By Natasha Lomas It’s a standard Apple play to shave a few atoms off the waists of its gadgets come refresh time — allowing the company’s marketing department to crow about thinner flagships that also pack more power and boast better screens, or both. Read More …read more Source: TechCrunch Gadgets

By Rob Daley Rosie, C3PO, HAL, WALL-E, Bender, Optimus, Asimo. Our obsession with robots propels them to the single name status normally reserved for pop icons like Sting, Madonna and Oprah. The media has a long history of shaping our view of what robots are – we have seen them in movies and TV shows…

By Hugh Langley It’s not easy to admit that I worship at the altar of Nintendo. Despite my resolute belief that the Wii U is still a horse in the new-gen console race, plenty of people discounted it long ago. The little black box has faced its fair share of tribulations since launch but things…

By Hugh Langley It’s not easy to admit that I worship at the altar of Nintendo. Despite my resolute belief that the Wii U is still a horse in the new-gen console race, plenty of people discounted it long ago. The little black box has faced its fair share of tribulations since launch but things…

By Kyle Russell 500 Startups-backed AstroPrint has made a combination of cloud platform, local software and hardware to enable the management of 3D printing from any device that can connect to the web with a modern browser. Read More …read more Source: TechCrunch Gadgets

By Josh Constine AfterMaster is like having a team of audio experts come in a fine tune your home stereo, TV, or headphones. The new AfterMaster chip optimizes the sound quality outputed by any device, enhancing its fullness and clarity. Essentially, it makes audio sound much richer, like you were listening to uncompressed master recordings…

By Chuong Nguyen Have you ever tried to tap on a link on an iPad, but missed because your fingers were too big? Having a mouse would help, but unfortunately Apple doesn’t allow Bluetooth mice to connect to iOS, unless you take the risk of jailbreaking. Introduced at Summit 2015, Citrix may have solved your…

By Chuong Nguyen Have you ever tried to tap on a link on an iPad, but missed because your fingers were too big? Having a mouse would help, but unfortunately Apple doesn’t allow Bluetooth mice to connect to iOS, unless you take the risk of jailbreaking. Introduced at Summit 2015, Citrix may have solved your…

By Jordan Crook We’re all still a bit traumatized from TechCrunch at CES 2015, but the world of gadgets keeps on spinning. With three podcasters still exhausted from CES and the amazing Natasha Lomas having watched from afar, we tried to point out the most important things that happened during CES for the rest of…

By Kevin Lee Introduction Thin gaming laptops are in. We’ve already seen a few spectacularly slim and powerful mobile rigs including the Origin EVO15-S and MSI GS60 Ghost Pro 3K. Not to mention the Gigabyte P35W v2 from yesteryear, which managed to stuff an optical drive into a laptop chassis measuring a mere 0.83 inches…

By Kevin Lee Introduction Thin gaming laptops are in. We’ve already seen a few spectacularly slim and powerful mobile rigs including the Origin EVO15-S and MSI GS60 Ghost Pro 3K. Not to mention the Gigabyte P35W v2 from yesteryear, which managed to stuff an optical drive into a laptop chassis measuring a mere 0.83 inches…

By Michael Rougeau Update: A Microsoft spokesperson tells TechRadar that the Xbox One price cut is currently limited to the US. As far as how long it will last, they’re “not going into depth on the life of the price promotion at this time,” the spokesperson said, but promised “more details soon.” Original story follows……

By Darrell Etherington Genius futurist, entrepreneur and expert Twiterrer Elon Musk revealed some new information about SpaceX’s most recent reusable rocket landing attempt following the launch of its Dragon space capsule to resupply the International Space Station. In a conversation with John Carmack, formerly of ID and current VR software guru at Oculus, Musk shared…

By Max Parker Introduction Tablets are in an odd place right now. Sales are slumping for both Android and iOS devices and with phones growing in size every few months the need for a separate, similarly sized device that lacks all the smartphone features is definitely waning. But that isn’t stopping Amazon, in fact the…

By Max Parker Introduction Tablets are in an odd place right now. Sales are slumping for both Android and iOS devices and with phones growing in size every few months the need for a separate, similarly sized device that lacks all the smartphone features is definitely waning. But that isn’t stopping Amazon, in fact the…