No interactive festival is complete without a swag bag or two, and the SXSW Interactive tote has always been up to the task in being equal parts necessary and adorable. This year they will up the stakes in both regards, as the festival grows to staggering heights and the Big Bag wears a design from the reigning Queen of cute, Yiying Lu . The designer of the Twitter fail whale (which she ...

We're no strangers to watches here at Engadget, but smartwatches -- tiny wearable computers capable of running apps with SDKs to match -- are still a rare breed. The best known examples are probably Fossil's Meta Watch , Allerta's inPulse Smartwatch and WIMM Labs' WIMM One , all of which are primarily targeted at developers. We recently had the opportunity to spend some quality time with both ...

Follow Yahoo!'s The Daily Ticker on Facebook here! In his State of the Union address last month, President Obama outlined "a plan that gives every responsible homeowner the chance to save about $3,000 a year on their mortgage, by refinancing at historically low interest rates." Despite stern opposition from Congressional Republicans, the President is still [...]