Dhara Singh is one of CNET's summer interns and a student at the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism. She loves digging deep into the social issues that arise from everyday technology. Aside from ...

The official "Star Trek" phaser remote control zaps pretty much any TV, set-top box or music player in the galaxy. Richard Trenholm was CNET's film and TV editor, covering the big screen, small screen ...

Why change channels by clicking on buttons, when you could do the same thing by twisting your remote? Japan's Murata Manufacturing Company obviously sees advantages in this approach and has created a ...

The circuit utilizes an 8-pin single chip microcontroller PIC12F509 that is used mostly for low pin count applications with 1K word flash memory and 41 bytes SRAM while having some features like power ...