Every day, Google executives must feel like they are being visited by the Ghost of Christmas Past in the form of Ebeneezer Scroogle, Microsoft’s full blitz attack campaign against Google products. In the latest Scroogled edition, Microsoft takes shots at the Google Chromebook by putting it up for inspection in front of the famous Pawn… Continue reading Microsoft Taps ‘Pawn Stars’ to Scroogle Over Google Chromebooks
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Hardware news about PCs, Macs, tablets, mobile phones and other gadgets.
Google Rolling Out Glass to Developers
Google has recently offered a preview of the Glass SDK and Mirror API to developers and is set to give app writers an even closer look at Glass. Google is now inviting designers to buy the Glass’ Explorer Edition to try out the programs. According to CNET, Google hasn’t yet specified how many developers were… Continue reading Google Rolling Out Glass to Developers
The Future Is Here: Engineering Students Discover How To Use Wi-Fi to Charge Cell Phones
In the future, cell phones will charge on air. We’re almost there, thanks to the genius engineering students who figured out how to charge cell phones with a Wi-Fi signal. Students at Duke University developed a material that captures Wi-Fi energy waves and converts them into electrical current. With this technology the students have proposed… Continue reading The Future Is Here: Engineering Students Discover How To Use Wi-Fi to Charge Cell Phones
Watch LG’s New G Flex Phone Heal Itself After a Knife Attack [VIDEO]
We’ve heard of heavy-duty phones like the CAT B15, and most of us have simply accepted that along with phone durability comes heavy, brick-like shapes and bright yellow casings. That is, until we met LG’s new G Flex smartphone. The LG G Flex is a curved Android phone designed to withstand the normal wear-and-tear that… Continue reading Watch LG’s New G Flex Phone Heal Itself After a Knife Attack [VIDEO]
littleBits Lands $11M to Make Snappable Electronics for Young Makers
Meet littleBits, Legos for the iPad generation. The New York-based hardware startup creates a library of snappable electronic modules that take the intimidation out of making electronic circuits. littleBits aims to make electrical engineers out of your children and won’t stop until every one of us can make our own phones or computers. The company… Continue reading littleBits Lands $11M to Make Snappable Electronics for Young Makers
The Xbox One Global Launch Party Is Announced and You’re Invited
The countdown to the release of the new Xbox One gaming console is in effect until its global midnight release on November 22. Microsoft has just announced a few marquee events taking place in cities across the globe including New York, Los Angeles, London, Berlin, Paris, Vienna, São Paulo, Toronto and Sydney. All the festivities… Continue reading The Xbox One Global Launch Party Is Announced and You’re Invited
Craving Pizza? Just Push This Button and Your Favorite Pie Will Magically Appear at Your Door
Sometimes, like late at night, your craving for pizza begins to overpower your ability to make any form of human contact. You want the pizza so badly but human contact, whether by phone or internet, is out of the question. But if you’re not in a state of mind to communicate with humans, how are… Continue reading Craving Pizza? Just Push This Button and Your Favorite Pie Will Magically Appear at Your Door
MIT Creates an Interactive 3D Shapeshifting Display Controlled by Your Physical Movement
While we’ve been able to communicate with each other visually through our phones and services like Skype, this new technology looks to take reaching out and touching someone to an entirely new form. Developed by MIT’s Tangible Media Group, inForm is a dynamic shape displayer that can render 3D content physically. It allows users to… Continue reading MIT Creates an Interactive 3D Shapeshifting Display Controlled by Your Physical Movement
