Gadgets

By Tomos Ellis Introduction and design Meizu is a rather unfamiliar name to many living in the UK, US and Australia. However, over the past few years the Chinese smartphone company has been subtlety expanding into the global market, building significant fan bases in France, Russia, Italy, Ukraine and Israel. This gradual expansion into the…

By Matt Swider Introduction and design Google Nexus 6 is a supersized version of the new Moto X that has been given a two-handed booster shot and appropriately received a post-surgery Lollipop. The results? It’s among the best phones in 2015. This phablet-sized smartphone was the first to run Android 5.0 Lollipop and, really, there’s…

By Darrell Etherington The new MacBook’s most curious feature might be its lack of ports – there are only two on the edges of the machine, one of the left for USB-C power, data and display connectivity, and a 3.5mm stereo headphone jack on the right for use with any standard audio gear. The singular…

By Matt Burns Smart home gadget maker Nest is looking for someone to lead what they are calling Nest Audio, fueling speculation that they are moving into speakers and other audio products. The company declined to comment on the new division or job listing. Read More …read more Source: TechCrunch Gadgets

By Natasha Lomas The Apple Watch got its grand unveiling yesterday. You can read our round-up of details from Apple’s event here. But as tech watchers chewed over the price-tag for the latest luxury gizmo to be born in Cupertino talk turned to obsolescence. Read More …read more Source: TechCrunch Gadgets

By Natasha Lomas Two years after building a DIY LEGO Pancake Bot, which involved a ketchup bottle and a built-in griddle to sizzle dispensed batter, Miguel Valenzuela, the Norway-based U.S. maker behind the earlier homebrew project, is back crowdfunding a smarter batter dispenser that 3D prints sketches in pancake batter and cooks them in the…

By Kyle Russell Apple brought a lot more than expected with today’s event in San Francisco, pushing new products in media, health, computers, and wearables. Read More …read more Source: TechCrunch Gadgets

By Matt Burns Apple announced the new MacBook today, and in true Apple fashion, it does things differently. A lone USB-C port will handle the charging, data input and video out. So how will users recharge an iPhone and the laptop at the same time? Buy these adapters from Apple of course! Apple just released…

By Darrell Etherington At today’s special Apple Event in Cupertino, the company showed us a whole lot of video – if there was a new feature or product, there was pretty much a video describing rapturously how it came about, or how it’ll change your life. Here are all those videos, grouped by product, so…

By Alex Wilhelm Stocks go up, stocks go down, and apart from earnings, rumors, and analyst notes, things tend to rub along mostly in sync across public equities. But then there are days when a company announces a raft of new products and their pricing data. It signals to buyers, investors and the public how…

By Ron Miller When Kevin Lynch, Apple’s VP of technology demonstrated how apps worked on the Apple Watch today, he showed some cool examples such as ordering an Uber and checking in to your hotel from the Watch, but he also included a quick peek at an app from Salesforce. It was the only truly…

By Darrell Etherington Apple’s smartwatch was on display again at today’s special Apple event, and this time we actually got to try a live unit. Last September, we were able to wear the hardware on our wrists, but today units had near-final live software so we got get a better idea of how it will…

By Darrell Etherington Apple’s newest MacBook is clearly designed to set the stage for all Apple notebooks to come – it has a dramatically thin body, which measures only 13.1-inches deep at its thickest point, and a 12-inch display with an very small surrounding bezel. The screen has Retina resolution of 2304×1440, with a 16:10…

By Kyle Russell After nearly half a year of suspense, we finally have all the details about the Apple Watch, including when it’ll launch, how much it’ll cost, and what the user experience will be like. That means we can take step back and take a look at how it compares to the rest of…

By Matt Burns Apple introduced the radical new MacBook today. For better or worse, it only sports one port. The tiny USB Type-C port handles everything from data transport to recharging the notebook. That’s right, the new MacBook is the first portable Mac in generations to not utilize MagSafe. Read More …read more Source: TechCrunch…