Microsoft has joined the wearable health-monitoring fray with its new “Microsoft Band,” a wrist-worn device that will allow users to monitor their fitness and exercise regimens. The Microsoft Band, as shown on the company's ...
Whenever Nasser Edeeb visits Switzerland, which the 44-year-old businessman from Libya does with some frequency, there are two products he likes to pick up. The first are Swatch watches (for family, friends, himself), the second iPhones (if ...
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Hoare Lea has developed a lighting app to promote the possibilities of light to the architectural and design communities. The app, which is free to download for anyone with an iPad, allows the user to take a photo of a building, sculpture ...
LEGO Bird Project, Modular Apple Store, Back to the Future Train, The Big Bang Theory and two Doctor Who sets up for Review. LEGO Ideas has revealed the first six projects to have made it to the Review stage in 2014. These are the ...
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ShopKeep Mobile is "everything you need to run your store - in your pocket," according to founder Jason Richelson. Related Griffin Griffin Debuts Paper iPad Folios Griffin Griffin Unveils 30-Device MultiDock Charging System Griffin Griffin ...
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High flying Apple Australia, the company that tried to sell a 3G tablet with a 4G name, has been brought down a notch today, having been forced to make court enforceable undertakings to the ACCC that it will improve its consumer practices ...
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A manufacturer of glass coverings for Apple is drawing accusations of worker exploitation from Hong Kong labour groups concerned with several employee suicides at its factory in China. Hong Kong-based Biel Crystal Manufactory Limited is a ...
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Apple has launched an updated range of MacBook laptops with the a lighter and thinner MacBook Air running on Intel's Haswell power-saving PC microprocessor. However, it hasn't upgraded the storage, with the devices, starting at $1,299 ...
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Apple has launched a thinner and lighter iPad at its launch event in Cupertino, California. The iPad Air will be just 7.5 millimetres thick, and the weight has been reduced from 1.4lb to 1.0lb - or from 635 grams to just 455 grams, for ...
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It's rare for a cell phone to explode or seriously overheat—but if it does, it can cause a fire or leave serious burns. Consumers Union, the advocacy arm of Consumer Reports, today joined a call by Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY), to have ...
Charles Bostick of Seele Sedak & Co. used the final day of Glass Performance Days (GPD), which took place last week in Tampere, Finland, to detail the latest in glass technology and projects completed over the last two years. He noted that ...
Yes, now lightbulbs can glow red when your squeeze arrives The Philips Hue lightbulbs are the Internet of Things made real: multicoloured light bulbs with network connectivity and cloud control, with only the outrageous price preventing ...
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The app, called SBS Virtual Packaging, offers users four different platforms through which to engage not only with the pack and its contents but also with the brand. The platform includes a product display which enables consumers to see ...
Retailers share part of the blame for poor Windows 8 sales and the ensuing decline of PC shipments, analysts contended today. Microsoft's radical overhaul of Windows has been cited by some to explain plummeting PC shipments, but the very ...
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It's not a Star Trek tricorder, but by hooking a variety of gadgets onto a smartphone you can almost get a complete physical - without the paper gown or even a visit to the doctor's office. Blood pressure? Just plug the arm cuff into the ...
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