Monday will be the day that Apple brings its yearly developers conference to the city of San Francisco once again, with plenty of software updates in the wings: but what about hardware? Here in the week before WWDC 2013, several devices have been tipped or otherwise leaked, with upgrades and refreshes of devices we’ve seen
Starting Monday, Apple’s 2013 iteration of their developers convention WWDC begins in San Francisco – and there’s a lot you’ll not be seeing. It’s not that there’ll be a lot of information under the skin and behind closed doors, that’s not what this is all about. Instead, it’s all about what’s still in the wings
As WWDC approaches, the suggestion that Jony Ive’s assignment on iOS over the past collection of months grows stronger. Here just days away from Apple’s yearly developers conference, the company has been so clear as to post an ultra-flat banner with the number “7″ in the center of it after their flat integration invite. Could
At Computex, Taiwan-based In Win has once again brought out its funky-looking desktop cases, but this time there’s a new star on the stage. Dubbed the Tou (meaning “transparent” in Mandarin Chinese), this ATX full tower features several 3mm-thick tempered glass panels that are screwed onto an aluminum structure. And since the coated glass is semi-transparent, you can just about see the desktop’s innards if you switch on the LEDs inside, which can be controlled via the touch panel above the two front USB 3.0 ports. When the internal lights are off, the desktop is pretty much just a mirror, but you’ll want to degrease your fingers before touching any part of it.
Sadly, at the moment the Tou is still at concept stage, so we couldn’t squeeze a price or date out of the reps. When the chassis does become available, you’ll know as soon as we do.
Filed under: Desktops
After checking out SoftKinetic’s embedded 3D depth camera earlier this week, our attention was brought to a similar offering coming from Germany’s PMD Technologies and Infineon. In fact, we were lucky enough to be the first publication to check out their CamBoard Pico S, a smaller version of their CamBoard Pico 3D depth camera that was announced in March. Both reference designs are already available in low quantities for manufacturers and middleware developers to tinker with over USB 2.0, so the two companies had some samples up and running at their demo room just outside Computex.
Filed under: Misc
Your every moment, documented. That’s the Memoto concept, a tiny wearable camera that snaps a shot every thirty seconds to digitally augment your memory. Early doubts as to whether enough people would want to record each waking moment were quickly squashed when the Memoto Kickstarter saw 11x the expected pledges, though the challenge of bringing
As the HTC One is confirmed for Verizon here in the United States, so too has an “HTC One Mini” been all but confirmed by a set of leaked up-close photos. These photos are either the work of a hardware tester or an extremely dedicated mock-up artist – as we’re inclined to believe the former,
It was only a few hours ago when Fujitsu announced its UH90, the first laptop to feature a 14-inch 3,200 x 1,800 IGZO display. While the device won’t hit Japan until June 28th, we were lucky enough to stumble upon the panel itself at Sharp’s Computex booth. In fact, the company also had a 15.6-inch IGZO panel with the same qHD+ resolution, 400 nit brightness plus 1000:1 contrast ratio, and both looked super crisp to our eyes. Alas, IGZO is still a bit behind LTPS panels when it comes to viewing angle, but we had absolutely no problem when looking at the displays straight on. With the UH90 rolling out soon, we should see more devices shipping with these panels very soon.
Gallery: Sharp’s QHD+ LCD screens eyes-on
Mat Smith contributed to this report.
Filed under: Displays
Via: Engadget Chinese
Google Glass has plenty of issues. There’s a fair chance you’ll get laughed at for wearing it, or at the very least stared at. Battery life won’t last you a day, and the list of things you can actually do with the wearable is limited. For all the Saturday Night Live skits and “Glasshole” jokes,
At Intel’s Computex keynote earlier today, the chip maker teased that it expects embedded 3D depth cameras to arrive on devices in the second half of 2014. Luckily, we got an exclusive early taste of the technology shortly after the event, courtesy of SoftKinetic. This Belgian company not only licenses its close-range gesture tracking middleware to Intel, but it also manufactures time-of-flight 3D depth cameras — including Creative’s upcoming Senz3D — in partnership with South Korea-based Namuga. Read on to see how we coped with this futuristic piece of kit, plus we have a video ready for your amusement.
Filed under: Peripherals, Intel
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