Enlarge ImageThe HandyCase in action on an iPhone. HandyCase Think about it. When holding a phone or tablet, 80 percent of your fingers wind up on the back of it, while your two stubby little thumbs wind up on the touch-sensitive side of the device. A case designed to work with the latest iPhones, the …

Enlarge Image The 3D-printed Maze hairbrush has sections that flex forward and backward to make hair removal a snap. Scott Shim When I see my wife cleaning her hairbrush, I get depressed and think, “I remember when I had hair.” When Scott Shim, associate professor of design at Ohio State University, saw his wife undertaking the task, it got him …

Enlarge ImageCould this ring help you sleep better? Olli Keskinen While most attention in the wearables market has been focused on devices that wrap around our wrists, there are some makers out there that are seeking to put smart technology on our fingers. There are the Ringly and Mota rings that bring notifications to our fingers and the Nod ring, …

Enlarge ImageIs this the shower of the future? Nebia For something we do pretty much every day, most of us don’t give much thought to our showers. That’s certainly not the case for the six people working at San-Francisco-based startup Nebia. They’ve spent a lot of time thinking about the way we get clean, how much water the process uses …

Enlarge ImageThe Maguss Wand, sensor and app. Maguss Wingardium leviosa! While shouting that and zipping the Maguss Wand around in your friend’s face won’t quite make him levitate like it would in the Harry Potter universe, it could cause him to skip a turn and let you make your getaway. The Maguss Wand is a new gizmo whose makers recently …

Whenever a new iPhone comes out, there are lots of questions about its screen resolution, its battery life, the quality of its camera… You know, normal questions. A YouTube user known as EverythingApplePro recently had another kind of question about the shiny slabs of tech — just how many of them it would take to stop a bullet shot at …

Look — up in the sky. It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s…Superman with a goatee? Yup, that’s right. And in the just-released trailer for a new animated series called “Justice League: Gods and Monsters Chronicles,” it’s not only the Man of Steel’s facial hair that’s changed. He’s also now the son of traditional House of El enemy General Zod …

A phone that’s just a phone. What a concept! Light Phone I knew things were getting bad when I was hiking the other day and stopping to text photos of the woods to my wife while also messaging her on Facebook about our plans for the night. So much for immersing myself in nature. If I had the Light Phone, …

When Tom Cruise told then-NASA administrator Sean O’Keefe that the space agency’s website was “three clicks to oblivion,” he wasn’t talking about how easy it was to click from the NASA site to the one promoting his movie “Oblivion.” He was talking about how poorly he felt the old NASA site was designed. That’s what O’Keefe said in a video …

Dan Casey, senior editor at Nerdist.com, says he’s read more than his body weight in comics over the course of his life. He’s now put that passion — and quite a bit of research — into a new book called “100 Things Avengers Fans Should Know and Do Before They Die,” which hit Friday, the same day ” Avengers: Age …