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See images from the floor of the annual exhibition of computer graphics and digital art
We sent our photographers to SIGGRAPH 2006, the annual five-day conference on digital art and computer graphics at the Boston Convention Center. Slideshow: selections from the SIGGRAPH 2006 exhibition. Photographs by Joel Veak. Slideshow: SIGGRAPH 2006 fashion show. Photographs by Kristin Osiecki.

By: JOEL VEAK AND KRISTIN OSIECKI | August 02, 2006

Geek in the woods

Roughing it for urban gadget fiends
For city dwellers accustomed to living with iPods, cell phones, and steady wi-fi, a weekend spent camping can send well-adapted urbanites into temporary panic.

By: KATE COHEN | July 25, 2006

Phones remix

Is that a bigger Verizon in your pocket or are you happy to see me?
Cell phone manufacturers are slowly coming around to the notion that a little bulk isn’t bad, especially if it means there’s fewer things in your pockets.

By: MICHAEL JOHNSON | June 05, 2006

UMD or Beta?

PSP loses its movies
A curious development on the handheld front: while PSP continues to lead the Nintendo DS in US sales, sales of UMD movies (the PSP’s movie format) have dropped so dramatically that most studios are now abandoning the format.

By: RYAN STEWART | April 25, 2006

Call to the bullpen

ESPN's phone strikes out
While the year is still young, you could make a fair argument that ESPN’s mobile service is likely to be remembered as one of the biggest bombs of 2006.

By: RYAN STEWART | April 25, 2006

Failure to launch

The Next Gen Console Wars
Sony seemed to have the right idea for competing with the Xbox 360: let them launch first and go through the requisite growing pains, and then capitalize by bringing out the PS3 when the gild had fallen off the 360 lilly.

By: RYAN STEWART | April 25, 2006

Pimp your iPod

The best ways to accessorize your cell, gaming device, or MP3 player
No gadget is an island.

By: CATHY LU | April 25, 2006

One woman, eight cameras

Testing the new crop of digital-picture takers
Like a writer who keeps a notebook in her back pocket in case inspiration strikes, I carry a camera with me for times when the setting, lighting, or situation catches my eye.

By: MELISSA OSTROW | May 01, 2006

The call of the future

How the cell phone will go swiss army
As technology advances over the next two decades, cell phones will morph into new shapes and assume new features.

By: BOB PARKS AND JAMES P. MCQUOID | April 25, 2006

Go, gadget, go!

The most exciting personal devices of 2006 are wireless, tiny, and occasionally even useful
We’re inching ever closer to the technological utopia so keenly envisioned on The Jetsons .

By: MITCH KRPATA | May 01, 2006

Here Come the Hot Gaming Consoles!

Xbox 360 rocks. Microsoft's newly minted, next-generation game console is packed with a fire-breathing processor, an outlandish graphics processing unit, and high-definition TV outputs for blasting pixels onto huge HDTV screens. It even looks sweet, with a curvaceous, Apple-esque design that both soothes and entices. There can be no doubt: This month Xbox 360 will incite store riots and lure grown men into acts of depravity, just to have one by the end of 2005.
Xbox 360 rocks. Microsoft's newly minted, next-generation game console is packed with a fire-breathing processor, an outlandish graphics processing unit, and high-definition TV outputs for blasting pixels onto huge HDTV screens. It even looks sweet, with a curvaceous, Apple-esque design that both soothes and entices. There can be no doubt: This month Xbox 360 will incite store riots and lure grown men into acts of depravity, just to have one by the end of 2005.

By: Jane Smith | December 18, 2005

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