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A Shattered Collection of My Best Memories: An Immediate Solution Thanks to Stellar Photo Recovery

Who doesn’t love creating new memories and saving them as photos on a smartphone, PC, or any other digital media? While many of us share some on social media, we keep the most precious and private ones to ourselves. Sadly, my hard drive of photos became corrupted, which held images…

Adobe Acrobat Pro is the ultimate solution for increased productivity

Disclosure: Our team is always looking for things we think our readers will value. We have received compensation for publishing this article. Despite our many technological advances today, we still sit with situations where we open several apps for a task. You use one to compile a document, another one…

GOM Mix Max’s Big Launch

GOM & Company is releasing its newest video editing software, GOM Mix Max, with a big launch celebration. Focused on balancing high-quality and plentiful features, GOM Mix Max will be a powerful tool for new editors and veterans alike. Users who sign up now can get GOM Mix Max for free for…

Microsoft Office Web Apps Now Officially Office Online
It’s rebranding time at Microsoft, it seems. The official statement about SkyDrive being rebranded to OneDrive has barely made the rounds, and we’re now seeing another change. This time, it’s Office Web Apps, which is now called Office Online. It’s not that this move has been kept a secret,... Read more
Woman Walks Again Thanks To 3D Printed ExoSkeleton
Amanda Boxtel was told by her doctor that she would never walk again following a skiing accident in 1992, that left her paralyzed from the waist down. However, thanks to 3D Systems and Ekso Bionics, a 3D printed robotic exoskeleton has restored her ability to walk. Exoskeltons have been... Read more
CrowdtiltOpen : Crowdfund On Your Own Site
CrowdtiltOpen has just launched, it provides an open source crowdfunding solution that can enable anyone to crowd fund anything on their own website.  You may have heard of something like this before now and that’s because it is the refined version of Crowdhoster, the Y Combinator startup that was... Read more
Roberta Mancino Creates A Base Jumping Fashion Show
The controversial and extreme sport of BASE jumping has been around for a number of decades. Normally participants leaping from either a building, antenna, span or something from Earth like a cliff, use specially designed harness and parachute containers because most jumps are done from less than 2,000 feet.... Read more
Philips Smart Lighting Assists Shoppers
If you have ever spend a considerable amount of time walking around your local grocery store, looking for that really obscure ingredient which your dinner recipe calls for?  It’s really frustrating isn’t it? As if you didn’t have enough on your plate, (excuse the pun) finding the best Chardonnay... Read more
Catchr App Finds Out Who’s Spying On Your Phone
Even the best of us fall prey to paranoia sometimes and think that everyone around us is out to get us. (Can you say A Beautiful Mind?) Or, maybe they’re just out to get our phones and see who all we’ve been talking to and whatnot. If you’ve ever suspected... Read more
Huawei To Release New Tablet & Smartphone At MWC
A teaser video has been released by Huawei confirming the launch of a new super-thin tablet, a multimedia tablet and new smartphone at this year’s Mobile World Congress.  The video features a narrator talking to Siri on an iPhone for most of it. (Um…yeah)  The narrator asks: “What’s new at... Read more
What’s To Be Gained By Apple Buying Tesla?
The SF Chronicle has reported that Apple’s mergers and aquistion chief had a meeting with Elon Musk last Spring, adding fuel to the rumours that Apple is looking to buy Tesla. When interviewed by Bloomberg Musk said Apple making cars would be “a great idea,” and confirms that Tesla... Read more
U.S. Navy is Getting Ready To Use Star Wars Lasers in Battle
We all knew that it was only a matter of time before Star Wars came to earth. Who doesn’t remember the lasers and the lightsabers? And who could forget the Death Star – especially when its green laser blew Princess Leia’s home planet of Alderaan to dust! If you’re... Read more
Samsung Confirm Fingerprint Scanner In Galaxy S5
Previous announcements had asserted that the fingerprint scanner in the Samsung Galaxy S5 would be located behind the screen. It was proposed that customers would be able to unlock phones by putting their registered finger (or thumb) on any location on the screen.  However, the Samsung Galaxy S5’s fingerprint... Read more
Researchers Create Smart Glasses That Can See Cancer Cells
A research team from the Washington University has developed new high-tech smart glasses that could aid surgeons in the removal of cancer cells. Often a long and complex operation, removing cancer cells is not always 100 percent successful, as sometimes it is impossible to remove all the affected tissue... Read more
Scrabble Gets Updated with an Automatic Score Keeper
I hate playing Scrabble. Don’t get me wrong, I actually love the idea behind the game of Scrabble, but I hate playing it because you have to keep score. And I’m not against keeping score either, but with Scrabble it is so hard to keep track of the correct... Read more
Microsoft’s OneDrive Released with Free Storage
Microsoft started the year with a move that proved to be followed by many other changes, in particular, I’m referring to its January announcement that its cloud storage service SkyDrive would be rebranded to OneDrive. While I personally think there is nothing wrong with the SkyDrive branding, Microsoft ran... Read more
Kenguru Creates A Tiny, Easy Access Car For Wheelchair Users
The Austin-based company Kenguru, has developed an electric car that has no seats. Designed for use by wheelchair users, the driver enters the car by putting their hands on motorcyle-type handlebars and then rolls straight through the rear hatch of the car and into the driving ‘area’. The company... Read more
LG L Series III Announced

LG L Series III Announced

Mobile February 20, 2014

The hugely popular smartphone manufacturer, LG has just announced, not one, but three new smartphones for the lower end of the market.  LG are releasing these Android OS smartphones as part of their L Series III models. It is expected that people can get close up and personal with... Read more
Google To Provide 10Gbps Fiber Network Sooner Than Planned
Currently Google Fiber is the fastest broadband internet provider in the US, with connection speeds of 1Gbps. Yet Patrick Pichette, Chocolate Factory’s chief financial officer, has predicted that the speed could increase by up to ten times and it will reach consumers sooner than we all think. During the... Read more
CP+ Japan: Overview
Each year Japanese consumers gather at CP+ in Yokohama, Japan for a four-day trade show.  All the big names always show off their new product lines to local audiences here and have done so for the last 50 years.  Canon and Nikon still dominate the digital imaging market, closely followed by other players... Read more
Rare Corvettes In Museum Disappear In Sinkhole
All businesses have a bad day now and again. Poor sales, rude customers, bad weather – all of these things are pretty well out of the control of upper management, yet they still have a huge effect on employees and customers alike. I’m not sure what you’d consider as... Read more