DISPLAY SCREEN TECHNOLOGY
Bang & Olufsen Debut BeoVision Avant TV – “The One That Moves”

As our television options become increasingly high-tech, many companies are struggling to stay ahead of the curve and stand out among the competition. Electronic giants like Sony and Samsung have debuted some pretty fantastic 4K and UHD options this year, … Continue reading

 

GADGETS & PERIPHERALS
Robotic Arm That Catches Flying Objects With Split-Second Accuracy

Because its 2014, because we wear ear pieces connected to our smartphones, because we can talk to our Xbox and make commands, because robotics are changing the way people work and play, what are some of the limitations we still … Continue reading

 

DISPLAY SCREEN TECHNOLOGY
Parrot Debuts Bebop Drone; The Coolest Drone to Hit the Air Yet

When it comes to having an eye in the sky (at least, from a capable drone’s perspective), the Paris-based company Parrot is a cut above the rest. This week they set themselves even further apart from the competition with the … Continue reading

 

GADGETS & PERIPHERALS
The Health Tracker OMSignal: A Very Smart Shirt To Guide Fitness, Can Even Track Stress

Wearable tech is the new tech. The more ways we can wear our gadgets, the easier we can become connected. As far as fitness and health trackers go, it’s vital for us to enjoy what we’re wearing, and what better … Continue reading

 

GADGETS & PERIPHERALS
The CENTR Panoramic Video Camera Shoots 360 Degrees, All Around Your Thumb

With smartphone cameras consistently escalating in quality, it’s super easy to assume most people have become reliant on their phones for photo taking. All you have to do is pull it out of your pocket and shoot. Even if some … Continue reading

 

GADGETS & PERIPHERALS
Fish On Wheels: An Aquarium Mounted On Remote Control Car Chassis

We all know Kickstarter is appreciated for its supportive personality in all things creative. Currently, a company called Studio Diip is seeking funding for something even the “nerdiest” nerds could consider odd. A team of Dutch designers developed a mobile … Continue reading

 

INVENTIONS & INNOVATIONS
The Cassette Tape Dead? Not if You Can Cram 185 Terabytes Into One!

During “simpler” times, when technology didn’t take care of everything for us, we relied on the vinyl record to play us about 5 songs per side. Later, the cassette tape would play us a little more than that before we … Continue reading

 

GADGETS & PERIPHERALS
Oral B’s Smart Series Puts a Tiny Dentist in Your Toothbrush

“There’s an App for that!”, a phrase that would have sounded foreign at best a decade ago, is now a commonality that seems to hold true for nearly everything. The next area of technology to be reinvented by our app-savvy … Continue reading

 

GADGETS & PERIPHERALS
The LIX 3D Pen Puts Design in the Palm of Your Hand

In the ever-expanding field of 3D printing, bigger things are coming in smaller and smaller packages. This week we saw the introduction of LIX’s 3D printing pen, a pen-sized device that allows you to sketch in the air without using … Continue reading

 

GADGETS & PERIPHERALS
Microsoft’s Motion Control Hovercraft Keyboard: Type-Hover-Swipe

The Type-Hover-Swipe is the latest work shown off by Microsoft’s Research team in the motion-control category. It is part of the latest trend in gesture control, similar to projects such as Leap Motion, and the Nod Ring. The division created … Continue reading

 

GADGETS & PERIPHERALS
Move Your World With The Nod Bluetooth Ring

Gesture control devices are big these days, but bluetooth-enabled rings have been particularly increasing in numbers. Some of these devices, such as the Fin, work as a smartphone companion, allowing the user to receive texts, emails, and other notifications via … Continue reading

 

INVENTIONS & INNOVATIONS
Facebook Launches FB Newswire For Journalists and Newsrooms

Today Facebook announced the launch of FB Newswire, an online trove of hand-selected and journal-verified news, all to help journalists share and embed the kind of content they want floating on Facebook. Andy Mitchell, director of news and global media … Continue reading

 

GADGETS & PERIPHERALS
Conversnitch: An Eavesdropping, Livetweeting Lamp

When you look at the success of shows like MTV’s The Real World, The Real Housewives of… well, anywhere, and the multitude of programming that exists solely to portray the “real lives” of “real people” going about their daily business, … Continue reading

 

DISPLAY SCREEN TECHNOLOGY
Google Street View: Now Offering Time Travel

My favorite coffee shop in Austin used to have this wall of pictures showing the evolution of the city, its streets and its people over the course of the last 200 years or so. I never once in ten years … Continue reading

 

GADGETS & PERIPHERALS
The Aereo Debate Hits the Supreme Court

While most of you are probably not yet familiar with the obscure Internet start-up Aereo, thanks to some very noisy broadcasting executives, you will be soon. The company debuted in 2012 with an innovative new way to watch your favorite … Continue reading