Most of the things inventor and YouTube host Colin Furze has created are more for entertainment and shock value than actual usefulness. Case in point: his real-life Wolverine claws. Or his magnetic boots that let him hang upside down from anything metal. Or his high-voltage ejector bed. Or…well, you get the idea. But now Furze …

Sure Batman might have some really cool toys, but it’s kind of hard to beat the simple elegance of the batarang. Part boomerang, part ninja throwing star, the whizzing weapon has delivered plenty of “kablooeys” to the noggins of evildoers over the years. Now, bad guys in Germany had better watch out. YouTube inventor Patrick Priebe, who lives in Germany, …

Microsoft has a couple new tricks up its sleeve to help it better compete with Google Translate. Released Thursday, the version of Microsoft Translator for the iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch now includes optical character recognition, or OCR. That means the app can translate text that’s in an image. You could use your iPhone to snap a photo of a …

GIFs are everywhere on the Internet and now you’ll see more of them on Twitter. The company just introduced a new GIF search engine for you to find and add the moving images to your tweets and direct messages. Twitter added support for GIFs way back in 2014, but you had to find them on a separate site and upload …

Nowadays, you’re more likely to watch your phone than talk on it. Thanks to the explosion of streaming video apps such as Netflix, YouTube and HBO Go, countless hours of entertainment are at your beck and call. Grab a little boob tube on the train home or kill a few minutes on your coffee break. The growth of mobile video …

Americans aren’t known for their turnout at elections, but that’s not to say they’re averse to voting. Millions of them vote every single day in a sense — by clicking the “like” button on Facebook posts, profiles and pages. Now, the folks at FiveThirtyEight, an ESPN-owned site that focuses on polling, politics and more, have created a national map and …

If you preordered your 4K Blu-ray discs at Amazon you might want to look away now: electronics retailer Best Buy has started selling discs two weeks before the official date. CNET spotted titles including “Hitman: Agent 47”, “Fantastic Four” and Academy Award hopeful “The Martian” at the 14th St Manhattan outlet of Best Buy today. Meanwhile online retailer Amazon lists …

I get a lot of headphones in for review from brands I’ve never heard of. Most of them are nothing special and some are outright stinkers, but then there are the ones I want to know better. 1More’s Triple Driver in-ear headphone was in the last category, not least because the packaging was elegantly presented and easy to sort out. …

Samsung is set to pull back the curtain on its new Galaxy S7 phone this weekend. Several of the phone’s reported specs have already leaked, and now a video and images apparently offer a close-up. Blog site Android Authority released the video and images Wednesday, citing an anonymous “insider.” The source also noted that the Galaxy S7 will be dust …

My brother and I often text about the shared misery we experience as Cleveland Browns fans. I recently received a Billy Manziel shirt as a joke gift from a friend (who, I should point out, is a long-tortured fan of the Buffalo Bills) and texted a picture of me wearing it to my brother. Now that Johnny Manziel’s exploits have …