It wasn’t long ago that Steve Jobs referred to Apple TV as a hobby . Now, “several people familiar with Apple’s television related efforts” are dropping tantalizing clues pointing to Apple getting serious with its neglected home theater box. It feels like something big is in the works.

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New Apple TV in the works, here are 8 things it should have

Times are tough in America. The stock market is down, unemployment is high and, oh yeah, there’s that disastrous oil spill in the Gulf. It’s a good time to remember that a lot of the best technology in the world is created right here in the U.S.

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The 6 best American-made consumer technologies today

It’s the largest oil spill in American history, and BP’s shame has been bleeding into the Gulf of Mexico for over 40 days now. What’s being done? Well, in a word, a lot. Swarms of underwater robots, a fleet of ships and a whole army made up of volunteers, the Coast Guard, engineers and workers are considering everything imaginable to stop up the well, which lies 5,000 feet underwater. Click through the gallery below to see the powerful technology and creative approaches at work — approaches that have so far, sadly, failed.

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8 technological failures behind the oil cleanup, in images

It’s tempting to think of the iPad as a giant iPhone or iPod Touch. Everything you whipped out your iPhone to do, you’ll now want to pull out your iPad for. But that’s not the way it works. iPad is not a giant iPhone or iPod Touch. For one thing, an iPad is a little bulky and fragile to casually whip out for a quick check of the time. You use your iPhone for quick, discrete actions — a phone call, a quick location-based search such as for a restaurant or movie time, a quick sports score. You’ll use iPad for more time-filling functions — book or newspaper reading, movie watching, Web research. That said, it follows that you’re going to want all sorts of different apps for your iPad. How many are there, and how much are they going to cost?

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iPad apps: the big questions answered

Now that the iPad is out and into the hot little hands — or surprisingly cool hands, as you’ll find out on this list — of the masses, Apple’s much-anticipated tablet is getting put through the paces: displays are getting tapped, apps downloaded, pictures pinched, movies watched from laps. What surprised folks? Continue reading to check out five awesome things about the iPad no one saw coming.

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5 awesome iPad features no one saw coming

Artificial body parts are here today, but they still have a long way to go before they can rival our original equipment. As the movie Repo Men reminds us, total body replacement is on the way, but in the meantime, scientists and technologists are taking small steps toward the development of a complete cyborg. Let’s take a look at artificial organs you can use today, and what’s in store for the future.

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5 artificial organs getting better by the day

While the world makes plans for New Year’s, tech enthusiasts look forward to the annual Consumer Electronics Show is just around the corner. Every year at the beginning of January pretty much the entire technology industry descends on Las Vegas to show off the latest gadgets and gear from all over the world. But you don’t have to wait till 2010 to find out what those toys are going to be. DVICE has had its ear to the ground the past few months, listening for advance buzz about what the biggest CES stories will be. Here are the Top 5 CES trends that will set the agenda for the tech world in the New Year.

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5 tech trends to watch at CES 2010

Another holiday gift-giving frenzy is almost upon us. It’s that special time, when all of your careful planning and shopping coverts — with seasonal alchemy — into smiles, squeals of joy and piles of discarded wrapping paper and boxes. But did you remember to buy something for your mother? No, not the one that makes the best mac-’n'-cheese in the world. We’re talking Mother Earth. Click Continue to check out 5 gifts that give back to Gaia this holiday season.

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5 holiday tech gifts that just might save the planet

The Amazon Kindle is on several gadget gift lists this year, and why not? After all, it’s a sleekly thin e-reader, has a nice price (now $259 — with no monthly subscriptions or contracts, thank you very much), its wireless service just went global, and there’s nothing else like it, right? Not so fast. Before you pop that Kindle in your shopping cart, take a look at some of the many other e-readers out there. There are actually a lot more than you might think, and each one has something it does better than the Kindle. Continue e-reading for more.

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Giving a Kindle? Check out these 8 other e-readers first

It can be hard to give a gadget as a good gift. Finding that thoughtful addition to someone else’s high-tech arsenal means giving something they’ll always have a use for. It’s daunting, sure, but with a little forethought the awkwardness of a useless gizmo as a present can be easily avoided. Or, hey: skip the forethought and let us do it for you. Click Continue to see seven gadget gifts that will never go out of style.

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7 gadget gifts that will never go out of style