The Tronsmart T1000 is a $30 wireless display adapter that lets you stream content from a phone, tablet, or PC to a TV or monitor. Just plug the tiny stick into the HDMI port on your display, hook up the USB power supply (which also has a WiFi adapter), and fire up the EZCast app […]
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Asus Miracast Dongle mirrors your phone, tablet screen on a TV
Asus is launching a device designed to let you view content from your phone or tablet on a TV. It’s called the Asus Miracast Dongle, and it’s kind of like a wireless HDMI cable — plug the stick into your TV, fire up a video, game, or presentation on your mobile device and it will […]
Lilbits (11-13-2013): Cheap phones
Motorola introduced the Moto G today, promising to bring premium Android smartphone features to a budget phone that sells for as little as $179 without a contract. But the Moto G is hardly the first budget smartphone around… or the cheapest. ZTE and Alcatel are already selling Firefox OS smartphones in developing markets for well […]
Lilbits (8-29-2013): New devices copy the Chromecast, iPad mini, HTC One
Its the not-quite-a-clone edition of Lilbits. Ramos introduced two new tablets this week that have the look of HTC One smartphones, but the screen size of an iPad mini. And chip-maker Rockchip is pushing a new class of device that’s sort of like a Chromecast… except different. In non-clone news, Qualcomm is taking aim at […]
Lilbits (7-23-2013): Supercomputers on the cheap
Want to build a so-called “supercomputer,” but don’t want to spend a ridiculous amount of money? No problem. Now there’s an option that costs just $99. Sort of. Adapteva’s Parallella is a $99 system-on-a-board that features an ARM Cortex-A9 dual-core processor, 1GB of RAM, Ethernet, HDMI, and Ubuntu Linux. Sounds kind of neat for a […]
Nvidia Tegra chips will support new Miracast wireless display technology
The ability to beam content from a device to an HDTV or other large display is a coveted feature, especially now that media is spread out across tablets, smartphones, laptops and other portable devices. There are several different solutions, such as Intel’s WiDi, DLNA, Apple’s AirPlay and more, there is no universal standard yet. The […]