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Breakthrough In Quantum Hard Drives
A team of Physicists are in the process of developing a prototype quantum hard drive that has the capability to improve storage time by a factor of more than 100. The team’s record storage time of six hours is a huge step forwards towards a secure worldwide data encryption... Read more
Spinal Implant Could Help Paralysed Walk Again
Researchers have come up with a new implant that attaches directly onto the spine. This implant could help some paralysed people to walk again. The new implant is so successful because it imitates the soft tissue around the spine, so that the body does not reject it, as it... Read more
How To Play Games On Your Chromecast
While most of you probably bought a Chromecast to watch streaming videos on your television, the clever little device is capable of so much more. Have you considered the possibilities of playing games using your Chromecast? If you have a smartphone, tablet or laptop, and if you’ve got a... Read more
Alcatel One Touch Smartwatch Costs $149, Will Work With iOS
Alcatel One Touch announced more information about the WATCH at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2015 in Las Vegas, following a teaser earlier in the week. The WATCH will run Alcatel One Touch’s own software, instead of confining itself to Android Wear. The software will work with iOS and... Read more
Thieves Arrested For Tunneling Into iPhone 6 Warehouse
How far would you go to get your hands on a few iPhone 6’s? Would you maybe work a few extra shifts to get Apple’s latest and greatest smartphone? Would you just bite the bullet and sign up for another 2-year contract (or installment plan, whatever you want to... Read more
Man Straps 94 iPhones To Body To Smuggle Them Into China
Man, this is just a crazy week when it comes to people wanting to illegally get their hands on iPhones. Earlier in the week, Techbeat reported about a group of 3 men who tunneled into an iPhone warehouse in Beijing where they ended up stealing 240 brand new iPhone... Read more
Man Braves Freezing Water To Rescue Drone
People sure do care a lot about their devices, and they will do just about anything to keep them safe or to get them back if they’ve been stolen. (Why else is there a Find my iPhone feature, among others, if we weren’t supposed to go and track them... Read more
McDonalds Restuarants In UK Offering Wireless Charging
You know the sound of impeding doom, right? The small bleep that echoes from your smartphone as the battery indicator light clicks to red/flashing. If you are not heading back to the office and you have no portable battery or charging cable/plug to hand? You day is about to... Read more
Toshiba To Release SDHC Memory Card With NFC
Always having their heads in the game,Toshiba has just rolled out a new kind of memory card that also incorporates a technology that hasn’t yet been made available before. This new memory card is a SDHC card with integrated NFC functionality. Toshiba are going to release this storage gadget... Read more
Nike Confirms Back To The Future Power Laces Are Coming
If you’ve been on the internet for more than a couple of minutes in the past month, you’ve probably seen all kinds of articles detailing what the movie Back to the Future: Part 2 got right about the year 2015. (If you’re out of the loop, which hopefully you’re not,... Read more
Pacif-i: A Smart Pacifier For Your Baby
Okay; I do believe I’ve seen it all now. I live in an incredibly exciting point in time, and just in my lifetime I’ve seen the advent of cell phones, cordless phones, dvd/blu-ray players, next-generation video-game consoles, the internet, iPods, iPads (and most other Apple gizmos), HD TV’s, Bluetooth,... Read more
Coinbase Releases A Redesigned Bitcoin Wallet App
Coinbase, the Bitcoin wallet app is now looking fresh and sleek after the app’s latest redesign. Along with the new design, the app also has a flurry of new and improved updates. This new makeover has come to both iOS and Android and it mostly appears to give users... Read more
Apple Sued Over iOS 8 Storage Space
I was all kinds of excited to update my iPhone to iOS 8 the day it was finally released over the air. So, when my phone finally told me the update was available for download, I immediately tried to download it but was met with a problem. The problem?... Read more
LAPD Smart Tasers Connect To Video Recorders
Recently President Obama made a call for more police to wear body cameras. In response to the Presidents’ request Los Angeles Mayor, Eric Garcetti has vowed to bring approximately 8,000 cameras to the LAPD. If this was the end of the story, then it wouldn’t really make waves in... Read more
Protect Your Head With A BulletSafe Baseball Cap
With the amount of crime and unpredictability in the world around us, concern for personal safety seems to be at an all-time high, especially for those who work in the law enforcement field. Of course bullet proof vests, etc. already exist to protect the body from bullets, but what... Read more
Did Arizona Highway Cameras Film A Bigfoot Group?
I don’t know where you stand on the whole “Bigfoot” debate, whether you are a firm believer or a staunch naysayer, but one thing’s for sure: sometimes, people see things that can’t easily be explained. Sure, there have been all kinds of Bigfoot hoaxes in the past, anyone would... Read more
HP Zvr Virtual Reality Display
HP have come on leaps and bounds in the VR world. Take for instance the HP Zvr Virtual Reality Display. It allows you to experience the ‘feel’ of 3D objects as you manipulate them in real time in front of you. HP’s Zvr Virtual Reality Display is going to be... Read more
iDevices Accounted For More Than 50% Of Activations Over Christmas
Apple’s is still the king of the holidays when it comes to tech gadgets, accounting for 51 percent of all mobile and tablet activations on Christmas Day, according to mobile analytics firm Flurry. Even with the rather lackluster 2014 for the iPad, Apple has managed another two quarters of... Read more