If you are planning on cutting down on your electricity costs, you first need to know the sources of electricity consumption in your household. A smart new plug, MeterPlug, is here to help you with it. It pairs nicely with a smartphone app so that you can see electricity usage stats relayed to your smartphone.
Dietmar Thomas of Philips Lumiblade is making a film where he is showing how OLED (Organic Light-Emitting Diode) technology can be used in windows, walls and even in furniture.
Modern-day detection of enemy planes in the air is heavily reliant on the use of radars. Radars send out a signal which hits an enemy plane within its range and is reflected back, alerting the system of its presence. However, conventional radars can be jammed and so, scientists have now come up with a better alternative.
Fuhu has taken a number of shots at introducing tablets meant for a niche audience – namely, the young lot, the kids and those in early teens. Whereas the earlier models from the company haven’t gained much traction, it has now dished out Nabi XD, a high-end tablet which costs a mere $250.
A number of social media websites let you take a quick look on your entire year as a quick, cool review, when the new year arrives. This year, Facebook has added itself to that list by offering ‘2012 year in review’ to all its users. The review, as the name suggests, is a fleeting glance at the things that happened on your Timeline during the whole year.
As the holiday season goes into full swing and we near Christmas, which is when the spirit of gifting will be at its peak, Amazon has released a service to help you keep track of all your gifts. Dubbed ‘Friends and family gifting’, the service essentially lets you create lists of items-to-gift for different occasions.
Taiwanese chipmaker MediaTek, the world’s fastest growing smartphone chip supplier, has launched the world’s first quad-core system-on-chip (SoC), the MT6589. Its processor is based on ARM’s Cortex-A7 design, the same technology used in Qualcomm’s upcoming quad-core S4 processors.
Apple is hailed as the undisputed king of the smartphone and tablet market. Despite many competitors, Apple has led both markets in terms of the revenue it generates. But Samsung has overtaken everyone when it comes to the sheer volume of quarterly smart connected device shipments.