Tag: electronics
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Electronic devices now usable at all times in flights after new FAA ruling
After a long and careful consideration, the use of personal electronics in flight has been allowed at all times… at last!
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Consumers now more brand loyal to Samsung than Apple for the first time
Amazon also leapfrogs Apple
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Eugene Polley – Creator of the Earliest TV Remote Control Passes Away
In a modern digital age of ever-growing and ever-changing tech, we’ll soon be controlling our television viewing with motion control gadgets like Microsoft Kinect and voice assistant software like Samsung’s S Voice. It’s easy to take for granted the devices that paved the way these futuristic concepts. And today we are reminded of the humble […]
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Medical Tattoo Could Monitor Heart Rate & Brain Signals via Epidermal Electronics
Some find them unsightly and grotesque, while others find them an art form, but whichever way you look at them a tattoo might help save your life one day – or so believes Dr John Rogers of the University of Illinois who gave his opinions on “epidermal electronics” to the American Chemical Society board at […]
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Medical Tattoo Could Monitor Heart Rate & Brain Signals via Epidermal Electronics
Some find them unsightly and grotesque, while others find them an art form, but whichever way you look at them a tattoo might help save your life one day – or so believes Dr John Rogers of the University of Illinois who gave his opinions on “epidermal electronics” to the American Chemical Society board at […]
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NYC Toy Fair: SketRobo & DiscoRobo – Bieber’s Bot Buddies Recognised with Tech Awards
The New York Toy Fair is now over, delivering a whole host of licensed movie and TV cash-ins to make parents everywhere nervously anticipate the new wave of summer blockbuster fads, must-own action figures, gadgets and games set to empty wallets with a relentless fury. If, on the other hand, you have no kids and are like […]
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NYC Toy Fair: SketRobo & DiscoRobo – Bieber’s Bot Buddies Recognised with Tech Awards
The New York Toy Fair is now over, delivering a whole host of licensed movie and TV cash-ins to make parents everywhere nervously anticipate the new wave of summer blockbuster fads, must-own action figures, gadgets and games set to empty wallets with a relentless fury. If, on the other hand, you have no kids and are like […]
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Xbox 720 to Include Wii U Style HD Touchscreen Controller?
At present Microsoft, like Sony, deny any rumour that its next console will be ready for an E3 convention launch this June but that hasn’t slowed any of the speculation surrounding the gaming gadget, which at present is known as the Xbox 720. We do known, however, that Nintendo will be at the Electronics and […]
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Only in Taiwan! Fake Steve Jobs Sells Android “Action Pad” Tablet in Advert
While the Japanese have been channelling the late great tech pioneer and Apple CEO Steve Jobs through supernatural methods, southerly neighbour Taiwan meanwhile has been using a winged and haloed Steve Jobs-a-like to advertise a cheap rival Android tablet called the Action Pad. In the promo clip Taiwanese comedian Ah-Ken portrays a mock-Steve who appears […]
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Intel-Powered LG Smartphone Expected To Be Unveiled At CES
Intel is planning its first foray into the smartphone business with LG and is expected to show off the world’s first Intel-powered handset at January’s CES. The Korean Times has spoken to sources from both LG and Intel and are tipping CES as the place for the handset to be shown to the world for […]
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Only in Japan! – Cyberdyne builds cybernetic legs called HAL
Heralding the Rise of the Machines, a company in Japan working with Intel have unveiled a set of cybernetic legs, which link to a human nervous system to aide those who need a bit of support when walking. A great idea, I’m sure you’ll agree. But that’s how it always starts out. And check out […]
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Tesco home and electrical goods now available through Facebook
UK grocery / home wares / electronics shop Tesco has integrated its catalogue shopping service into social network Facebook. Heralding the arrival of a new ‘Autumn / Winter’ range, boasting ‘8000 new lines added’ and ‘1000 prices cut’, Tesco bring ‘big brand’ tech names such as Sony, Dyson, Hewlett-Packard and Panasonic as well as furniture, […]