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Cold Cover Chiller lid to land on a table near you

Serving cold food is and always has been a bit of a hassle. Thankfully, modern convenience has made the availability of ice as easy as walking into the next room. Out of ice or need more? Run to the store; a nearby cashier will gladly ring you up. But ice has its own set of problems, namely that it melts.

Freezer gel packs are a good option for keeping things cold outside the confines of the freezer, but they can be awkward to manipulate. Combining aesthetics and practicality, the Prodyne CC-12 Cold Cover Chiller Lid has a solution.

The distinctive-appearing … Read more

Mixing bowl weighs in a contender

Is it a mixing bowl? Is it a kitchen scale? Yes.

A large, durable mixing bowl is hard to not appreciate. It's perfect for so many things, from scrambling the morning eggs to whipping up batter for a decadent batch of brownies. So useful is the everyday kitchenware that it is hard to imagine asking any more utility from it. But that doesn't mean we can't.

Striving to become more than the sum of its parts, the Beurer Digital Mixing Bowl & Kitchen Scale offers an all-in-one solution to mixing and weighing needs. The overachieving bowl consists … Read more

CNN suspends Roland Martin for homophobic, violent tweets

CNN's political analyst Roland Martin got in a tweet-war during Sunday's Super Bowl game. And because of it, CNN has suspended him.

The debacle began when he tweeted, "If a dude at your Super Bowl party is hyped about David Beckham's H&M underwear ad, smack the ish out of him," referring to the H&M David Beckham ad that ran during the game and showed the soccer player in nothing but underwear.

Martin also tweeted, "Who the hell was that New England Patriot they just showed in a head to toe … Read more

Correction: Super Bowl drives supersized wireless traffic

T-Mobile spent $1.5 million to deploy new 4G cell sites in the Indianapolis area prior to the Super Bowl. An earlier version of this story provided an incorrect investment figure.

Click here to see the corrected story.

Best 2D-only televisions

Despite the industry's best efforts, 3D in the home has brought about little more than a yawn and a shift in the seats for most of the buying public.

The problem is very simply this: there's no content. TV manufacturers will quickly tell you it doesn't matter, that's what 2D-to-3D conversion is for, but when major studios can screw up a major conversion job on a movie like "Alice in Wonderland," what chance does your TV have?

Most TVs come with 3D these days, and the ones without tend to be on the cheaper side. If you're one of the people who would rather not pay for 3D, then while the pickings may be slim, they are significant.

We've chosen from the best non-3D TVs of the last 12 months, and present them below. As they are bare-bones TVs, you may miss out on some advanced Smart TV features, but this is something that a $50 Roku box could help fix.… Read more

Super Bowl drives supersized wireless traffic

After such a thrilling end to the Super Bowl, it's no surprise that a record number of sports fans e-mailed, text messaged, and called each other during the big game.

And the carriers weathered the surge in traffic despite a jump in usage. The wireless carriers may not always have the best record at big confabs--many fared poorly at the Consumer Electronic Show--but they stepped it up for the Super Bowl.

Ensuring adequate wireless coverage is crucial because the high-profile event garners so much scrutiny and attention. For Verizon Wireless, which is the official NFL wireless sponsor, the … Read more

For watching the Super Bowl, my TV beat my iPad

I'm a big fan of my iPad, but not for everything. Case in point: this year was highly touted as the year that the Super Bowl would be streaming for free via dedicated apps and NBC's Web site. It sounded promising; I love two-screening it for big sports events. So, I gave it a whirl.

The experiment lasted about a minute.… Read more

Deleted Facebook photos still viewable

Windows 8 may kill the Start menu button, the Super Bowl spawned tons o' tweets, and Facebook admits that deleted photos can still be accessed.

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Super Bowling for ad dollars (roundup)

Eli Manning connected with Mario Manningham for the big game's biggest play, but did tech advertisers connect with consumers? CNET takes a look.

Samsung flubs its Apple Super Bowl dis Samsung's big Super Bowl ad for the Note may have brought on a few chuckles, but it failed in one big way, says CNET's Josh Lowensohn.(Posted in Apple Talk by Josh Lowensohn) February 6, 2012 10:10 a.m. PT

Should Apple heed Chrysler's, GE's Super Bowl make-it-here message? One of the salient themes in Super Bowl ads was bringing manufacturing back to America. … Read more

Clint Eastwood in 'Super Bowl ads: Winners and losers (second half)'

Technology performed an outstanding social feat during the Super Bowl halftime show. It made Madonna sound like someone people used to enjoy in the early '90s.

The technology ads, on the other hand, didn't offer too much uplift or consistency.

Halftime saw Hulu revealing its full ad featuring Will Arnett. This was a very pale imitation of the original Alec Baldwin ad from three years ago.

Just when you were looking for someone to wander in and clean house, someone sounding like Clint Eastwood turned up. He was talking about Detroit, about how it was fighting, clawing, winning. He … Read more