Gadgets, Tech News, Reviews and More!
Smartfish has unveiled the Engage keyboard, a gadget designed to prevent stress in the wrists and hands that results from repetitive motion. The keyboard monitors your productivity, and when it senses that you’ve been in the same position for too long, it makes gentle adjustments to your hand positions. The initial shape will look familiar [...]
Samsung took the stage at CES to demonstrate their Sliding PC 7 Series convertible tablet, answering the call of would-be tablet buyers for a functional keyboard. In its simplest state, Samsung’s first sliding PC looks much like a normal tablet and is equipped with multitouch (up to ten fingers). If more heavy-duty typing is called [...]
Musicians found out a long time ago that they can make a living creating music on things that aren’t necessarily musical instruments, and it seems that the Gorillaz are no different: their entire new release, The Fall, was made entirely on iPad. You can download the album in its entirety on thefall.gorillaz.com, where they give [...]
In true keeping with the holiday spirit of giving, eFX Inc. and the 501st TK Project are auctioning off a serious Star Wars collectible in order to make some very deserving kids’ dreams come true. This stormtrooper helmet is being sold in an eBay auction that started December 14th and will be available until just [...]
If the New York Philharmonic isn’t your idea of easy listening, perhaps you’d appreciate something a little more electronic and avant garde. Meet the UDAR, a MIDI output instrument invented by Michinobu Uda. Each side of the device is wrapped with a coil of keys, where the tones are in descending order from the outside [...]
Researchers at the University of British Columbia have been hard at work designing a neat little device called the pCubee, a perspective-corrected handheld display that uses several screens to create an illusion of a three-dimensional scene. When the viewer rotates the pCubee, the image on the screen changes in conjunction with the scenes on adjacent [...]
I’m a huge fan of any search engine that gives me options. For travel, I use a Travelzoo supersearch, which checks nine different travel sites at once (Orbitz, Travelocity, Priceline and so on) so I’m sure I’m getting a good deal. SeatQuest is promising to deliver the same type of service for show tickets. The [...]
If you have a portable computer with a Synaptics TouchPad, the company has released a free download called SYNAPTICS | Scrybe that adds some new gesture-based navigational goodies. Scrybe works like an extension to the Synaptics Gesture Suite that added features like two-finger scrolling, pinch zoom and two-finger rotate to Synaptics TouchPads. With the new [...]
Last night, Boxee and D-Link unveiled the Boxee Box with Boxee 1.0 at Irving Plaza in New York, and buyers are bound to be happy with some of the new features. Let’s get the important stuff out of the way first: they’ve announced that both Netflix and Hulu plus are coming soon to the box! [...]
As more and more airlines are beginning to offer onboard Wi-Fi, recent bomb scares have caused some to wonder whether or not the features would be worth the risks they pose to passenger security. A few days ago, authorities intercepted packages on flights bound for the United States that contained an explosive powder. The powder [...]
The science behind mind-reading has seen some advances in recent years, but it looks like we’ll soon be able to tell exactly what a person is thinking simply by monitoring brain activity. Scientists attempting to locate the origin of seizures in an epilepsy study have found a way to connect images on a computer screen [...]
Barnes & Noble sent out a press invite for a special event this week that’s started a lot of buzz, and most speculators are hedging their bets on a new touchscreen color iteration of their Nook ereader. What gave them away? Well, for one thing, they mistakenly posted a page where customers could purchase film [...]
