By Desire Athow Virtual reality is coming of age with hardware like the HTC Vive and Oculus Rift providing ideal devices for creative minds and gamers alike. It doesn’t come as a surprise therefore that at least one top-tier laptop vendor saw an opportunity to repackage its gaming products for a more lucrative audience: creative…

By Desire Athow Virtual reality is coming of age with hardware like the HTC Vive and Oculus Rift providing ideal devices for creative minds and gamers alike. It doesn’t come as a surprise therefore that at least one top-tier laptop vendor saw an opportunity to repackage its gaming products for a more lucrative audience: creative…

By Devin Coldewey The future is small in space: picture Cubesats the size of toasters and Femtosats an inch across crowding the skies. A newly invented motor that’s both tiny and powerful goes hand in hand with that vision, providing compact spacecraft with the ability to adjust their position without using a drop of fuel.…

By Brian Heater 3D sound, it’s, ahem, all around you. From the look (or, rather, sound of it), hardware startups are convinced that the effect is set to be the next big thing in consumer audio, and Kickstarter, accordingly, is littered with headphones that promise a more immersive listening experience akin to the recent VR…

By Matt Swider and Mark Mayne Introduction, design and fitness metrics Update: Fitbit has updated its companion app to offer more robust sleep management tools via Sleep Schedule. Along with tracking the amount of sleep you’re getting each night, the new feature can also help you decide when is a good time to head to…

By Darrell Etherington Curiosity may be an older dog (the rover landed on Mars in 2012), but it’s still picking up new tricks. NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory recently revealed (via Verge) that the robot can now pick its own targets when choosing rocks to scan with its laser spectrometer, a task formerly reserved for remote…

By Brian Heater “You don’t just hand over a prototype to manufacturing and say, ‘make this,’ ” Maxwell Bogue explains, offering some off-hand advice to hardware startups. “Whatever you made is wrong. It’s just not mass producible, as much you think it is.” He speaks from experience. The first time I met Wobbleworks’ CEO, his…

By Romain Dillet Are you ready for the performance-enhancing drugs TV special called the Olympic Games? It looks like Apple is ready for the marketing branding extravaganza as the company is releasing limited edition bands for the Apple Watch. GQ first spotted these new bands. Unfortunately, you’ll have to book a flight to Rio to…

By Darrell Etherington But true advances takes time, and the tech behind Dyson’s first robot vacuum is nothing if not advanced. The 360 Eye vacuum boasts a sophisticated 360-degree vision system that combines a top-mounted spherical camera with a pair of advanced sensors flanking the robot’s ‘face,’ and is designed to be much smarter than…

By Darren Allan HP is said to be getting together with HTC in order to provide PCs specifically branded and designed for the latter company’s VR headset, Vive. Apparently the HP computers will be bundled with the HTC Vive and will obviously be powerful enough to be VR-ready, providing an entire virtual reality solution with…

By Darren Allan HP is said to be getting together with HTC in order to provide PCs specifically branded and designed for the latter company’s VR headset, Vive. Apparently the HP computers will be bundled with the HTC Vive and will obviously be powerful enough to be VR-ready, providing an entire virtual reality solution with…

By Darren Allan Intel’s Optane SSDs – which utilize 3D Xpoint tech and promise to be screamingly fast – will be with us before the year is out. Yes, Optane drives will ship before the end of 2016 according to comments made by Brian Krzanich, chief executive of Intel. Indeed, as PC World reports, some…

By Darren Allan Intel’s Optane SSDs – which utilize 3D Xpoint tech and promise to be screamingly fast – will be with us before the year is out. Yes, Optane drives will ship before the end of 2016 according to comments made by Brian Krzanich, chief executive of Intel. Indeed, as PC World reports, some…

By Ty Pendlebury The Sony HT-NT5 offers distinctive good looks, a superlative feature set and generous performance, making it our favorite sound bar for the price. …read more Source:: cnet Camcorders

A new video has leaked, showing off a major new feature set to debut on the Samsung Galaxy Note 7. The phablet’s advanced iris scanner quickly unlocks the device, TouchWiz’s Grace UX is shown, and the device includes 4 GB of RAM. …read more Source:: TechTimes.com – Smartphones