Digital Storm’s Project Spark is a full gaming desktop you actually have room for — on your desk. Measuring 6 inches deep by 4 inches wide by 12 inches tall, it’s the boutique PC builder’s smallest desktop to date made for enthusiasts. Configurations are based on Intel’s Z370 chipset with an Nvidia GTX 1080 GPU and …
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9 January
BlackBerry phones are surprisingly, amazingly, still a thing
The Blackberry Key2 has been officially revealed. And yes, it has a physical keyboard. I miss the resiliency of old-school BlackBerry phones. My old BlackBerry 6220, complete with a track wheel and dorky holster, was built like a tank. I dropped it. I flung it in anger. When I was bored, I tried juggling it (and I’m a terrible juggler). It still …
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9 January
Underwear to protect your private parts from your smartphone
Throughout the years that I’ve written about the potential health hazards of cell phone radiation, I’ve seen a lot of products promise protection from the radiofrequency (RF) signals that our wireless devices emit. They’ve ranged from the useless gold-lined radiation “shields” to Pong’s more respectable line of phones cases that promise to refocus RF energy away from your head. At CES 2018, a …
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9 January
Apple Store reportedly evacuated after iPhone battery overheats
Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that’s taken over our lives. The Apple Store on Bahnhofstrasse in Zurich, Switzerland, was evacuated Tuesday. Apple We’ve become used to stories of phone batteries overheating and even exploding. Less common are tales of batteries causing consternation inside phone stores. However, as Reuters reports, the Apple Store on Bahnhofstrasse in …
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9 January
Klipsch’s The Three ain’t your grandma’s smart speaker
Klipsch has one of the freshest takes on what constitutes a “smart speaker” at CES 2018 with a pair of resolutely old-school tabletop systems. The Klipsch Heritage Wireless speakers The Three and The One offer the use of Google Assistant with their built-in microphone arrays. The speakers are modeled after the company’s Heritage range, which includes the Forte III, and …
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9 January
Samsung’s The Wall makes massive, 146
“Micro”LED is kind of a misleading name, because this new TV technology from Samsung can create truly gigantic screens. The name of the TV itself, however, is entirely appropriate: The Wall. MicroLED is based on Samsung’s Cinema Screen technology, designed for movie theaters. The Wall is the house-size version, a mere 146 inches diagonal. That’s a TV over 10 feet …
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9 January
CES 2018 Day One: Robots, Google Daydream and a lot of rain
CES 2018 began with a bang today, or should I say a flood. The first rain to fall on Las Vegas in 116 days swept into the city yesterday, drenching crews who were rushing to open the show. By this morning, the convention center was leaking, Google had to shut its splashy pavilion and rivers were flowing through a hotel …
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9 January
Mate 10 Pro comes to the US for $800, backed by Wonder Woman at CES
Wonder Woman is coming to the US — not to fight for justice, but to sell phones. Samsung competitor Huawei has just named “Wonder Woman” actress Gal Gadot its official brand ambassador in the US, in the hopes that Gadot’s popularity and backing will put the world’s third-largest phonemaker on the national stage for the first time in years. For …
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9 January
Show the Zotac Mek 1 who’s boss at CES by poking it in the eye
This is a gaming PC. Sean Hollister/CNET This is the gaming PC’s cyborg eyelid. You need to pry it open. Because… Sean Hollister/CNET …this gaming PC’s glowing eye doubles as the power button. In other words, you literally need to poke it in the eye to turn it on. I’m not sure why Zotac went this direction, but frankly, I couldn’t …
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9 January
Kodak cryptocurrency technology sends stock price soaring
The demise of the film camera industry didn’t work out well at Kodak, but so far things are working out better with an effort to capitalize on another digital revolution: cryptocurrency. On Tuesday, Kodak announced the KodakOne service, a technology based on the KodakCoin cryptocurrency and designed to let photographers get paid when their photos are used without a license. …
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