Household Tech Category - Page 3

Motorola KORE Will Not Be A Tablet [Motorola KORE Revealed As Fitness Gadget, Not The Next Line Of Motorola Tablets]

By on Thursday, 11. August 2011

Motorola bought a domain and the web began to speculate. You remember, this event took place just a few days back when domain names such as motokore.com and motorolakore.com were discovered to have been registered.

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Scosche Releases The myTREK Wireless Pulse Monitor [Scosche myTREK Pulse Monitor Tracks Your Pulse Wirelessly, Controls Your Music, Is Worn On The Wrist & Has Its Own iPhone App]

By on Tuesday, 9. August 2011

Scosche has officially announced their latest iPhone related accessory, and this one comes as one that should be nice for those who like to keep up with their health and don’t mind using their phone to assist. The gadget is the Scosche myTREK Wireless Pulse Monitor.

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3D Hurts Your Eyes & Brain, Says Small UC Berkeley Study [University of California-Berkeley's Small Study Says 3D Has Damaging Effects On Eyes & Brain Alike]

By on Friday, 22. July 2011

A study recently released from the University of California at Berkeley says that 3D can, in fact, be harmful to your eyes and to your brain alike. The details of the study, however, leave something to be desired.

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Willow Garage’s PR2 Robot Finds New Success Shaving Quadriplegics [The Willow Garage PR2 Robot Learns A New Task Of Huge Benefit To Society]

By on Thursday, 14. July 2011

It’s been almost a year–ten months, roughly–since we last heard anything out of the Willow Garage PR2 robot, and man, do we have an update for you! Turns out the PR2 has discovered a purpose that’s of huge value to society: shaving quadriplegics.

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Jawbone Unveils The “UP” Fitness Wristband, Aims To Help You Live A Healthier Life [Jawbone Makes A Further Break From Bluetooth Headsets, Introduces The "UP" Wristband]

By on Thursday, 14. July 2011

Jawbone has long been trusted as a company that offers quality Bluetooth headsets, and while we recently saw them venture out from under that umbrella with the Jambox — it looks like they have yet another non-Bluetooth headset product in the works.

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Oxford Researchers Develop Glasses With Cameras To Augment Poor Eyesight [Oxford-Developed Glasses Use Cameras To Capture Far Away Images, Display Them On Glasses As Near]

By on Wednesday, 6. July 2011

Speaking here as someone who is incredibly nearsighted (seriously, get me without my glasses and the world from about three feet out turns into a series of ill-defined pastel smears), reading something like this is downright heartwarming. We’ve heard about bionic eyes before, but now we’ve got a step up [...]

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MIT’s Catra System Detects Cataracts With A Smartphone [Catra Add-On System For Smartphones Uses Smartphone Camera To Catch Early Stage Cataracts]

By on Tuesday, 5. July 2011

You might think that diagnosing and stopping cataracts in their early stages would be a difficult and expensive process requiring huge amounts of equipment and training. And up until now, you would have been right. But that’s something the folks out at MIT are working to prevent, and they’ve got [...]

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Google Maps Powered Pro-Form Bike Trainer Becomes “Official” Tour De France Trainer [Ride The Tour De France In The Comfort Of Your Home Courtesy Of The Google Maps Powered iFit Live Equipped Bike Trainer]

By on Tuesday, 5. July 2011

Seeing an officially branded product does not offer much in terms of surprise these days, after all, there is an ‘official’ product for just about every event. That being said, it looks like the Tour De France has an official indoor bike trainer and it comes courtesy of Pro-Form and [...]

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WakeMate Wristband Pairs With Your Smartphone, Promises To Wake You At Your Ideal Wake Time [Sleeping With Your Smartphone & Willing To Hack Your Sleep Cycle A Bit, Try The WakeMate For The Ideal Wake Up Time]

By on Wednesday, 29. June 2011

Forget the studies that tell you sleeping with a smartphone, or grabbing one first thing in the morning is not the ideal way to get a good night sleep. Instead, a new product called the WakeMate is encouraging you to sleep with your phone close by, which is paired with [...]

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Jitterbug Creators Announce MedCoach iPhone App With “Shake For Help” [MedCoach iPhone App Comes Available, Acts As A Medication Reminder & Features 24/7 Access to Live Personal Assistance]

By on Tuesday, 28. June 2011

While it can be a good phone for the right person, the name Jitterbug often seems to be mentioned in jest. And without going all that far into detail as to the comments that I have heard, the creators of the Jitterbug have recently announced (and released) an iPhone app. [...]

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