Personal Devices Category - Page 14

I love Thanko. I really do. They’ll hook most anything on Earth up to a USB cable and make it do something once you plug it into your computer. This time, they’re going to offer you something really great–a seat-cooling cushion. And lest anyone think I’m stooping to crude language [...]

The idea of putting androids on the battlefield is not a new one–science fiction writers have been handling that idea for decades–but the idea of putting Android on the battlefield is. Apparently, there’s some word making the rounds that Raytheon is actually in the process of developing an Android-driven smartphone [...]

Hitachi will be turning 100 and as part of their Centenary, they are offering a pedometer-like device with the Life Microscope. This device is placed on the wrist of a person and records all movements a person would make.

It’s always hard, in these days of bad economic news everywhere you look, to talk about price hikes because they hit us right in the wallet, but considering it’s Foxconn that’s talking about them this time, it’s at the very least begrudgingly bearable.

I’ll spare you all the obvious puns about jailbreaking iPhones (it’s a shame, too, because they really fit here) and give you the straightest news about cell phones–they’ll soon be illegal for prisoners again.

Most of us these days are pretty used to carrying around a little flash drive with us–you never know when you’ll need that data and be near a computer with a USB port to use it, especially if you’re carrying your computer around with you anyway. And thanks to the [...]

We all know that using media these days falls under an absolute crazy quilt of arcane laws so tortuous and difficult to follow that, at pretty much any time, chances are you’re doing something technically illegal with your media. Thus, the Digital Entertainment Content Ecosystem was born to help people [...]

It was almost two weeks ago exactly that I told you about the RedEye Mini, the tiny little plug-in device that lets you turn your iPad, iPhone or iPod Touch into a remote control of unprecedented power and capability. And now, I’ve got some new information for you–it’s out!

There have been a lot of eReaders emerging into the markets of late, and it’s not surprising. With ebook sales overtaking hardbound books, it’s scarcely hard to believe that as many electronics companies as possible would be getting into the fray. Gemei joins the steadily growing herd with its GM2000.

Okay, so it was only just a couple weeks ago where I told you that a homebrew kernel managed to get a Palm Pre to clear a full gigahertz in speed, but it seems a new speed record competitor has just managed to make that look sick. The new kernel [...]