By EZ Bardeguez Vivitek has created a very easy-to-use, small, portable projector that is ideal for the minimalist office user or general consumer. The Qumi Q5-RD ($555, £360.88, AU$708.59) won’t compete with the bigger dogs, like the Epson EX7235 Pro Projector ($599.99, £385.24, AU$738.45), or the Optima GT1080 ($1,399, £870, AU$1,600), but, if size is…

By Sarah Perez With all the excitement around wearables and fitness trackers, it seems inevitable that something like this would occur: there are now two separate companies running Kickstarter campaigns aimed at improving the classic jump rope by adding smart technology to the product. The “smart ropes,” as they’re being called, are designed more for…

By Darrell Etherington Apple is adding more diverse emoji options to both iOS and OS X, new developer preview builds reveal. These includes various skin color options for emojis featuring people, faces, hands and other exposed skin, as well as new country flags that add to the rather limited original set. The new skin tone…

By Steven Wong Introduction and design The Lenovo Horizon 2s, the smaller, $949 (£899, about AU$1,084) sibling to the super-sized Lenovo Horizon 2, joins in a growing line-up of portable all-in-one PCs with touchscreens. In other words, giant Windows tablets with stands. Similar to the Dell XPS 18 Touch, this is a small all-in-one Windows…

By Steven Wong Introduction and design The Lenovo Horizon 2s, the smaller, $949 (£899, about AU$1,084) sibling to the super-sized Lenovo Horizon 2, joins in a growing line-up of portable all-in-one PCs with touchscreens. In other words, giant Windows tablets with stands. Similar to the Dell XPS 18 Touch, this is a small all-in-one Windows…

By Alex Wilhelm Microsoft is updating the Band fitness wearable today, building out its on-device feature set, launching a web portal so that users can better interact with their collected data, and releasing a SDK to allow developers to build apps for the gadget. Application updates are rolling out for iOS, Android, and Windows Phone.…

By Darrell Etherington Microsoft is preparing to bring third-party apps to its Microsoft Band wearable platform. The company revealed today that it’s launching a Developer Preview SDK for the wrist-worn device, allowing third-party app makers to start to create apps for it, beyond the select partners, including MapMyFitness, that it already works with. Opening Band…

By Natasha Lomas Pico projectors have found their way into smartphones before now, but mostly as an gimmicky add on. And one that’s fizzled out, rather than becoming a standard issue feature. But what about sticking an app-controlled projector into a light socket instead? Read More …read more Source: TechCrunch Gadgets

By Kevin Lee After teasing its lineup of home theater PCs at CES 2015, Origin has launched its new Omega series. Starting at $999 the Omega series consists of five different models with different cases and configurations. The base model is built on a H97 chipset mini-ITX motherboard and comes packing a 4.5GHz Intel Pentium…

By Kevin Lee After teasing its lineup of home theater PCs at CES 2015, Origin has launched its new Omega series. Starting at $999 the Omega series consists of five different models with different cases and configurations. The base model is built on a H97 chipset mini-ITX motherboard and comes packing a 4.5GHz Intel Pentium…

By Kevin Lee After teasing its lineup of home theater PCs at CES 2015, Origin has launched its new Omega series. Starting at $999 the Omega series consists of five different models with different cases and configurations. The base model is built on a H97 chipset mini-ITX motherboard and comes packing a 4.5GHz Intel Pentium…

By Matt Burns Is this the new Pebble? The company is set to unveil its next generation smartwatch tomorrow and the image above was just discovered on Pebble’s website. Rumors state that the next version will sport a new design and a color e-ink screen — just like the watch in this picture. Read More…

By Martyn Clayden Introduction The danger for creators of all-in-one PCs is exactly the same as the designers of all-in-one printers: by trying to cram in as many features as possible into a comparatively small space, you risk comprising on quality and pleasing nobody. Lenovo sees their B series as multimedia machines offering compact entertainment…

By Martyn Clayden Introduction The danger for creators of all-in-one PCs is exactly the same as the designers of all-in-one printers: by trying to cram in as many features as possible into a comparatively small space, you risk comprising on quality and pleasing nobody. Lenovo sees their B series as multimedia machines offering compact entertainment…

By DealRadar It’s Monday and we’re back with more hot deals on tech and games from the UK’s biggest online retailers. Today we’ve got deals on a whole range of awesome stuff so let’s get stuck straight in to the good stuff… TODAY’S HOT DEALS Nintendo Wii U: If you’ve been waiting to pick up…