By John Mannes With side-hustles being all the rage these days, the new Shaper Origin makes it easier than ever to start building and selling cool gadgets in your free time. While you might not be able to build yourself a homemade Falcon 9 rocket with the company’s handheld CNC machine, you just might be…

By Dan Graziano The smart bike includes GPS, an altimeter and speed sensors all integrated into the frame. …read more Source:: cnet Cell Phones

By Parker Wilhelm Looking for a crafts project this weekend? How about building an arcade cabinet small enough to fit in a cup holder? Top-tier tinkerers at Adafruit put together the world’s smallest arcade machine – complete with the ability to emulate classics such as Donkey-Kong, Pac-Man, Xevious, Gauntlet, and Tempest. The itty-bitty cabinet is…

Here are the best cases, headphones and chargers to buy for Apple’s iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus. …read more Source:: TechTimes.com – Smartphones

By John Biggs In the world of MAME cabinetry – essentially a subculture of arcade lovers who build amazing cabinets for their emulators – the goal is usually to either recreate the arcade games of yore or build something really wild. Adafruit built something really wild. Originally a weekend project, this MAME cabinet is a…

By John Biggs We were all pretty excited when Consumer Physics showed us their hand-held molecular scanner at TechCrunch Disrupt two years ago. They garnered much praise here and all over the web for creating a hand-held product that could scan and identify food, medicine, and vitamins. Now, two years later, people are pissed. The…

By Orestis Bastounis Introduction Update: A new hotness in the Origin Millennium has kicked Acer’s Preadtor G3-605 off the list. See why below. PC gaming is currently in better shape than it has been for years. Software sales are up, developers now take both the platform and players more seriously and innovative form-factors like the…

Half a month after it issued a global recall for the Galaxy Note 7, Samsung now rolls its replacement Note 7 units. The company says that the replacement units will be at the majority of retailers by Sept. 21. …read more Source:: TechTimes.com – Smartphones

Verizon has added a new smartphone to its prepaid lineup. The carrier has just announced the Moto G4 Play is available online and in retail stores. …read more Source:: TechTimes.com – Smartphones

By Mary Branscombe and Max Slater-Robins …read more Source:: techradar.com – PC and Mac

By Emma Boyle Microsoft has launched a brand new exciting program for Xbox and Windows 10 this week called Play Anywhere. Xbox Play Anywhere might sound like a fairly dismissive title – “So, where can I play?” “We don’t know, anywhere we guess” – but it’s actually a pretty big deal for gamers with both…

By Darren Allan Logitech has just purchased Saitek, the company known for its seriously heavyweight flight (and space) sim controllers and accessories, for $13 million (around £10 million, AU$17 million). While Logitech already makes steering wheels for driving games, in a blog post, the company notes that it wants to expand into the wider simulation…

By Darren Allan Logitech has just purchased Saitek, the company known for its seriously heavyweight flight (and space) sim controllers and accessories, for $13 million (around £10 million, AU$17 million). While Logitech already makes steering wheels for driving games, in a blog post, the company notes that it wants to expand into the wider simulation…

By Andrew Williams Introduction and design Not every phone can be the Samsung Galaxy S7. For one thing, not everyone can afford a Galaxy S7 – but for a while Samsung went dark on budget phones, to the disappointment of fans of the brand who lacked capacious wallets. However, it’s fired out loads of cheapies…

T-Mobile’s top brass is warning users against upgrading to iOS 10, lest they risk becoming disconnected from the network — requiring them to restart their phone if they hope to regain connection. …read more Source:: TechTimes.com – Smartphones