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CES is (sadly) almost here, and LG and Samsung are revealing their new notebooks focused on battery life today ahead of rest of the crowd.
The post LG, Samsung Announce New Laptop Ahead of CES appeared first on Thurrott.com.
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For the last few months we’ve been running The Hackaday Prize, a challenge for you to build the best bit of hardware. Right now — I mean right now — you should be finishing up your project, crossing your t’s and dotting your lowercase j’s. The last challenge in the Prize ends tomorrow. After that, we’re going to pick 20 finalists for the Anything Goes challenge, then send the finalists off to our fantastic team of judges. Time to get to work! Make sure your project meets all the requirements!
It’s been a few weeks, so it’s time to start …read more
Kids often have their first exposure to robots in school using Lego Mindstorm kits. Now Lego is rolling out Boost — a robotic kit targeting all Lego builders from 7 years old and up. The kit is scheduled to be on the market later this year (it appeared at the recent CES) and will sell for about $160.
[The Brothers Brick] had a chance to try the kit out at CES (see the video below) and you might find their review interesting. The kit provides parts and instructions to build five different models: a cat, a robot, a guitar, a …read more
It’s been a couple of weeks since CES—just enough time to fully process everything we saw there. The post The CES Download appeared first on WIRED. Continue reading The CES Download
Instead of just making and selling smartphones, Xiaomi wants to make and sell just about everything. The post China’s Plan to Rule the World: Make All the Gadgets appeared first on WIRED. Continue reading China’s Plan to Rule the World: Make All the Gadgets
We sent photographer Amy Lombard out to roam the millions of square feet of floorspace at CES. The post Postcards From Vegas: The Beautiful, Terrible Sights of CES appeared first on WIRED. Continue reading Postcards From Vegas: The Beautiful, Terrible Sights of CES
A fridge should do more than just keep your food cold. The post Meet a Couple of Web-Surfing, Voice-Activated … Fridges appeared first on WIRED. Continue reading Meet a Couple of Web-Surfing, Voice-Activated … Fridges
More IoT devices, greater connectivity, voice control via the cloud, a smarter home… but what about security? Continue reading The Spy, sorry, The Fridge Who Loved Me
If you’ve never set up a telescope in your back yard, you’ve never been truly disappointed. The Hubble can take some great shots of Saturn, nebulae, and other astronomical phenomena, but even an expensive backyard scope produces only smudges. To do astronomy properly, you’ll spend your time huddled over a camera and a computer, stacking images to produce something that almost lives up to your expectations.
At CES, Unistellar introduced a device designed to fit over the eyepiece of a telescope to do all of this for you.
According to the guys at Unistellar, this box contains a small Linux …read more
The Chet Chat podccast is back from December vacation with the first episde of 2017. Enjoy… Continue reading Big breaches, bad blunders – and good news, too [Chet Chat Podcast 256]
