Silicon Image SiI8620 MHL 3.0 transmitter IC lets smartphones stream 4K content to TVs

Silicon Image has announced a new product that it says is the first MHL 3.0 4K Ultra HD solution for mobile devices in the industry. The solution includes mobile transmitter, bridge, and multimedia switch ICs. The MHL solution will allow the streaming of HD and 4K UHD content to a big screen TV in the […]

Glass exchange initiated: return boxes sent

The newest wave of Google Glass Explorer Edition units are set to be distributed by mail, with Google sending out word that they’re fully prepared to do the switch with boxes of their own. Users that’d signed up over the last few weeks will be seeing a box sent to their residence through the mail […]

Google’s robot project expands: Boston Dynamics makes 8

With the purchase of Boston Dynamics, Google has become the proud owner of a robotics company – for the 8th time. This is not Google’s first acquisition of a company in the robotics industry, nor will it be the last. What we’ve got instead is the continued efforts of the big G to collect the […]

NEC Creates A Flexible Battery That Charges In 30 Seconds

This article was written on December 08, 2005 by CyberNet.

NEC announced an exciting foray into the world of bendy things today, with the revelation of their development of a 0.3mm thick flexible battery technology, that can also (allegedly) recharge in about 30 seconds. NEC sees it being used in the future for self-powered IC cards and powering electronic paper in as discreet a manner as possible. A real breakthrough in battery technology, and I definitely like the idea of being able to stumble into a taxi a drunken, shambling mess and simply hold up my SELF-POWERED TALKING ID CARD which tells the taxi driver how to get me home.

NEC Flexible Battery

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Samsung wearables entering fitness and fashion markets

At the 2013 Samsung Analyst meeting it was revealed that the company will not be satisfied with its current devices in the wearables market – namely the Samsung Galaxy Gear. Instead they’ll be expanding through Samsung Display first, making efforts to push in to the fitness world and the fashion market through the year 2018. […]

Samsung Galaxy S 5 to headline ISOCELL camera quality boosts

This month a couple of big changes in the way Samsung operates are set to have direct influences on how the Samsung Galaxy S 5 will be delivered. Just this November an analyst day event showed off the next big thing for Samsung’s line of smartphones in a sensor that’ll be placed in at least […]

In-flight call ban lift open to discussion following FCC vote: needs DOT approval

Though the vote of 3-2 knocks out a technical ban in the FCC, the rule against using cellphones to make calls in-flight is still being left up to the Department of Transportation to make a final ruling on here near the end of 2013. This week’s vote was a close one. The FCC’s meeting today […]

Samsung vs Apple S. Korea has iPhone maker come out on top

There are a massive number of Apple vs Samsung and Samsung vs Apple court cases going on in the world today, and more still having appeared in the recent past. What we’re seeing this week is a single South Korean case ending with Apple winning over Samsung, the Galaxy smartphone maker not able to prove […]

NVIDIA G-Sync first-impressions

Today we’re letting loose our first-impressions of the technology called G-Sync, NVIDIA’s newest in new graphics enhancement for the gaming universe. What we’re looking at here is one of the first NVIDIA G-Sync monitors in the world outside of NVIDIA headquarters, here rolling with ASUS as a technology preview unit. Before you go any further, […]

SlashGear 101: What is NVIDIA G-Sync?

We’ve got one of the first NVIDIA G-Sync monitors in the world sitting on our desk this week, and though we’re not quite to production level preview time as of yet, the impression we’re getting already is one of a whole new era in gaming graphics. Aside from that, if there’s one thing we can […]