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Smart Earphones Know Which Ears They're In, Adjusts Channels Accordingly
Putting earbuds into the wrong ears doesn't equal the sensation of immediate and embarrassing wrong that you get from putting the left shoe on the right foot, but stereo sound is meant to be heard in a certain way. This is especially true with full-size headsets; gaming with surround sound ...
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iModela Mill Brings CNC Drilling to the Countertop
Easy Bake Oven, meet 3D printing. CNC's growing more popular, MakerBot's upgrading from Thing-o-Matics to powerful Replicators. Now Roland DG Corporation, which makes engravers and cutters and 3D scanners, are selling a tabletop CNC device that works like a 3D printer in reverse. The iModela iM-01 looks a little bit ...
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AMD Processor Roadmap: Faster CPU Development, Better APUs
With Intel's Core i processors dominating the high performance CPU market, AMD had two options: try to catch up in the horsepower race, or diversify and do something different with its processors. The company chose the latter, offering APUs with integrated graphics processing. AMD's still behind in terms of CPU ...
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How Android OEMs Miss the Mark with TV Commercials
Not that long ago, the manufacturer of your phone had very little to say. They made things, and your carrier marketed and sold them to you. They were the fountain from which all knowledge flowed; they were the one’s buying the Super Bowl ads. Now Samsung is planning a big ...
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Avid Takes Aim at iMovie with Studio Suite App for iPad
When Apple unveiled iOS versions of Garage Band and iMovie, they also made a pretty big statement about mobile platforms. Though portable devices are often assumed to be all about ...
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Windows Phone 8 "Apollo" Features Revealed in Insider Video
After Windows Phone 7's next update, Tango, comes Apollo, which will be the biggest update the young platform has seen since its 2010 debut. In fact, once Apollo arrives in ...
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58" Vizio CinemaWide TV Priced for Luxury Home Theaters at $3500
We'll admit it: we wanted to watch classic Hollywood epics and cinematic masterpieces on Vizio's 21:9 CinemaWide display when we saw it at CES. The 2560x1080 screen fits 2.35:1 or ...
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Google Docs for Android Gets Offline Reading, No Editing
Google Docs for Android now works without an active 3G or Wi-Fi connection. Unfortunately, there's a "but" appended to the end of that statement: offline mode is only good for ...
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Pentax Announces Mirrorless Camera that Works with Its Existing SLR Lenses
Mirrorless cameras have found an interesting niche. They’re small enough to be an attractive point-and-shoot upgrade for casual users, yet the image quality is high enough that they can serve ...
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Gesture-Based Future Home UI Concept Has Problems and Potential
Future technology videos like Microsoft's Productivity Vision speak a common language of design. White space dominates, digital information appears everywhere, and UI design looks beautiful but functionally questionable. Some people ...
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How To Back Up Apps and Data from Your Galaxy Nexus—No Root Required
Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich (ICS) has sufficient developer options to make your head spin. So many, in fact, that we have only recently managed to investigate all of them. ...
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Kinect for Windows Launches, Here's How it Differs from Xbox
Kinect for Windows has been bumming around in beta since June, receiving occasional updates in preparation for its commercial SDK release. Now that fated day has arrived: Kinect for Windows ...
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Neil Young Worked with Steve Jobs on 24-Bit Audio Standard
When Neil Young says something about music, it's probably worth paying attention. When Neil Young says something about music and Apple in the same sentence, it's definitely worth paying attention. ...
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Samsung's Galaxy S III Won't Debut at Mobile World Congress
Samsung's going to be grabbing as much spotlight as it can for the Galaxy Tab 11.6 at Mobile World Congress, assuming the powerful tablet does indeed make its debut at ...
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Does it Make Sense to Buy a $100 Off-Brand Android Tablet?
Tablets are the craze right now, and there are dozens of ODMs happy to sell you a $100 off-brand tablet. As the cost of components continues to drop, inexpensive tablets ...
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Here's What's New in Mozilla's Just-Released Firefox 10
Down but far from out, Mozilla has held to their “every six weeks” schedule by moving Firefox 10 from beta to full release on Windows, Mac, Linux, and Android. Though ...
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AMD Radeon 7950 Benchmarks Measure Up to GTX 580 Performance
AMD reclaimed the top spot in the single-GPU category with the launch of the 7970 at the very beginning of January, at least until Nvidia comes back with a new ...
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Intel Updates Sandy Bridge Family with 7 New Desktop CPUs
Intel's giving Sandy Bridge one last hurrah before Ivy Bridge rolls around and steals the limelight. The processor line welcomed three new i5 CPUs, the 2550K, 2450P and 2380P as ...
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Living with Technology: Building My Annual Production PC
It's January already, so that means it’s time for a new production system. I build a new production system once a year, whether I need to or not. Even given ...
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Rumor: Microsoft Office 15 Avoiding Metro Interface Design
How do you appease businesses that are nervously wringing their hands about the switch to Windows 8's Start Screen and the beginning of the end for the classic desktop? Simple: ...
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Report: 2GHz Samsung Tablet with 2560x1600 Display at MWC This Month
Raw specs rarely make a mobile device a must-by, but a tablet Samsung is supposedly preparing for Mobile World Congress in late February will push that theory to the limit. ...
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How Security Cameras Can Provide Anonymous Shopper Statistics
How many programs on your computer have an option tucked away somewhere that reads like this: "Automatically send usage statistics and crash reports to ___." If it can connect to ...
