Allura Alforsdotter

Allura Alforsdotter

Review: ExoLens’ Zeiss iPhone lenses turns your phone into a full-fledged camera

Review: ExoLens’ Zeiss iPhone lenses turns your phone into a full-fledged camera

By Fitz Tepper Anyone even remotely interested in cameras knows that Zeiss lenses are the gold standard. But the 170-year old company’s lenses can cost thousands of dollars each, making them pretty inaccessible for amateur photographers. But that is now changing, as the company has teamed up with the ExoLens brand to release three Zeiss…

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E3 2016: Resident Evil 7 channels old-school scares with new VR technology

E3 2016: Resident Evil 7 channels old-school scares with new VR technology

By Alessandro Fillari Like many, I was shocked to see the announcement of a brand new Resident Evil game at Sony’s E3 2016 Press Conference. The series, celebrating its 20th anniversary this year, has a very passionate fan base, and seeing its new announcement caused quite the commotion. Though the series is now known for…

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A device called the Remo spots a market for automating wall mount air conditioners

A device called the Remo spots a market for automating wall mount air conditioners

By Jay Donovan I’m usually cautious about Kickstarter campaigns, but when the data looks right I’m encouraged to peer deeper. Haruumi Shiode reached out to me with his CleanTech concept for a product called the Remo (which remotely controls wall unit air conditioners), and I have to admit the numbers looked interesting even though this…

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11 of the coolest video game trailers from E3

11 of the coolest video game trailers from E3

By Devin Coldewey We’ve been focused on VR and non-traditional gaming here at E3 this year, but that doesn’t mean we’ve been walking around with our eyes closed. But you might not have been paying close attention, what with having a real job and everything, so I took the liberty of collecting the most interesting…

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Crowdsourced data can teach your phone to follow your eyes

Crowdsourced data can teach your phone to follow your eyes

By John Biggs Eye tracking has always been a tough problem. Multi-camera solutions existed in order to sense the position of the eyes in 3D space but in general watching where your peepers pointed was too hard for cellphones. Now researchers at MIT and the University of Georgia have created an eye-tracking system that depends…

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Meet Domgy, an AI pet robot from Beijing startup ROOBO

Meet Domgy, an AI pet robot from Beijing startup ROOBO

By Lora Kolodny ROOBO, a fast-growing hardware and AI startup headquartered in Beijing, today unveiled a prototype of its newest product, a “pet robot” called Domgy. For the unfamiliar, ROOBO is the company behind Pudding, a voice-controlled, educational robot for kids. Pudding is used to teach kids vocabulary, geography, jokes and more. The company also…

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Luma’s home WiFi boosting system goes up for sale, will hit Best Buy stores in July

Luma’s home WiFi boosting system goes up for sale, will hit Best Buy stores in July

By Brian Heater Been a long time coming, but Luma’s finally ready to start shipping units to eager early adopters of the hardware startup’s home WiFi system. The routers, which have been up for pre-order since last year, offer what the company calls “surround WiFi,” a mesh network that promises to get rid of wireless…

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Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge With Snapdragon 820 Successfully Rooted

Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge With Snapdragon 820 Successfully Rooted

An XDA forum member has showed a proof of concept on a successful rooting of the Galaxy S7 edge. The root, however, still needs some work, as some bugs are still appearing. …read more Source:: TechTimes.com – Smartphones

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OnePlus 3 Speed Test Shows It’s No Match For The Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge [Video]

OnePlus 3 Speed Test Shows It’s No Match For The Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge [Video]

The OnePlus 3 made its official debut with awesome specs on paper, but is it as good in practice? Check out this speed test pitting the OnePlus 3 against the Samsung Galaxy S7 edge. …read more Source:: TechTimes.com – Smartphones

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Samsung Galaxy Note 7 Advanced Iris Scanner Confirmed As One Of Top New Features

Samsung Galaxy Note 7 Advanced Iris Scanner Confirmed As One Of Top New Features

It looks like all of the reports claiming the Samsung Galaxy Note 7 would include an advanced iris scanner are true. According to a new report, a Korean camera module maker won a bid to be the supplier of the new feature on the upcoming phablet. …read more Source:: TechTimes.com – Smartphones

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Best Buy Now Selling $199.99 Huawei Honor 5X

Best Buy Now Selling $199.99 Huawei Honor 5X

Huawei Honor 5X is now available via Best Buy for $199.99. Previously, the handset was available in the United States via Amazon, Newegg or Huawei’s online store only. …read more Source:: TechTimes.com – Smartphones

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You can now choose which drive to install Windows Store apps

You can now choose which drive to install Windows Store apps

By Darren Allan Microsoft has changed the way large games and apps are installed from the Windows Store, so users can now select which drive they wish to use rather than being stuck with the default. This is a pretty basic feature that should have been in there from the start, to be honest, but…

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eSports is killing it online, but can it find a home on TV?

eSports is killing it online, but can it find a home on TV?

By Jon Porter Thanks to a partnership between Sky, ITV and Ginx TV, the UK now has its first ever eSports channel showing 24 hours of content every day. Ginx eSports TV is not quite the first eSports channel to grace British television ever, but it’s the first to do so without going offline for…

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ZTE Flagship Nubia Z11 Set To Debut On June 28

ZTE Flagship Nubia Z11 Set To Debut On June 28

ZTE has confirmed June 28 as the launch date of the Nubia Z11 flagship smartphone. The handset is expected to sport a Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 processor, 4 GB of RAM, 64 GB storage capacity and more. …read more Source:: TechTimes.com – Smartphones

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Xiaomi Redmi 3S Goes Official: 4,100 mAh Battery, Fingerprint Scanner And More

Xiaomi Redmi 3S Goes Official: 4,100 mAh Battery, Fingerprint Scanner And More

Xiaomi launched the Redmi 3S smartphone, which will be available in two variants. The Xiaomi handset will hit the shelves on June 16 at a starting price of about $106. …read more Source:: TechTimes.com – Smartphones

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