Augmented Reality Portals by Pixelcase “Imagine walking from your home right into a new world! Users can also record their journey and share with friends around the globe. With augmented reality portals by Pixelcase – they can capture and produce a branded Augmented Reality portal for Snapchat and Facebook using their global accredited network of…
READ MOREThe Worlds Most Advanced Street Sign “Points is a brand new kind of street sign from development house Breakfast NY, that, while resembling a familiar “all-points” sign, is actually a bit of a high-tech wonder, full of gears, Internet feeds, LEDs and more. The 9-foot-tall sign offers three arrows that can actually rotate around the…
READ MOREGameStick – Big Screen Micro Games Console “Portable, Dynamic, Revolutionary: GameStick delivers an all-new big screen gaming experience. Play your favorite Android games in full HD and rediscover your love of play! Gamestick disagree that big screen gaming should be tied to one living room so they have worked to pack a powerful games device…
READ MOREEuropean Commission invests €50 million into 5G research with a 2020 target “You’re still waiting to get 4G? That’s old hat: the European Commission is already thinking about 5G. It’s investing €50 million ($65.3 million) into research with the hope that the next-next-generation cellular technology will be a practical reality by 2020. About €16 million…
READ MOREFive controllers that’ll replace your mouse “Even though the computer has raced onwards in the pursuit of performance, let’s face it, the old-fashioned mouse has changed little since its creation – all the way back in 1963. But a breed of plucky upstarts may spell the end of the peripheral as we know it. Here…
READ MOREPlastic Logic shows off ultra-thin and flexible displays “In case you didn’t get the memo, flexible displays – like the PaperTab – are the future. Plastic Logic is one of the driving forces behind this mind-bending tech that sees flexible displays housed in ultra-thin form-factors in a bid to revolutionise the way we interact with…
READ MOREAmazon Brings its Cloud Player to Cars Via Ford’s SYNC AppLink “Ensuring that its customers can enjoy their music wherever they go, Amazon announced today that it has teamed up with Ford to integrate its Cloud Player service into the US car giant’s new and upcoming vehicles. Integrating Cloud Player with Ford’s SYNC AppLink inside…
READ MOREIntel set to launch online TV service “Intel will be taking on the likes of Netflix, Amazon and Google with a new online TV service that will include a set-top box with a built-in camera Intel is planning to launch a new online TV platform later this year that will see it compete with the…
READ MOREWhy touchscreens are only just getting started “Tucked away in the depths of the Venetian Hotel is the CES Eureka Park – a collection of tech start-ups, entrepreneurs and small companies plying their wares. A far cry from the glossy, outsized spaces rented out by the tech giants in the Convention Center, it’s nevertheless a…
READ MOREWiGig: The wireless HDMI standard set to do away with cables “Fed up of managing the web of HDMI cables from behind your TV? WiGig, the new wireless standard could set to change all that with wireless connections WiGig, the new wireless standard has gained certification from IEEE, with experts claiming it will replace HDMI…
READ MOREAndroid games consoles to look out for “From OUYA to the NVIDIA Project Shield, here’s five Android games consoles to look forward to in 2013 and beyond In a year where we expect to get our first look at next generation consoles from Microsoft and Sony, Google is attempting to nudge its way into new…
READ MOREAsus to make motion-controlled computers a reality this year “Leap Motion’s 3D motion control technology – which uses cameras and sensors to let you interact with your PC Minority Report-style – got us all excited last year. We can’t wait to waggle our fingers at our computers – and Asus is obliging us, with plans…
READ MOREIn-Flight Broadband Is Set for Takeoff “Aircraft are one of the few unconnected sanctuaries left in our lives. Unless you shell out the cash for an often-unspectacular bit of airborne bandwidth, a flight typically promises at least a few hours’ worth of uninterrupted time to read a great novel, take in a fine film or…
READ MOREDisposable hydrogen fuel cells for mobiles coming to a shop near you “Remember when your Walkman ran out of battery? You just popped to a newsagent, bought some more batteries and carried on grooving down the street, blissfully unaware of your appearance. Mobiles could soon have a similar offering to banish your battery worries when…
READ MORENominet proposes more secure .UK domain for British websites “Nominet is considering a .uk internet domain for users who can’t bear to type the extra three characters necessary for .co.uk. The body is lobbying for the new domain in time for ICANN’s next TLD expansion, which includes new entries like .shop, .play and .home. Nominet…
READ MOREW3C to finish HTML5 by 2014 “HTML5: coming sooner than people had originally guessed. Apart from the HTML 5.1 bits. In our interview with W3C HTML editor Robin Berjon, he outlined plans to release a stable snapshot HTML5 document in 2014, and in parallel continue releasing drafts of HTML.next that will be more fluid and…
READ MORENew Myspace unveiled “Remember MySpace? Of course you do, the original social network was huge. Acquired by News Corporation in July 2005 for $580 million, it continued its rise to power being the most visited social networking site in the world until 2008. Eventually, the other social network took control and MySpace faded into obscurity….
