FiiO’s K1 USB digital converter has been buried under a pile of crap on my desk for months, but it’s not my fault. The K1 is so darned small it’s easy to lose track of, but now that I’ve gotten around to listening to it I’m here to spread the news: this super-affordable gizmo is …

Lefty, the longtime mascot for Hamburger Helper, has dreams that go beyond the food industry. He also wants to be a mover and a shaker (that’s a great pun if you think about it for a second) in the music industry. It’s an admirable and lofty dream for someone who’s just a white glove with a face on it. Related …

I would like to peek inside Ben Tardif’s dreams. I suspect everything’s in motion, spheres rocket through strange landscapes and marbles are the currency of imagination. Tardif is the creator of an epic machine called Marble Mountain. Marble Mountain sits in a small warehouse. It stands 8 feet (2.4 meters) tall and 12 feet (3.7 meters) wide. It’s mostly crafted …

Google is shutting down its Wallet Cards, the physical debit cards for Google Wallet accounts. The debit cards let Wallet users spend money from their Wallet account when shopping at a retailer that doesn’t support contactless NFC payments. Google Wallet’s physical payment card is being retired. Screenshot by Matt Elliott/CNET When does support for Wallet Cards end? Wallet Cards will …

Wallet-watchers: AT&T has just announced three new Samsung Galaxy phones that come in for well under $200. Their entry-level features won’t bowl you over, but they’re not meant to — these are strictly low-price plays. The $130 Samsung Galaxy Express Prime GoPhone goes on sale today, followed on May 6 by the $170 Samsung Galaxy J3 and $80 Galaxy Express …

Back in the ’90s, when Webcams were hot and we used the World-Wide Web Worm as our preferred search engine, I worked for a tiny online village of Apple Mac users called eWorld. Apple dabbled in this easy-to use community between June 1994 and March 1996, and eWorld became my first full-time job in college. From 1995 to 1996, I …

Congrats to Robert K. of Pulaski, Mississippi, for winning 32GB of computer memory from Crucial in last week’s giveaway. With the 2016 Masters tournament starting next week, you may have golf on the brain. Luckily, so do we. This week, we’re giving away an Arccos Driver, a brand new performance-tracking system from Arccos Golf. The system includes a tiny, super …

The DJI Phantom 4 may come packed with a tonne of intelligent flight modes to help you send it soaring through the sky, but what we really care about is how it stacks up against Mother Nature’s finest — a barn owl. In this special video we put beak against lens, wings against propellors and feathers against, well, plastic, in …

The Amazon Echo Dot has arrived, joining Amazon’s original Echo and the new Echo Tap in what is now a stable of smart, voice-powered products. If there was one complaint with the original Echo, it was that its speaker lacked oomph. The Dot’s has even less (because it’s tiny), but that’s OK because you can pair it with the external …

We’re finally getting a clearer picture of whether people are giving BlackBerry another chance. And things don’t look good. BlackBerry said Friday that it sold 600,000 phones in its fiscal fourth quarter, well below Wall Street’s expectations of 850,000 and also below the 700,000 units it sold in the preceding quarter. Until now, things had been a little murky. BlackBerry’s …