Gadget News
Nyko unveils Data Bank for PS4 at CES 2015
Slash Gear - 8 Jan 2015 14:50
Nyko is a big name is an aftermarket accessories for gamers and the company has unveiled several new products at CES 2015. One of the most interesting of those products is for the PS4 and is called the Data Bank for Play...
Samsung's latest SSD is absurdly fast and uses virtually no standby power
Engadget - 8 Jan 2015 15:47
Samsung has started manufacturing a PCIe (M.2) SSD which pulls off a rare trick -- it'll be the fastest drive your laptop has ever seen, while consuming almost no power in standby mode. The new SM951 SSD succeeds the Kor...
Denmark Just Set a Major World Record For Wind Energy
Gizmodo - 8 Jan 2015 00:05
There's been plenty of criticism of wind power over the past few years, as adoption grows and potential side effects emerge. That hasn't stopped energy progressive Denmark, which set a world record by generating a huge 3...
If You Threw Cookie Dough at the Sun, How Long Would It Take to Bake?
Gizmodo - 8 Jan 2015 23:30
First, let's assume you are in orbit around the Earth's atmosphere, and you threw the cookie sunward at 25 mph. The most delicious of speeds.
This 4-Mile Pier Leaves Devastatingly Beautiful Patterns in Its Wake
Gizmodo - 8 Jan 2015 14:45
This pier extends out from Progreso into the Gulf of Mexico a staggering 4 miles. But just as astonishing as the structure itself is the beautiful wake it creates as the waters in the sea pass by.
Sennheiser reveals new range of SPORTS headphones
Coolest Gadgets - 8 Jan 2015 23:00
Sennheiser is a name that just about all of us are familiar with when it comes to audio products. This particular audio specialist has revealed a new range of SPORTS headphones, where they happen to arrive in the form of...
Edward Snowden Should Talk About Cyberwar More Often
Gizmodo - 8 Jan 2015 22:25
We're all sick of used to hearing Edward Snowden talk about NSA surveillance by now. We get it: The government's watching us, and there's basically nothing we can do about it. But PBS just published the transcript of an ...
iON SnapCam wearable camera: 8MP and live streaming
Slash Gear - 8 Jan 2015 22:07
iON has introduced its SnapCam camera, a social-centric wearable POV shooter measuring in at 1.5-inches with a wireless connection to one's smartphone. Central among it all is the 8-megapixel sensor that allows users to ...
WattUp Wire-Free Charging Technology Is What We All Need
Coolest Gadgets - 8 Jan 2015 22:00
Energous Corporation, or Energous for short, is the one behind WattUp. Got to love the wordplay on this for sure, as WattUp is best described to be a disruptive wire-free charging technology catering for electronic devic...
The Plan to Build a Mega-Manhattan That Failed, Thank God
Gizmodo - 8 Jan 2015 21:15
A Really Greater New York. That was the title of the 1911 proposal by an engineer and planner who imagined paving over massive amounts of New York Harbor to make room to build the New York of the future. Oh, you like the...
This Tabletop Gadget Steers Light with a Wall of Sound
Gizmodo - 8 Jan 2015 18:40
Our collective Holodeck-Danger Room fantasies are one step closer to reality thanks to a new acousto-optic device described in the latest issue of the journal Optics Express. It can manipulate laser beams in near real ti...
This is the 2016 Toyota Tacoma
Slash Gear - 8 Jan 2015 18:18
Toyota isn't due to officially reveal the new 2016 Tacoma until next week at the Detroit Auto Show, but the hotly-anticipated truck has already broken cover. One of the more popular models in the Japanese company's range...
Extra Storage for iOS Devices with Leef
The Gadget Flow - 8 Jan 2015 09:02
Leef iBRIDGE is the iOS mobile storage solution designed to easily expand the storage capacity on your iPhone, iPad, and iPod without ever worrying about deleting memories again. You can capture photos and videos directl...
A Smart 9-Volt Battery Adds Phone Notifications to Any Smoke Detector
Gizmodo - 8 Jan 2015 02:20
There are plenty of smart smoke detectors on the market that connect to your home's Wi-Fi network to provide smartphone notifications when there's trouble, but they're an expensive upgrade to the dumb smoke detector you'...
Vivo Air Hands On: A Crazy Thin, Crazy Light, Crazy Cheap Smartphone
Gizmodo - 8 Jan 2015 00:25
Apple likes to "Air" things. Macbook Air, iPad Air, and so on. But if Cupertino were going to Air the iPhone, it might look something like this. One key difference? This phone is only $200. Off contract.
Weird CES Booths, Ranked
Gizmodo - 8 Jan 2015 23:48
If you can't get an 8K TV or a giant curved screen, you have to get creative with how you'll draw eyes to your bland and unremarkable booth. Here are some of the attention-grabbers I saw at this year's Consumer Electroni...
The most requested photo in the National Archives is of Nixon and Elvis
Gizmodo - 8 Jan 2015 23:40
What do you suppose the most requested photo from the U.S. National Archives might be? Troops raising the American flag on Iwo Jima? That sailor kissing a random woman at the end of WWII? Nope. It's Richard Nixon shaking...
Canon Powershot SX610, SX710, & SX530 hands-on
Slash Gear - 8 Jan 2015 23:39
Here at CES 2015, we got our hands on Canon's newest Powershot point-and-shoot cameras. their SX610 offers an 18x optical zoom via the 25-450mm lens, while the SX710 gets even more detailed with a 30x zoom from a 25-750m...
Lowe's Innovation Labs redefine retail with robots and VR
Engadget - 8 Jan 2015 23:31
It's weird to think that a humble DIY store is making groundbreaking strides to innovate retail stores, but that's what Lowe's Innovation Labs was set up to do. The company unveiled two pretty neat concepts for the futur...
The Big Picture: This is not the Apple Watch
Engadget - 8 Jan 2015 23:15
This is not the Apple Watch and it isn't launching in early 2015. ...
LG puts WebOS on a smartwatch, set to launch in 2016
Ars Technica - 8 Jan 2015 23:10
Far handsomer take on LG's G Watch R model currently has no name, release date.
Canon PowerShot ELPH 160, 170 IS hands-on: point and shoot simplicity
Slash Gear - 8 Jan 2015 23:00
Earlier this week Canon rolled out the red carpet for its new line of PowerShot cameras, and two among them are the tiny point-and-shoot ELPH 160 and 170 IS compacts we recently went hands-on with here at CES 2015. Those...