Gadget News
Classic Hoerboard - Pro Audio & DJ Furniture
The Gadget Flow - 14 Jul 2015 17:00
The Hoerboard Classic is a high class customized DJ stand. All your turntables, CDJs and mixers will fit perfectly into the great-looking DJ workstation. The power cables are invisibly integrated into the corpus. All aud...
Lumenati CS1 turns iPhone 6 into an old school video camera
Slash Gear - 14 Jul 2015 16:30
Anyone who was around back in the 70s or 80s will remember how big and bulky video cameras were back then. Today most video recording is done on smartphones with solid-state storage inside or memory cards. In the past, y...
New Horizons proves Pluto is larger than we thought
Slash Gear - 14 Jul 2015 12:30
The problem with deducing composition and sizes through a telescope is that you won't really know how accurate or far off your models are until you get a first-hand, or even a second-hand close up. For decades, almost a ...
How to join NASA's festivities as New Horizons flies by Pluto
Engadget - 14 Jul 2015 09:45
In a few hours, at 7:49 AM Eastern time, the New Horizons probe will fly 7,750 miles above the surface of Pluto, something no other spacecraft has accomplished before. Unfortunately, we can't fly with the probe as it swo...
Apple Pay goes live in the UK: Here's how to use it
Engadget - 14 Jul 2015 08:40
It's been a while coming, but Apple Pay is now live in the UK. If you own an iPhone 6, 6 Plus, or an Apple Watch connected to an older iPhone, you now have the option of paying for purchases without cards or cash. But ho...
Canadian company is developing a 'breathalyzer for pot'
Engadget - 14 Jul 2015 07:48
With cannabis now legal in some form or another in nearly half of the US, states and private companies alike are scrambling for a means of adapting DUI legislation to weed. To that end, Vancouver-based Cannabix Technolog...
Bright Grill is a smart grill for your summer cookouts
Slash Gear - 15 Jul 2015 01:51
Summer means cookouts, and for some cookouts mean charred food. Those without a knack for cooking will likely find smart grills to be a godsend -- they're equipped with various bits of technology that monitor the food as...
Reddit to host AMA about its policy on offensive posts
Engadget - 15 Jul 2015 01:43
Reddit has been a bit of a mess lately. With the firing of a popular employee Victoria Taylor, unpaid moderators shutting down subreddits, and interim CEO Ellen Pao "leaving" and being replaced by co-founder Steve Huffma...
Chris Pratt brings Jurassic World LEGO on world tour
Slash Gear - 15 Jul 2015 01:31
Chris Pratt brings LEGO minifigure version of his Jurassic Park character Owen with on a world PR tour for the film. In true "I have to travel by myself so I'm bringing toys" fashion, actor Chris Pratt has brought his LE...
Google Drive update adds disable feature to sharing
Slash Gear - 15 Jul 2015 01:10
Google Drive has been updated with additional features that give users optional control over how shared content is used by the recipient. In particular, the update introduces an option that disables one's ability to prin...
Vtin - Bluetooth 4.0 Shower Speaker
The Gadget Flow - 15 Jul 2015 01:00
Coming with 8 hours of playtime and a waterproof design, the Vtin Bluetooth 4.0 Shower Speaker will keep you entertained during your shower times. The suction cup will help in attaching this speaker to smooth walls. Be i...
Google's Eddystone serves up location-based info via Bluetooth beacons
Engadget - 15 Jul 2015 00:59
Using low-energy Bluetooth beacons to serve up location-based info to customers isn't a new development. We've seen more than a few implementations of Apple's iBeacon tech. Google has a new project that employs a similar...
Television Academy replaces DVDs with Chromecasts for Emmy voting
Engadget - 15 Jul 2015 00:55
Emmy voters won't have to worry about keeping up with the remote for their DVD players for much longer. The Television Academy is teaming up with Google to replace the truckload of physical media sent out each year by gi...
Large Hadron Collider experiment finds new class of particles
Slash Gear - 15 Jul 2015 00:20
The Large Hadron Collider team has announced the discovery of a new class of particles called pentaquark. A paper detailing the discovery has been submitted to the journal of Physical Review Letters. The finding was made...
Wi-Fi Aware: your router knows you're near
Slash Gear - 15 Jul 2015 00:20
The Wi-Fi Alliance reveals their next Wi-Fi CERTIFIED service - Wi-Fi Aware. This certification program from the Wi-Fi Alliance is for a technology that works with your smartphone's built-in Wi-Fi sensing capabilities, a...
ZTE thinks its Axon is the unlocked flagship America deserves
Engadget - 15 Jul 2015 00:08
"It's designed in the US, for the US." That's not the sort of bluster you'd normally hear from Lixin Cheng, CEO of ZTE's American division, but he proffered it several times during a pre-show pow-wow to make sure it stuc...
Comcast tests streaming games to your cable box
Engadget - 15 Jul 2015 00:02
Not happy with simply launching its Stream video service this week, Comcast announced the start of a beta test for Xfinity Games. A partnership with Electronic Arts (confirming Reuters rumor from last year), it's not goi...
ProxyHam anonymity project bizarrely destroyed sans explanation
Slash Gear - 14 Jul 2015 23:46
Staying private on the Internet has become a big concern for many and a problem for certain government agencies. The Edward Snowden leaks revealed a trove of data on government spying, and since then companies have moved...
Google's hidden data reveals details of 'right to be forgotten' requests
Engadget - 14 Jul 2015 23:41
The Internet is unforgiving. Web search engines like Google neatly index the most embarrassing moments, traumatic histories and criminal activities. In May last year, the European Court of Justice asked the web giant to ...
Aumi - Are you afraid of the dark?
Coolest Gadgets - 14 Jul 2015 23:30
The dark. It is the enemy of child and fully-grown human alike--children are afraid of what they don't know, and after too many horror movies, adults can't help but feel uneasy at what they now know is lurking in literal...
PlayStation Now is a tech miracle, but it's no Netflix for games
Engadget - 14 Jul 2015 23:20
Sony wants you to want PS Now, its Netflix-like game-streaming service. The problem is, the company doesn't seem to know how to build that desire. Though the recent app relaunch has seen the service's user interface impr...
'Metal Gear' creator's name deleted from 'Phantom Pain' box
Engadget - 14 Jul 2015 23:02
Hideo Kojima revolutionized the stealth video game genre in 1987 with the release of the original Metal Gear, published by Konami. Under Kojima's leadership, the Metal Gear franchise exploded in popularity, and it gained...