Apple's incredible iPhone sales may be forcing competitors to stop and think about release dates. 

A report from Taiwanese publication Digitimes says smartphone manufacturers Samsung, HTC, LG and Nokia are launching their new products in Q2 2012 instead of Q1 in order to avoid direct competition from Apple’s iPhone 4S. Digitimes sources said that sales of the iPhone 4S “will remain at peak in the first quarter of 2012 and then begin to decline,” so many handset makers will be waiting to unveil 2012 models at Mobile World Congress in late February — with launch dates after that.

Failed fixie fashion, or neat clothing accessory? You decide

Hey, “fixie” riders: You have the skinny pants, the Kryptonite Evo Mini lock, and you convinced your parents to let you have a sleeve tattoo. You even even managed to pick out a my-first-bike color-scheme more eye-searingly colorful than those of your friends.

Spigen's annoyingly-named GLAS.t gives your iPhone 4 some hot glass-on-glass action

The scratches on my iPad 2 screen drive me crazy, but floppy matte screen protectors drive me even crazier. They cut out light from the screen, lower contrast and move when you touch them thanks to their edge-only sticky strips.

Classic PortaPros with inline mic and controls? Yes please!

One of my favorite sets of headphones just got a little bit favorite-er. The Koss PortaPro dates back to those dark ages of stonewashed denim and shoulder pads, the 1980s. The simple folding cans, with their thin metal headband and amazing-sounding earpieces have always been a bargain at $50, both comfortable and open enough to still hear your surroundings. Now, they have been updated with an inline mic and controls.

I'm tempted to pull the trigger on this sweet Gadget Lab-themed incendiary device

Everyone knows that smoking is cool and awesome and all, and that the best way to spark up all that tarry goodness is to use a lighter filled with gasoline. But as iconic as the Zippo is, what if you could get it customized with, say, a picture of your kids so you could see them and imagine your future together, every time you light up?

AT&T will begin instituting new data plan pricing this weekend. 

AT&T announced Wednesday afternoon that the company would be adjusting its data plan pricing for smart devices, essentially hiking the rates while also upping the monthly data limit. Existing customers can stick with their current plans, but new customers will have to choose from one of the three plans outlined below (tablet plans remain separate)

For those looking for a good deal on smartphones like the Nokia Lumia 710, now's a great time to buy. 

The holidays are over, and the slew of smartphone debuts at the Consumer Electronics Show have come and gone. It’s now safe for retailers and carriers to start dropping prices on 2011 and early 2012 smartphone inventory, and that’s great news for those looking for a good deal.

The Motorola Xoom tablet will be the first to receive the Ice Cream Sandwich update. 

Motorola Xoom owners will be some of the first to receive Android version 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) on tablets, kicking off wider distribution of the highly upgraded version of the platform.

$50, and runs off a single AA cell. The Spare One is perfect for emergencies

The Spare One is just that — a spare cellphone that runs on a single AA cell and does nothing more than make calls. If left switched off, it can last for up to 15 years (or the time before the battery inside decides to burst and spread its toxic innards everywhere).

Give new life to your aging iOS devices with Whited00r

Still using a first-gen iPod Touch or a second-generation iPhone? Sick of all the multi-tasking, home-screen folders and faster performance of all those iOS versions you can’t run on your (frankly embarrassing) old hardware?

Then you might like to give Whited00r 5.1 a try.

Engineers plus coffee equals cheap, good espresso machines

Man, do nerds love their coffee. How else do you explain that a robot-controlled espresso machine blew through its Kickstarter target by a crazy 16X? Coffee-loving engineers Gleb Polyakov and Igor Zamlinsky wanted a mere $20,000 for their project, and with just hours to go until the deadline, they have almost a third of a million dollars in pledges.

In the future, you will be able to drunkenly drop your phone in the toilet with impunity

All phones should be waterproof. Nothing kills a gadget dead faster than a dunk in the toilet or a splash of beer. Cracked, broken displays are annoying, and missing switches impair functionality, but there is usually no coming back from an impromptu swim.

Now Mac users can annoy friends and neighbors with a super-loud DAS Keyboard

Few product tag-lines are as descriptive as that of the DAS Keyboard Model S Professional for Mac, which reads “gold-plated clicky mechanical switches.”

This cute little robotic egg will shoot a 360˚ panorama, instantly

There are now plenty of ways to shoot panoramas with your iPhone, from add-on donut-shaped lenses to a whole home-screen’s worth of app that will stitch and twist your images into a patchwork poster. But what if, like me, you don’t own an iPhone? The answer, in 360˚ pano terms at least, is the Tamaggo 360-Imager.

Hey, are you the ones who want to enjoy playing poker on your smart phone? Here’s a quick update how the current situation is for that market. This website actually has a lot of other cool stuff about poker, and online poker in particular. Enjoy!