By Darrell Etherington The best tech for 2014 is getting its just desserts at the 8th Annual Crunchies right now, and Best Technology Achievement is one of the categories that reflects true excellence in a field where it’s easy to identify standouts. This year’s winner is Stella, whose four-seat, solar-powered car won the World Solar…

By Michael Rougeau SteelSeries and Tobii’s eye-tracking Sentry peripheral seems like a cool idea in theory, but until now we haven’t seen it implemented officially in a big name video game. The companies have showed it off in various games before, but the first triple-A game that will ship with support is the upcoming PC…

By Michael Rougeau SteelSeries and Tobii’s eye-tracking Sentry peripheral seems like a cool idea in theory, but until now we haven’t seen it implemented officially in a big name video game. The companies have showed it off in various games before, but the first triple-A game that will ship with support is the upcoming PC…

By Darrell Etherington Apple launched its dedicated Photos app for OS X as a developer preview today, and the app marks a clean break from iPhoto in almost every way, with the new software representing a completely new experience from basic code all the way to the user interface. But while it owes a lot…

By Kyle Russell StartX, the Stanford-funded and affiliated incubator, just held its demo day for the Fall 2014 batch of startups at its headquarters in Palo Alto. The companies presenting ran the gamut from bitcoin and cybersecurity to open source machine learning. Read More …read more Source: TechCrunch Gadgets

By John Biggs The Swatch Group dropped a bombshell – in its staid way – announcing plans to release a smartwatch in the next three months, potentially to coincide with the April launch of the Apple Watch. First, understand that watch companies don’t know how to market to tech consumers. As I wrote here, Swatch…

By Matt Burns “What a piece of junk!” said Luke Skywalker. “She’ll make point five past lightspeed (30km/h.),” Han replied. “She may not look like much, but she’s got it where it counts, kid. I’ve made a lot of special modifications myself including a 1800mAh battery, a GoPro 3 and a handmade Styrofoam body shaped…

By Steve O'Hear Investors are wont to follow. It therefore shouldn’t be a surprise to see Airtame pick up a VC round of funding. Read More …read more Source: TechCrunch Gadgets

By Orestis Bastounis Introduction OCZ is a company whose history of flash storage products began a few years ago with the Vertex range of SSDs that were renowned for being affordable but not the best performers or most reliable. After a tumultuous last few years, the business is now in the capable hands of Toshiba,…

By Orestis Bastounis Introduction OCZ is a company whose history of flash storage products began a few years ago with the Vertex range of SSDs that were renowned for being affordable but not the best performers or most reliable. After a tumultuous last few years, the business is now in the capable hands of Toshiba,…

By Alex Blake If you enjoy gaming, you’ll know that there are times when you wish you were recording the action. Fortunately there’s no need to pay to do this, as Fraps is an excellent screen recording program that is available for free. Why you need it The name comes from ‘frames per second’ (FPS),…

By Alex Blake If you enjoy gaming, you’ll know that there are times when you wish you were recording the action. Fortunately there’s no need to pay to do this, as Fraps is an excellent screen recording program that is available for free. Why you need it The name comes from ‘frames per second’ (FPS),…

By Kyle Russell FiftyThree, maker of the Paper app and the accompanying Pencil stylus for the iPad, is shaking up its strategy by dropping the price of every feature in its app to absolutely nothing. Read More …read more Source: TechCrunch Gadgets

By Phil Iwaniuk The major selling point of SteelSeries’ new budget gaming headset, the Siberia RAW Prism, is colour. Over 16 million different colours, actually. Prism is the name of SteelSeries’ RGB colour customisation tech, used to change the hue of the illuminating rings around each earpiece. So, once you plug these cans in via…

By Phil Iwaniuk The major selling point of SteelSeries’ new budget gaming headset, the Siberia RAW Prism, is colour. Over 16 million different colours, actually. Prism is the name of SteelSeries’ RGB colour customisation tech, used to change the hue of the illuminating rings around each earpiece. So, once you plug these cans in via…