READ MOREUK Government adds £14m to broadband pot “The government has added £14m to previously capped broadband pot that will benefit ten “super-connected” cities over the next three years The extra cash has been syphoned from an £830m fund for installing fibre optic broadband across the country and was announced by the Department for Culture, Media…
READ MORE4G in the UK: Why you will want superfast mobile internet “4G in the UK is just weeks away from landing, but what’s the big deal? We reveal the benefits of stepping into the next gen mobile internet realms It’s official as Everything Everywhere now re-branded as EE announced it will be bringing the next…
READ MOREEverything Everywhere first in line for UK 4G “4G, true LTE 4G, could be coming to the UK within weeks. Ofcom has given Everything Everywhere, the company comprising Orange and T-Mobile, final approval to roll out an LTE service well ahead of the 4G spectrum auction set to take place in early 2013. Everything Everywhere…
READ MORESay goodbye to your mouse and keyboard. “Leap represents an entirely new way to interact with your computers. It’s more accurate than a mouse, as reliable as a keyboard and more sensitive than a touchscreen. For the first time, you can control a computer in three dimensions with your natural hand and finger movements. This…
READ MOREMicrosoft Surface will arrive on October 26th “Microsoft has confirmed that its Surface tablet will arrive on October 26th – the same day that Windows 8 is released. But if you were holding out for the more powerful Intel version of the slate, with full Windows 8 Pro, then you’ll have to wait around another…
READ MOREMicrosoft: Windows 8 Shipping at the End of October “Microsoft has finally set a date — actually a couple of dates — for delivery of Microsoft Windows 8 to customers. The eagerly anticipated operating system overhaul is set to “RTM” (Release to Manufacturing) the first week in August and then ship at the end of…
READ MOREFirefox OS coming to smartphones in 2013 “Boot to Gecko, the HTML5-based mobile OS we first saw back in February, has today been renamed as Firefox OS. Makers Mozilla – also responsible for the Firefox web browser, of course, revealed that the smartphone OS would be launched in ‘early 2013’, with Brazil the first country…
READ MOREGoogle Android Jelly Bean: What you need to know “Android Jelly Bean is official, and according to Google, it’s ‘the fastest and smoothest version of Android yet’… It’s safe to say, that Android OS has gone from strength to strength in the last few years. But Google is not a company to sit on it’s…
READ MORENexus 7 Coming to the UK Mid-July “The 8 GB version of Google’s Nexus 7 will be arriving on UK shores mid-July, while the 16 GB variant will become available July 27, Engadget reports citing sources from Asus. Why the difference in release dates? Well, the 8 GB version of the tablet will be sold…
READ MOREWindows 8 Pro upgrade confirmed to cost £14.99 “While there is still no cost for Microsoft’s re-styled multi-format OS Windows 8 current Windows 7 customers can breath a sigh of relief as upgrading is cheap With the official Microsoft Windows 8 release date set to occur before the end of the year Microsoft and co….
READ MOREiOS 6: Everything You Need to Know “If you were looking for new mobile features, then iOS 6, which Apple unveiled on Monday at WWDC, does not disappoint. At WWDC 2012, Scott Forstall took the stage to unveil iOS 6 to developers. iOS 6 features more than 200 updates and improvements when compared to iOS…
READ MORE7in Google Tablet incoming “The Google Tablet – originally rumoured as a Nexus tablet – is due to be released as a 7in Asus slate this July. According to DigiTimes, shipments of the 7in tablet are due to start this June with a release date set for July. Asus has already proved itself a capable…
READ MOREMicrosoft HomeOS “I can buy a Microsoft house? Stop flashing your cash – HomeOS, Microsoft’s “operating system for the home,” is still firmly in the testing phase. But we’re still jumping up and down in anticipation of the day we can set our Xbox 360 to load up Mass Effect 3 the second we walk…
READ MORENext Big Thing – interactive kitchen “A Microsoft Surface? Yawn. Cover your mouth and listen up. This isn’t the Microsoft Surface – at least not like you’ve seen it. This is a Samsung-powered kitchen tabletop with an interactive touchscreen baked straight into it, serving up the freshest news, videos and web content for you to…
READ MOREMobile Payments May Replace Cash, Credit Cards by 2020 “Experts believe that cash and credit cards could be a thing of the past by 2020, a new study suggests. A new study conducted by the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project and Elon University’s Imagining the Internet Center revealed that the majority of…
READ MORE14 Tech-Forward Concepts Reshaping Our Future “For the Global Innovation Series, presented by BMW, we’re focused on one simple question: In what ways is technology drastically changing our lives for the better? In a lot of ways, living in a city is challenging — urban citizens are constantly thinking about mobility, energy, shelter, safety and…
READ MOREGoogle’s Project Glass “The New York Times first broke the story that Google was working on augmented reality glasses powered by Android in February. Google’s decided now’s the time for the world to get used to the idea of everybody wearing glasses ripped straight out of amateur-hour science fiction. It’s called Project Glass. Do not…
READ MORENext Big Thing – transparent, flexible memory “I thought Flash saved every one of us? Flash memory may indeed have been the saviour of saving for the last few years, but there’s a new king of the impossible in town. With flash memory about to hit its physical maximum storage capacity in just six years…
READ MORELG’s Flexible E-Paper Display Is Coming to Europe in April “LG has announced it has started mass production of its electronic paper display (EPD) product, with a planned launch in Europe next month. LG’s EPD is a 6-inch, 1024×768 e-ink plastic screen. It’s 0.7mm thick, it weighs 14g, and LG claims it’s resistant to scratches…
READ MOREMicrosoft transparent 3D screens “What’s this then? You have to use your hands? Yes but not in the traditional keyboard and mouse sense only. In a Minority Report style this Microsoft project uses a transparent Samsung OLED screen, combined with overhead cameras to track your movements. This all means it can render a 3D holographic…
READ MOREAmazon Kindle Touch is coming to the UK in April “Hot on the heels of the news that Harry Potter is now an ebook, Amazon has announced its Kindle Touch ereader will be available in the UK from April 27. Launching five months after the US release, this model won’t be available in an advert…
READ MORESeagate hits one terabit per square inch “You know that big new hard drive you just picked up? Get ready to feel bad. Seagate today is talking up the fact that it has managed to cram one terabit (that’s one trillion bits, for the record) into a square inch. That super-dense storage comes thanks to…
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