Showing posts with label Gadgets-and-Accessories. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Gadgets-and-Accessories. Show all posts

GPhone is a smartphone case that analyzes blood

Scientists at the University of California San Diego have created a smartphone case to measure the level of glucose in the blood. It is being developed by a team led by professors Patrick Mercier and Joseph Wang. How does it look? The 3D-printed case is named the GPhone. It draws its power from the phone's battery. There is a reusable sensor at one of the corners. This sensor is connected...

The all-new Amazon Kindle Oasis is water-resistant

Last year's Amazon Kindle Oasis has got an upgrade. The newer variant is slimmer than its predecessor and comes with a 7-inch display. Prominent newly-added features include water resistance, support for audiobooks, and ambient light sensor. The screen is an inch larger, and the count of LED backlights has also increased from 10 to 12. The sharpness of 300 pixels-per-inch is retained. The much-needed...

HP launches the fourth-generation of Z-series workstations

Hewlett-Packard has launched the fourth-generation of their Z-series workstations in three new variants. They are aimed at professionals who need more-and-more computing power in their day-to-day work, including people creating 360-degree video and Virtual Reality content. HP Z4 It is the entry-level system among the three. It features a single Intel Xeon W chipset (you can choose from the...

Logitech Craft wireless keyboard comes with a multi-function dial

Logitech has unveiled their latest wireless keyboard, the Logitech Craft, at IFA 2017 in Berlin. What is new in this smart keyboard is the presence of a multi-function dial. It is aimed at professional designers and other creative professionals to help increase their productivity. The idea is to use the keys for typing, the mouse to navigate, and the newly added dial to access critical software...

Sky Soundbox sound bar is made in collaboration with French startup Devialet

Due to limited space, or budget, or both, people tend to avoid investing in a high-end audio setup for their television sets. Sound bars try to solve this problem as they deliver loud sound while occupying lesser space. Sky, the cable provider from England, has teamed up with French start-up Devialet to create Sky Soundbox. The collaboration involves Devialet designing and producing the speaker,...

Intel puts a neural network into a $79 USB stick

Intel's latest product, the Movidius Neural Compute Stick, packs deep learning algorithms into a standard USB drive. The idea is to make the powerful neural networks and Artifical Intelligence systems not only limited to large organizations but also available to small-scale businesses and developers. The aim is to allow a broad range of AI applications to be built for mobile devices. The Intel...

HTC and Lenovo will manufacture standalone Daydream VR headsets

The Google Daydream mobile Virtual Reality platform is getting an interesting expansion. In this world of smartphone-based VR headsets, Google has announced at the I/O event that standalone VR headsets will be manufactured. Image source What this effectively means is that the new headsets will not rely on any device whatsoever, be it a console, PC, or smartphone. Even though there is not...

Qualcomm Snapdragon 660 and 630 bring the top-shelf features to mid range chipsets

Qualcomm has announced upgrades to its mid-range chipset line, viz. Snapdragon 653 and 625, with the introduction of Snapdragon 660 and 630 respectively. The new processors are focused towards enhancing the capabilities of their predecessors, in turn giving more power to OEMs to produce powerful mid-range devices. Image source The chipsets are equipped with Qualcomm Spectra 160 premium camera...

Samsung Notebook Odyssey is the first gaming laptop by the Korean giant

Samsung has finally decided to foray into the portable gaming world with the launch of Notebook Odyssey at the ongoing Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. The portable gaming device comes in two variants - one with a 15.6-inch display and the other with a 17.3-inch screen (with a resolution of 1920x1080 in both cases). The 15.6-inch version offers 280 nits of brightness, while there are...

Video: Nintendo Switch's first look revealed

October 23, 2016: Nintendo has released a video showing the looks of the much awaited Nintendo Switch, aka the Nintendo NX. April 27, 2016: We have a good and a bad news for avid gamers. The bad news is that the mysterious gaming console from the house of Nintendo (yes, we are talking about the NX) is not going to launch anytime this year. Instead, it will launch, wait for it, in March next...

