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Never Lose Again Your Digital Memories

Losing photos and precious videos is incomparably much more than just a technical inconvenience: it is an emotional loss of dear memories. Cherished captured moments from family gatherings, vacations, and personal milestones hold deep sentiment. It’s as if part of our past has been torn out when these things disappear….

How to Clean Up Your Computer or Laptop after the Holidays

Your laptop most probably carries more than just travel photos and memories from your holidays. Using it to stay in touch, watch movies, or navigate your way around an unknown location during your vacation adventures, it’s no surprise that digital clutter builds up. From downloading huge files and accessing unfamiliar…

Holiday Video Disasters: Common Issues and How to Solve Them

The arrival of summer is often accompanied by cameras ready to capture every special moment of our vacations. However, too often we discover upon returning home that those memories have various types of errors. From videos that won’t play to corrupt files that prevent us from reliving our experiences, it’s…

Neurocam Records Whatever Excites You
Let’s admit it; we live in a pretty cool world with all of the technology currently available at our fingertips. Whatever we want to do, the technology most likely exists (or will soon exist) to allow us to do it. Take the folks at Neurowear for example. They are... Read more
Batman Arkham Origins is Available…But Does it Deliver?
Who doesn’t want to get the opportunity to be Batman, even if it’s only through a video game console? Batman Arkham Origins was released on October 25, 2013 for the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Wii U, and as a PC game. Being released behind such big hits as Arkham... Read more
Star Chase System: GPS Bullets for Car Chases
Everyone loves a good police chase; except, well maybe the police and any pedestrians who might be in the area. While high-speed police car chases may be exciting on the big screen, they are anything but exciting to the police officers in real life. More than 360 officers are... Read more
Upgrade Your Smartphone Camera with Sony QX10
A smartphone camera lens with a camera on its own; this is what Sony QX10 is all about. Despite being redundant, this accessory makes smartphone photography innovatively new in every sense. It can be somehow related to mirrorless kit lens, only a bit smaller in size and in megapixels.... Read more
Bluetooth Speaker P.A.C.O Makes Use Of Gesture Controls
Created by the Italy-based design studio Digital Habit(s), P.A.C.O is a minimalist Bluetooth speaker that boasts for gestural controls. The components of the loudspeaker is fabricated in concrete and a special type of wooden material called the Fir Harmonic Board. These materials directly influence the excellence of the sound... Read more
Sketch Stylus: For Paper And Tablet
In the age where everything can be written electronically, there’s so little need for real pens and pencils. However, Suck UK turned this notion around by producing a set of special pens called the Sketch Stylus. This item may look like your typical graphite pencil. The standard HB lead... Read more
Chinese Scientists Create LiFi (Light Powered Internet)
Move over WiFi; successful experiments by a group of Xinhua, Shanghai based scientists have implied the possibilities of improving China’s online means by using the signals sent by light bulbs. This technology is called LiFi, a wireless communication using light as a carrier in place of the usual radio... Read more
Lexus IS 300h Car Paints Driver Portraits
Whereas most drivers are used to seeing their dashboard screens with rear-view cameras, Bluetooth phones and radio, one driver in Belgium gets to have a whole new different dash digital display. Walter Vanhaertent is the newest to own a hybrid vehicle that is bred with an artistic machinery. Lexus’... Read more
Brewbot Brews Craft Beers Through Smartphone
Love beer? Check out Brewbot, an automated brewing system which allows amateur to pro craft brewers to concoct their own infusions with just the use of their smartphones. This drinking companion is partnered with an app that guides the user from the beginning of the brewing process to the... Read more
Cyclists’ SEIL Bag Signals LED Traffic Signs
Cyclists, rejoice! You now have a way of communication on the roadside without your hands leaving the brakes. Korean designer and IT innovators at Lee Myung Su Studio has created a one of a kind bag pack that can help bikers go around the traffic. With the use of... Read more
3D Printed Horse Shoes Could Win The Race
Scientists in Australia from the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO) have worked together with horse trainer, John Moloney to produce 3D printed horse shoes made from titanium. It seems as though commercial 3D scanning and printing is a hot topic at the moment. The scientists at CSIRO... Read more
Ene-Farm Fuel Cell Moves into Apartments
The Ene-Farm fuel cell is the first ever commercial fuel cell system in the world. So far, the cell units have only available to people who dwell in a detached property. However, it seems that the creators of the fuel cell unit, Panasonic and Tokyo Gas, have been working... Read more
Rumors Of HTC Smart Watch With Camera
Smart watches have been extremely popular with developers lately it seems. According to a Bloomberg report, there is now another entrant for the race towards producing the best wrist wearable technology with a HTC smart watch. Readers of the Bloomberg article were led to believe that somebody with inside... Read more
Scientists Discover Exactly Why Our Brains Need Sleep
There have been many studies around why sleep is so important to our functions, although we don’t need to read a report to know that without enough sleep each night, us humans don’t function at full throttle. Many people are interested in all aspects of sleep and sleep deprivation... Read more
Ditch Credit Cards With Dwolla Credit
Dwolla is slowly but surely working towards its goal of bypassing the credit card system for consumers and retailers. The online payment system helps people to move their cash around at the click of a mouse or tap of a smartphone button. The two most appealing factors of Dwolla... Read more
What Will A Night Out With Google Play Reveal?
Rumors about the Nexus 5 and the Android KitKat 4.4 operating system being unveiled in October have been circulating for quite some time now. Because of this, when Google began sending out invitations to handpicked media outlets to join them at a special event, tongues began to wag about... Read more
The 12inch Retina MacBook Rumor
Apple is always surrounded by whispers and rumors of upcoming devices to wow the public. One of the most recent rumors is centered on a 12inch Retina MacBook that could be released in either the second or third quarter of 2014. Ming Chi Kuo of KGI Securities is the... Read more
Galactic Merger Leaves Pale Rose in The Sky
Recently, as the Hubble Space Telescope performed a sweep of space, it picked up on an image that astronomers said looked like a “pale rose in the sky”. On closer inspection, it looked as though the pale rose could be the bloom of a galactic merger. The galaxy which... Read more