Microsoft on Friday releases its Xbox One game console, taking on Sony's PlayStation 4 in a battle for the hearts and minds of Internet-era home entertainment. Sony last week unleashed its new champion in the long-running console war, ...
Tags: Consumer Electronics, Xbox, Video Game
Samsung Electronics Co. and LG Electronics Inc. said their curved TVs will get bigger and sport the sharpness four times the regular HD television sets. The world's two largest TV makers will display ultra-HD TVs with curved screens that ...
Tags: Curved TVs, TV, Samsung, LG, Consumer Electronics
LIFX created a Wi-Fi enabled, multi-color, energy efficient LED light bulb that you can control with a smartphone. LIFX gives you a completely one-of-a-kind experience with your lights, up to 16+ million color options at your fingertips. ...
The Xbox One won't quite replace your TV set-top box, but it comes awfully close. The latest game console from Microsoft takes a big leap toward being the main entertainment hub in your living room. It gives you a program guide for browsing ...
Tags: xBox, Consumer Electronics, Electronics
People are taking more photographs than ever before, nearly 400 billion this year, yet sales of cameras are shrinking. Overall, global shipments of digital cameras have fallen 30 percent this year, according to Christopher Chute, research ...
Tags: Smartphones, Camera
Prasad Dhond, Marketing Manager of Lighting Power Products at Texas Instruments (TI) gives a comprehensive overview of the effects of the incandescent bulb phase out in 2014. Below is his recent blog entry: You heard, right? The ...
Tags: LED bulb, light bulb, bulb, Lights, Lighting
Its not often a tool comes along that revolutionizes they way you work. Well we just came across a product that if your a roofer, it will knock your socks off.? We are talking about the Paslode CR175C Cordless roofing nailer, it is packed ...
Yes, another M18 Fuel. ?I can't help it. ?They keep slamming out new and cool tools to the market and we just have to get our hands on them. ?For this one we took a look at the Milwaukee M18 High Torque Impact wrench model 2763-22. Before ...
Raising a mountain of funding doesn't prove a tech company is success-bound. But if you ask Jeff Fagnan at Atlas Venture, there's a closer correlation between the two today than even a few years ago. "I think the current crop (of ...
Tags: Electrical, Electronics
Did you know that in 1946 Albert Kaufmann designed the first Jig Saw? ?He replaced the needle in his wife's sewing machine with a blade. ?I am sure after his wife saw what he did, he spent many nights sleeping on the couch. ?Lucky for us, ...
If you have watched any of our drill or impact reviews, you are probably familiar with seeing a blue bit we use. ?In fact, we get emails all the time asking about those bits. ?A couple years back we received a request to try out some of ...
BlackBerry’s new CEO says he is “very interested” in trying to replicate some of the company’s signature security and enterprise productivity on rival platforms. BlackBerry has enjoyed favour in enterprises for its ...
Tags: iOS, Android, Blackberry
A New Zealander become the first person in the world to officially own an Xbox One Friday, saying he was immediately retreating to his lounge for five days to play the console. International time zones meant New Zealand was the first ...
Tags: xBox, Consumer Electronics
We're super excited for the DARPA Robotics Challenge Trials that run tomorrow and Saturday,and we hope you are too.Before we get all wrapped up in it,though,it's important to understand what's realistic to expect from the robots during the ...
Worldwide shipments of smart wearable bands are on the rise. Just over 200,000 smart wearable bands shipped in the first half of 2013, but this figure is set to grow by well over 500% in the second half of the year, according to Canalys. ...
Tags: Electrical, Electronics