It's fair to say that the accessories industry for premium smartphones, such as the iPhone, is going from strength to strength year after year. As devices become more and more sophisticated, and therefore start to hold more residual value, consumers are looking for new and tested methods of accentuating the functionality of the device and keeping it in top notch condition. As part of CES 2015, Antenna79 has introduced a brand new range of cases that it claims will not only add visual appeal to Apple's iPhone 6 and jumbo-sized iPhone 6 Plus, but will also provide a healthy boost to received signal strength and potentially improve battery life by up to two times.
Smart home systems have grown considerably in popularity over the past couple of years, and you only have to look at Google's acquisition of Nest to see that this emerging market is to be taken very seriously indeed. Apple is also flexing its muscles in this regard by embedding the HomeKit system into its iOS platform, and with CES upon us, one company has come up with a new system that integrates with Siri and HomeKit to offer seamless, voice-activated unlocking solutions.
With 2015 now here and Apple’s ‘early 2015’ release date for the Apple Watch starting to come into view we still don’t have a concrete date for when the company’s first wearable will become a reality. Apple recently gave some of its international customers a belated Christmas gift by adding come European countries to the list due Apple Watch early in the year, but when that will be is anybody’s guess.
The 12-inch MacBook Air has been rumored ad nauseam over the past year or so, with Apple enthusiasts certain that the slick notebook will follow the lead of its more powerful cousin by incorporating a Retina display. Today, new details have emerged that paint a more vivid picture of what we can expect from the product's apparent announcement around the time of WWDC, as well as some very interesting mockups.
CES has already delivered an abundance of weird and wonderful products, and whilst the inaugural tech event of 2015 will not see the launch of any Apple products directly, third-party accessory and peripheral makers look to be very much on their games. Although no specific date has been revealed for launch nor retail, Apple Watch is undoubtedly one of the most eagerly anticipated tech releases of the year, and one company has used this week's big trade show as the platform for its neat-looking Apple Watch stand.
This latest flash based storage stick gives all your Lightning port based iOS devices additional space of up to a whopping 256GB. Head on after the jump for further information on this neat little offering.
Wireless charging is still in relative infancy, and while some vendors have dipped their toes into the water, it's not as ubiquitous as advocates of the technology might have hoped. But the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas seems as apt a venue as any to showcase some interesting new wireless charging systems, and one manufacturer has been demonstrating a very intriguing concept that could revolutionize the way we charge our beloved gadgets.
The Internet Archive has become an important corner of the Web for plenty of different reasons, but today one of those reasons got even better. Already host to plenty of great Atari games that could be easily played in a Web browser, the Internet Archive has now updated its collection with just shy of 2,400 MS-DOS games. Just as you would expect, you need not pay a penny in order to enjoy any of them.
CES is always a great way to kick off the new year in technology laden style, with 2015 being no different. We've already witnessed a number of new and unique accessories for smartphones, and now, thanks to Hyper, we can also add the iStick Pro to that growing list of exciting products that will be available to consumers during 2015.
When Apple showed HomeKit off during last year’s WWDC we all immediately started formulating plans for having everything in our homes be controlled via our iPhones and iPads. We’re now in January of the following year and there are finally two HomeKit compatibly smart plugs being showcased at this week’s CES, though neither are going to be available to buy for a little while yet.
















