TiVo is releasing a model with 24TB of storage, enough to record between 4,000 and 26,000 hours of TV. At $5,000, it’s clearly going be a niche product. In effect, the TiVo Mega is an ordinary TiVo but instead of an ordinary hard drive it has a rack-mountable 24 terabyte Raid 5 HDD setup. The […]
Brilliant idea, isn’t it? The flux capacitor USB car charger from Thinkgeek was first an April Fool’s gag, but after seeing the huge popularity the product had, the company took it upon themselves to make it a reality! Each Flux Capacitor Car Charger has two USB ports, each capable of charging almost any USB powered […]
Dyson is launching its own take on robotic vacuum cleaners. It seems it will add greater power and some technical features to the set-up familiar from models like the Roomba, though it sounds like it might be overkill. According to Dyson, the Dyson 360 Eye has been in development for 16 years, with a planned […]
Intel has produced a 3G modem only a little bigger than a one-cent coin. It’s targeting the connected devices market, otherwise known as “the Internet of Things.” The 6255 has a total area of around 300 square millimeters, with Intel billing it as the world’s smallest modem. It’s based around what Intel calls “Power Transceiver”, […]
A four-year old girl learns a tough lesson about the temporary nature of digital technology. (And the Internet gets a tough reminder of the meanness of YouTube commenters.) 22 Words explains: As 4-year-old Cadence was playing with a little camera for her and her brothers, she pushed just the right sequence of buttons to delete […]
There are two main questions here, depending on your viewpoint. 1) If it’s fake, how did they produce it? 2) If it’s real, how did they get it past BBC compliance officers and insurers? [YouTube]
A Kickstarter project is aiming to develop a pen that can scan any colored surface and replicate it in ink or on screen. Both versions of the Scribble pen contain an RGB color scanner that can detect a color in two seconds or less. It will then store the details, with a capacity of up […]
If you’ve done yoga at home from an instructional video, you’ll know it’s sometimes hard to be sure you’ve got the positioning and balance correct — particularly in positions where your head is pointed away from the screen. Devices like the Wii Fit balance board can help somewhat, but they are too small to cover […]
For some campers, getting away from it all means a break for electronic gadgets like smartphones. For others there’s Kettlecharge, a device you simply fill with water, heat over your campfire or stove for 15 minutes, and use to provide a 10W charge. The Thermoelectric Generator [TEG], located on the base of the KettleCharge, uses […]
A proposed $99 gadget to help improve sleep quality has attracted $1 million of Kickstarter funding in just five days. The gadget, titled Sense, is an orb that sits on a nightstand and measures light, temperature, humidity, particulates and sound conditions. It hooks up wirelessly with a sleep tracking sensor that includes a six-axis accelerometer […]