Top 5 Gadgets in 2012 New York International Auto Show

Innovations appeared in the 2012 New York International Auto Show. The gadget world also saw some exciting new arrivals. 

Google announced Project Glass, the company's newest leap into the realm of augmented reality, and Motrr, best known for the Gorillapod flexible camera tripod funded the Galileo, a truly unique new way to mount cameras. But there's even more -- click through to check out ABC News' top gadget picks of the week.

How to Rip a DVD to Your Computer Hard Drive

Have a load of DVDs? Looking for a quick and free way to play your DVDs without wearing and swapping the discs? Just rip your DVDs to computer hard drive and play them with popular media player. This guide will show you a simple and reliable way to rip a DVD to hard drive in Windows.

To rip a DVD to hard drive, we usually use a DVD ripper, say CloneDVD for Mobile, which removes copy protection, rips the content to computer hard drive in a file format of your choice.

Play HD Movies on New iPad 3

The new iPad 3 take another success, Apple has announced recently that they have sold already 3 million new devices for less than 4 days. The new iPad 3 is just an upgrade with the 5-megapixel camera, new Retina Display and 4G LTE in the eyes of some people. But we have to admit that the new iPad has its special characteristics.

The new iPad 3 includes a stunning new screen, matched by a quad-core graphic processor and the world’s largest app and media store to feed it content. It really rocks for watching HD movies. With the new iPad, users can enjoy any HD videos leisurely, like the DVD movies, BD movies, HD MKV videos, etc. However, there are many formats that the new iPad can’t support.

Download a DVD Decoder for Vista Computer

Try to play a DVD on a Windows Vista computer, but find out that a dialog box pops put with a message showing that the “file format is unknown”? That’s because your DVD player software is unable to decode the MPEG-2 files on the DVD and there is no DVD decoder for Vista installed on your computer.

DVDs still are the primary option to deliver movies. For this reason, people want to watch DVD movies on laptops or PC. 99% of the time, a major DVD movie is encoded and compressed. In order to play such a DVD movie on a computer, the data on the DVD must be decoded. Then a DVD decoder is needed.