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Despite all the buzz over downloadable music, movies and games, optical discs -- namely CD's and DVD's -- still rule the marketplace in delivering digital information and entertainment. These discs [...]

A FEW years ago, when MP3 players were establishing themselves as the hot cool thing, the next question seemed clear: What if you could take along not only music but [...]

FOR 23 years, Wilbert Q. Murdock, an engineering professor turned sports technologist, has struggled along with a small team of fellow believers to develop golf clubs crammed with enough biomechanics [...]

THE screen crackles with criminality as a gang of urban predators itch for a kill. The scene erupts into automatic-weapons fire in a drive-by nightmare of screaming car engines, senseless […]

Marc Ecko, the fashion designer and founder of Ecko Unlimited, thinks the urban hip-hop scene is good material for video games -- in the right hands. ''This is not unlike [...]

IT has taken four years, but the creators of the Doom video game series have finally reached the next level. Doom 3, a sequel from Id Software -- the company [...]

As the battle for the White House heats up, a video game maker wants cellphone users to cast their votes in a contest pitting President Bush and Senator John Kerry […]

In moving to extend its reach into the lucrative mobile-gaming arena with the introduction of the PlayStation Portable, Sony is emphasizing what makes its hand-held the un-Game Boy. Unlike Nintendo's [...]

AS Hollywood action films are increasingly spun off into video games, game developers are facing more pressure to squeeze greater realism into their computer-generated characters and environments. Maintaining the illusion [...]

SHOES have long been sensible. Now some are getting smart. Smart enough, that is, to sense their environment electronically, calculate how best to perform in it, and then instantly alter [...]

Every challenger to Nintendo's reign over the lucrative market for hand-held game consoles has been handily zapped by the Game Boy. Some 168 million Game Boys have been sold since [...]

WHEN the hip-hop hit ''Game Over'' by Lil' Flip plays on Terrence Pinkard's cellphone, the song clip lets him know that a particular friend is calling. It also lets everyone [...]

IN an inconspicuous Texas office building, doom is being sealed pixel by pixel, polygon by polygon. More precisely, Doom 3, the long-awaited sequel in the enormously successful Doom video game [...]

WITH DVD releases of movies becoming as competitive as traditional theatrical releases for viewer dollars, Hollywood producers say they are increasingly looking to eye-popping technologies to make their DVD's stand […]

Sit back, relax and enjoy. That's how AtomFilms Hi-Def, a new free online film service seeking to be so easy to use that instructions will be superfluous, introduces itself. Blending [...]

Now there are headphones available for Nintendo's Game Boy Advance SP, the popular hand-held game console that looks like a laptop for Tom Thumb. Millions of the portable game players, [...]

If squinting at the postage-stamp-size pictures you snap with your cellphone camera has got you down, using the phone's cramped keypad to e-mail them to your PC for a better [...]

INEXPENSIVE ways to play video on hand-held devices have been promised for at least a couple of years, and there have been tantalizing glimpses of bright-screened, palm-size prototypes at electronics [...]

With the cost of data storage down to about $1 a gigabyte for the newest computer hard drives, the idea of paying for data storage in cyberspace might sound like [...]

NOT so long ago, cellphone accessories mostly meant swivel belt clips, leather-look carrying cases or, perhaps for the more adventuresome, flashy snap-on face plates. But as wireless phones have evolved, [...]

PRACTICALLY everything moviegoers expect from a new James Bond movie is there in abundance: alluring locales, international intrigue, exotic women, high-tech gadgetry and, of course, the deadly yet debonair Agent [...]

Cellphones with cameras are no longer novel. So it's time, according to at least one cellphone maker, for these gizmos to grow up and become more serious. Kyocera Wireless announced [...]

SanDisk, which makes flash memory cards, is suggesting a low-tech approach to storing and sorting digital pictures: photo albums. The company has introduced a line of Shoot & Store memory [...]

It used to be that engaging points, note cards and perhaps a blackboard were enough to make an effective presentation. But that was before presentation software like PowerPoint, running on [...]

