By Juan Martinez Desktop monitors have recently taken on a new skillset. Meet Acer’s new H7 Series USB-C-enabled display: these monitors can charge your smartphones, tablets or laptops while displaying WQHD (2,540 x 1,440) resolution content. The H7 Series comes in 25- and 27-inch versions, both of which are built with what Acer calls a…

By Juan Martinez Desktop monitors have recently taken on a new skillset. Meet Acer’s new H7 Series USB-C-enabled display: these monitors can charge your smartphones, tablets or laptops while displaying WQHD (2,540 x 1,440) resolution content. The H7 Series comes in 25- and 27-inch versions, both of which are built with what Acer calls a…

By Marc Chacksfield Polaroid decided that CES 2016 was the year to announce that it was delving into the world of 3D printing. As announcements go, for the 3D printing world it is one of the biggest. Polaroid’s brand may have waned of late – due to restructures and the threat of bankruptcy – but…

By Marc Chacksfield Polaroid decided that CES 2016 was the year to announce that it was delving into the world of 3D printing. As announcements go, for the 3D printing world it is one of the biggest. Polaroid’s brand may have waned of late – due to restructures and the threat of bankruptcy – but…

By Jacob Grana Introduction and design With the Acer Aspire Switch 11 V (starts at $499, £549, about AU$689) it’s all about the hinge. It’s the first thing you notice when you pull this 2-in-1 out of its box: the bloated gray tube growing out of the base. Apple designers are advised to take their…

By Jacob Grana Introduction and design With the Acer Aspire Switch 11 V (starts at $499, £549, about AU$689) it’s all about the hinge. It’s the first thing you notice when you pull this 2-in-1 out of its box: the bloated gray tube growing out of the base. Apple designers are advised to take their…

By Natasha Lomas The HTC-Valve partnership, which uncloaked last spring to reveal the pair working on a virtual reality experience called Vive, continues to push towards a consumer release — with their VR headset slated to ship in April 2016. Read More …read more Source:: TechCrunch Gadgets

By John Biggs If you’ve ever soldered or welded, you’ll know that things get pretty hot. MesoGlue intends to fix that. It’s a room-temperature metallic glue that lets you stick parts together with reckless abandon and electrical control. The most interesting part of the entire system is that it allows us to solder parts onto…

By Juan Martinez When it comes to ultra-wide monitors, there are two schools of thought: you either believe the added screen real estate takes up an unnecessary amount of desk space, or you think it provides an immersive, cinematic content viewing experience. If you’re an artist, graphic designer or a spreadsheet wiz who needs to…

By Juan Martinez When it comes to ultra-wide monitors, there are two schools of thought: you either believe the added screen real estate takes up an unnecessary amount of desk space, or you think it provides an immersive, cinematic content viewing experience. If you’re an artist, graphic designer or a spreadsheet wiz who needs to…

Samsung is yet to officially announce the Galaxy S7 but a recent benchmark test result from AnTuTu revealed how the company’s upcoming flagship stacks up against its older siblings. The benchmark showed the S7 carrying the SM-G935A model number and running Android 6.0 Marshmallow. …read more Source:: TechTimes.com – Smartphones

By John Biggs Digital archeology is one of my favorite blog post forms. An avid X user from 198X resurrects an old system that he or she had used to create something amazing/build a business/write a game/or generally hack around. The resulting material – photos, video, and commentary – are priceless. Today we bring you…

By Andrew Williams Introduction and design The world of budget phones is changing. It’s not companies like Sony and Samsung that are taking up the gauntlet thrown down by the Moto G budget trooper – it’s the networks. Vodafone offers alarmingly good-value phones in the shape of the Smart Prime 6 and Smart Ultra 6,…

By Drew Olanoff Hot off of raising a $24M Series B round and inking a deal with Target for its Bevel brand, Walker & Company Brands has launched a brand new product — Bevel Trimmer. The company calls it “the most advanced device for trimming and shaping coarse or curly hair” and comes with a…

Apple filed an application patent in the United States for a dual-camera setup technology. According to the patent, the company’s flagships that will receive the technology will have optical zoom and a handful of neat video recording features. …read more Source:: TechTimes.com – Smartphones