An extremely preliminary rumor suggest Apple may be planning a low-price iPad in response to Amazon getting into the tablet business. The rumor, reported at Apple Insider, stems from a financial analyst, who in turn says his sources are component suppliers in the Far East. According to Brian White, Apple may be planning a dual […]
Tuesday, the T3 Gadget Awards 2011 named the Galaxy S II “Phone of the Year” — the first time in 3 years the award hasn’t gone to Apple or HTC. Today, T-Mobile is releasing their version of the GSII, which is already available on Sprint and AT&T. The T-Mobile GSII is the final version to launch in […]
Sony Europe has launched a webseries apparently intended to celebrate geek culture along with Sony gadgets. Because, you know, geeks like gadgets. They also can’t talk to girls, and probably wear pocket protectors. So if this is what we know about geeks, and we also know about girls, I wonder what geeky girls are like. […]
Here is the official announcement video for Apple’s new iPhone 4S, which was announced yesterday. Unfortunately, the phone itself looks exactly the same as the old iPhone 4, but the inside has been completely revamped, featuring new and more powerful specs. Check it out: The new iPhone will be available in stores on Oct 14th. […]
A Danish company has created a cellphone that it believes will last virtually forever. While in theory the Æ+Y handset could save money as you’ll never need to upgrade, that’s not the case in reality. That’s because it costs €6,000 or roughly US$8,000. And if you’re wondering whether such a handset would become obsolete as […]
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When it’s a land-based hovercraft, of course! Princeton PhD student Noah Jafferis had originally planned to carry out his study project on the technology of printing electronic circuits. However, he changed his mind after reading a 2007 paper on the “Settling and Swimming of Flexible Fluid-Lubricated Foils” that, in the words of its authors, allowed […]
We all knew Amazon would be launching a new device today. In fact it’s launched two, cut existing prices, and very firmly told Apple that it’s game on. The expected release, the Amazon tablet, is to be named the Fire. It’s already on pre-order for $199. It’s an iPad style 7 inch only color touchscreen […]
Our initial design explorations yielded futuristic printer concepts such a “printing home hub,” a “Roomba printing device,” and other concepts that are 5-10 years out; but in the end we chose to focus our design work on a solution that that is near-term and breathes new life into this humble “peripheral” by radically simplifying it. […]
In the following video, Sriram Peruvemba, vice president of marketing at Eink, explains how the technology behind E-Ink displays actually work. He then goes on to talk about future developments in the technology. Check it out: [Via]