The secret is the solar film across the top of the band. Exod Few things are as aggravating as untangling the fine wires of your headphone cords. Bluetooth headphones make this pesky problem disappear, but then you have the new issue of keeping your headphones charged up so you can groove to your tunes when …

3D Robotics OMG, you guys. I am so tickled because today I get to give away not one, not two, but three of my favorite products. They’re all different, but all in the same awesome category: drones! Extreme Fliers I’ve had a mad love affair with these things this year, and as fate would have it, these are among my …

A look inside the Google Nexus 6. iFixit The Nexus 6, Google’s new flagship smartphone, has earned a decent score for repairability. iFixit, a company that sells repair tools for mobile devices and analyzes the difficulty of repair, gave the Nexus 6 a score of seven out of 10 for repairability — with 10 being the easiest to fix. On …

HP Last week I shared what was arguably the best laptop deal of the entire year, an 11.6-inch Asus EeeBook for $139.99. (It’s now back up to its $179.99 regular price — still a pretty smokin’ buy, if you ask me.) If you liked the idea of a low-cost, Chromebook-style laptop but didn’t relish squinting at such a small screen, …

The Samsung Galaxy S5 hasn’t proven as popular as the Galaxy S4. Andrew Hoyle/CNET Samsung’s Galaxy S5 might be one of the most advanced smartphones the company has launched, but it’s reportedly not selling as well as the company hoped. In the first three months since its April release, Samsung sold 40 percent fewer of the big-screen Galaxy S5 smartphones …

T-Mobile must provide customers information about the actual speeds they are receiving. Josh Miller/CNET T-Mobile has agreed to give its customers more accurate information about the speed of their mobile broadband connection, even when their speeds are being throttled. The FCC announced Monday that T-Mobile will provide its customers with tools to allow them to accurately gauge the connection speeds …

There are selfies, and then there are selfies. (Click to enlarge.) Chabad.org/Chaim Perl Thousands of rabbis walk into a conference with a selfie stick… Sound like the setup of a joke? It’s what happened Sunday when a group of rabbis gathered for an annual meeting in New York and snapped a giant selfie — the world’s biggest, they claim. Some …

Take note, the stylus on Samsung’s phablet didn’t always look this way. Josh Miller/CNET Fact: the original Samsung Galaxy Note almost didn’t carry its small S-Pen within a bored-out holster. Early designs envisioned a stylus as large as a ballpoint pen, and attachments like a magnet, or even nothing at all. This particular nugget of smartphone lore has come courtesy …

Kogan While Kogan has had a few Windows tablets in its catalogue, it had never made the jump to more traditional PCs — until now. Launched today, the Atlas X1510 is a 15.6-inch laptop running Windows 8.1 priced at just AU$329. In a media statement, Ruslan Kogan stressed that the Atlas wasn’t built with “end of life” parts, but had …

Every smartphone Greg stole was an iPhone. The 19-year-old snatched five in all, once picking up two in a day. His last grab, in a sleepy San Francisco neighborhood near the city’s coastline in May 2013, was a bust — in more ways than one. He thought he was going after an iPhone 5, Apple’s newest model at the time. …

Google South Korean owners of the LG G3 smartphone will be receiving Android 5.0 this week, LG said on Sunday. In a blog post written in Korean, the mobile device maker said that all three of the mobile carriers in Korea — SK Telecom, KT and LG Uplus — will launch the update at the same time. The update itself …

Sarah Tew/CNET The Amazon Fire TV Stick is sure to be a hot commodity this holiday season. The little device plugs directly into an HDTV and gives users a quick and inexpensive option to view content from Amazon, Netflix, Hulu Plus, Spotify and Pandora, among many other content providers. Amazon originally offered the Fire TV Stick to Prime customers for …

The iPhone 6 will account for 60 percent of all iPhone sales this quarter, said Ming-Chi Kuo. CNET Apple’s holiday quarter will be a merry one, courtesy of heavy demand for the iPhone 6, says at least one analyst. In an investors report scooped up by AppleInsider, KGI analyst Ming-Chi Kuo said he predicts that Apple will sell 71.5 million …

Verizon’s Moto X is an early Android 5.0 adopter. Screenshot by Scott Webster/CNET Verizon started rolling out Android 5.0 Lollipop updates on Monday to the Motorola Moto X (2014) . At more than 600MB, the large Lollipop update looks like its the same mostly stock Android experience we’ve come to expect, flavored with hints of Motorola’s own look and software …

Though I’ve never hosted a Thanksgiving dinner myself, I’ve been through enough holidays with my family and friends to know there are a lot of moving parts with the preparation and cooking that all need to come together at once. With several steps involved in roasting the turkey, the need to make numerous sides (such as mashed potatoes, stuffing, and …