It’s an interesting time to be a watchmaker. Big companies like Motorola have been bringing smartwatches to market, and smaller companies like Pebble have raised a lot of buzz for wristwatches with ePaper displays, customizable software, and more. Heck, one of the main characters on a prime time TV show is a clockmaker. Anyway, there’s a new smartwatch in town….
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Asus may already be preparing to launch a follow-up to the MeMO Pad ME301T tablet which launched just a few months ago. A new tablet called the Asus K005 showed up at the FCC website this week, and judging by the label drawing, it appears to be a 10 inch tablet. The same tablet has been showing up at regulatory…
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Sony’s Vaio Duo 11 is a Windows 8 tablet with a slide-out keyboard that hangs out behind the screen when you’re not using it. This lets you use the computer as a tablet or a notebook, and you never have to worry that you’ve accidentally left the keyboard at home. While Sony hasn’t officially announced plans for a larger model,…
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Chip maker VIA is adding another low power ARM-based processor to its Wondermedia Prizm lineup. The new WM8880 is a 1.5 GHz ARM Cortex-A9 dual-core processor with Mali 400 graphics. VIA hasn’t added any information about the new chip to its website yet, but the folks at Chinese site 1pad have posted some details and test results from a 7…
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Google has pushed out an update to its Google Drive app for Android. It brings a new user interface, a new grid view, and the ability to quickly preview images and other files. Google Drive for Android also now lets you scan documents with your smartphone camera, recognize the text in those scans, and search for scanned documents once they’re…
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Who needs a Windows RT tablet when you can get a full Windows 8 model for the same price? When the first Windows 8 tablets with Intel Atom Clover Trail processors launched, they tended to sell for $500 and up, while Windows RT devices with ARM-based chips sold for $500 and less. But prices on both have been falling and now…
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The Acer C7 Chromebook is one of the cheapest laptops money can buy, with a starting price of around $199. But when Acer introduced this low-cost Chrome OS notebook, the company kept prices low by including a hard drive instead of a speedier solid state disk (something found in most other Chromebooks). Now it looks like a model with an…
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Google Glass is an Android-based wearable computer that you control by talking to it. But only a few thousand Glass devices are in the wild right now, and at $1500 per unit, they’re pretty expensive. That doesn’t mean you can’t get a taste of Glass. Redditer zhuowei has modified a few of the apps that make Glass different from a…
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Qualcomm’s Mirasol displays use less power than traditional LCD screens, and as an added bonus they’re visible in direct sunlight. Unfortunately the color reproduction on Mirasol screens has never been particularly good. But that hasn’t stopped Qualcomm from continuing to develop the technology. This week Engadget spotted a new high resolution 5.1 inch Mirasol panel at SID Display Week. The…
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Microsoft unveiled its next-generation video game console today. But the Xbox One isn’t just a gaming device. It’s basically the company’s take on what a living room computer should be. It supports TV, video calls over Skype, multi-tasking with support for running two windows side-by-side, voice input, and a user interface that bears a more than passing resemblance to Windows…
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Chinese chip maker Rockchip has released a new tool that lets you remote control an Android 4.2 device with a Rockchip RK3188 using pretty much any Android phone or tablet. In other words, you can plug an Android TV stick like the Tronsmart MK908 into your television to run Android apps on a big screen and fire up a mobile…
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There’s a new version of the Opera mobile web browser for Android, and as expected it’s the first version to drop Opera’s Presto rendering engine and use Google’s Chromium foundation. In other words, you should have no problems opening web pages and web apps designed for Chrome or most Webkit browsers. Opera’s Webkit-based browser for Android has been available as…
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There’s good news for folks who’ve been waiting for Lenovo to release its first Thinkpad ultrabook with a detachable Windows 8 tablet portion. The Lenovo ThinkPad Helix is now available for purchase from Lenovo. There’s also bad news: the cheapest configuration isn’t particularly cheap at all. Prices start at $1679. For that price you get a Windows 8 tablet with…
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Samsung could be planning to follow-up its 7 inch Galaxy Tab 3 with a few larger models. We’ve already seen evidence suggesting an 8 inch version is in the works. Now it looks like there may also be a 10.1 inch model on the way — and it could be the first Galaxy tablet powered by an Intel Atom processor….
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The Acer aspire S3 was one of the first ultrabooks to launch, and Acer has moved on to new models. But it’s still a pretty thin and light laptop, and you can regularly find older models selling for $600 or less. Today Acer is selling one of the best refurbished models I’ve seen in that price range, thanks to a…
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