With some good tunes and and your iPod cranked up, it's easy to become oblivious to your surroundings. Just yesterday, a young New Jersey boy was tragically killed when he couldn't hear an oncoming train's horn due to his blasting iPod. Now there's an app that still lets you crank up the music, but also lets essential sounds from your environment get through.

Solar panels are generally big, ugly things that you stick on a building not for beautification purposes, but for ecological purposes. Well, these glass pyramid solar cells help you out on both fronts. Developed by the Center for Architecture Science...

Samsung and Sprint plan to roll out their new Reclaim, an under-$50 phone featuring a case made of corn-based biodegradable plastic, on August 16. The Reclaim features a slide-out QWERTY keyboard, e-mail and Web access, a 2.0 megapixel camera and...

Kodak, now that film is pretty much completely dead, is broadening their horizons. Evidence: the new Kodak Solar Charger KS100-C +2. Don't let the horrible product name distract you; this is a pretty handy little USB charger. You can juice...