Technology News
Linksys unveils networked storage and its fastest WiFi router yet
Engadget - 5 Jan 2015 02:00
You knew that Linksys wouldn't sit idly by while competitors like ASUS and Netgear rolled out extra-fast WiFi routers -- sure enough, the Belkin-owned networking giant is coming to CES 2015 with some speedy wireless of i...
How Did We Find the Distance to the Sun?
Universe Today - 5 Jan 2015 01:15
How far is the Sun? It seems as if one could hardly ask a more straightforward question. Yet this very inquiry bedeviled astronomers for more than two thousand years. Certainly it’s a question of nearly unrivaled impor...
Ring wearable gesture device hands-on
Slash Gear - 5 Jan 2015 02:40
Ring is a wearable smart device that connects to your smartphone with Bluetooth. It wirelessly allows you to make gestures in the face of your phone to launch apps and perform certain functions. At CES 2015, we've seen t...
A Self-Adjusting Smart Belt: Yes, It's Come to This
Gizmodo - 5 Jan 2015 03:31
You can keep your 4K TVs and your autonomous puppy dog drones. The Belty promises to have a greater impact on humanity than even the wheel. It's the world's first smart belt featuring an electric-powered motor built into...
Roku to be built into more TVs in 2015 — including 4K TVs
Mashable - 5 Jan 2015 00:51
The Roku streaming player will be built into even more TV sets in 2015, the company announced at CES 2015. Last year, Roku announced a partnership with TV makers HiSense and TCL to integrate its content device directly i...
TV, TiVo, OTT: How television-watching has evolved
Mashable - 5 Jan 2015 01:52
Television has been an invaluable source of news and entertainment since the late 1930s, connecting us globally and ensnaring our attention spans for over 80 years. Although how we've watched TV has changed, our fascinat...
Daredevil climbs 1,500 feet to change a light bulb
Cult of Mac - 5 Jan 2015 21:42
Imagine walking five street blocks in a city like, say, New York. Then think about climbing that distance straight up. That’s what Kevin Schmidt does for a living: changing the airplane warning lights at the top of sup...
CES 2015 brings new Garmin Vivofit, stylish bands
Slash Gear - 5 Jan 2015 16:48
CES always delights if you're looking for new products, and Garmin never disappoints. Lately, the leader in GPS technology has been focussing on wearables, and this year is no different. At CES 2015, the company is annou...
Video: First look at the LG G Flex 2 with the exec responsible for it!
Android Central - 5 Jan 2015 18:30
We've taken our own look at the new LG G Flex 2 -- for sure check out our hands-on here -- but we've also taken a spin around the new flexible phone with LG executive Dr. Ram-chan Woo, Vice President of Product Planning ...
Amazing Imagery Captures Plummeting Chinese Rocket Seen by Villagers
Universe Today - 5 Jan 2015 21:50
Amazing images of falling rocket debris from a spent Chinese booster were captured in the final moments of its plummet back to Earth outside a remote village located in southwest China. The images were taken by a photo j...
What to Expect Scientists to Do in 2015
Scientific American - 5 Jan 2015 15:06
Nature looks at what the New Year holds for science --
New EAGLE Simulation Shows Galaxies as They Really Are (Video)
SPACE.com - 5 Jan 2015 18:15
Scientists have cooked up a stunning new simulation of the universe that captures the wide variety of galaxies we see in the universe.
FlipBelt Running & Workout Belt features a quartet of pockets
Coolest Gadgets - 5 Jan 2015 17:00
While the FlipBelt Running & Workout Belt does not quite come to be on par with Batman's very own utility belt since this particular belt has just four pockets as opposed to the Caped Crusader's unique utility belt that ...
Netflix VPN access locked down for overseas users
CNET - 5 Jan 2015 03:17SpaceX's Next Frontier: Landing a Rocket on Earth
The New York Times - 5 Jan 2015 03:10
On Tuesday, the company hopes to upend the economics of space travel, by landing the first stage of a rocket intact on a barge floating in the Atlantic Ocean.
The Robot That Can Destroy You At Beer Pong
TechCrunch - 5 Jan 2015 02:05
Robots. They can wipe the floor with us at Flappy Bird, Ping Pong, and chess. At least we’ve still got the last great bastion of human sportsmanship that is beer pong, right? Wrong. Built by Empire Robotics to show o...
This chair is an invisible gym for your living room
Mashable - 5 Jan 2015 02:00
LAS VEGAS — Most people dream of burning calories, as they power through episode after episode of their favorite Netflix show. And if you could do that while sitting down — without noticing that you're working out �...
Lenovo LaVie Z Convertible HZ750 hands-on
Slash Gear - 5 Jan 2015 22:01
This week we're taking a look at the new Lenovo LaVie Z set of notebooks - we had a peek at the HZ550, now we're checking out the Convertible HZ750, the Ultrabook of the two. These two devices are VERY similar to one ano...
Tales From The Grumpy Programmer: Before Computing Was Cool
ReadWrite - 5 Jan 2015 17:38
Bob Pendleton is a 60-something year old blogger who has (probably) been programming since before you were born. His blog, thegrumpyprogrammer.com, documents the lessons he's learned from decades in the technology trench...
Canon Connect Station CS100 is a 1TB photo storage device with NFC for easy transfer
Pocket-lint - 5 Jan 2015 16:38
Canon has announced its own storage system for photos that enables you to back up shots without needing a PC. The Canon Connect Station CS100 has 1TB of storage and NFC connectivity so you can transfer pictures or videos...
Audi Prologue bringing NVIDIA DRIVE CX to the streets
Slash Gear - 5 Jan 2015 07:32
At NVIDIA 2015, Audi's VP of electronics development Ricky Hudy joined Jen-Hsun Huang onstage. There he spoke on how Audi was at the forefront of in-car computing 10 years ago, aligning themselves with the future by real...
CNET drools over the Healbe GoBe, proving there's one gullible journalist born every minute
PandoDaily - 5 Jan 2015 06:02
For a large chunk of last year, Pando’s James Robinson followed the utterly ridiculous story of the even more ridiculous “Healbe GoBe”. The device, which raised over a million dollars on Indiegogo, claimed to be ab...