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Your smart home is trying to reprogram you

A father finds out his daughter is pregnant after algorithms identify tell-tale patterns in the family's store card data. Police charge suspects in two separate murder cases based on evidence taken from a Fitbit tracker and ...

Consumer & Gadgets

May 31, 2017
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Scale to serve fuller reality check on your body

(Tech Xplore)—Ages ago, it seems, people who wanted to lose weight or stay fit thought raw numbers via a bathroom scale were adequate. Times and expectations have changed. People trying to look good, better, or feel great, ...

Consumer & Gadgets

May 11, 2017
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Carnegie Mellon team hones tap concept for IoT items, shows prototype phone

(Tech Xplore)—Lights, washing machine, fridge, thermostat, alarms. Just a few of a growling list of smart items that will be able to obey instructions and relay information. Consumers will get deeper enmeshed in the Internet ...

Consumer & Gadgets

May 10, 2017
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A touchable tablet to guide the visually impaired

Researchers at EPFL have developed a tablet to help people with a visual impairment find their way around unfamiliar places. The device very quickly forms shapes and relief maps that users can then explore with their fingers, ...

Consumer & Gadgets

May 05, 2017
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Alphabet's new plan to track 10,000 people could take wearables to the next level

Verily – the life sciences research arm of Google parent company Alphabet – wants to track the health of 10,000 people.

Consumer & Gadgets

May 04, 2017
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Magic Calendar has e-ink display that evokes paper

(Tech Xplore)—We generally see paper as something you wrap stuff in. Or paper is what you use in the form of towels to wipe up a mess. We also see paper as the material for print.

Consumer & Gadgets

Mar 26, 2017
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Laptop to smartphone: I feel like an empty shell without you

(Tech Xplore)—In patent news, what are all these Apple-centric headers about this week? Something about turning an iPhone and iPad into a laptop? A phone-powered modular MacBook? A superdock?

Consumer & Gadgets

Mar 25, 2017
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Hayo will enable magical moves to control your connected home

(Tech Xplore)—What if you had some virtual remote control for your home, no screen, physical remote, no yelling across the room?

Consumer & Gadgets

Mar 22, 2017
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The design tricks that made the Nokia 3310 world-beating

The Nokia 3310 mobile phone has near iconic status. Released in 2000, it is among the best-selling phones of all time, with 126m units produced. It was renowned for being virtually indestructible and for launching many of ...

Consumer & Gadgets

Feb 17, 2017
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Laid-back browsing, or work, it's all reasonable with Samsung Chromebook Pro

(Tech Xplore)—Whoa, whoa, steady Windows fans, Apple loyalists. Here comes a real threat to your belief system.

Consumer & Gadgets

Feb 14, 2017
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Brilliant Control sports smart lighting, can work with other smart home devices

(Tech Xplore)—A California-based tech company Brilliant on Wednesday announced Brilliant Control, and in so doing showed its ambitions in the smart home marketplace.

Consumer & Gadgets

Feb 10, 2017
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Solowheel Iota wants to go places with wheels between your feet

(Tech Xplore)—A self balancing scooter has turned to crowdfunding on Kickstarter. The rideable is called the Solowheel Iota.

Consumer & Gadgets

Jan 28, 2017
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New techniques allow greater control of smartwatches

Smartwatches aren't the easiest things to control, with their small screens and owners' bulky fingers. Georgia Institute of Technology researchers have invented new ways to interact that provide a little more control.

Consumer & Gadgets

Jan 25, 2017
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Blitab Technology develops tablet for the blind and visually impaired

(Tech Xplore)—Blitab, a tablet with a Braille interface, looks like a promising step up for blind and low vision people who want to be part of the educational, working and entertainment worlds of digital life.

Consumer & Gadgets

Jan 13, 2017
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Visual interpreter for the blind uses smart glasses

(Tech Xplore)—Shopping for clothes and groceries, finding a seat on the train: some of the many tasks we take for granted unless we are among the blind and low vision people who would like to lead more independent lives.

Consumer & Gadgets

Jan 10, 2017
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Nokia had the world's best smartphone – then came the 'inferior' iPhone

Ten years ago, anyone who wanted the latest and best smartphone was excited about the Nokia N95. Launched at the Nokia Open Studio in September 2006, it was trumpeted as the all-in-one multimedia computer and went on to achieve ...

Consumer & Gadgets

Jan 09, 2017
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Enabling wireless virtual reality

One of the limits of today's virtual reality (VR) headsets is that they have to be tethered to computers in order to process data well enough to deliver high-resolution visuals. But wearing an HDMI cable reduces mobility ...

Consumer & Gadgets

Nov 15, 2016
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Team with watch that runs on body heat turns to crowdfunding site

(Tech Xplore)—The makers of something titled the Matrix PowerWatch have a painful reminder for those of us who live our daily digital lives. Oh boy,imagining the scene hurts. Consider the vast numbers of batteries thrown ...

Consumer & Gadgets

Nov 15, 2016
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Greater global outreach eyed for Micro:bit minicomputer

(Tech Xplore)—Kid coders is an idea everyone likes. The vision is that of a new army of survivors who can carry the ball forward in thinking up tomorrow's hardware and software, to make life interesting for themselves and ...

Consumer & Gadgets

Oct 20, 2016
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Misfit to run with analog swag in upcoming Phase

(Tech Xplore)—What, me wear a teensy phone on my wrist? A screaming touchscreen fitness band on my wrist?

Consumer & Gadgets

Oct 19, 2016
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Curved edge display in concept phone turns corners with good looks at Sharp

(Tech Xplore)—Bring it on. That seemed to be a fairly strong reaction this week from those who found out about Sharp's phone concept going curvy—and looking oh so good. Reader comments included "Beautiful," and "Take ...

Consumer & Gadgets

Oct 08, 2016
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Google's new gadgets are part of the 'me-too' competition between the tech giants

Google and Microsoft have a history of trying, and mostly failing, to be as good at hardware as they are in software. As Google announced new products, Microsoft was busy abandoning some of its own.

Consumer & Gadgets

Oct 05, 2016
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Nest beefs up outdoor home security camera, you can find the moment fast

(Tech Xplore)—Sounds trite but a new product appears to be a security camera on steroids. Gadget watchers this week are talking about what Nest has to offer in the way of an outdoor home security camera.

Consumer & Gadgets

Sep 09, 2016
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Dual camera smartphones – the missing link that will bring augmented reality into the mainstream

Smartphones boasting "dual cameras" are becoming more common, and news that they will feature on the just-announced iPhone 7 Plus indicates the arrival into the mainstream. But while dual cameras may stem from efforts to ...

Consumer & Gadgets

Sep 09, 2016
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Apple Watch pivots to fitness – and focuses on a different style of self-help

When Apple unveiled its original watch in 2014, the California company touted three tent-pole features of the new wearable: style, communication and fitness. Rolling out the second-generation Apple Watch this week, Apple ...

Consumer & Gadgets

Sep 09, 2016
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