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When I was a kid, I liked to take things apart. Remote control cars, calculators, bicycles. I’d sit down with whatever tools I could find that would work and make what was whole into many separate pieces. Part of that was to stave off a curiosity about what was happening inside of these machines. Another [...]

It feels like there’s a story about 3D printing in the news every day lately. The once science-fiction concept of creating complex solid objects out of raw materials on demand has the potential to disrupt just about every form of industry in the world. One of the biggest blockades has been acceptability. While some universities have [...]

Techcitement touched upon some of Tony Stark’s wardrobe the other day, but we didn’t deal with one of the coolest aspects of the armor — the predictive nature. A lot of what was far-out science fiction in 1962 is science fact today. The first thing you need to be aware of is that in the [...]

HTC was one of the first to join the smartphone party, which makes the company’s current lowest ever earnings even more disappointing. While Samsung and Apple battle for top dog, HTC has been putting out well-reviewed handsets and fighting for scraps. In a shot across everyone else’s bow, HTC is aggressively pursuing owners of existing handsets. This isn’t [...]

Google has finally taken the cool but creepy Google Now application and put it on a non-Android platform. Starting today, iOS users can download an update to the Google Search app that adds some of the amazing functions of Google predictive personal assistant. What is Google Now anyway, you ask? It’s a system where Google’s various services [...]

Microsoft has found itself in an interesting situation by going from having a zero percent market share in tablets to having a 7.5 percent share, according to market research analyst company Strategy Analytics. That sounds wonderful, until you see that Apple maintained a previous percentage of 48 percent and Android’s numbers depend on if you count only [...]

BlackBerry has been busy lately. Despite analysts stating high volume returns on the flagship Z10 (which the company is challenging vociferously), the company formerly known as RIM is generating buzz with the new BB10 operating system and new hardware. The second BB10 model, the Q10, comes out at the end of May and finally has a [...]

Normally, On The Cheap tells you how to get a phone for a penny or tablet for a buck or some other major discount on desired tech. Today’s deal is a bit pricier, but it also comes with the incentive of paying back to the planet. At a base price of $499 for the standard [...]

Coming soon is the new Disney-Marvel Iron Man 3 movie. Also coming soon is a tie-in game from Gameloft. Here are the first two trailers for the game. Become billionaire Tony Stark as Iron Man in this fast paced endless runner and fight the AIM around the world to prevent their dark schemes from succeeding. [...]

Did you know Radio Shack sold cell service? Powered by Cricket, Radio Shack Wireless is yet one more company aimed at people who want month-to-month smartphone plans. RSW has a slightly lower range of options than most no-contract providers, with a total of five currently available handsets. The majority of those are manufactured by Huawei [...]