Photo: Ariel Zambelich/Wired.com 50 Cent is primarily known for two things: cranking out club hits and surviving a nonuple shooting. Now the rap mogul is trying out a new hustle: ultra-luxe, musician-marketed headphones. Mr. Cent is hardly the first to venture into this star-studded pool of mediocrity. But here’s where the gambit gets interesting: Cent’s Sync by 50 wireless headphones aren’t a crass vanity project. Under all … [Read more...]

Generally, the better a jacket is at keeping the wet out, the better it is at keeping the wet in. While the wind whips and the rain pelts, you stay dry … until your body temperature climbs and that muggy, wrapped-in-plastic feeling sets in. Waterproof-yet-breathable fabric technologies are abundant in the outerwear world, but even with rain jackets marketed as “ultra-breathable” (as most are) some condensation still builds up … [Read more...]

runMobileCompatibilityScript('myExperience1454932110001', 'anId'); brightcove.createExperiences(); In a brilliant marketing move, Gerber Gear has repurposed a series of its bushwhacking and survival tools as necessities for the improbable (inevitable?) zombie apocalypse. If you have an ancient stone Mayan calendar in your living room, you know what I’m talking about. The original limited edition Apocalypse Kit, promoted in conjunction with … [Read more...]

If you call yourself an auto enthusiast, you’ve got to have some love for Mazda. I don’t care if you take factory delivery of a new M3 every four years or have a Mustang logo tattooed on your bicep — when it comes to championing technology that nobody else will, the fifth-largest Japanese automaker can’t be beat. While the MX-5, RX-7 and first-generation Cosmo earned the company some street (and track) cred, there’s … [Read more...]

Photo: Greg Broom Check back in March for our full, in-depth review of the Red Scarlet-X Can’t wait to see The Hobbit? Try shooting your own Middle-earth adventure. The Scarlet is a slightly simplified version of the rigs Peter Jackson used to film his Lord of the Rings prequel. Its Super 35 image sensor and 4K resolution (4096 x 2160 pixels) capture four times the detail of typical HD, making top-of-the-line DSLR footage look like an … [Read more...]

The Wacom Inkling tracks the movements of your pen as you sketch on paper, creating a digital version of your drawing. Photo: Jon Snyder/Wired.com As an illustrator who works in both paper and digital media, I’ve been looking forward to getting my hands on the Wacom Inkling ever since it was first announced. A physical pen that tracks your drawings and digitizes them on the fly? Can you say “dream tool?” The Inkling is a … [Read more...]

If you’re still making excuses about why you aren’t running local data back-ups, this drive is prepared to shoot down every one of your tepid arguments. With the My Book Live Duo, Western Digital updates its venerable line of network-attached storage devices. The biggest upgrade is in the “Duo” part of the name: This is WD’s first dual-drive NAS, and the addition of RAID means your data should be safe from anything … [Read more...]

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The Bobble Mini is one of several bottles we tested with an integrated carbon filter. Photo by Ariel Zambelich/Wired We live in one of the countries where easy access to clean, safe drinking water has long been the norm. Compared to some parts of the world, we’re spoiled silly. And yet, for some reason, we still buy a whole lot of bottled water. According to data from the Beverage Marketing Corporation released in September 2011, Americans … [Read more...]