How the Chip in Apple’s iPhone 5S Could Turn Us All Into Activity Trackers

How the Chip in Apple’s iPhone 5S Could Turn Us All Into Activity Trackers

For the first time, motion sensing occurs in a separate processor, which makes constant activity tracking more power-efficient without turning on the rest of the A7 chip. This means we’ll start to see more Quantified Self (QS) tracking apps without …

    

Watch Samsung’s IFA Unpacked Event

Watch Samsung’s IFA Unpacked Event

Samsung will take the stage at IFA in Berlin at 1PM ET/ 10AM PT. Everyone is expecting a new smartwatch and a potentially awkward presentation.

    



New Wearable Device Helps Blind Patients See Shapes and Colors

New Wearable Device Helps Blind Patients See Shapes and Colors

The Argus, named after the all-seeing Greek god with 100 eyes, is a wearable computer that helps blind people see borders and boundaries at very low resolution.

    

Leap Motion Opens Airspace App Store Beta, But the Hardware Is Still Delayed

Leap Motion Opens Airspace App Store Beta, But the Hardware Is Still Delayed

Leap Motion’s gesture-tracking devices won’t ship until July 22nd, but the company is opening up its SDK and developer portal to the public.

    

How the Haswell Chip Makes the New MacBook Air Last 12 Hours

How the Haswell Chip Makes the New MacBook Air Last 12 Hours

Apple’s new MacBook Air laptops have Intel’s brand new Haswell chips inside, and these low-power processors are responsible for many of the Air’s performance gains.

    

GamePop Console, Subscription Service Bring Mobile Games to Your TV

GamePop Console, Subscription Service Bring Mobile Games to Your TV

BlueStacks announced GamePop, a console and subscription service that brings Android games to a television.

Intel Introduces Silvermont to Battle ARM in Mobile

Intel Introduces Silvermont to Battle ARM in Mobile

As the mobile market continues to grow, Intel is going after ARM. For real this time.

Your Next Ultrabook Will Have Amazing Graphics

Your Next Ultrabook Will Have Amazing Graphics

The age of underpowered integrated notebook graphics is over. Prepare your eyes for awesome. Intel announced Wednesday that its fourth-gen Intel Core Haswell processors will include its new Iris Graphics technology. What this means in something other than marketing-speak is …

The Surprising Reason Behind Pixar’s Success

The Surprising Reason Behind Pixar’s Success

Imagine what we can do with 1,000 times more Moore’s Law horsepower. There’s almost certainly that much life left in it. Catmull and I and our colleagues did the movies, but I can’t even imagine what other innovators will do. …

HTC One Gets April Ship Date for U.S.

HTC One Gets April Ship Date for U.S.

The HTC One finally has a release window — no, not a firm release date, but a window. And that window, in the United States, is sometime in April.