The Cool Gadget Guide
Several health gadgets caught people’s attention at this year’s Consumer Electronics Show recently held in Las Vegas. These gadgets are designed to use the latest technology to help people sleep better, keep track of the amount of exercise, take body weight and blood pressure.
The technology has done all it can to help you stay healthy. However, you are the one who make the decision to live healthy. If you don’t take action, no health gadgets can help.
The Powerbag allows users to charge their smartphones and laptops while carrying them around. Picture: AFP / Frederic J. Brown
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WE ALL know how frustrating it can be when your smartphone dies at a crucial moment. How about charging it on the run?
That’s the promise of Powerbag, a backpack equipped with a built-in battery that is one of the thousands of new products going on display at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas. Read more of this >>
For the consumer electronics industry, the frenzy of holiday sales is just a prelude to its massive annual pilgrimage to Las Vegas in January, when nearly 150,000 people gather to ogle the newest generation of gadgets.
The Consumer Electronics Association is now calling its yearly show the International Consumer Electronics Show, rather than the Consumer Electronics Show, to reflect the convention’s global audience, it says. Last year, more than 25,000 of the 149,000 attendees came from outside the U.S.
The association is expecting more than 140,000 people to attend this year’s show, said Jason Oxman, senior vice president of industry affairs. And when measured by square footage, the 2012 show, which runs Jan. 10-13, is on track to be the second-largest in the association’s history, coming close to the 1.85 million square feet booked in 2007. That’s a lot of TVs, gaming systems, karaoke machines and robot butlers.
Here’s a preview of the gadgets that are expected to generate buzz at this year’s convention: Read more of this >>
As we rapidly approach Apple’s iPad 3 announcement (likely within the next two to three months), it’s expected that the rumor mill will heat up. Some will be accurate, many will be off, and others will be on the opposite side of the universe. Only hindsight will tell us which are which, so let the
By being both slovenly and the type of person that expects technology to solves my problems, I’ve found that I’m the ideal consumer for robotic floor cleaners. For some now I’ve been using iRobot’s Roomba 560 robotic vacuum cleaner, but I’ve also used the Neato XV-11 to see how it compared. Finally I’ve just given
If you’re looking to add a certain visionary co-founder of Apple to your Star Wars, He-Man, and Ninja Turtles action figure collection, you may want to act soon. Chinese company In Icons is in hot water with Apple over the sale of a 12-inch Steve Jobs doll that merges Silicon Valley with the Uncanny Valley.
Logitech is one of the most well known peripheral makers out there, and it has a healthy selection of rodents available for most people’s needs. Its latest mouse attempts to shake things up a bit though, by moving away from the standard shape and adding additional functionality when in your hand rather than on your
Quick boot options have been used on plenty of laptops before–like HP’s QuickPlay, the instant-on media mode developed by CyberLink for its Pavilion line. While the newly-announced Lenovo Thinkpad X1 Hybrid (which you may have seen here before) is shipping with an instant-on option of its own, it’s been done in a very unique way:
Microsoft Flight, the game to rise from the ashes of Flight Simulator, is going free-to-play and finally taking off this spring. The PC-only game will let players start flying for free around Hawaii’s Big Island in the ICON A5, a new concept small plane aiming for real-world production this year. In true free-to-play fashion, the
For those of you lucky enough to be taking advantage of Verizon’s ultra-fast LTE network on your smartphone or tablet, you may have also had the privilege to experience having little or no LTE signal when traveling in a vehicle or inside your home/office. Wilson Electronics is looking to help you with this problem by
