USB based chargers for our smartphones, tablets - and multiple other gadgets - have literally become the bog standard for our battery refueling requirements, but the power outlets in our homes have yet to keep up with that need. A new contraption has just been coined and it lets you quickly swap your existing power outlet cover plate with one housing a USB charging port. Head over the jump to read all about this nifty little invention and how it works.
Modern technology is great when it's making our smartphones smaller and our tablets faster, but where it truly comes into its own is when it empowers people. The world of prosthetics is exactly the kind of area where technology can, and indeed does make true, life-changing leaps.
SanDisk has revealed the first USB thumb drive to take advantage of the new USB Type-C standard while also keeping the legacy USB option around at the same time.
A bunch of Swiss watchmakers are gearing up for announcing their own lineup of luxury smartwatches somewhere between Apple's press event and the April launch of the Apple Watch.
VAIO has just launched two new laptop computers, the VAIO Z and the VAIO Z Canvas. Head on over the jump to catch the details on these new machines that have come in after a gap of almost one year.
If you can remember some of those ancient products that entertained us long before the age of the smartphone, you'll no doubt recall the View-Master. An iconic, binocular-like device, you would hold it up against your eyes and scroll through a set of enchanting frames, giving the impression of virtual reality. Times have changed dramatically in the last couple of years, though, with a number of companies dabbling in the field of head-mounted tech, and after carrying the flag for so long with Glass, Google will team up with Mattel while using its innovative Cardboard VR tech to re-create a modern-day View-Master.
Mobile power banks and battery-padded cases are part and parcel of smartphone and tablet ownership for many, but while these products have become smaller and more power-efficient in recent times, one startup is touting a complete game-changer that safely boosts power using eco-friendly lighter gas. This completely alternative approach, which has more than doubled its initial half-million-dollar Kickstarter goal with four weeks of campaigning still to go, offers consumers a way out from lugging hefty power devices around, and with a three-second top-up of lighter gas able to muster 11 cycles of charge to an iPhone, this could be the development that the mobile market has long since craved.
A new supercharged Raspberry Pi 2 has just been announced and it's the fastest and meanest one from the company to date. Oh and this matchbox-sized computer will be running Windows 10, for free. Yes, you read that right, so head on after the jump for further details on this exciting new development.
Walmart has begun selling its Vudu Spark streaming HDMI dongle across a host of its stores, with stock winging its way to other outlets all the time. At just $25, the Vudu Spark is about as cheap as streaming dongles get, but that bargain price tag comes at a small cost of its own.
We've seen a large number of concept products being bandied around the Internet over the last few years. Apart from the usual "next-generation iPhone or iPad" mockups and the "here's what Apple's next MacBook" will look like concepts, we've also had designers and engineers producing artwork for futuristic cars, robots with advanced artificial intelligence, and even invisible cloaks. With that in mind, it doesn't seem so bizarre that a team of individuals have put their collective brains together and invented the "Mouse-Box" concept; an everyday looking mouse with an actual functioning computer built inside of it.
