WHEN the Philadelphia Phillies' $458 million ballpark opens in April, some ticket holders may experience something akin to what Yogi Berra famously described as ''deja vu all over again.'' While [...]

WHILE the broad vision of a digital lifestyle is clear, the details of living it are still a bit blurry. In the not-so-distant future, computers are not only supposed to [...]

IN the late 1990's, as personal computers were becoming as common in many American households as televisions and cordless phones, the toy industry quickly embraced technologies like microprocessors, optical sensors [...]

Anyone who has huddled over the speaker of a telephone for a conference call or strained to hear a colleague's presentation over the tinny speakers of a laptop computer is [...]

Americans have taken to the DVD audiovisual format like ducks to water. And with prices of DVD players dropping below $50, the boxes and the discs are increasingly finding their [...]

BRETT RENWICK, an enterprising refugee from the dot-com implosion, considers himself an especially tech-savvy consumer. He spent weeks poring over reviews and product specifications before deciding on a high-speed Internet [...]

The first generations of hands-free telephone headsets were still painfully bound by hard-wired connections. The best of the breed quickly evolved away from the wire. But until now, even wireless [...]

Sprint is raising the stakes in the cellphone-camera arms race with a handset that can record not just still pictures but video, too. The sleek PCS Vision Video Phone VM4500 [...]

THE live TechTV ''Call for Help-a-thon'' is only days away, but don't expect the network's geeks-in-residence to be limbering up their mouse-click fingers or joystick grips. These particular television hosts [...]

IMAGINE buying the latest ''Lord of the Rings'' DVD and discovering that the cameras, lights, special effects and editing tools used in its making had been included at no extra [...]

Two new products from Sorrent, a company that develops video games for wireless devices, are not the first real-time multiplayer games for head-to-head action on cellphones. But the games, Fox [...]

Beginning today, millions of Sprint PCS Vision subscribers will have access to a new multimedia service: television. By way of mobile technologies and agreements forged by Idetic, a Berkeley, Calif., [...]

Students enrolled in Near Eastern and Mediterranean archaeology at the University of Southern California get the kind of assignment that resonates with collegians throughout the land -- turn in a [...]

HE may have become a political giant this year. But Arnold Schwarzenegger has also shrunk. There is no mistaking his identity, of course, with the spiky, combed-back hair, the battle-scarred [...]

Could renting a movie be much simpler than it already is? The Walt Disney Company is betting it could be with a new service called MovieBeam that includes a no-fuss [...]

For years, computer laptops and notebooks have grown steadily in power and performance, but so far none of them bounce. The ultimate computer crash is all too often the fatal [...]

The N-Gage, the Game Boy-like portable console that Nokia delivered last week after months of speculation and expectation, is also a full-fledged cellphone. Now it is up to consumers to [...]

EVEN before he began sketching the redesign of a best-selling mini audio component system, the kind that is basic operating equipment for millions of teenagers and young adults, Justin Jakobson, [...]

Liquid crystal display computer monitors are sleek, bright and, increasingly, inexpensive. But Samsung, a leading maker of monitors, has introduced a 17-inch model with a different attribute: hands-free operation. No, [...]

FOR decades, planetariums and science centers have mixed their offerings of instructive starscapes and educational films with more fanciful fare: laser shows customarily set to thunderous rock music. But in [...]

Movielink, the online movie rental service, is pinning its fortunes on immediate gratification. Under the rubric Movielink 2.0, this service for broadband Internet users in the United States has added [...]

In contrast to Microsoft's high-profile plunge into the video game console business in 2001, the company's hardware group has been quietly breaking new ground with a continued focus on those [...]

Palm-size camcorders are persuading more people than ever to capture their experiences for future review, and a new technology from Panasonic could boost the popularity of these battery-powered scene stealers. [...]

IN an industrial building on the Jersey City waterfront, workers busily printed supersize images for building facades and billboards intended to paper even the most casual viewer with brand awareness. [...]

REMEMBER the first Walkman? It has been almost a quarter-century since Sony's portable cassette player changed the way people listen to music on the go. Now another form of entertainment [...]