By Juan Martinez HP recently unveiled its newest fleet of enterprise tablets and convertibles. Leading the pack was the HP Pro Slate 12 ($529, £349, or AUS$646), a large format tablet that can turn physical pen-to-paper drawings into digital files. The Pro Slate 12 fits nicely into a category that is already jam-packed with excellent…

By Alex Blake If you like games, you love Team Fortress 2, which features beautiful visuals and fast-paced gameplay – and some rather fetching hats. Why you need it Team Fortress has been around for a while now, and with good reason – it’s one of the most popular multiplayer games around, combining addictive gameplay…

By Alex Blake If you like games, you love Team Fortress 2, which features beautiful visuals and fast-paced gameplay – and some rather fetching hats. Why you need it Team Fortress has been around for a while now, and with good reason – it’s one of the most popular multiplayer games around, combining addictive gameplay…

By Jordan Crook The home security market is quickly heating up. As IoT continues to be a dominating trend, security systems that use smaller, faster technology will become the central hub of the home for a fraction of the cost of traditional home monitoring systems. Canary is one of the most affordable and attractive options…

By Natasha Lomas This week Google’s Eric Schmidt was on a panel at the World Economic Forum in Davos, where he suggested that the future Internet will be, in one sense, invisible — because it will be embedded into everything we interact with. Read More …read more Source: TechCrunch Gadgets

By Kane Fulton Dreaming of a Steam Machine future Steam Machines? More like has-been machines, am I right? Actually, no: while many people are giving Valve’s PC-console-hybrids the cold shoulder, this gamer reckons they’ll be worth the wait. I realise that I’m part of a shrinking group still backing Valve’s SteamOS-powered Linux boxes, and it’s…

By Kane Fulton Dreaming of a Steam Machine future Steam Machines? More like has-been machines, am I right? Actually, no: while many people are giving Valve’s PC-console-hybrids the cold shoulder, this gamer reckons they’ll be worth the wait. I realise that I’m part of a shrinking group still backing Valve’s SteamOS-powered Linux boxes, and it’s…

By Jay Donovan A cursory search under “headphone management” will bring up virtually hundreds of products. Spoolee’s novel contribution to the category is a twig adrift in an ocean of competition. This seems like a small and unusual product for us to cover but there are three things that make this product stand out and…

By Alan Stevens Introduction and performance At first glance it looks like little more than just another 4-bay NAS appliance, but the Sentinel DX4200 from Western Digital stands out from the crowd both in terms of the hardware involved and the Windows rather than Linux software it runs. Moreover, the DX4200 is very much aimed…

By Alan Stevens Introduction and performance At first glance it looks like little more than just another 4-bay NAS appliance, but the Sentinel DX4200 from Western Digital stands out from the crowd both in terms of the hardware involved and the Windows rather than Linux software it runs. Moreover, the DX4200 is very much aimed…

By Bridie Roman If last week belonged squarely to Nintendo and its gaming announcements then this week is property of Microsoft. Its big Windows 10 livestream contained plenty of exciting news for Xbox fans and non-believers alike, if you could sit through all the other slightly boring parts. By far the most exciting thing was…

By Bridie Roman If last week belonged squarely to Nintendo and its gaming announcements then this week is property of Microsoft. Its big Windows 10 livestream contained plenty of exciting news for Xbox fans and non-believers alike, if you could sit through all the other slightly boring parts. By far the most exciting thing was…

By John Biggs Purism Librem 15 is a laptop that is not free as in beer but it is instead free as in “absolutely free and open and uncontrolled by outside forces ensures complete control of every aspect of the hardware at all times.” And that’s a good thing. Created by Todd Weaver, the laptop…

By Darrell Etherington,Kyle Russell On the second ever TechCrunch AppleCast, Darrell Etherington and Kyle Russell discuss the Apple Watch and its battery life, as potentially revealed by leaks this week. We also touch on analyst reports claiming that a 12.9-inch iPad will also include an Apple-made stylus accessory option, and dive into a closer look…

By Mary Branscombe There are plenty of giant screens and plenty of whiteboard systems. Surface Hub – which is the new name for the latest Perceptive Pixel system – uses Windows 10, OneNote and Skype for Business to turn the great PPI touch interface into a way to take the pain out of meetings. It’s…