Belfies sind Fotos des eigenen Hinterteils, die man selbst knipst. Das ist nicht ganz einfach. Eine neue Erfindung soll nun das Knipsen von Po-Selfies erleichtern.
Motorola hat ein Halsband für Hunde vorgestellt. Dank integriertem Mikrofon kann Herrchen künftig mit seinem besten Freund kommunizieren.
Ein chinesischer Designer hat externe Not-Ladegeräte für Smartphones und Tablets entworfen. Sie sind aus Papier und sollen in verschiedenen Grössen erhältlich sein.
Toshiba hat einen Spiegel vorgestellt, der Umkleidekabinen ersetzen könnte. Um damit neue Kleider anzuprobieren, braucht man sich noch nicht einmal auszuziehen.
Die ABB präsentiert an der CES in Las Vegas ihre neusten Roboter. Die wurden auch schon von Stars wie Bon Jovi für ihre Bühnenshow eingesetzt.
Bei Apple purzeln die Rekorde: 2014 dürfte der App Store gegen 15 Milliarden Dollar Umsatz generiert haben. Der 1. Januar 2015 war zudem der bisher erfolgreichste Tag.
Die Digitsole verbindet sich mit dem Smartphone und berechnet zurückgelegte Distanzen oder verbrannte Kalorien. Ein eingebautes Heizelement sorgt für allzeit warme Füsse.
Das Rennspiel «The Crew» buhlt um die Gunst virtueller Raser - mit Amerika-Rennen von Küste zu Küste und einer eher missratenen Story.
Je mehr Fotos ein Mann von sich postet, desto selbstverliebter und asozialer ist er. Darauf lässt zumindest eine neue US-Studie schliessen.
2014 starteten Indie-Games durch, im kommenden Jahr befinden sie sich im Höhenflug: Auf diese 15 Spiele sollten Fans unkonventioneller Games ein Auge werfen.
Mehr als drei Jahre hat ein Amerikaner gebraucht, um ein äusserst detailgetreues Modell eines legendären Weltraumkreuzers nachzubauen. Der Koloss ist über 2 Meter lang.
Die Online-Video-Plattform will ihren Nutzern schon bald das Hochladen und Ansehen von 360-Grad-Filmen ermöglichen. Youtube springt damit auf den Virtual-Reality-Zug auf.
An der Consumer Electronics Show werden über 20'000 Produkte vorgestellt. Darunter gibts auch Kurioses, etwa der Selfieblitz, Schlafkopfhörer oder ein Zukunftsspiegel.
Von wegen Bendgate: Apple hat ein neues Smartphone-Design patentieren lassen, dank dem ein neues iPhone flexibel und sogar faltbar werden könnte.
Fasetto’s Link is easily the ugliest wearable at CES, but it’s the only one that puts a solid state drive around your wrist. The Link carries up to 1TB of storage and serves your files to nearby devices over Wi-Fi. Users will have access to their files through a Web-based client or through native apps for iOS, Android, Windows, Mac, and Linux. Fasetto promises read-write speeds of 530 Mbps and 470 Mbps, respectively. Oh, and the Link also includes fitness-tracking features—because why not?—and is waterproof up to 15 meters in case want to take your precious files for a dip. Given the drive’s portable nature, Fasetto is putting an emphasis on security. Users will have to authenticate through email or text whenever they connect a new device to the Link, and any files they access are stored in the device’s RAM, so there’s no trace of them left on local storage. The idea is that users could access their entire file collection on a public or shared computer without compromising their data.
A bipartisan group of five U.S. lawmakers has introduced legislation that would permanently ban Internet access taxes, with sponsors saying the bill will help keep the Internet affordable while encouraging innovation. The Permanent Internet Tax Freedom Act [PITFA], introduced in the House of Representatives on Friday, would make permanent a moratorium on Internet access taxes in place in the U.S. since 1998. Late last year, Congress Congress has temporarily extended the Internet access tax moratorium five times in the last 16 years, but sponsors argue it’s time to make the ban permanent. Without an extension, U.S. residents could face a substantial increase in the cost of Internet access, with some states likely to levy taxes of 10 percent or more, sponsors said.
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Users around the world are getting faster mobile broadband as LTE-Advanced and smartphones that can take advantage of the technology finally start to take off. A year ago, LTE-Advanced was only available in South Korea, but it’s now available in 31 countries (including Australia, France, Germany, U.K. and the U.S.) and more are on the way, according to industry organization GSA (Global mobile Suppliers Association). “There is a lot of activity at the moment,” said Alan Hadden, president at GSA. LTE-Advanced is a collection of different technologies, but the one mobile operators are implementing first is called carrier aggregation. It lets operators treat up to three radio channels in different frequency bands as if they were one and send data to users at higher speeds.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation is going Android-only with its new app, saying it can’t get on board with the Apple Developer Agreement. The organization is one of the top groups in pushing for user privacy and free expression online. Its new app, which you can The EFF outlines its objections to Apple’s rules
A vulnerability in Asuswrt, the firmware running on many wireless router models from Asustek Computer, allows attackers to completely compromise the affected devices. Malicious hackers, however, need to launch their attacks from within the local networks served by the vulnerable routers. The flaw is located in a service called infosvr, which runs on Asuswrt-powered routers by default. The service, which is used by a tool called the Asus Wireless Router Device Discovery Utility, listens to packets sent to the router’s LAN (local area network) interface over UDP broadcast port 9999. “This service runs with root privileges and contains an unauthenticated command execution vulnerability,” security researcher Joshua Drake, who found the vulnerability,
Uber wants to get you out of hibernation and back on the streets. The ride-sharing service says it will cut ride rates in 48 U.S. cities for the winter season. Uber is restricting the price cuts to cities where the service most recently rolled out, though the company didn't say whether the price cuts will also extend to so-called "surge pricing" when the cost of an Uber ride goes up during peak demand. Uber made a similar move in early 2014, when the company lowered prices in select cities to get users requesting rides during the winter slump.
We've already heard that Microsoft plans to Cortana is slated to play a supporting role in
Even in its infancy, Google's newest media platform features some solid choices for killing some time with games.