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Nokia Teases "Pure View" Camera, Which Hopefully Isn't Just More Megapixels [Video]
In the past, Nokia's mobile cameras have stood head and shoulders above the rest of the mobile world thanks to great image sensors and real camera flashes. Before Apple and Android phones even offered LED flashes, Nokia was outfitting select phones with superior Xenon flashes. On Tuesday the company teased ...
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The Mother of All Demos Revolutionized Computing Interfaces in 1968 [Video]
When we think of the history of modern computing, the story usually begins in the late 1970s. Apple released the enormously popular Apple II in 1977, and the 1980s saw graphical user interfaces rise to popularity in a battle between Mac OS and Microsoft Windows. It's common knowledge that Xerox ...
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Nikes with Embedded Tracking Encourage Competitive Exercise [Video]
The Nike+ FuelBand's exercise tracking measures daily activity and converts it into a score called Nike Fuel. Now the company's taking a more specific approach for athletes, specifically basketball players--Nike+ Basketball incorporates sensors into upcoming Hyperdunk+ sneakers to track speed and jumps on the court. A broader line of Nike+ ...
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Qualcomm's Snapdragon S4 Integrates LTE, Tops Benchmarks
Qualcomm's long-awaited solution to the horrors of LTE battery life will make its debut at Mobile World Congress, which kicks off on February 27. The Snapdragon S4, Qualcomm's latest dual-core system-on-a-chip, integrates the LTE processor onto the chip. Phones running on the S4 will be the first LTE devices to ...
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Major Changes to Flickr to Begin Rolling Out February 28th
BetaBeat has the scoop on sweeping changes Yahoo will soon be making to its Flickr service. In an interview with Markus Spiering, Flickr's new Senior Product Manager explained that the ...
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Comcast Announces Its Netflix Rival: Xfinity Streampix
Comcast has just announces its Netflix-like streaming video service, which will launch this Thursday for existing Comcast subscribers. The announced content partners for this service are Disney-ABC Television Group, NBCUniversal, ...
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HSPA+ Multiflow Promises Doubled Data Speeds, Halved Latency
Nokia Siemens still believes in HSPA+, the cellular technology carriers pass off as 4G until they adopt the true fourth generation standard, LTE. In the United States, AT&T and T-Mobile ...
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RIM Launches BlackBerry PlayBook OS 2.0, Now with Native Email
It's the year 2012, and the BlackBerry PlayBook finally has a native email client to call its own. Research In Motion released BlackBerry PlayBook OS 2.0 on Tuesday, delivering a ...
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Siri On OS X: Will Most Users Even Care?
On last week's podcast, we discussed whether the omission of Siri in Apple's OS X Mountain Lion announcement was by design, or if it's something that Apple is saving for ...
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How Windows 8 Will Integrate SkyDrive for Cloud Storage and Remote PC Access
Windows 8 had us hyped for built-in cloud storage the moment Microsoft announced that profile data would sync between multiple Windows 8 machines. That functionality is part of a larger ...
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Lens Patent Tease Canon's Long-Awaited Mirrorless Camera Plans
Engadget links to a patent application for what may be a lens for Canon's first mirrorless interchangeable lens camera.While the 18-45mm f/3.5-5.6 lens doesn't look like anything special, Canon finally ...
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Barnes & Noble Matches Kindle Fire Pricing with New $199 Nook Tablet
Fifty dollars, eight gigabytes of storage, 512 megabytes of RAM and a microSD slot distinguished the Nook Tablet and Kindle Fire when the devices launched in late 2011. Aside from ...
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Purported 2048x1536 iPad 3 Display Spotted--Now Who's Making It?
Macrumors all but confirmed the long-rumored 2048x1536 iPad 3 display on Friday when it published photographs of a screen reportedly destined for a future Apple tablet. The display, listed as ...
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Future SSDs May Suffer from Speed and Reliability Issues
Solid state drives appear perfectly positioned to take over the storage market from physical hard disks as technology advances. There will long be a place for the mass storage provided ...
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Doodle Defense and Kinect Bring Tower Defense to Life on a Whiteboard [Video]
The latest in awesome homebrew Kinect development, a Kickstarter project called Doodle Defense, literally brings my childhood imagination to life. As a kid I developed a white board game that ...
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FCC Teardown Provides a Glimpse of Lytro's Light Field Sensor
When it was revealed last year, Lytro's light field camera sounded like a great candidate for vaporware. Well, the camera's real. After announcing an early 2012 release date, Lytro made ...
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Ivy Bridge Chip Delay to Summer Gives Apple a Shot at Early Access
Sandy Bridge sold so well for Intel--and offered gamers such a great bang-for-the-buck ratio with the i5 2500K--that it's hard to be surprised 2012's follow-up, Ivy Bridge, will be launching ...
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LEGO Mine Micro World Kit Now in Production, Pre-Order Available
No surprise here--we're excited for this. The Lego Minecraft kit (Lego item 21102) is now available for pre-order from Jinx's website for $35. The set, named Micro World, will consist ...
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Vita Teardown Reveals Convenient Battery Access, Modular Circuitry
While most of the people buying PlayStation Vitas are intent on playing video games, iFixit predictably has a different goal in mind: ripping the handheld apart. They did exactly that ...
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Why Mac Users Should Care about OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion
In a complete reversal of the hype cycle preceding every new Mac, iPhone or iPad release, Apple surprise announced a new update for OS X on Thursday. Available in developer ...
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On The Limitations of ARM vs. x86 for Mac OS, Windows
John Brownlee's feature on CultofMac about why he doesn't believe that Apple will ever sell Macs that run solely on ARM is getting passed around a lot this week, and ...
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Another Thing to Think about The Next Time You Fly
A great feature by Tim Heffernan for BoingBoing, which is a companion piece to the story he wrote for The Atlantic.[E]very Boeing and Airbus jet you’ve ever flown, every one ...
