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WaterBean Filter Purifies Tap Water
News August 1, 2013
We at Techbeat like our water filtering products and we believe the world can never have enough of them. This new system, called the WaterBean, is an interesting concept in that its goal is to purify tap water AND to reduce plastic bottle waste. Most water filters, such as... Read more
3.5GB of PlayStation 4 RAM Reserved for OS?
News August 1, 2013
Almost half of Sony’s PlayStation 4 RAM memory will be reserved for the operating system, according to press reports. The gaming system will reserve 3.5GB of its 8GB RAM for the OS, which will leave 4.5GB available for games. A report on Digital Foundry also said initially that an... Read more
Biometric Finger Sensor for New iPhone
Mobile August 1, 2013
As you may have heard, there is the slim possibility of a new iPhone being released by those really nice people over at Apple. Well, it appears as though some new evidence has emerged suggesting that Apple’s forthcoming iPhone will include a biometric fingerprint sensor (and we all hope... Read more
There is nothing more frustrating than losing your keys, but thanks to Nokia that might no longer be a problem. According to sources the firm is planning to launch a “Treasure Tag” accessory that is able to track items using Bluetooth and NFC with a Lumia Windows phone. Apparently... Read more
MediaTek Releases 8 Core Processor
News July 31, 2013
It seems to have been the case for a long time now that Android hardware manufacturers have suffered from an obsessive focus on specs. They have battle rage over clock rates, processor cores, megapixels, resolution, etc. These performance specs keep increasing in size and power and may seem to... Read more
U.S. Navy Uses Kinect to Combat Sexual Assault
News July 30, 2013
Microsoft’s Kinect is an amazing piece of technology with a huge potential to be used in many different areas that would benefit from motion tracking. And now the United States Navy has found another use for the technology. The Navy plans to use Kinect to combat sexual assault and... Read more
Sony & Panasonic Announce Plans for a Blu-ray Successor
News July 30, 2013
Sony and Panasonic have announced that they want to develop an optical disc that can hold at least 300 gigabytes of data by 2015. This is to be a successor to the Blu-ray discs, which can only hold up to 50 GB. In the past Sony has said that... Read more
Disney’s Aireal Lets You Feel The Unreal
News July 29, 2013
At the Siggraph conference in Anaheim, Disney Research showed off a new invention called Aireal. This haptic technology promises to allow people to interact with imaginery objects that are rendered out of thin air. So imagine, there is a computer image of a butterfly nearby, the butterfly slowly moves... Read more
You Can Now Pre-Order Geeksphone Peak+
Mobile July 29, 2013
There is no shortage of smartphone choices today, and in fact, even the briefest look at what is on the table just might make you dizzy with all the brands and models available. Of course, there are fan boys and fan girls who will staunchly defend their preferred OS,... Read more
Nintendo’s stocks have seen a significant rise lately, amid a surge in 3DS sales, especially in the U.S., and due to enthusiasm over upcoming Wii U original games. The Japanese gaming giant’s stock just hit a two-year high and is on a steady climb. Another reason for this, according... Read more
Company Develops 3D Printer Foetus Models
News July 26, 2013
The FASOTEC Company has developed 3D printing technology a step further to make foetus models which allow parents to see their child’s face. The company can also make other scanned body parts and organs. The times of grainy black and white ultrasound pictures is fading, as a Japanese company... Read more
Microsoft has said that it will allow indie game creators to self-publish their games on the new Xbox One console, something that is not available on the current Xbox 360. The company has also said that the Xbox One could be used as a development kit, allowing developers to... Read more
Sweat Machine Turns Perspiration into Drinking Water
Internet July 25, 2013
The idea of drinking water recycled from your sweat or urine may not seem very appealing, but it wouldn’t matter much if we lived in a place where access to drinking water and to any kind of water, in fact, would be almost impossible. This is where a Sweat... Read more
LEGObot: The DIY 3D Printer Made of LEGOs
News July 25, 2013
As 3D printing technology continues to expand, 3D printers are expected to become cheaper and more accessible. But this has not been happening as fast as we want, and even cheaper 3D printers on the market are still too pricey for most of us. So how about building your... Read more
Canonical are seeking to raise $32m through the crowdfunding site Indiegogo in order to launch a handset pre-installed with Ubuntu operating system software. The amount of money it needs to raise is significantly more than any other crowd-financed project before it. Indiegogo’s current funding record is $1,665,380, which was... Read more
New E-Skin Lights Up When Touched
News July 24, 2013
Scientists from the University of California at Berkeley have developed a very thin electronic skin or e-skin. It is a sensor network on flexible plastic that reacts to touch with light. The more pressure that is applied to the area, the brighter the organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) will shine.... Read more
Xbox One & PS4 Shortages at Launch?
Internet July 24, 2013
Gamers should expect shortages of next-generation consoles Xbox One and PlayStation 4 at launch, amid high demand and the difficulty of coordinating the launches, analysts believe. Robert W. Baird’s Colin Sebastian told GameSpot that it will be impossible for retailers to satisfy all their customers from day one and... Read more
When a surgeon has a hard time determining the edges of a cancerous tumor, this can be a real problem: if too little is cut, cancer cells are left behind, when too much is taken away, the patient’s life is in immediate danger. Enter the iKnife, a revolutionary invention from... Read more