As far as we’re aware, Cisco’s umi 1080 telepresence system hasn’t exactly taken the video calling world by storm – the company itself says that, since the set-top camera went on sale in October 2010, “thousands of people” have used it – but perhaps a price...
Sony only announced the VAIO S Series late last month, but the company has already thrown the 13.3-inch ultraportables up for pre-order. Priced from $874.99, the big sales point of the S Series is the runtime: up to 15hrs if you pair the notebook with the optional $150 “slice” battery.
Skype is just blowing up. It’s easily the most popular VoIP service on the market today, and it’s trickling out to products that Skype founders probably never assumed it would from the get-go.
Skype is just blowing up. It's easily the most popular VoIP service on the market today, and it's trickling out to products that Skype founders probably never assumed it would from the get-go.
My own portable grill is pretty low-tech: an ancient turkey-roasting tin and a discarded oven-shelf. That, combined with a bag of charcoal, has seen me through countless picnics and on-balcony rilling sessions.
Angry Birds has become one of the most popular mobile games, it has been massively popular on Apple’s iOS devices and also Google’s Android platform.It was also recently made available for both Mac’s and PCs and Rovio intends to launch Angry Birds on a range of game consoles, and...
Aside from being the only crush-proof camera available, the latest Olympus TOUGH TG-810 also brags of some excellent high-end features. Not only does it hold a record-breaking resistance to up to 100 kg of anything thrown at it, it is waterproof up to a depth of 10 meters too.
Samsung has announced a new Android smartphone, the Samsung Galaxy Pro, and while we’ve grown used to seeing the company’s near-endless variants on the Galaxy S family, the Pro dips a toe in as a QWERTY candybar.
Netronix, known for his collaboration with the Pocketbook in the production of electronic books, thinking about the release of Tablet PCs. A prototype of the product was shown at a recent trade show in Hanover, CeBIT.
This isn’t the first time we’ve featured Star Wars bookends whose rich detail is a feast for the eyes. (In fact, it’s our third–go here and here for the previous posts.)
Robots with beards; truly, we are wading through the future. Geminoid-DK is the handiwork of Japanese firm Kokoro and robotics professor Hiroshi Ishiguro, designed to look exactly like similarly-bearded Associate Professor Henrik Scharfe of Aalborg University in Denmark.
After concerns that rooting the Motorola XOOM would leave owners of the tablet ineligible for Verizon’s 4G LTE upgrade later in the year, the manufacturer has stepped in to reassure would-be buyers that they can hack their toys and still get high-speed access.
The Samsung 950 Series 3D LED display is now available in the South Korean market. Available in two different versions with the asymmetric 9 Series (27TA950) and 7 Series (27TA750), these 27-inch 3D LED displays adopt the Samsung Ultra Clear Panel technology, Samsung TV Apps and Smart Hub, as well...
If you weren’t born with Adonis DNA and don’t have tiger blood coursing through your veins, you may feel like you aren’t special. It is even less likely that you feel you are a total bithin’ rock star from Mars. Don’t let defeat be an option.
Just for the sake of completeness, we felt it important to mention that Puget Systems -- one of the smaller system builders out there -- is also shipping corrected Sandy Bridge PCs now. At this point, we'd be surprised if your favorite PC maker wasn't shipping the new kit.
Andy Warhol once said “Why do people think artists are special? It’s just another job.” Spanish artist Daniel Canogar made his artwork special by displaying it on a BLIP P37 display (37m LED sculpture) that used PixelBus technology.
The majority of new smartphones that Sony Ericsson have been releasing have been Google Android devices, the company has confirmed that it will be releasing a number of Android devices this year.Now it looks like Sony will also be releasing Windows Phone 7 smartphones in 2011, as you can see in the...
In the past week there were many popular posts here on GeekAlerts. There were some unique curiosities such as the applause machine and instant inflatable window.
Harvard Medical School has developed a medical health care device which can detect cancer in less than an hour by taking a very small tissue sample of the patient. The presently available cancer diagnosing devices take more than 10 days and many tissue samples for detecting the tumor.
The SuperTooth BUDDY is a perfect companion for making phone calls receiving incoming calls while we are on the road. The gadget provides a safe ways to stay connected with your friends and family. The SuperTooth BUDDY adopts the Bluetooth 2.1 technology to pair with your phone automatically.
Apple has launched the Apogee Jam Guitar Input that allows you to turn your iPad into different kind of music instrument. The device allows you to plug your guitar directly into your iPad, iPhone, iPod touch, or Mac and experience studio quality sound with incredible ease of use.
Nope, what you see below wasn’t printed straight from someone’s PC desktop. But it’s a trash can, alright. A capable receptacle of trash and potential home for a friendly neighborhood Oscar the Grouch. It’s an ambitious DIY project by BrittLiv from Instructables.