So you’ve got a wearable device with a 1.8 inch screen and the ability to show you caller ID strapped to your wrist? That’s cute. The Rufus Cuff is more like a full-fledged smartphone that you can strap to your wrist. It’s a fitness tracker, web browsing machine, a messaging tool, and you can use […]
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Mohu Channels box blurs lines between broadcast, internet TV
There’s no shortage of boxes you can use to bring internet video to your television. But the makers of the popular Mohu leaf antenna want to launch a new box that doesn’t just let you watch Netflix and Hulu Plus on your TV, it also makes it easy to watch free, over-the-air broadcasts using the […]
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TransMaker is a tablet dock for the Samsung Galaxy S3 or S4 (crowdfunding)
Samsung sells some of the most popular Android phones and tablets on the market… but if you don’t feel like spending your money on both a Samsung Galaxy phone and tablet, there may be another option. Chinese company Shenzhen Migoal has developed a tablet dock called the TransMaker for Samsung Galaxy S3 and S4 phones. The […]
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Neptune Pine smartwatch (or watchphone) could launch in January, 2014
The Neptune Pine smartwatch is a wearable Android device that’s more like a phone with a wrist strap than a watch with smart functions. While smartwatches like the Pebble, Samsung Galaxy Gear, and Qualcomm Toq are designed to show notifications from your phone, the Neptune Pine can be your phone, letting you make calls, surf the […]
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BungBungame Project S: A $299 top-tier smartphone (if it gets funded)
Phones with top-tier specs usually have top-tier prices. While you can pick up the latest Samsung, HTC, LG, or Apple smartphone for a few hundreds bucks or less with a contract, they typically sell for well over $500 when you buy them unlocked. But there’s a recent trend of companies including Xiaomi and Google pushing […]
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Lilbits (10-24-2013): if convertible wants to be your phone, tablet, laptop
Tired of carrying a smartphone, tablet, and notebook around? While Asus is trying to simplify things with products like the Asus Padfone that let your phone act as the brains of a tablet, a group called idealfuture has another idea. They’re trying to raise $100,000 through crowdfunding site Indiegogo to build a device called the […]
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PengPod1040 hits Indiegogo (iPad-sized tablet dual boots Android, Linux)
The folks who brought us the PengPod line of 7 and 10 inch tablets which can run Android, Ubuntu, or other Linux-based operating systems are back, and this time they want to offer an iPad-sized tablet with a high-resolution display and a quad-core processor. While there’s already a working prototype, the PengPod1040 will only go […]
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Ubuntu Edge fails to hit $32 million goal, Ubuntu OS for phones still on the way
Canonical has failed to raise enough money to launch a smartphone that doubles as a computer. The company spent 30 days trying to crowd-fund a project called the Ubuntu Edge, which would be a phone with 4GB of RAM, 128GB of storage, the ability to run Android and Ubuntu, and to function like a desktop […]
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Ubuntu Edge raises an impressive $7 million in a week, still running behind goal
Canonical wants to build a smartphone unlike anything on the market, and the company wants your help to do it. Last week the company announced plans to raise $32 million for the project through crowd-funding site Indiegogo. That’s more money than anyone’s ever raised for any crowd-funded project. But the Ubuntu Edge project got off to […]
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Ubuntu Edge smartphone/PC gets new, cheaper options
Canonical’s crowd-funded smartphone project raised more than $3.5 million in about a day, but the vast majority of folks who pledged to back the project did so at around the $600 mark. That’s the price early adopters could pay to be among the first to get their hands on an Ubuntu Edge phone if and […]