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BLU Products announced a slew of new products, including its very first tablet, the Life View TAB. As it’s usually the case with the company’s products, this is a mid-end device with specs that include an 8-inch IPS 1024×768 screen, MediaTek’s 1.2GHz quad-core chip, dual 5-megapixel cameras, 1GB of RAM, Wi-Fi and HSPA+ connectivity. All…
ConnecteDevice used CES to unveil two new smart watches, Cogito and Cogito Pop, both delivering essential notifications from the smartphone directly to the wrist. The first of the two is touted to “bring together the power of a connected watch with the sophistication of a precision-crafted timepiece.” On the watch face, Cogito provides users with…
Wanna chat with your fridge or oven? No problem – LG has you covered. Samsung isn’t the only company working to make our homes smarter; LG wants a piece of the action as well, and has announced a cool service that will allow users to chat with their smart home appliances. The best part –…
It’s not just Sprint which announced new Spark markets during CES — AT&T and T-Mobile also had a list of new “LTE places” to share. AT&T added 24 new areas around the continental US that should now have access to 4G LTE speeds, along with two more in Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. The…
AT&T had three major announcements at this year’s CES. First they unveiled Sponsored Data, allowing businesses to pay for users’ mobile data consumption. This in turn will make some apps and services 100% free, without their usage adding to customers’ data bill. When using these sponsored apps/services, users will see a “sponsored” symbol in the…
Sony has been killing it lately. Just today, we found out that PS4 sales are ahead of Xbox One sales by 1.2 million (in 2013) and we were finally treated to the official announcement of Playstation Now, Sony’s cloud gaming service. Well, there are a couple more tidbits you might find interesting, but it has…
There’s a new way to play and this time you’ll use your eyes! Swedish company Tobii Technology recently unveiled its new eye-tracking sensor. Demonstrated at CES, it’s an impressive technology and the company’s offering dev kit preorders for only $95! Tobii has partnered with peripheral company SteelSeries to manufacture the device. It looks very similar…
Robert Scoble is the most visible of the Google Glass Explorers and a prominent supporter of Google’s wearable tech. Today Scoble showed up at CES, in glass of course, to pimp the latest popular app to make its way Glass-wards. Scoble partnered with Hang w/, the popular live streaming social media platform, to announce its…
It’s Humble Indie Bundle time again folks, and this collection’s as great as ever! Marking its tenth indie bundle, Humble Bundle is offering another great line-up. This time there are 6 excellent titles on offer for about $8 at the time of this posting. Grab it here! You can name your price for touching adventure…
The wearable technology market is still in its infancy, and one of the greatest challenges is the look of the products you’ll have on yourself all day. Google can try to make Glass as hip as possible but the fact of the matter is, a lot of the wearable tech out there today isn’t terribly…