Rick Broida is the author of numerous books and thousands of reviews, features and blog posts. He writes CNET's popular Cheapskate blog and co-hosts Protocol 1: A Travelers Podcast (about the TV show ...

Horse jewelry. That's what you're looking at in the photograph at right. These lovely glass buttons were decorative ornaments for bridles in the late-19th and early-20th centuries. Many of them have ...

One of the biggest new features in the new MacBooks that Apple just unveiled is the glass trackpad, one that ditches the button in favor of turning the entire trackpad into a button. It also works ...