Over the past week and a half, I have spent more than my fair share of time playing THQ’s Saints Row II. Let me tell you, at first I was resistant to this blatant GTA ripoff, however, I gve it its day in court and I am glad that I did. It was a fun [...]

This handy power inverter, cleverly designed like a coffee cup to fit nicely in your car’s cup holder, coverts the DC power from your vehicle into two 120-volt AC outlets.

Perfect for powering or charging TV’s, DVD players, game consoles, cell phones, and other portable electronics. This coffee cup also has a USB charging port providing [...]

Analytics are a great tool to use with any website or blog.  They help you understand where your traffic comes from and some of the ways that traffic behaves.  In the past, MakeUseOf has covered several ways to track all of your site’s statistics. Today, I’m going to tell you more about a free [...]

Sometime last year, you bought yourself an iPhone and then realised that a better user experience is indeed possible! So sometime this year, you took the next logical step and upgraded your PC to a Mac - perhaps a Mac Mini to start out small, or a laptop, or even a sexy 20″ iMac.
Now [...]

Springpad is an online personal organizer. It is structured as a notebook that you can use to keep track of your appointments, notes, photos, maps, to do list, plans, contacts and any kind of information that you can ever need and think of.
Springpads or your notebooks can contain maps, lists, tables, events, alarms [...]

Anyone who has been involved in the computer game for more than a little while knows what a PDF is. PDF is a file format that stands for Portable Document Format. A PDF is meant to be non-editable and the body of the document is an image and not editable, or selectable text.
So if you [...]

By Evan Ackerman
Exotic cars are impressive, but they tend to be bound by reality and practicality… If you’re going to buy one, you expect certain things. Things like the ability to drive it somewhere. On a road. Legally. Concept cars suffer no such restrictions, which is why I like to ogle them so much. They’re [...]

By Evan Ackerman
The number one reason I went to the LA Auto Show was to see exotic cars. I’m not a car nut, not really… I mean, my vehicle of choice (of choice, not necessity) is a 1994 Volvo 940 Wagon. Swedish turbo bricks FTW! But still, exotic cars get my juices flowing just as [...]

By Evan Ackerman
Looking forward to this year’s LA Auto Show, I was hoping to see something to reassure me that things are seriously happening towards innovating our way out of a gasoline dependent transport economy. Aaaaand I didn’t really get that, at all. There were lots of impressive concepts, to be sure, and a lot [...]

I was recently asked by my friends at Designer Pages to curate a collection of my favorite products. Naturally, I tried to focus on products influenced by modern international design. But it got me thinking, why don’t I see more products listed by YD readers… at least those of you who are product designers. I [...]

The oxygen tank lamp is, unfortunately, not powered by oxygen. It runs on electricity, but that does not stop it from looking really, really cool. If you are going for an industrial / mad scientist look for your home, putting together something like this would be a pretty good start. It is a real oxygen [...]

As many of you already know on November 2nd, MakeUseOf.com’s domain was stolen from us. It took us about 36 hours to get the domain back. As we have pointed out earlier the hacker somehow managed to get access to my Gmail account and from there to our GoDaddy account, unlock the domain and [...]

The men that you see in this video spent a long, long time lugging heavy parachutes up flight after flight of stairs in Dubai (a city not known for its tolerance of criminal activity), to perform the very first and possibly last BASE jump from the Burj Dubai - and they were kind enough to [...]

This vampire killing kit, which hopefully was not used, was built in the 1800s and features all that one would need to do battle with preternatural forces of evil. It has a Bible, holy water, a cross, silver bullets, agun, candles, knives, garlic and last but not least, the all important wooden stakes. I am [...]

Yamaha’s MyRoom II is like a playhouse for adults that can’t get enough me time. It is big enough to do all sorts of crazy stuff and it is soundproofed and airconditioned, so that crazy stuff iwll not bother the neighbors or your significant other and you won’t get hot in the process. At 1385×1826×2065mm, [...]

O.K. so I made that last part up, but the Sunforce flashlight really does throw out a 40 million candlepower beam, which would probably have the ability to burn stuff, including skin if I am not mistaken. It packs a 35 Watt HID bulb, which is powered by a 12V 7Ah battery.
Well might you ask, [...]