Household Tech Category - Page 4

Earlier this month Samsung sent out a little bit of a teaser saying how they were going to be unveiling their “Refrigerator With Apps” this month, and well, that time has come and the Samsung LCD-equipped refrigerator is officially available for sale.

Samsung has gotten me do some a few things that I never thought would happen. The first, I am about to write about a refrigerator. And the second, which is likely more surprising, they have me wanting to purchase a new refrigerator.

The X-Prize is a pretty big deal in tech circles–you might well have seen them try to get a commercial rocket flight off the ground previously–but now, they’re going where no prize has gone before. Okay, okay, so that was a little on the nose of me, but that’s exactly [...]

Google is setting its sights on getting Android into each and every home, with an initiative called Android @ Home. Wait a minute. Haven’t we heard this before? Microsoft once said they will bring a computer into every home, but this is just so much different.

Remember when I said Panasonic was going to focus a little harder on their health care side of the industry? When they were looking to get out of the handheld gaming market and abandoned the Jungle, right. Well, turns out that wasn’t just excuses, because they’ve already started putting up [...]

It’s always interesting when a company decides to go with a sudden alteration of the scope of its products’ capabilities–almost like watching someone turn a fillet knife into the Pocket Fisherman. And that’s exactly what we’re dealing with today with the announcement that ThinkFlood has upgraded its RedEye Mini Dongle [...]

The first time I read this, I was convinced it was some kind of hoax, but if it is, it may well be one of the most elaborate ones ever released onto mankind. Researchers at the University of Utah are reporting that lasers may make deaf people able to hear.

The Japan disaster has resulted in various IT-related difficulties, but it’s not just causing dwindling supplies and components. Clocks in Japan are currently out of sync. Image

The Nintendo 3DS has been criticized as potentially leading to eye strain and fatigue. Eye doctors suggest, though, that playing naked-eye 3D games can actually help diagnose certain eye problems.

The March 11 earthquake off the Pacific coast of Japan did not just cause a tsunami and nuclear incident. It also resulted in shorter days for the Earth.