Inside Apple's 'black lab' wireless testing facilities

It's not surprising that after Apple finished explaining the iPhone 4 antenna issues to the press today, the company wanted to go one step further and say "yes, actually, we do test the hell out of these phones before we release them to the public.

2011 Subaru Outback gains in-car WiFi option, strange Maine birds not included

Slowly but surely, the future is creeping up on us. In-flight WiFi is getting there, and in-car WiFi is following suit. Autonet Mobile already sunk its teeth in at General Motors, and now it's doing likewise over at Subaru.

Toyota and Tesla plan to bring electric RAV4 to market in 2012

We'd already heard that Toyota and Tesla were working on some electric vehicle prototypes, and the two companies have now come out and officially confirmed that they are, in fact, working on an electric RAV4 crossover.

Magellan busts out 510, 610 and 710 eXplorist outdoor GPS for all you... outdoors types

Magellan's just updated its eXplorist handheld outdoor GPS units. The 510, 610 and 710 (as they are called) all feature 3-inch,

Boxee's first production Box gets shown off to the world (video)

Looks like the first production Boxee Box must have slipped through customs alongside those Popboxes that went out yesterday, shown off in this video by Chief Product Officer Zach Klein.

LaCie's XtremKey tested... emotionally (video)

Look, we all know that the wusses at the Engadget HQ couldn't put a dent in LaCie's ultra-rugged XtremKey,

Google pointer activity monitoring could influence search engine results, probably won't

For the latest development in Google's mad quest for search engine efficacy, the company was granted a patent titled, in the necessarily wordy way that these things are, "System and method for modulating search relevancy using pointer activity monitoring."

Scientists formalize perfect handshake; world peace on track for 2012

PH = (e² + ve²)(d²) + (cg + dr)² + π{(4< s >2)(4< p >2)}² + (vi + t + te)² + {(4< c >2)(4< du >2)}²

The Robotic Butterfly That Flies Like The Real Thing

The ChouChou Robotic Butterfly is just like a real butterfly, except it can live forever.

Coulomb gets in an Empire State of mind, switches on NYC's first public EV charging station

Big Apple residents, get ready to rock the H to the O-V lane in your EV, because downtown recharging just got a little bit easier.