Household Tech Category - Page 7

Phillips uWand Can Operate Television Like A Wii [Phillips uWand Acts Much Like A Wii Remote]

By on Monday, 10. January 2011

Perhaps we should have known it was only a matter of time before the technology that revolutionized video game consoles would be applied to other tech sectors. Phillips has announced something called a uWand that will be used on Phillips televisions in the very near future. This device will operate [...]

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Samsung BabyView System Will Allow High Parents Piece Of Mind As Well As Entertainment [BabyView System From Samsung Takes Baby Monitoring Into The 21st Century]

By on Monday, 10. January 2011

Hidden among all the massive advancements in entertainment technology that were trotted out during CES were some new devices and technology to help the average person get through their day. One such new device is Samsung’s BabyView Infant Video Monitors.

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CES 2011: Qualcomm, Powermat, Duracell Forming Wireless Charging Team [Qualcomm, Powermat, Duracell Unite For Wireless Charging Research]

By on Saturday, 8. January 2011

There comes a time when your sandbox isn’t big enough anymore and you start pestering your parents about taking you to the park to play with some of the other kids. And that day has come for three of the leading companies researching wireless charging of consumer electronics, who have [...]

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CES 2011: eCoupled Brings Wireless Charging To Electric Cars [Like A Powermat For Your Electric Car, eCoupled Lets You Take The Wires Out Of Charging An Electric Car]

By on Friday, 7. January 2011

You’ve all no doubt seen the various wireless chargers out there; the Powermats and those like them that allow you to simply set your phone or similar device down on a pad and allow it to charge without having to hook a cord to it. The folks out at Fulton [...]

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CES 2011: Cyberdyne Shows Off the Challenge HAL System [Cyberdyne’s Hybrid Assistive Limb Makes An Appearance At CES 2011

By on Friday, 7. January 2011

I genuinely did not think I’d see a robot story out of CES 2011. I knew this CES was all about the tablets and smartphones and equally smart televisions, but the folks out at Cyberdyne (no seriously, that’s their name) brought out the Challenge HAL (here, HAL stands for Hybrid [...]

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CES 2011: Enspert IDENTITY S200 Android Media Hub Previewed [Enspert S200 Home Network Hub Lets You Share, Manage & Present Multimedia Across Your Home Network]

By on Friday, 7. January 2011

Android is certainly a flexible platform, appearing on mobile phones, tablets, and now on embedded devices. The Enspert IDENTITY S200, previewed at CES, lets users manage and control media from various devices in one’s home network.

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Report: TV Sales Improved But Buyers Are Still Waiting On Perfect 3DTV [Television Sales Increased, Consumers Still Waiting On 3DTV]

By on Thursday, 6. January 2011

While one research firm is reporting that television sales jumped almost 17 percent from the same time period in 2009, the firm is also quick to point out that for the most part, the 3DTV is seeing lagging numbers as consumers wait to see whether it is worth its high [...]

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Ziiiro Minimalist Watch Does Not Have Hands & Markings [Minimalist Ziiiro Wristwatch Uses Swirls to Indicate Time]

By on Wednesday, 5. January 2011

The Ziiiro watch does not have hands, markings or any other thing that can distract the user. It simply has two swirls that help indicate the time. The inner swirl represents the hour. The outer swirl represents the minutes.

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CES 2011: TFTS CES 2011 LIVE Coverage is Now Active [TFTS CES 2011 Live Blogging has Commenced as we Bring You On The Spot News Coverage]

By on Wednesday, 5. January 2011

As you will have seen already, we are offering extremely extensive coverage of CES 2011 on TFTS – see here for a full listing of news so far which is being added to by the minute (the writing team is positively on fire) – and now we have the utmost [...]

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iRobot’s Scooba 230 Is World’s Smallest Floor Cleaning Robot [iRobot’s Scooba 230 Small Enough To Handle Bathroom Floor Cleaning]

By on Tuesday, 4. January 2011

Yesterday we here at TFTS brought you news about a new kind of hardwood cleaner that uses something resembling GPS, today we’re bringing you news about the world’s newest and smallest floor cleaning robot. iRobot has announced that they are set to launch the Scooba 230 which will take care [...]

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