Archive for January, 2010 - Page 56

HP’s CES plans have been spoiled early. Reports and pictures for some 14 new HP models have hit the internet, ranging from lowly netbooks to the high-end gaming machines. HP certainly is going to have a lot of nice offerings in 2010. Although we don’t have formal, full specs for [...]

The US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has launched Distraction.gov, a website that teaches you about the dangers of using your electronic gadgets while driving a car. The site is chock full of stats about the dangers of texting while driving, and legal warnings.

The great young minds at the University of Michigan have unveiled the OmniTrack series of robots. The two robots, the OT-4 and OT-8 are snake-like rescue robots are that designed to crawl through rubble and rough terrain to search for injured people. Each of it’s “segments” is covered with treads [...]

When does a smartphone go from being a smartphone to a netbook that can make calls? The BPhone, a new gadget out of China, certainly blurs these lines for us tech enthusiasts. The new “BPhone” looks a lot like a small netbook or Ultra portable PC, but instead, actually can [...]

The SmartQ V5 MID, originally announced sometime ago as the SmartV 5 has made its grand debut in China. It’s the lower-end counterpart to the SmartQ V7 MID. If you’re in the market for a MID, it’s not a bad device.

Tablets will be the hot item this year at CES, with an ‘iSlate’ impending from the 800-pound gorilla Apple, and all the controversy over the CrunchPad JooJoo. A report hitting the internet reports that HTC has prepared a tablet running Android, and the tablet will be privately shown off to [...]