After shaking off the soreness of our first day on the slopes, we hit the terrain park to practice our moves.

We spend one last day on the mountain testing skis, snowboards and other winter gear -- and an insane, snow-ready mountain bike.

Tesla is pushing out one of its most feature-packed updates to Model S owners, with new functions, energy saving settings and --finally -- voice controls.

Pacific Rim is Guillermo del Toro's mega-monster vs. mega-mech extravaganza.  Wired spoke to del Toro about how he was able to bring these 25 story high creatures to the screen.

The needle drops and a series of high, repetitive whines come from the album. Then a crackling sound, and a muffled guitar riff. Finally, Kurt Cobain's voice - audible, but distant and hollow, like he is singing in a tunnel with a scarf over his mouth.

Finally, skiing minus all that cold wet snow. With inflatable tires, elaborately adjustable bindings that allow your heels to lift, and optional ski-style poles, Skikes let you replicate cross-country skiing without going outside.

It looks like something from a sci-fi flick, or maybe a meth lab. ButLe Whaf is a device for vaporizing liquids.

Better Than Human

The Gadget Lab staff scoured each jam-packed aisle to discover some of the best gems of 2013, including a gigantic Huawei phone, new LEGO Mindstorms, and a music-controlled back massager. Watch the video above to check it out!

Water mist shoots out of a stand to create a moving, unique display. Your computer or tablet screen is projected onto the display, and you interact with it just as you would with a touchscreen.

The "S" stands, appropriately, for speed because this camera is fast. Crazy fast. And while the camera's internals got a boost, the X100S still carries the classic body of the X100.

Tactus Technology has created a haptic touchscreen panel that "rises" to create a three-dimensional keyboard. Writing an e-mail on your tablet? Individual letter keys form small bumps for easier typing.

The built-in 10-inch tablet, the brain of the appliance, is fun to play with and comes packed with apps. If you're a neat freak, the on-board software can definitely help you keep your fridge organized.

Wired finds a curved OLED TV at CES 2013.

Canon's new Powershot N is a point and shoot camera that lets you share your images with your smartphone.

An IR camera paired with an accelerometer offer pinpoint precision for selecting onscreen items on your TV set, and also lets you use gestures to swipe through menus.

The Sennheiser Orpheus originally debuted back in 1991. It was designed and sold as a complete system: a table-top stereo tube amplifier, the power supply, an internal DAC, all the cabling, and of course the headphones themselves.

i-Wei Huang hacks together bit and peices to make beautiful steam powered robots and techno bugs. You may have seen his work before, at his day job Huang develops toys and characters for Skylanders.

The Surface Pro looks like a tablet, but it's not a mobile device. It's a portable device.

Star Wars:  Behind the scenes of the WIRED cover shoot

With a brand new era of Star Wars content on the way, the Wired staff has been reminiscing about their favorite memories of the saga.

Wired checks out Tech Shop to see how carbon fiber guitars are made and meet the people making them.

Fred Armisen stopped by the Wired office after the SF Sketchfest tribute to his Peabody Award-winning show Portlandia, and we decided to let our robot Rob-EE do the talking.

The Loudest Soccer Fans on Earth

This spring the Bay Bridge, which connects Oakland to San Francisco, will shine, courtesy of more than 25,000 LEDs strung along the vertical wires connecting the deck of the 1.8-mile-long western span to the suspension cables hanging from its towers.

When Jennifer Mann dressed up for a 'David Bowie costume party', she had no idea her LED space helmet would be such a hit.  Now she sells them on ETSY.

The Blacksmith

To test Sony's new POV camera, I strapped it to my editor's head and had him ride around on his bike.

Google's Chromebook runs only web apps, some of which also work offline.  It's a concept you are either OK with or not into at all.

When Bruce Tomb realized that flying cars weren’t on the imminent horizon, he decided to make his own.

For this indie-folk band reality is less fart jokes and drug-addled misadventure and more baked goods and early mornings.

Off the upcoming album Wheel. Out April 23rd.

Check out these beautiful 3D printed LED speakers. You can't actually buy them, but LumiGeek is working on a board that will let you make you're own.

The Brooklyn indie-folk singer and her band build in a little time for rest and recreation during their second time at the hectic music festival.

What crocs on treadmills can teach us about dinosaurs.

Swarms of bats, birds and locusts may strike fear in the heart of humans, but as scientists are discovering, we all might be following the same patterns of behavior.

Giant claimed its new Propel Advanced SL 0 was the most aerodynamic bike in the world, a claim repeated by the media outlets who reported on it. Big words, but I wanted to test it and see for myself.

Jeff Bezos Recovers Apollo Engines

On the red carpet , Martin told Wired that his potential cameo would occur not in Season 3, but rather in Season 4 - though he acknowledged that HBO had not yet officially announced the next season of the hugely popular fantasy epic.

Spring Reveals Saturn's Hexagon Jet Stream

Aaron Swartz Wired Exclusive

Last Reef

Jump Rope Physics

George Rocha, an innovative SF-based skatepark builder, has a beautiful way of salvaging used and broken skateboards. He turns them into entirely new skateboards.

Corporate bike fleets have become commonplace on sprawling Silicon Valley campuses over the past decade. Apple has campus bikes, as do Facebook, LinkedIn and others. But there’s nothing quite like Google’s.

How to turn genetically modified plants into a vaccine factory.

It's a hot trend. Tapping the power of cold to shed pounds. But will science ever catch up with the hype?

Excitement on open waters.

Find out how Tom and Gary throw a decentralized dance party.

Inside Larry Ellison's Insane Plan to Turn America's Cup Into a TV Spectacle