By Gareth Beavis Introduction and design Updates: Our Galaxy Gear review contains updates to address its lower price, the increased competition and the optional switch to Tizen. What makes a smartwatch these days? Is it something that simply sits on the wrist and buzzes when the phone does something in the pocket? A fully-fledged phone…

By Gareth Beavis Introduction and design Updates: Our Galaxy Gear review contains updates to address its lower price, the increased competition and the optional switch to Tizen. What makes a smartwatch these days? Is it something that simply sits on the wrist and buzzes when the phone does something in the pocket? A fully-fledged phone…

By Thomas Thorn Introduction Despite the best efforts of Samsung and Apple, the world’s thinnest smartphone title goes to a relatively unknown Chinese manufacturer. Oppo’s R5 handset is a mere 4.85mm thick, that’s almost thin enough to carve your holiday turkey. I can already hear many of you ask “but who is Oppo?” Chinese mobile…

By Thomas Thorn Introduction Despite the best efforts of Samsung and Apple, the world’s thinnest smartphone title goes to a relatively unknown Chinese manufacturer. Oppo’s R5 handset is a mere 4.85mm thick, that’s almost thin enough to carve your holiday turkey. I can already hear many of you ask “but who is Oppo?” Chinese mobile…

By Desire Athow Lenovo has revealed that it is teaming up with the Hartree Centre, part of the STFC (Science and Technology Facilities Council), to build server solutions that use ARM-based processors. The first prototype uses NextScale’s dense computing platform technology, which Lenovo acquired as part of IBM’s x86 server clearout last year. Cavium ThunderX…

By Desire Athow Lenovo has revealed that it is teaming up with the Hartree Centre, part of the STFC (Science and Technology Facilities Council), to build server solutions that use ARM-based processors. The first prototype uses NextScale’s dense computing platform technology, which Lenovo acquired as part of IBM’s x86 server clearout last year. Cavium ThunderX…

By Lisa Jackson We understand that the Internet of Things is going to be big. As employees and consumers, we will be able to make decisions based on more accurate data. As managers, we will have new tools that reduce waste and inefficiencies in the workplace. But if this highly anticipated future is to happen,…

By Darrell Etherington,Greg Kumparak,Kyle Russell This week, we have a rare opportunity to just plain unleash on a device: The Neptune Duo, which puts all the smartphone smarts inside an Android-powered smartwatch, then makes the screen in your pocket essentially a dumb receiver. It’s backwards and bad, and we find we’re mostly in agreement on…

By Darrell Etherington Kickstarter has provided a look at how the reconfigured review system the put in place last year has worked out for them, providing some counterargument to the opinion held in some corners of the Internet that Kickstarter has done away with a review system entirely, throwing open the gates to the wildlings…

By Darrell Etherington I once posted a lament sparked by the availability of Bluetooth smart toothbrushes, so of course it was only logical for me to review Oral B’s new Bluetooth 4.0-enabled smart toothbrush. The upgraded electric teeth cleaner communicates with an app on your smartphone, receiving programming instructions and settings and sending back data…

By JR Bookwalter With all the feature sharing going on between Mac and iOS, it’s not hard to imagine Apple might one day allow Touch ID to unlock notebooks or even desktop systems, but could it be coming sooner than we think? An Apple-centric blog out of Taiwan called AppleCorner (via AppleInsider) seems to think…

By JR Bookwalter With all the feature sharing going on between Mac and iOS, it’s not hard to imagine Apple might one day allow Touch ID to unlock notebooks or even desktop systems, but could it be coming sooner than we think? An Apple-centric blog out of Taiwan called AppleCorner (via AppleInsider) seems to think…

By Natasha Lomas A round of applause for the U.K.-made Raspberry Pi microcomputer — which has just passed the 5 million sales mark, some three years after it was first launched with the over-modest goal of selling “a few thousand” Pi over its entire lifetime, as creator Eben Upton has said. How wrong can you…

By Steve O'Hear Italian startup XYZE (“size”) is currently crowd funding what it’s calling a smart “wearable” measuring tape. Dubbed “On”, the rather neat-looking gadget aims to help solve the clothes shopping size problem, whereby, when shopping for clothes online, the clothes you buy end up being the wrong size. Read More …read more Source:…

By Orestis Bastounis Introduction Aimed at both business and home users in need of gigantic amounts of storage, the DS1815+ is an eight-bay NAS from Synology, powered by a quad-core CPU and up to 6GB of memory. This places it at the very opposite end of the performance scale from the single-bay DS115J that came…