By Natasha Lomas After crowdfunding a minimalist e-paper smartwatch last year, another Sony-backed ‘special project’ is currently passing a donations bowl around on Indiegogo — as the electronics giant continues to try to nurture new ideas via an internal seed acceleration program. And by allowing the employees working on these internal projects to seek external…

By Hugh Langley Microsoft has just detailed its first Xbox One update for 2015, and it’s packed with a few more features than usual. The headline act is the Game Gub, which gives every Xbox game its own little one-stop hub where you’ll be able to view relevant content including in-game stats, leaderboards, video streams,…

By Hugh Langley Microsoft has just detailed its first Xbox One update for 2015, and it’s packed with a few more features than usual. The headline act is the Game Gub, which gives every Xbox game its own little one-stop hub where you’ll be able to view relevant content including in-game stats, leaderboards, video streams,…

By Deal Robertson TechRadar has a team of tech-savvy super-elves putting together our daily deals, and today we’ve got some great ideas for some January bargains. We’ve got TV deals, gaming deals, phones, speakers and more! Let’s kick today’s post off with some awesome quick deals! With the secret code JANOFFER10 you can get £10…

By Desire Athow Introduction and design Netbooks, it seems, are making a remarkable comeback thanks to the likes of Asus. The Taiwanese manufacturer single-handedly kickstarted that revolution back in 2007 when it launched the Eee PC range. Over the next five years, millions of these low-cost, small form factor laptops were sold until Android tablets…

By Desire Athow Introduction and design Netbooks, it seems, are making a remarkable comeback thanks to the likes of Asus. The Taiwanese manufacturer single-handedly kickstarted that revolution back in 2007 when it launched the Eee PC range. Over the next five years, millions of these low-cost, small form factor laptops were sold until Android tablets…

By Lily Prasuethsut The latest from Misfit is undoubtedly its trendiest fitness tracker yet. Misfit has always strived for fashion, similar to the approach Withings has taken with its Activité and Activité Pop, but with the new Swarovski partnership, Misfit has taken it one step further. By combining the Shine with nine different accessories, the…

By Lily Prasuethsut The latest from Misfit is undoubtedly its trendiest fitness tracker yet. Misfit has always strived for fashion, similar to the approach Withings has taken with its Activité and Activité Pop, but with the new Swarovski partnership, Misfit has taken it one step further. By combining the Shine with nine different accessories, the…

By Josh Constine If laziness was a sport, the equipment would be the Hovertrax. You step up onto the foot pads, tip your feet forward, and two motorized wheels carry you around while gyroscopes auto-balance the Hovertrax so you don’t fall off. What’s hilarious is just how casual you look riding it. You’re basically standing…

By Juan Martinez If you’re in the market for a home office or enterprise printer that can handle anything you throw at it, the Sharp MX-C301W printer is a 72.8 lb. unit that handles copying, printing, scanning, and faxing, all with a footprint of just 17″ (w) x 22½” (d) x 18½” (h) (prices vary).…

By Juan Martinez If you’re in the market for a home office or enterprise printer that can handle anything you throw at it, the Sharp MX-C301W printer is a 72.8 lb. unit that handles copying, printing, scanning, and faxing, all with a footprint of just 17″ (w) x 22½” (d) x 18½” (h) (prices vary).…

By Darrell Etherington A new leak of details from within the upcoming companion app for the Apple Watch claims to show some unannounced features we can expect from the wearable when it arrives sometime early this year. The dump of the app’s settings screens from 9to5Mac show panels that let users tweak how it handles…

By Kyle Russell At some point in the next few months (“Early 2015″ can’t push much past March, can it?), Apple will release its Watch, likely defining the high end of the wearable category. The Apple Watch is, in hindsight, exactly what Apple would make when entering a new category: a general purpose computer trimmed…

By Darrell Etherington Apple has been awarded a patent by the USPTO based on IP it acquired from Kodak in a deal from 2013, which details a remote digital camera system that can be controlled from a smartwatch (Apple Watch fantasists should note that this patent was originally created in 2012). The Apple patent specifically…

By Alex Wilhelm Is the PC market growing or shrinking? It depends on who you ask. As TechCrunch wrote yesterday, tracking firm Gartner reports that PC sales were up 1 percent globally in the final quarter of 2014. However, IDC, another company that keeps tabs on the sales of electronics, noted a 2.4 percent decline.…