By Nick Pino Introduction and design The Origin Omega isn’t like most other Steam Machines which, if you’ve never heard that term before, are defined as the initiative launched by Valve in 2013 that intended to bring more console-like PCs to the living room. Most of the Steam Machines we’ve seen so far, like the…

By Juan Martinez Lenovo’s ThinkPad lineup has traditionally been the darling of business users. Powered by formidable processors, tons of RAM and a utilitarian design meant for productivity, the ThinkPad lineup was made to help you get stuff done. In recent years Lenovo has upped the ThinkPad family’s game in terms of consumer-level design. The…

By Juan Martinez Lenovo’s ThinkPad lineup has traditionally been the darling of business users. Powered by formidable processors, tons of RAM and a utilitarian design meant for productivity, the ThinkPad lineup was made to help you get stuff done. In recent years Lenovo has upped the ThinkPad family’s game in terms of consumer-level design. The…

By Frederic Lardinois,Lucas Matney When you think of consumer drones, chances are you are thinking of quadcopters. But fixed-wing drones have long been a staple of the military and the model aircraft community and now Parrot, which pioneered the quadcopter craze with its AR.Drone, is getting into the fixed-wing game, too. The 700-gram Parrot Disco,…

By Juan Martinez Last year’s version of the Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon was a fully-capable business Ultrabook that featured a few minor flaws. Unfortunately for Lenovo, these issues kept the Carbon from reaching the pinnacle of the business laptop market. With the 2016 reboot of the Carbon, Lenovo has sought to remedy these issues, particularly…

By Juan Martinez Last year’s version of the Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon was a fully-capable business Ultrabook that featured a few minor flaws. Unfortunately for Lenovo, these issues kept the Carbon from reaching the pinnacle of the business laptop market. With the 2016 reboot of the Carbon, Lenovo has sought to remedy these issues, particularly…

By Michelle Fitzsimmons Sony has confirmed what many users already knew: PlayStation Network is down. The worse news? Sony doesn’t know when it will be back up. …read more Source:: techradar.com – Gaming

By Chuong Nguyen If you’ve lamented about Apple’s decision to drop the MagSafe power port on its 12-inch MacBook in favor of the USB-C uniport design, you’ll be happy to know that Griffin has you covered. Griffin Technology’s BreakSafe is an adapter that works in a similar way to Apple’s MagSafe and is compatible with…

By Chuong Nguyen If you’ve lamented about Apple’s decision to drop the MagSafe power port on its 12-inch MacBook in favor of the USB-C uniport design, you’ll be happy to know that Griffin has you covered. Griffin Technology’s BreakSafe is an adapter that works in a similar way to Apple’s MagSafe and is compatible with…

By Desire Athow Introduction and design In the world of laptops, there’s a myriad of smaller vendors which exist alongside the main players, many of them sharing the same basic chassis designs, which explains why they are called original design manufacturers. Going down that route helps keep costs (otherwise known as the bill of materials)…

By Ingrid Lunden Intel has made yet another hardware acquisition to build up its business of integrating its processors and RealSense imaging technology into the next wave of connected devices beyond PCs. Today the company announced it has purchased Ascending Technologies, a Germany-based startup that makes small drones and the software used to fly them.…

By Chuong Nguyen Once considered the future of smartphones and tablets, LG shows that larger displays with extreme curves can be useful in business applications. At CES 2016, LG Display showed off new double-sided, curved and wide screen concepts that can be used for digital signage, inside automobiles and for mobile devices. For extreme curvatures,…

By Chuong Nguyen Once considered the future of smartphones and tablets, LG shows that larger displays with extreme curves can be useful in business applications. At CES 2016, LG Display showed off new double-sided, curved and wide screen concepts that can be used for digital signage, inside automobiles and for mobile devices. For extreme curvatures,…

By Natasha Lomas Pre-orders for the consumer version of the virtual reality headset are due to open on Wednesday January 6, at 8am PT, Oculus Rift announced today. Read More …read more Source:: TechCrunch Gadgets

By John Biggs If you have small children, pets, or drunken roommates you understand the value of MagSafe. These chargers woulds snap off and on magnetically without damaging your computer or port and they were amazingly great at saving your laptop from tipping onto the floor. But with the launch of the USB-C MacBook MagSafe…