If you use a smartphone then you’ve probably got used to terrible battery life. You might have forked out for an external battery pack or something else to help extend the battery life. So a new “take” on charging phones probably isn’t that surprising. What is, however, a little surprising is the way this one […]
Raspberry Pi is known as the’credit-card-sized’ computer. Not anymore: the newest Model A+ is even smaller, measuring 55mm x 65mm! They’ve redesigned it to get rid of a lot of “wasted space”. Like its predecessor, the Model A, the A+ has just 256MB of onboard RAM (as opposed to 512MB for the Model B and B+), a single USB connection […]
If you’re a frequent traveller or simply spend a lot of your time “out and about” you’ve probably ended up buying extra batteries or backup chargers for your various mobile devices. The problem with most of the external battery packs that you can get is that they take hours to charge. The “Pronto” aims to […]
The new Samsung Galaxy Note 4 is officially launched in Ireland today, but it went on show yesterday at Carphone Warehouse Samsung Experience Stores in Dublin and Cork. The Note 4 is squarely aimed at the increasingly popular ‘phablet’ market. While the Samsung Galaxy S5 and Samsung Galaxy Alpha offer a more mainstream smartphone setup, […]
This idea is astonishing in its simplicity – so much so that I can’t believe it hasn’t been done before. Circuit Scribe is a product from ElectronInks, who developed a silver-based non-toxic ink that dries instantly and conducts electricity. Do you see the potential? Instead of drawing a circuit and then building it on a breadboard, you […]
Nest has launched in Ireland (and in Belgium, France and the Netherlands). The company, which was recently acquired by Google, offers two products: the Nest Learning Thermostat which learns your preferences for home heating as you use it, and can result in significant energy savings; and Nest Protect. a smoke and Carbon Monoxide detector with a number of ‘smart’ features. […]
This looks like a simple idea at first and it is. Then you realise it has a million* unique applications! Touchpico is a pocket-sized Android device without a screen. Instead it has a built in projector which throws up an 80-inch image on a surface such as a wall. But it also comes with an infrared stylus – are you getting […]
Take a tablet, and give it the ability to orient itself: to twist in your direction when you speak, to recognise and track faces and use a speech interface. You’ve got a robot! It won’t make the tea for you, or clean the bathroom, but Jibo looks like it could be a real leap forward for a user interface […]
OK – so we all know that we’ve got more computing power in our pockets than the Starship Enterprise had going to Aldebaran. Or maybe not – it’s hard to keep up with Moore’s Law these days. But sometimes people just want a phone. And while technology is embraced by many older people, and can provide significant […]
It certainly puts an end to arguments about who’s driving. Nobody is driving: the car is. Google’s self-driving car technology has been making headlines for years. Now they’ve taken to the next level by unveiling their very own driverless car. True to its core concept: it has no steering wheel! In a post on the Google blog, project director […]
