It’s a fine spring morning for YouView enthusiasts, with both Huawei and Humax today revealing brand new boxes that work with the on-demand telly service. First up, the Huawei DN371T, whose exciting box art is pictured above. This televisual darling packs a 500GB hard drive, which — Huawei boasts — will net you up to …

As the Galaxy S5 becomes official, Samsung’s Galaxy brand is perhaps the biggest force in modern tech. But how did Samsung build its Galactic Empire? In the latest episode of Adventures in Tech, we explain how — after a rocky start — the Galaxy strategy turned Samsung into a mobile superpower. Press play now. Ready for more Adventures? Watch: Why …

Now playing: Watch this: Sony Smartband is a svelte fitness gadget 1:39 Sony is keen to prove that it has potentially brilliant ideas in the world of wearable tech, showing off an interesting concept camera that could strap itself around your neck, and document your whole life. The idea seems similar to the Autographer wearable camera, which automatically takes a …

Now playing: Watch this: Pure LiFi transfers data using light 1:25 BARCELONA, Spain — Transmitting wireless data using radio waves is so old fashioned — in the video above, you’ll see the technology that sends data via light, and could stream Internet video to your TV from a light in your ceiling. The system works by attaching an Ethernet-wired ceiling-based …

Now playing: Watch this: How Samsung built its Galactic Empire 4:07 As the Galaxy S5 enters officialdom, Samsung is the biggest smartphone maker in the world — presiding over an indomitable gadget kingdom. But how did a company best known for Blu-ray players and TVs become the all-eclipsing superpower it is today? In this special episode of Adventures in Tech, …

Eye-scanning firm EyeVerify is adding its eye-vein technology to AirWatch’s Secure Content Locker — a business-centric app that keeps your work documents secure from prying eyes. Unveiling its latest tie-up at mobile mega-show Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, EyeVerify says that businesses who use AirWatch’s technology can enable the biometric security from the AirWatch console, saving users the hassle of …

Images appearing to show two new Samsung Galaxy gadgets have appeared online, ahead of the company’s big “Unpacked” event scheduled for Monday. Not much detail can be discerned from the image above, which comes courtesy of serial leakster @evleaks, on Twitter. The product names given in this also-tweeted (lower-resolution) image are interesting though. While a follow-up to the Galaxy Gear …

Scrappy phone and tablet-maker Huawei is plotting another Nexus 7 rival, if leaked images are to be believed. The photos above, posted to Chinese-language site 1Pad.cn and spied by Engadget, purportedly show the MediaPad X1, a device that looks to be a palm-stretching slate, with some pleasingly skinny bezels. The images imply that the X1 may be capable of making …

The Galaxy S5 and Galaxy Gear 2 aren’t the only gadgets set to debut at Samsung’s Unpacked event on Monday at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. The South Korean tech giant is also rumored to be building a health-centric gadget, dubbed the Galaxy Gear Fit. Korean site MK reports that the Galaxy Fit features a sensor instead of a camera …

The much-anticipated Galaxy S5 has been teased in a new trailer for Samsung’s upcoming Unpacked event, where we’re promised a glimpse of ‘the next Galaxy.’ The 36-second ad gives little away, but features uplifting clips and words associated with life’s best moments (such as ‘courage’, ‘play’ and er, ‘selfie’), with a tiny ‘5’ popping up next to each one. At …