Core coverage of emerging technologies, hardware, software, AI, security, and innovations shaping the future of the digital world.
Stack Printer Uses Its Own Weight As A Paper Feeder
When innovators step out of the ordinary and expected, wonderful things can happen. Sometimes I get so sick and tired of the same old gadgets and devices being presented in a different packaging as if it was a revolutionary new product. Innovation is not refining, and it's not fixing what isn't brok ...
Customizable Smart Toilet Will Make You Never Want To Leave The Loo
It seems almost everything has gone 'smart' these days, and that even includes toilets. I've read about smart toilets before, but now there is one that is so smart, it's hackable. This particular smart toilet is the Japanese Satis toilet. It comes with a 'My Satis' Android app, which allows you to b ...
Raspberry Pi Glass: Wearable Computer With Help From 3D Printing
Wearable computers have been a trend since mid 2012, and these days, you can find a wearable computer that can track just about anything. If successful crowdfunding campaigns are any indication of the upcoming trends, these types of computers and head-mounded displays are going to continue to gain p ...
inWatch Android Watch Leaps Into The Future With Innovative Features
I am one of those people who can't wait for an innovative smartwatch to enter the consumer market. My biggest hope right now is that several of the multinational technology brands are working on one, and they will introduce them soon. The features considered to be innovative depend on a person's pre ...
Haptix Turns Anything Into A Multi Touch Surface Instantly
So let's start this off quick, what does Haptix have that no other "any-surface" multi touch enabler device has? As you know, there are plenty of solutions out there to turn anything into a multi touch surface. Most use devices like Kinect to drive the mechanics behind it, but that's not why Haptix ...
Instant Translation Device Translates 180 Different Spoken Languages
The increase in people migrating all over the world has created a problem that most innovators have so far not been able to crack. It is the language barrier that is becoming ever more evident when people are in distress or in trouble with the law. For the police, this is a huge problem which they h ...
Snap Pics With Your Apple Earpods/Earbuds And Avoid Fumble Fingers
People who know me well know that I love to snap pics, but I'm not very good at it. I try to blame it on the lighting or the angle, but I'm starting to think the problem is with the photographer if you know what I mean. I have an iPhone 5, and I've tried dozens of apps, but my pics still look low qu ...
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How To Hacker-Proof Your Life [Infographic]
If you want to eliminate most of the computer threats you are constantly faced with, you will have to educate yourself in the ways that hackers get a hold of your data. I know, I have said this before, and it's always the same thing. Well, not exactly. Hacker tactics evolve on a daily basis, and if ...
Future Camera Lenses Might Need Your Smartphone Body To Power Them
Most professional photographers are used to their powerful DSLR cameras. In the near future, that could all come to change drastically. The concept of a smartphone powering a lens is not new, but the development is progressing extremely fast. Soon our smartphones might become the camera houses that ...
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The Future Interface Of A Smarter Smartwatch [Video]
The rumors continue to swirl that Apple (and possibly other developers as well) is working on a smartwatch. On several occasions, we have visited this news thread and tried to make sense of it all, but it's usually to no good. The fact that we all expect smartwatches to enter the consumer market soo ...
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How To Train Your Dog To Use An iPad [Video]
There are some developers who specialize in creating iPad apps for pets. If you do a search, you'll see there are all kinds of games designed to entertain your dogs, cats and even birds. But what if you want to train your dog to actually use your iPad? How hard would that be? Before I saw the video ...
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How Cell Phone Etiquette Is Different Around The World [Infographic]
You probably haven't thought about this before, but manners are generational. What I mean is different generations think different things are rude or inappropriate. I could probably list five or ten of those types of things off the top of my head just based on what my mother thinks is rude. For the ...
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Retro Tech And What It’s Worth Today [Infographic]
At some point, all the technology we buy is going to become retro. I remember when I bought my first Nintendo NES. It was a monumental day in my life, but never did I think that its mere existence would become synonymous with 8-bit and all things retro. Sometimes the technology we buy becomes so val ...
Samsung Announces Environmentally Friendly Origami Printer
Top technology developers have always tried to make their products more environmentally friendly in order to make them even more appealing to their customers. Of course, it's an always present agenda pushed by governments all over the world. Some go far and beyond in order to give our beautiful blue ...
TREWGrip Is Your Next Gen QWERTY Keyboard Layout Device
Most of you will probably think this is yet another attempt to reinvent the keyboard, and you are completely right. But this time around, there might be more to the concept than just an idea being realized because it is different. This next gen QWERTY keyboard layout actually makes more sense than t ...