this WEEK in GADGETS!

Mobile phone that is supposed to let users see through walls. It is supposed to be able to judge its surroundings, including those on the other side of a wall, using six different sensors.

These nifty flashlights charge in the sunlight and then work for 5+ hours of continuous light after dark. Just like the OLPC deal you buy one of these solar powered flashlights and one will be given away to someone in need. You can choose what group gets the free flashlight, it could go to a kid in Africa or even troops in Iraq, it's your choice.

Despite their ubiquity, cell phones are not known for their ability to take picture-perfect photos. But budding "liquid lens" technology promises to change that. The latest advance in this area comes from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, here, where researchers have developed a liquid lens

Camera makers are jumping into the 3D photo market more than 20 years after the format was laughed out of town and ended up as Michael Jackson's sidekick in Captain Eo. Last week, Fujifilm announced a two-lensed camera that takes images and movies in 3D and captures wide-angle photos of single scenes simultaneously. As a result, we've heard some...

Allow me to remind all of those getting their naysay on this early in the game that we've only seen only a fraction of what the G1 can and will be able to do with the open-source Android OS.

What would you do if you could see in the dark? Jakks Pacific has released a sub-$100 pair of night vision goggles as a toy, but we found them to be much better than expected. Our review inside.

Seriously. His name is Yves Rossy and he’s a Swiss airline pilot by day and adventurer by night. The 22-mile flight took him only 10 minutes and he had hoped to reach 125 MPH. He started by jumping out of a small, French plane and quickly flipped on the jet pack.

Tomorrow I embark on a week-long vacation that will have me hiking up mountains, enjoying art and music and dining in fancy restaurants. Needless to say, I am looking forward to it. The only thing I am not 100% about is the hotel room. I've never stayed in this particular chain before and I got it at a great price—which has me a little concerned.

Google is hoping to transform cell phones the way it did to the Web, beginning with its first Android phone, the new T-Mobile G1. But if really wants to dominate the mobile market, Google will have to prove that it can out-do (or get third parties like HTC to out-do) Apple's iPhone, the market leader when it comes to functionality and usability.

Put away the bobby pins and learn how to open locks the right way. Welcome to the world of lockpicking - where they have a creed: You can pick your own locks, you can pick your friends' locks (with their permission), but you can't pick anyone else's locks.

It looks like T-Mobile is listening

I was excited about Google's potential threat to the iPhone's market share until I looked closely at this image and realized the G1 will not pose a threat to Apple at all. The problem in this promotional mock-up image is obvious: The analog clock says it's 9:10 but the digital clock says it's 2:47. Steve would have caught that one.

While I was more impressed by the T-Mobile G1 than I thought I'd be, the list of catches for Android and the phone are quickly piling up—some that might very well be dealbreakers. Topping the list, it's tightly integrated with your Google account—so tightly that you can only use one Google account with the phone .

NeuroSky Demos Brain-controlled Mobile Phone Applications. Prototyped system that reads brain waves with a sensor and uses them for mobile phone applications. By reading brain waves such as ? and ? waves, the system can roughly measure the degrees of brain's relaxation and concentration. The data of brain waves can be displayed on the screen of a m

The G1 eschews a standard 3.5mm headphone jack for its proprietary ExtUSB connector, meaning you'll need custom headphones or an adapter to plug in your own. What's worse, the adapter won't be available immediately at launch. Why, HTC? Why?

It's true, Amazon just announced that its MP3 music store will be pre-loaded on the T-Mobile G1 Android / Google phone. Users will be able to search, download, buy, and play music from Amazon MP3 -- that's a selection of 6 million DRM-free MP3 songs from all four labels and many independents on a pre-loaded Amazon application.

Yep -- there it is. We finally, finally got our mitts all over the very first Android device, the T-Mobile G1 -- hanging out in the crowd, waiting for the official announce, naturally -- and so far we like what we see. The phone is surprisingly thinner than we thought it would be, and it feels pretty solid in your hand ...

The first official picture of the first Android phone is now between us!

On Tuesday, Google will unveil its new iPhone competitor: the HTC Dream smartphone from T-Mobile, which will run the Android operating system. How do the two match up?

A £1m ($2m) clock called the "time eater" has been unveiled at Cambridge University by Professor Stephen Hawking. Dubbed the strangest clock in the world, it features a giant grasshopper and has 60 slits cut into its face which light up to show the time.

The office can be a cold, hard, life-sucking place to spend your working days. For all the stigma surrounding “the office,” you’re getting unique opportunities to interact with people and your environment in between filing TPS reports. Here are 19 gadgets that will help to turn that day job prison into a techy heaven!

The Intoxilyzer 5000EN, a breathalyzer machine used by Minnesota law enforcement, runs on a pair of Z80 processors and uses 50,000 lines of assembly code. The accuracy of that code base is now under nationwide scrutiny as defense attorneys around the country now frequently claim