Electronics

What to wear and bring while traveling to Vegas, Atlantic City or any other show location.

Maybe the long-form, handwritten letter is a thing of the past, but books and magazines are still around, if in different or changing forms, and pen sales are good—very good.

For the first time in years, Apple will manufacture computers in the United States, the chief executive of Apple, Timothy D. Cook, said in interviews with NBC and Bloomberg Businessweek.

"Next year, we will do one of our existing Mac lines in the United States," he said in an interview to be broadcast Thursday on "Rock Center With Brian Williams" on NBC.

Apple, the biggest company in the world by market value, moved its manufacturing to Asia in the late 1990s.

Foxconn has been planning to buy 1 million robots to replace human workers and it looks like that change, albeit gradual, is about to start.

The company is allegedly paying $25,000 per robot—about three times a worker's average salary—and they will replace humans in assembly tasks. The plans have been in place for a while—I spoke to Foxconn reps about this a year ago - and it makes perfect sense. Humans are messy, they want more money, and having a half-a-million of them in one factory is a recipe for unrest.

Electronics are the toys of adulthood (and, increasingly, childhood) and everyone likes getting toys. We've got the lowdown on the next gizmos you should give as promotions.

Where iPhones and Zen Koans meet "Really Hating the Airport."

The ColeMax Group, a New Jersey-based supplier of high-quality cases for popular mobile electronic devices, announced that the company has moved its offices.

Etched into the base of Google's wireless Nexus Q home media player, introduced on Wednesday, is its most intriguing feature.

On the underside of the Magic-8-ball-shaped device reads a simple laser-etched inscription: "Designed and Manufactured in the U.S.A."

It has become accepted wisdom that consumer electronics products can no longer be made in the United States. Low-cost Chinese labor and looser environmental regulations have virtually erased what was once a vibrant American industry. Since the 1990s, one American company after another have become design and marketing shells, with huge labor forces in China.

Now that trend is showing early signs of reversing itself. 

Tempo Industries Inc., a Westbury, N.Y. promotional products supplier, announced today that it has acquired the assets of La Puenta, California-based Timenet Group, parent of the Timenet USA line.

iClick, an industry-leading supplier of custom USB drives and pens headquartered in Seattle, announced the formation of the Pen Cup Research Project, inviting distributors to submit photographs of promotional pens out in the wild.