SanDisk unveils a 1 TB SD card prototype at Photokina

Most of us use memory cards with our smartphones and digital cameras to make sure we have that extra storage when it is needed the most. At Photokina 2014, SanDisk introduced a 512 GB memory card. Taking this a step further, they have now revealed a prototype of the 1 TB SDXC card at the same event this year held in Cologne, Germany. Image source Going a few years down the memory lane, the...

Milagrow AguaBot 5.0 vacuum cleaning robot launched in India for ₹31,990

Milagrow has today launched the AguaBot 5.0 in India. It is a wet mopping, dry cleaning, and floor vacuuming robot. The robot comes with a water reservoir and smart mop attachment of size 350x210 mm. The front portion of the mop will do the wet mopping while the back portion would wipe the floor dry. Milagrow AguaBot 5.0 comes with dual suction control, which gets activated by manually pressing...

New Google Chromecast and Chromecast Audio launched in India for ₹3,399

Google has finally launched the newest version of Google Chromecast and Chromecast Audio in India. Note that these devices were first unveiled sometime last year. The new Chromecast comes with a sleek design, and can hence easily fit into TVs with crowded ports. It is expected to make streaming faster since it supports the latest WiFi standards. The device is priced at ₹3,399 ($50 approx.) on...

Amazon Kindle Oasis with a battery charging cover launched in India; price starts from ₹23,999

Amazon had today launched Kindle Oasis in India. It is the eighth generation of Kindle, the famous e-reader series by the American giant. It features an incredibly thin and light design. Its USP is the charging cover with a dual-battery system (more on this later). The Oasis features a thin touch 300 ppi Paperwhite display, and an ergonomic grip. The built-in front light has 60% more LEDs when...

Acer Chromebook 14 with an all-metal body launched for $300

Acer has expanded its Chromebook series of laptops with the launch of Acer Chromebook 14. It is unique from its predecessors because it features a 14-inch display, and an all-aluminum chassis. The USP of this device is the 14-hour battery life, as claimed by the manufacturer (more on this later). The device comes with a 720p webcam with 1280x720 resolution, HD audio and video recording. It...

iRobot Braava jet Mopping Robot will mop your floor

iRobot has announced yet another robot, the Braava jet Mopping Robot, to its series of home offerings. It is designed to mop hard floor surfaces with high amounts of traffic, such as kitchen and bathroom. The device features a compact design. It comprises of a vibrating cleaning head, a precision jet spray and a set of cleaning pads to lift dirt and stains.There are three cleaning modes, one...

Samsung Portable SSD T3 with up to 2 TB capacity launched in India

Samsung has today announced the launch of Samsung Portable SSD T3. It is a palm-sized, external Solid State Drive (SSD). It is equipped with their proprietary Vertical NAND (V-NAND) and SSD TurboWrite technology, thus providing advanced performance. The Portable SSD T3 offers fast read and write speeds. It drive comes with sequential read/write speeds of up to 450 megabytes per second (MB/s)...

Bluetooth gaming pads by Zebronics launched in India

Zebronics has today unveiled its first Bluetooth game controllers for Android devices. The ZEB-75WG and ZEB-350WG gaming controllers are aimed at bringing an uninterrupted gaming experience, converting the smartphones or tablets into a pocket into gaming consoles at the same time. The pads are embodied with 8 ways direction buttons which are designed to fit perfectly in the user's fingers....

32-inch LED TV by Zebronics launched in India for ₹18,990

Zebronics has launched the ZEB-3203LED TV in India. It is a stylish 32-inch (80 cms) HD LED TV with a lot of awesome features and an elegant design. The slim depth and narrow bezel design nearly eliminates the space between the screen and the bezel. It possesses a sleek look. The device offers a superior dynamic contrast ratio of 300000:1. Now see the colors how they were meant to be seen with...

SteelSeries Rival 700 gaming mouse comes with an OLED display

SteelSeries has launched Rival 700, a gaming mouse equipped with first-ever onboard OLED display. It also boasts of customizable tactile alerts and swappable physical components. Gamers can configure resolution settings up to 16,000 counts per inch (CPI) and down to one millisecond of customizable response time, equaling zero lag time. The display is located at the tip of the user's index...