By Desire Athow An event dedicated to storage, Storage Visions, is taking place at the same time in Las Vegas as CES and Western Digital showcased a new storage solution that uses a discrete SSD and a HDD. The drive was presented as the “world’s fastest 4TB Hybrid Drive”, using a 128GB SSD and a…

By Desire Athow An event dedicated to storage, Storage Visions, is taking place at the same time in Las Vegas as CES and Western Digital showcased a new storage solution that uses a discrete SSD and a HDD. The drive was presented as the “world’s fastest 4TB Hybrid Drive”, using a 128GB SSD and a…

By Desire Athow Storage giant Seagate has launched an external disk drive just in time for CES 2015. Called Seven, it’s the world’s thinnest external hard disk drive according to Seagate, and at 7mm (hence the name) it’s just a fraction thicker than Apple’s iPhone 6 smartphone. The drive is a 5mm thick, 500GB model…

By Desire Athow Storage giant Seagate has launched an external disk drive just in time for CES 2015. Called Seven, it’s the world’s thinnest external hard disk drive according to Seagate, and at 7mm (hence the name) it’s just a fraction thicker than Apple’s iPhone 6 smartphone. The drive is a 5mm thick, 500GB model…

By Natasha Lomas Fans of branding confusion will be pleased to hear Microsoft hasn’t ditched the Nokia phone brand quite yet. It’s just announced a new entry level mobile phone, badged with the Nokia name: the Nokia 215, dubbing the handset its “most affordable Internet-ready entry level phone yet” — and aiming it at first…

By Matt Burns Nest is today announcing significant new partners to its “Works with Nest” developer program. The new additions continues Nest’s quest to turn its product into the heart of a smart home. Among the new partners includes Lutron, Insteon, and Philips Hue. Each company built Nest products into its ecosystem. For example, now,…

By Juan Martinez The business laptop market is flooded with devices that pack a ton of storage and performance into giant, nearly unliftable bodies. Workstations like Lenovo’s ThinkPad W540 ($2,573, £1,606, AU$2,946) and Dell’s Precision M6800 ($3,490, £2,075, AU$3,750) offer the performance of typical desktops with above average displays. Unfortunately, both machines are hefty. The…

By Juan Martinez The business laptop market is flooded with devices that pack a ton of storage and performance into giant, nearly unliftable bodies. Workstations like Lenovo’s ThinkPad W540 ($2,573, £1,606, AU$2,946) and Dell’s Precision M6800 ($3,490, £2,075, AU$3,750) offer the performance of typical desktops with above average displays. Unfortunately, both machines are hefty. The…

By Darrell Etherington Nvidia’s new Tegra X1 mobile chipset is a veritable beast: It’s able to provide almost two times the graphics performance of the iPad Air 2’s A8X while also consuming just about the same amount of power, and it’s already in production, meaning tablets sporting the X1’s graphical prowess should be available to…

By Josh Constine You never really feel like you’re there when you’re stuck watching from whatever angle the camera person chose. Meanwhile, professional virtual reality cameras are way too big or expensive for consumer use. But thanks to new video stitching technology, the new Allie camera from IC Real Tech can turn two 360-degree camera…

By Juan Martinez Overview Let’s be honest: virtual reality (VR) is a nascent market for consumers and nearly non-existent for businesses. VR technology is led by Oculus’s Rift Crescent Bay, which still isn’t ready for mass consumption, but offers users an immersive environment with high definition imagery and the best movement tracking on the market.…

By Juan Martinez Overview Let’s be honest: virtual reality (VR) is a nascent market for consumers and nearly non-existent for businesses. VR technology is led by Oculus’s Rift Crescent Bay, which still isn’t ready for mass consumption, but offers users an immersive environment with high definition imagery and the best movement tracking on the market.…

By Michael Rougeau HP has unveiled its CES 2015 display lineup a few days ahead of the show, and in addition to its unique Zvr Virtual Reality Display the company is bringing a range of curved, 4K and 5K displays. These include two 4K displays, the HP Z27s and HP Z24s, and the 5K HP…

By Michael Rougeau HP is bringing its display A-game to CES 2015 this week, and chief among its brand new monitors is the HP Zvr Virtual Reality Display. The Zvr uses something called “zSpace” technology with a 23.6-inch HD stereoscopic 3D display, full-motion parallax and touch interaction to let users navigate 3D images and spaces.…

By Michael Rougeau HP has unveiled its CES 2015 display lineup a few days ahead of the show, and in addition to its unique Zvr Virtual Reality Display the company is bringing a range of curved, 4K and 5K displays. These include two 4K displays, the HP Z27s and HP Z24s, and the 5K HP…