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At CES: Wearable tech for training your successor
LAS VEGAS – To be kind, some of the products at the International Consumer Electronics Show here are a stretch, such as a belt that automatically expands when you sit down or eat too much. There hasn't been a lot of innovation in belt making in the last few hundred years, so the French-based firm that created this smart belt, Emotia, believes the public might be ready for something new.Consumer technology is often bold and audacious, but some companies at this show are aiming their products at businesses, if not exclusively. EXOEye EXOEye Technologies' eyeglasses that includes a camera and sensors. It also has a Linux-based operating system.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More
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iPhone dongle sends 100MB to other iOS devices in seconds
If Bluetooth is too slow for your photo transfers, Toshiba now has a high-speed dongle than can transfer 100MB between iPhones in three seconds. The TJM35420LT is the first adapter for iOS devices that works with TransferJet, a wireless transfer technology developed by Sony. Toshiba Toshiba's TransferJet dongle for iPhones and other iOS devices can send 100MB of data in about three seconds. It has a maximum data throughput of 375Mbps, according to Toshiba, but devices have to be within 3 centimeters of each other.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More
Nvidia's Tegra X1 aims to make driverless cars more reliable
Nvidia hopes its new "mobile super chip" will help achieve truly self-driving cars, but the company did not detail plans to use the chip in mobile devices. Read More
iPhone owners sue Apple over storage space, allege fraud
A pair of Florida men have sued Apple for allegedly misrepresenting the amount of storage room available to owners of 16GB iPhones and iPads.The two, Paul Orshan and Christopher Endara, accused Apple of "unfair, unlawful, and fraudulent business acts or practices," including false advertising, and asked a California federal judge to designate the lawsuit as a class action so that others can participate.In the complaint filed Dec. 29, Orshan's and Endara's lawyers claimed Apple failed to tell buyers that a fifth of the 16GB in low-end iPhones and iPads is occupied by the operating system and pre-installed apps, leaving consumers less than the full amount for their own content, such as apps, photos and other files.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More
3D printing medical breakthroughs -- including dog legs
3D printing's medical marvelsOver the past year, 3D printing has enabled medical feats that previously would have been impossible to achieve. Here, we look at just a handful of the amazing objects that 3D printing can produce, remembering at the same time that these are only the beginnings of far greater advancements to come. A human earResearchers at Princeton University have developed a proof of concept for a 3D-printed bionic ear. The scientists seeded a hydrogel -- or culturing cartilage -- with human cells in the shape of a human ear. They then embedded an inductive coil made of polymer with silver nanoparticles that allow the processing of signals from cochlea-shaped electrodes.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More
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SpaceX flight to land by rocket-power on tiny barge
Next month the commercial spaceflight company founded to make spaceflight cheap and easy enough to eventually put humans on Mars will try a novel cost-cutting tactic: recycling.Rather than using up the fuel in the first stage of its 22-story-tall Falcon 9 rocket and letting it fall to Earth as garbage, SpaceX will try to land the 14-story-tall first stage of the rocket on a barge at sea. SpaceX The 170-ft.-wide barge drone on which Falcon9 will try to land.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More
Connected, autonomous cars in the driver's seat at CES
Cars that can park themselves, cycle helmets that can communicate to avoid collisions and the coming battle between Apple's CarPlay and Google's Android Auto will all be hot topics at International CES in January. The Las Vegas trade show will offer a mixture of cars and accessories coming out next year, and others that are still years away from being ready. The latter category includes BMW's self-parking car, which will be demonstrated to journalists in a Las Vegas parking garage. The Remote Valet Parking Assistant has been integrated in a research version of the electric BMW i3, and by combining laser sensors with digital plans of multi-storey car parks it can supposedly park itself. The goal with the demo is to show what will be possible by 2020, according to BMW.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More
HP's Zvr 'virtual reality' display shows holographic projections
Holographic imaging meets virtual reality in HP's futuristic Zvr display. Read More
Lenovo's new ThinkPads are slimmer, lighter and faster
Lenovo's new ThinkPads now have Intel's latest fifth-generation Core i3, i5 and i7 processors. Read More
Chromebooks get larger, faster with Acer's Chromebook 15
Acer is supersizing chrome books with the world's first Chrome OS laptop with a 15.6-in. screen. Read More
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