is a senior editor and founding member of The Verge who covers gadgets, games, and toys. He spent 15 years editing the likes of CNET, Gizmodo, and Engadget. At CES 2025, Intel let journalists into its ...

CES 2011 is just around the corner, and that always means that innovative ideas will start to pop up as the show draws closer. Many show attendees have already submitted their products for CES 2011 ...

DIY modular gadgets are nothing new, but they’ve had varying amounts of success over the years. Some devices managed to pick up steam, like AIAIAI’s TMA-2 headphones, while others, like the Blocks ...

A few years ago, you may have assumed that Xi3 was just a fad. But yet, here we are at another CES, and the company is making news once more. It came to fame by producing modular, low-cost computers ...

Engineers at MIT have developed a modular computer chip with components that can communicate using flashes of light. This could allow for electronics that can easily be upgraded with new sensors or ...

Different computing tasks can prompt us to open our laptops or reach for the tablet, while there are some that leave us somewhere in between. But what if you had a pocket-size device that could turn ...

Very few retrocomputing projects are anything other than a labor of love. There’s really no practical reason to build a computer that is woefully inadequate for just about any task compared to even an ...

“Modular” and “Computer” have historically been on the opposite ends of a rather awkward spectrum. One could argue that a hobbyist grade PC is modular, but only to a point. Re-configuring it on the ...

Modular computers and mobile devices haven’t really taken off in a big way, but it’s not for lack of trying. Google may have scrapped its Project Ara modular smartphone project years ago, but niche ...

Imagine slipping your entire work computer into a pocket, taking it home, then plugging it into a black cube that could give it a little extra gaming oomph with a separate GPU. That’s what The Hive ...

Eventually, as the last module drifts past Bowman in zero gravity, HAL is no more. Back in the '60s, as Kubrick and Arthur C Clarke wrote the script for their epic movie, computers were still in the ...

On paper, the modular desktop PC seems like a dream come true. While these announcements always elicit oohs and aahs from the tech press, in reality they just don’t make a lot of sense. Without a ...