Sep 04
While still unlikely to be too popular in the face of the ever-growing smartphone juggernaut, the Nokia 515 brings premium build quality and a few new software features to the dumbphone bracket. No Android, though.
Sep 02
New Samsung Android Watch Sighted
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Samsung Galaxy Gear may be released this week and turn out to be the most advanced Android watch released so far, with an OLED screen, NFC, a camera and a full day of battery life.
Sep 02
Recently, Facebook has been making a concerted push to bring more Android developers into the fold, in addition to making its mobile game stronger overall. To that end, it’s announced several updates to bring the Android SDK in-line with iOS, and added 3D capabilities to both.
Aug 31
From the “why didn’t I think of
that?” category comes Pressy, a clever little device that adds a
user-configurable physical button to your Android smartphone in
exchange for – surprise – your headphone jack. Unsurprisingly,
the Kickstarter campaign goal was surpassed in merely a day.
Aug 30
Size counts. If you want proof, just look at the way our society develops technology, how obsessed everyone seems to be with making everything smaller and more portable. Today, we’re going to take a look at this obsession. Today, we’re going to examine some of the smallest computers ever created.
Aug 29
Online privacy has always been a nebulous thing, particularly given the culture of paranoia that’s grown around western society in recent days. Nowhere is this more clear than with the saga of Edward Snowden. Today – in a bit of a departure from my usual fare -I’m going to explain to you why the Snowden saga should concern you.
Aug 29
With its AC wall charger built-in, the
new N100i smartphone from Daxian allows users to ditch the annoying
USB cable and wall-wart combination to juice up after a long day.
There are some strong drawbacks to the execution, though, so it’s a
good thing Daxian didn’t remove USB charging entirely.
Aug 28
Ever since its less-than-stellar showing at E3, Microsoft’s Xbox One has been a rather popular whipping boy for the games industry. The backlash suffered by Microsoft was downright legendary, and it’s something they’re not going to live down for a very, very long time.
Question is, was it justified?
Aug 28
Flashy technology has always been a staple of science fiction films -and there’s not much flashier than the gesture-controlled computers seen in Minority Report. At the time the movie was released, those must have seemed positively outlandish. Now, though?
Now we’re rapidly approaching a point where such outlandish technology is becoming commonplace, and it’s got the potential to completely change how we compute.
Aug 27
Dog breath-vapored and finger-printed windows, shaving-creamed and
water-spotted mirrors are irritating, but seldom rise to the level of
must-clean more than monthly. Actually, I rarely clean the bay windows
or sliding door glass unless company comes and the streaking that
remains makes me wish I’d left them dirty. But if I had a robot to
clean the buggers, it might just change my view about the whole process.
Alas, here’s the Winbot 7 by Ecovacs….
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