Gadgets

By Darrell Etherington HTC is said to be prepping a smartwatch for debut in March at MWC alongside its new One M9 flagship smartphone. The new smartwatch will tap into Under Armour’s fitness tracking software service, according to Bloomberg, but little else is known at this time about its design or features. The M9, however,…

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 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 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 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 Ron Miller When Google announced it was ending the Glass Explorer program yesterday and handing over the reins to Nest’s Tony Fadell, it seemed to exit with more of a whimper than a scream. Let’s face it, from its earliest days, people loved to hate Glass. In fact, from the moment Google announced Glass,…

By Darrell Etherington HTC is gearing up to launch something new on March 1 at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, and we’ve heard from a person familiar with the matter that what’s on tap is indeed the next version of the HTC One. The invites for a special event promising a glimpse of “what’s next”…

By John Biggs A few years ago something called a Kuratas, a robotic mech suit that allowed the wearer to fire a BB Gatling gun whenever they smile at their vanquished enemies. When it appeared in 2012 everyone thought it was a funny joke. Now it’s available on Amazon Japan for $1 million. The robot…

By Jon Russell China’s Xiaomi outed its latest smartphone, the Mi Note, yesterday, and we managed to get our grubby mitts on the 5.7-inch screen device. Read More …read more Source: TechCrunch Gadgets

By Kyle Russell Yesterday I got to play with a pair of augmented reality glasses from Osterhout Design Group, a San Francisco-based company that’s spent the last six years iterating on AR for military and industrial clients. Read More …read more Source: TechCrunch Gadgets

By Anthony Ha Mobile startup accelerator Tandem is announcing that it has closed a third fund totaling $100 million — a big step up from its second, $22 million fund. Tandem has previously backed startups like Bash Gaming (acquired by GSN), lost-item tracker Tile, and PalyHaven (now known as Upsight). It invests $200,000 initially and…

By Gareth Beavis Samsung’s a good brand for trying things out. After the mixed reviews to the Galaxy S5 it needed something big, as the Galaxy Alpha and Note 4 both accelerated the design story while keeping up with the high-power internals. But that doesn’t mean the South Korean giant wasn’t looking to keep things…

By Gareth Beavis Samsung’s a good brand for trying things out. After the mixed reviews to the Galaxy S5 it needed something big, as the Galaxy Alpha and Note 4 both accelerated the design story while keeping up with the high-power internals. But that doesn’t mean the South Korean giant wasn’t looking to keep things…