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Now playing: Watch this: Your bladder’s the limit with this virtual pet water… 0:53 If you’ve played endless negotiation games with your kids to try to get them to drink water, you could soon get a new weapon in your arsenal: the Gululu water bottle. The bottle has a built-in screen on the side that …

The sun’s going down on the last incredibly humid day of Computex 2017 in Taipei. As I’m preparing to fly home, back to Sydney in glorious winter, I’m thinking about the past week. The phenomenally slim laptops I saw, the visionary keynotes I listened to, the obscene gaming rigs that were tempting me to start my Season 5 placement matches …

Nvidia‘s next best thing for fast, high-performance gaming could be yours for as little as $1,200 (that roughly converts to £937 or AU$1610).  The company unveiled its new Max-Q technology at Computex in Taipei this week, saying it will bring the “maximum performance at the maximum energy efficiency point” for gaming notebooks. With all that efficiency Max-Q will make things much, much thinner too. Best …

If you still prefer your powerful gaming laptop to have a palm rest below your keyboard, Dell may be one of your options in the future. Unlike the radical designs of Acer’s Predator Triton 700 and the Asus ROG Zephyrus — both moved the keyboard downward and are doing away with the palm rest to fit GeForce GTX 1080 into …

Windows 10 laptops running Qualcomm chips just gained stronger manufacturer support. Today at the Computex show in Taipei, computer makers Lenovo, HP and Asus officially expressed plans to build Windows devices powered by the Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 mobile processor. The idea of a Windows 10 machine running a Snapdragon chip isn’t new. Qualcomm confirmed that the Snapdragon 835 could handle …

Now playing: Watch this: Need an extreme processor? Intel X-Series has 18 cores 1:25 Intel At Computex 2017, Intel announced a new series of desktop processors, under the Core X name. That’s an enthusiast platform for desktop PC owners who want to push for more performance through overclocking, play games at 4K and beyond and process video files at high …

Kegel exercises are boring.  When California woman Julia Rose first had kids, she soon realised there was a more interesting way to encourage women to strengthen their pelvic floor, by gamifying the experience and letting women track their progress. Turns out she was the Evan Spiegel of Kegels — the VaGenie was born. Inserted inside the body, the VaGenie gives …

It’s no secret that India has problems when it comes to the safety of women.  While the government has been taking steps to address the issue after horrific incidents and widespread protests, sexual crimes apparently continue to occur. But a Singapore startup is hoping to help women feel safer, as well as ensure they have help if they need it. …

Now playing: Watch this: Need an extreme processor? Intel X-Series has 18 cores 1:25 Enlarge Image Intel has unveiled its new X-Series processor, but it’s eyeing plenty more than straight PC power. Intel Intel doesn’t just care about chips any more — it has bigger fish to fry. The processor company took to the stage at Computex in Taipei on …

Now playing: Watch this: Need an extreme processor? Intel X-Series has 18 cores 1:25 The future is here, and it has 18 cores. Intel on Tuesday took to the stage at Computex in Taipei, Taiwan, to unveil its newest range of processors, dubbed the X-Series. With its eyes set on content creators, overclockers and pro gamers (plenty of whom are …