Censorship is alive… and it’s about to take over the Internet. There is a new bill floating around the House of Representatives called SOPA –Stop Online Piracy Act. In theory it sounds fair – it would give the music and movie industries (among others) the right to keep their copyrighted materials from being stolen and republished online illegally.

If you’re looking for gift ideas for your tech loving friends & family for the 2011 holiday season, the SheBytes gadget guide has got you covered!  In ascending price order, here are our top 10 gift and stocking stuffer ideas:

Looking for an app to give you great deals on food?  That’s what you find when you combine awesome art, great deals on food, and your smartphone: Scoutmob – the best mobile app on the planet. Sure, there are a bunch of apps out there that give you discounts on your grub but Scoutmob has perfected the recipe.

What is Fab.com (@Fab)? It’s a unique online marketplace where design is affordable, creative and just downright different.  What’s unique about Fab?

While there are a whole bunch of really innovative parts of Fab which I’ll draw attention to shortly, (besides the items for sale of course), let’s begin with the general concept:

Who is Richard Weston?  He’s a man of the times.

In the 21st century, lines between technology and art are becoming more and more blurred each day, forming fashion tendencies of its own.

Here at SheBytes, we’ve already followed a number of fashion creations produced by high end fashion houses, specifically created to accommodate your phones, laptops, tablets and many more of your everyday gadgets.

Normally, fashion items of that sort are created in collaborations between tech companies and major fashion designers of the likes of Chanel, Dior, Lois Vuitton. However, in an interesting twist; a fresh high-end fashion innovation came to us from an unexpected place in the shape of a middle-aged professor of architecture at Cardiff University; Richard Weston. 

Few things impress me as much as Echo Design gloves… gloves that let you text on your smartphone while wearing them!  A winter’s dream come true for texters everywhere!

I’m not that easy to impress. But Echo Design’s gloves, really hit the mark. I got these as a birthday present last week and I haven’t looked back at my old winter gloves even once!

Today’s retrotech flashback is none other than the Laserdisc (LD), the first commercial optical disc storage medium.  Sometimes man (or woman) produces a piece of technology that is so strange and obscure, we look back at this piece of tech and say to ourselves “WTF were we thinking?!”  Here is a prime example.  

If you’re wondering how long the iPhone 4S battery lasts; the answer is: not very long.  In fact, iPhone 4S battery life issues have customers complaining…a lot.

We all know that any Apple release; the whole drama, from inception through production and delivery is, well pretty dramatic. No Apple product would get its proper welcome into the world without at least one issue people love to gripe about:

With the iPhone 4S, there’s some serious battery issues!

Michael Craig, founder of dinette.com and interior design guru shares his top 5 tips on how to de-clutter your work area to improve productivity and increase efficiency.

If you’ve played with a Furby, a Chatbot, or Siri, you’ve probably said a few strange things to them just to see how they’ll react.  Well, someone took it a step further and paired Furby with the latest and greatest Siri app, just to see what those two would say to one another.  This is hilarious and it could go on for hours. 

Oh, and this is what happens when you pair two chatbots together, in case you’re wondering.