Gadget Lab
- New Phones Still Sold With Old Versions of Android
Two weeks ago when Buddy Roark bought a brand-new HTC Eris smartphone from Verizon, his first Android device, it was a big step up from his feature phone. But it wasn’t until a few days later that he realized part of his new phone wasn’t so new after all. The Eris was running a version [...]
- E-Readers Will Survive the Onslaught of Tablets
If you think the coming wave of tablets is about to make e-book readers obsolete, guess again.Although dozens of tablets are scheduled to hit the market this year — from companies like Apple, HP and Dell, as well as upstarts like JooJoo — executives in the e-reader industry aren’t particularly worried.Instead, they say, tablets and [...]
- LEDs Could Transmit Future Broadband Signals
The light from the lamps in your house could carry a wireless signal that could power internet connectivity at home, say a group of German researchers who say they have found a way to encode the signals into visible frequency.Though it would provide much lower speeds than Wi-Fi signals, it can offer less interference and [...]
- Plastic Logic Delays Que E-Reader
Plastic Logic, which was set to ship its large screen Que e-reader in April, is now delaying it to “sometime this summer.”The company sent notifications to pre-order customers late Thursday afternoon announcing the delay and saying it needed the time to “fine-tune features and enhance the overall product.”Plastic Logic launched the Que at the Consumer [...]
- Apple’s iPad Will Read Books Out Loud, Support Free E-Books
When it began taking pre-orders for the iPad this morning, Apple also published some new details about how the tablet device will function as an e-book reader.It turns out the iPad will read books out loud to you with audio dictation, a controversial feature that caused some trouble for Amazon’s Kindle last year. Also, Apple [...]
- iPad Gets New Button: Screen Rotation Lock
As we comb through the updated Apple website for more iPad-related clues, up pops this new picture detailing the physical buttons on the iPad. Now, in addition to the sleep/wake, home and volume buttons familiar to iPhone users, there is a new button named screen rotation lock.And thank God. One of the most annoying things [...]
- iPad and Accessories Available for Pre-Order
The Apple Store was down for a short spell this morning, and it has popped back up with a pre-order page for the iPad. If you want to get your shiny new Wi-Fi Apple tablet delivered on April 3rd, you can buy it now. If you are holding out for the 3G version, you can [...]
- Fingers-On with Streetfighter IV for iPhone
There are three* video games I know anything about, and all of them I played obsessively through my college years. One of those games is Streetfighter II, Capcom’s amazingly popular (and awesome) one-on-one beat’em-up. So when Streetfighter IV turned up on the App Store yesterday, I downloaded it to my iPod Touch and pretty much [...]
- Leaked Shots Show Sony Mirrorless Touch Camera Interface
[UPDATE: It's official, although it's not clear whether the screen is touch-enabled. See the Sony video embedded below]The folks at Geeky Gadgets have got ahold of some screenshots from Sony’s upcoming mirrorless Alpha camera. It appears that the innovation isn’t all on the outside: this camera will have a touch screen and a smart new [...]
- Cloak Bag: Shoot With the Camera Still Inside
The Cloak Bag is a camera bag that lets you take pictures whilst your camera is still inside. It also doesn’t look anything like a normal camera bag, making it doubly secure if you’re a vulnerable traveler on vacation.Like all the best niche products, the shoot-through bag was born of specific need. After two near [...]
