Portable Technology Category - Page 5

I love Swiss Army knives. No alloy or mincing words here, I just plain old love them. I love any device that does more than one thing and does it well. I love a device that will let me scale and gut a fish and then start a fire on [...]

If you’re like me, you’re a big reader. And since you’re here reading this, right now, in good old fashioned text, it’s safe to say that you’ve probably got a few dozen stacks of good old fashioned analog books on a shelf somewhere in your house, room, or otherwise. But [...]

Trouble afoot for gamers looking to partake of the Nintendo 3DS may well want to know that there’s a growing amount of word that suggests that the 3D portable will be “locked by region”, which means you’ll only be able to play those games released for your particular area.

It wasn’t so long ago we were talking about the battery life on the Nintendo 3DS as being substantially lower than the earlier version. But new word suggests that the problem is worse than previously thought. The new specifics say that the Nintendo 3DS’s battery may only have between three [...]

One of the first real GPS type crash alert and emergency aid for vehicles will no longer be limited to one brand of car. OnStar has been a staple of General Motors vehicles since 1996 but the company is finally going to be offering it to anyone who wishes to [...]

Whilst we have, as regular readers will know, offered very extensive coverage of events such as CES previously on TFTS this year we are especially pleased to be in a position to offer you live updates direct from CES 2011 courtesy of our new, live updates site that’ll allow you [...]

One thing I know is that this was an absolutely epic week for leaks. Seems like every corporation and its parent company was dropping the dime on something it was planning to show off out at the CES show, which will be on its way starting next week. And as [...]

While the Nintendo 3DS is expected to be the next big thing in the video game world, Nintendo wants you to know that the portable game system isn’t for everyone. Yesterday the company issued a warning on its Japanese language blog saying children under the age of six should stay [...]

Yes, yes…I know we just saw Flo TV get its lunch eaten despite the fact that they pretty much had Daniel Tosh endorsing the silly things on Tosh.0 most every episode, but LG is reportedly looking to toss its hat into that much, much thinner arena with a new line [...]

You’ve got to give Apple due credit for their design concepts, and their constant pushing of the envelope–even if it doesn’t always pan out like the whole Antennagate thing showed us over and over for weeks–because they’ve just filed a new patent on a possible way to prevent such issues [...]