Household Tech Category - Page 5

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]

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 [...]