By JR Bookwalter With all the feature sharing going on between Mac and iOS, it’s not hard to imagine Apple might one day allow Touch ID to unlock notebooks or even desktop systems, but could it be coming sooner than we think? An Apple-centric blog out of Taiwan called AppleCorner (via AppleInsider) seems to think…

By Natasha Lomas A round of applause for the U.K.-made Raspberry Pi microcomputer — which has just passed the 5 million sales mark, some three years after it was first launched with the over-modest goal of selling “a few thousand” Pi over its entire lifetime, as creator Eben Upton has said. How wrong can you…

By Steve O'Hear Italian startup XYZE (“size”) is currently crowd funding what it’s calling a smart “wearable” measuring tape. Dubbed “On”, the rather neat-looking gadget aims to help solve the clothes shopping size problem, whereby, when shopping for clothes online, the clothes you buy end up being the wrong size. Read More …read more Source:…

By Orestis Bastounis Introduction Aimed at both business and home users in need of gigantic amounts of storage, the DS1815+ is an eight-bay NAS from Synology, powered by a quad-core CPU and up to 6GB of memory. This places it at the very opposite end of the performance scale from the single-bay DS115J that came…

By Orestis Bastounis Introduction Aimed at both business and home users in need of gigantic amounts of storage, the DS1815+ is an eight-bay NAS from Synology, powered by a quad-core CPU and up to 6GB of memory. This places it at the very opposite end of the performance scale from the single-bay DS115J that came…

By Darrell Etherington Apple has been awarded a patent by the USPTO (via AppleInsider) for a head-mounted virtual reality set that uses an iPhone as the display and computing component. The patent describes something similar to both Google Cardboard and Samsung’s Gear VR, but with an insert built specifically to accommodate an iPhone, and with…

By Sarah Perez Evoz, the company behind some of the earliest smartphone-connected baby monitoring systems, is out now with a new product, the Evoz Parenting Monitor, that goes beyond simply capturing video and sharing it to your phone or tablet. Instead, this new monitor is more of a toolbox for parents, the company says, offering…

By Darrell Etherington Samsung is doing a series of teasers this year to hype up the launch of the next Galaxy S6 (or whatever it’s calling its 2016 flagship Android smartphone), and the latest details the tech and progress of wireless charging. In a post on Samsung’s official blog, the company’s lead engineer for IT…

By Kane Fulton The Satellite Click Mini could’ve turned out very differently. Toshiba lifted the lid on its titular convertible tablet at CES 2015, but instead of emerging as a miniature version of the – quite frankly, ugly – Click 2 it’s a surprisingly attractive and portable budget package. Toshiba’s £250 (around US$384, or AUS$492)…

By Kane Fulton The Satellite Click Mini could’ve turned out very differently. Toshiba lifted the lid on its titular convertible tablet at CES 2015, but instead of emerging as a miniature version of the – quite frankly, ugly – Click 2 it’s a surprisingly attractive and portable budget package. Toshiba’s £250 (around US$384, or AUS$492)…

By Darrell Etherington The Apple Watch is coming very soon, with a launch date of April offered by none other than Apple CEO Tim Cook, so understandably, the supply chain is moving to meet initial demand. Apple has ordered between five and six million devices to be produced in preparation for the kick-off of sales,…

By DealRadar We’re back with more deals and today we’ve found a fantastic deal on a brilliant Panasonic compact camera, so let’s drive straight in with that… TODAY’S HOT DEALS Compact camera: The brilliant Panasonic TZ60 is a versatile camera that’s ideal for taking on trips either for business or pleasure, and its huge zoom…

By Natasha Lomas Sony has put a developer edition of its forthcoming smart glasses, branded as SmartEyeglass, up for pre-order today, starting with the U.K. and Germany. It’s also made the SDK available. Read More …read more Source: TechCrunch Gadgets

By Kane Fulton Introduction The HP Sprout is an innovative, quirky and exciting all-in-one PC aimed at content creators, designers and anyone looking for an excuse to ditch their mouse and keyboard. Available now in the US and UK for $1,899 (£1,899), Sprout’s price tag alone hints that it may offer something more than your…

By Kane Fulton Introduction The HP Sprout is an innovative, quirky and exciting all-in-one PC aimed at content creators, designers and anyone looking for an excuse to ditch their mouse and keyboard. Available now in the US and UK for $1,899 (£1,899), Sprout’s price tag alone hints that it may offer something more than your…