tell to ear-blasting new heights. In this exclusive video about the making of the book, legendary sound designer Ben Burtt and others involved in the sci-fi saga tell how they came up with such memorable noises.

Sony's upcoming motion controller is more than just a Wiimote clone. Thanks to its player-facing camera and its powerfully precise targeting, it offers a peek at what full-fledged augmented reality will look like.

Nikon's Small World microscope photography winners are revealed today. This gallery features some of the most interesting winning images of ordinary stuff like snowflakes and banana leaves. Vote for your favorites and help choose the popular-vote winner.

3M begins marketing the first waterproof, transparent, pressure-sensitive tape after employee Richard Drew figures out how to coat strips of cellophane with adhesive.

Computer lab manager Don Hodges knows why Pac-Man, at level 256, suddenly turns into a hideous mess of ASCII letters and graphics.

The Gravity Balans from Variér Furniture is far less nefarious and cranium-cracking than it looks. We'd heard a great deal about its ergonomic benefits and decided to give it a spin in our quest to find the perfect marathon gaming/lounging chair.

Porsche panache comes to the carpool lane, and Mercedes Benz makes burning rubber with kids in the back seat comfy for everyone!

None of your fantasies about multi-touchscreen smartphones can be realized until someone makes a dual-core chip that would know what to do with multiple screens. But Samsung's new Orion 1-GHz dual-core ARM microprocessor could make those kinky dreams come true.

Google revamped its iconic search site Wednesday, unveiling what it calls Instant Search, which loads search results as soon as you finish typing a word, packing your screen quickly with results as soon as you start with the 'd' in dog.

There's an easier way to test laser pointers for leaking harmful infrared light: Use an infrared thermometer.

Mozilla has released a fifth beta for its Firefox 4 browser, adding hardware acceleration in Windows, a new audio API and support for a new security protocol.

New research confirms that alcohol can be beneficial to your health. In fact, abstaining from alcohol increases your risk of dying.

A journalist captured in Afghanistan told the world he was still alive over the weekend by tweeting with a prison guard's cellphone. This remarkable tale about a tweet kicks off a new meme here at Gadget Lab that we're calling Tweet of the Day.

A federal appeals court is ruling the government may obtain cell-site information mobile phone carriers retain on their customers without a probable-cause warrant under the Fourth Amendment. Cell-site location information, which carriers usually retain for about 18 months, identifies the cell tower to which the customer was connected at the beginning of a call and at the end of the call.

Most flash photos — even those shot with your new, fancy $500 camera — look like junk. But you can create amazing images using a flash if you know a few tricks.

Get out your telescopes! Two small asteroids will come within moon-distance of Earth Wednesday.