| TRENDING STORIES IN TECH & GADGETS | | | | | | | ALL STORIES IN TECH & GADGETS | | |
| Mini-Drone Will Watch Wherever You Go | | Thursday, January 31, 2013 10:39 PM | Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai |
| If you're one of those people who feel the urge to document each and every breathing moment of your life, but think it's annoying to have to get out your smartphone to snap pictures and upload them every time, you're in luck. Thanks to startup Always Innovating, you'll soon be able to have a mini-drone hover over your shoulder and do that job for you.
|
| Mega's First Search Engine Gets Blocked | | Thursday, January 31, 2013 7:43 PM | Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai |
| Kim Dotcom's new sharing website Mega got a little closer to resembling its old, closed-down version, Megaupload on Wednesday. Anonymous users launched a search engine that indexes files uploaded on the new sharing service, potentially making it easier to find copyright-protected material. On Thursday, less than 24 hours after the first news reports of the existence of the third-party engine surfaced, Dotcom blocked it.
|
| How Nvidia Kept Project Shield a Secret | | Thursday, January 31, 2013 6:06 PM | Pete Pachal |
| Nvidia surprised the world at CES 2013 when it unveiled Project Shield, a portable Android gaming device that also works the PC games. Everyone expected the Tegra 4 mobile processor, but no one saw Project Shield coming. In this age of a hyperscrutiny of tech companies, how did Nvidia keep it a secret? Three ways: simple security precautions, very little outside involvement and an incredibly tight development schedule.
|
| Will.i.am Says the Future of Tech Is 'Inside the Box' | | Thursday, January 31, 2013 5:18 PM | Emily Price |
| Wii.i.am took to the stage at Macworld Thursday to talk about the future of tech. Speaking alongside Intel’s resident futurist Bran David Johnson, the pair talked about where the next big changes are coming from. Will.i.am thinks that education is a particular area important to tech, specifically teaching kids that’s its “cool” to become an engineer.
|
| 1949 Device Could Be the First E-Reader | | Thursday, January 31, 2013 4:52 PM | Anita Li |
| E-readers started surging in popularity during the late 2000s, but the first such device may have debuted over 60 years ago. A Spanish teacher named Ángela Ruiz Robles invented the "Mechanical Encyclopedia" in 1949 — way before Nooks and Kindles hit store shelves — and historians claim it's the first of its kind, according to the New York Daily News.
|
| Pew: More Consumers Use Cellphones to Make Shopping Decisions | | Thursday, January 31, 2013 4:35 PM | Camille Bautista |
| Finding the right gift during the holiday season requires some challenging decisions, but connected consumers are taking advantage of their devices to help them shop. Nearly six in ten cell owners used their phone in a physical store to make purchasing decisions, a new study says.
|
| Google Glass FCC Filing Shows First Official Diagram | | Thursday, January 31, 2013 4:30 PM | Christina Warren |
| Details and diagrams for Google Glass just hit the FCC. The filing — originally discovered by the eagle eyes at Engadget — arrives just days after the first Google Glass Foundry developer event in San Francisco. Developers at the event were forbidden from talking to the media and had to sign an NDA to participate, so the FCC filing is our best look yet at the technical details behind the project.
|
| This Gadget Can Charge a MacBook and iPad Anywhere on the Planet | | Thursday, January 31, 2013 4:02 PM | Charlie White |
| Traveling is tough, especially when you can't find enough outlets to charge your MacBook and iPad at the same time. PlugBug World comes to the rescue, incorporating itself into the top of the MacBook Pro charger, and letting you plug into up to five different types of electrical outlets around the world. The $44.99 PlugBug World from Twelve South can handle any device that charges using a USB port, not just those from Apple.
|
| Amazon's Home Page Comes Back After Outage | | Thursday, January 31, 2013 3:42 PM | Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai |
| Amazon's homepage, amazon.com, was unreachable for around an hour. During the outage, a user trying to reach the online store's main page would only see a white page with the message: "Http/1.1 Service Unavailable." On the other hand, navigating directly to other pages on the website, like Amazon Books, worked perfectly. It's not clear what was causing the outage, and Amazon hasn't responded to requests for comment yet.
|
| CEA Drops CNET as Awards Partner After Dish Controversy | | Thursday, January 31, 2013 2:55 PM | Christina Warren |
| The Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) has dropped CNET as a partner for its "Best of Show" Awards at the annual Consumer Electronics Show (CES). It also reinstated the Dish Hopper with Sling as the winner of the 2013 show. The editorial team at CNET originally named the new Dish DVR as its top pick during CES 2013, but was forced to remove the gadget from consideration at the behest of its corporate parent, CBS.
|
| Is This Transparent iPad in Your Future? | | Thursday, January 31, 2013 2:08 PM | Charlie White |
| Here's a design concept for a transparent iPad by artist Ricardo Afonso that might seem far-fetched, but transparent screens are certainly not impossible. Just look at the exquisite thinness and beauty of this iPad concept. It's downright mysterious-looking.
|
| Fleksy Keyboard Lets You Text Without Looking | | Thursday, January 31, 2013 1:53 PM | Camille Bautista |
| Failed autocorrects can be a source of frustration to many smartphone users. Though the misspellings can oftentimes be hilarious, they usually makes texting a pain. Fleksy, an alternative keyboard, promises accuracy so precise even those who are blind can use it. The autocorrect system works so users can type without looking at the phone and even takes it a step further: you can type without the touchscreen keyboard.
|
| Google's Street View Gets Stunning Imagery from the Grand Canyon | | Thursday, January 31, 2013 11:19 AM | Stan Schroeder |
| Google has added Grand Canyon to the list of its Street View-supported locations in Google Maps, and it's really a sight to behold. To create this new Street View experience, which includes more than 75 miles of trails and surrounding rounds, Google took 9,500 panoramas of the Grand Canyon.
|
| Don't Hold Your Breath for More BlackBerry Tablets | | Thursday, January 31, 2013 10:14 AM | Pete Pachal |
| With BlackBerry 10, BlackBerry now has a smartphone platform that can compete with Android and the iPhone, and the Z10 and Q10 phones will roll out globally over the next few months. For tablets, however, BlackBerry only has its nearly two-year-old PlayBook, and it looks like it won't get any siblings anytime soon.
|
| |  |  | | | TOP STORIES TODAY TOP TOPICS | |
ليست هناك تعليقات:
إرسال تعليق