Electronics giant Samsung has revealed its brand new portable induction burner for small kitchens. The elegantly designed device features an iPod-like touch wheel to adjust heat levels. A winner in the 2012 iF Design Awards, the hob features a compact [...]
Barnes & Noble has reduced the prices of products in its Nook portfolio to position itself better against its chief competitor, Amazon. The new 8 GB Nook Tablet costs $199 (down from $249), which is exactly the same as Amazon’s [...]
February 21 was a busy day for RIM and PlayBook owners alike. Shortly after the release of the BlackBerry PlayBook OS 2.0, bloggers will be glad to find out that the official WordPress App for PlayBook is also available for [...]
Ground Control to Commander Shepard! BioWare is turning up the buzz on its highly anticipated action/sci-fi adventure game Mass Effect 3 by launching it into space before its ever-closer release date. Yes. Space. According to an article by USA Today, BioWare’s parent company Electronic Arts will send [...]
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The U.S. Army placed its largest order of micro-robots ever with ReconRobotics, Inc. on Wednesday. A contract worth $13.9 million will supply the U.S. Army with 1,100 Recon Scout XT micro-robot kits. The 1.2 pound robot is equipped with a [...]
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So long, air bubbles. When we heard about a fool-proof screen protector kit for the iPhone — with promises that even those with the clumsiest of hands could magically glide the sticky coating onto devices with ease — we had [...]
1. Deeper Integration With iCloud Today, Apple’s iCloud technology syncs media (music, photos) and some data among iPhones, iPads, iPod Touches and to a limited extent Macs. With OS X Mountain Lion, iCloud plays a greater role on the Mac [...]
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It’s mid-February, when every true geek’s heart turns to rumors of the upcoming Apple iPad. Here’s Tuesday’s scoop: the iPad 3, set to launch next month, will run on AT&T and Verizon’s superfast 4G networks. According to the Wall Street [...]
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Once again, Google appears to be following Apple. Amid the continual and loudening buzz about a real Apple TV come reports that Google is planning a major home-entertainment system. While it’s not solely a television, the rumored product definitely shows [...]
Google India and Facebook have removed web pages considered offensive to India’s political and religious leadership to satisfy a court order in a censorship case. Indian prosecutors are suing a host of Internet companies on behalf of a Muslim religious leader who has accused [...]
When Nest Labs launched a round, self-adjusting thermostatbuilt more like an iPhone than an appliance, we didn’t think we’d seen anything like it. Honeywell International, evidently, disagreed. The diversified technology and manufacturing company announced on Monday it is suing the [...]
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If you bought a smartphone in 2011 — and didn’t buy a PC — you were part of a history-making trend. For the first year ever, total PC sales around the world were outpaced by total smartphone sales, in units [...]
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Brace yourself, Windows Phone users, because everything’s going to change. An internal Microsoft video that was supposedly leaked to a website reveals that the entire mobile operating system will be revamped later this year to better integrate it with the [...]
Windows users can’t get enough of Internet Explorer 9. That’s the message Microsoft is driving hard, releasing statistics that show its most recent web browser is growing strong among users of Windows 7 PCs. IE9 is now the primary browser [...]
A new smartphone from Samsung has been unearthed in the Philippines, the Galaxy S Advance GT-i9070. The device will apparently be Samsung’s mid-range smartphone, with a curved, 4-inch, 800 x 480 pixel screen, a 5-megapixel camera with LED flash and [...]
At this year’s Macworld event, Schneider Optics showed off the iPro Lens System. The package includes professional-quality fisheye and wide-angle lenses, a clever protective cover and a case that doubles as a tripod mount or a convenient handle. The fisheye [...]
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Let’s face it: Apple is rich. So rich it could send a crowd of people to the moon to build a luxury hotel and hang out there for a few years. Here’s what else it could do, according to our [...]
If you’re smartphone fanatic like I am, you want to know the precise size of each one of these phones. Sure, that latest model may be super slim, but will it be too large for your pocket? We found a [...]
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It could be the most direct evidence so far that Apple is developing a television set: the company filed for a patent on a new kind of touchscreen remote control last September, according to a report. The patent, made public [...]
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You’ll be amazed at what Google has just done with Google Earth. Overnight, the earth-mapping application was upgraded to Google Earth 6.2, with vastly improved imagery that changes the choppy patchwork quilt of past versions into a smooth globe that rivals the [...]
