Freelance writer Amanda C. Kooser covers gadgets and tech news with a twist for CNET. When not wallowing in weird gear and iPad apps for cats, she can be found tinkering with her 1956 DeSoto. Japanese ...

This Tengu armor from 1854 is made of iron, lacquer, fiber, bear fur, leather and feathers. An exhibition of some of the world’s finest samurai armor and weapons is at the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort ...

Dogs have been used in military operations for centuries, but this outlandish suit of canine samurai armor from the Edo period is truly something special. Historically, there’s a loose precedent for ...

Based in Fukuoka City, the company Samurai Age produces a variety of fashion items and lifestyle goods that borrow their aesthetic from Japan’s legendary warrior class. Given the recent surge in ...

Can you look at a suit of armour without taking an interest in its contents? This seems to be the case, to judge by the dazzling, yet instructive display of samurai armour from the Barbier-Mueller ...