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The kids may be ditching wristwatches for time-telling smartphones, but manufacturers and designers still have some tricks just barely up their long sleeves. The trick seems to be making watches more like smartphones by packing in extra functions or forgoing utility altogether for pure aesthetics or prestige.

Blockbuster CEO Jim Keyes and a team of restructuring consultants reportedly met with all the major Hollywood studios last week to tell them about a plan to file bankruptcy before interest payments come due on nearly $1 billion in secured debt at the end of next month. The company might be able to survive by restructuring its debt, according to the Los Angeles Times — but even a restructuring could entail bankruptcy. Either way, the company is in big trouble.

The re-release of Avatar, which begins Friday, contains an extra nine minutes. Director James Cameron tells us what's been added. Plus, he fills us in on the planned sequels and his upcoming project with Guillermo del Toro.

A new study has shown that people feel morally cleansed when they are physically clean and as such are more inclined to judge others more harshly.

Metroid: Other M is the exact kind of game Nintendo said it wasn't making anymore.

Diaspora, a nascent open competitor to Facebook that raised $200,000 from online contributors, will launch their much-anticipated service on Sept. 15, the company said today in a blog post

The age of the automobile started 125 years ago Sunday with Gottlieb Daimler's invention of the "riding car."

Consider it a new version of death by PowerPoint. The NATO command in Afghanistan has fired a staff officer who publicly criticized its interminable briefings, its over-reliance on PowerPoint program, and what he considered its crushing bureaucracy.

Crazy adventures begin almost as soon as Jeremy Hart sets off on an around-the-world drive in a Ford Fiesta.

We're living in an age of multiple connected screens, where even our media-savvy televisions demand some occasional typing to search for a videogame, TV show or Netflix rental. Problem is, typing (more like hunting and pecking) with a game controller or remote control is a pain in the butt — and that's the world into which the TiVo Slide is being born.

According to Forbes, the average value of a NFL team has dipped 2 percent to $1.02 billion, marking the first time that data point has declined since the magazine started tracking NFL team valuations in 1998.

Artist Theo Kamecke has taken vintage circuit boards and transformed them to adorn furniture and sculpture that can be used in homes and galleries.

SEATTLE -- Snowball the dancing parrot doesn't just bob to the beat. The YouTube sensation, who proved last year that humans aren't the only species that got rhythm, gets his groove on better with a dance partner. "It's not just an automatic response to sound," said neurobiologist Aniruddh Patel of the Neurosciences Institute in San Diego. "It's concerned with bonding."

Carl Bosch, a chemist whose work would transform agriculture and industry — and eventually enable the Green Revolution — is born.

I'm always on the lookout for the latest edge-defining interactive trends, so when I read a blog post that pointed to a tweet referring to a Facebook group that referred to a thing called a "get together," I was intrigued.

It could be possible to harvest "hygroelectricity" from lightning the air in regions that experience high humidity, such as the tropics.

A prehistoric man whose naturally mummified body was discovered frozen in the Italian Alps may have been toted up the mountain by his comrades, a new study suggests. The Iceman, also nicknamed Ötzi, lived between 5,350 and 5,100 years ago as part of a genetically distinct European population. Hikers noticed the Iceman poking out of a glacier in 1991.

Dutch sci-fi fans will stage the world's first Klingon opera next month. They've even beamed a message into space inviting the Klingons to attend, but they have yet to receive any RSVPs.

On Aug. 22, airport security officials in Bangkok detected something suspicious in an oversize suitcase. X-rays indicated that along with stuffed animals, the bag contained bones. Indeed, they belonged to a tranquilized 2-month-old tiger. The bag, which had been checked by a 31-year-old Thai woman, had been en route to Iran.

The Indonesian mimic octopus has the boldest defense strategy of any of its cephalopod cousins, and now scientists know how that strategy evolved. Rather than blending into the scenery, the octopus mimics the swimming behavior and shape of a variety of toxic sea creatures, like flatfish and sea snakes, and displays bold color patterns that shock predators. Scientists have reconstructed the family tree and unique evolution of the Indonesian mimic octopus, Thaumoctopus mimicus, using DNA sequences from 35 of its relatives.