This battery-free cellphone runs on light and radio waves
Who cares about an OLED and a notch when your phone can sip power from its surroundings, allowing you to make calls without ever having to charge your phone. This wild cellphone is part...
Category: Gadgets
Apple’s new iPhone 8 and iPhone X support fast-charging
Want to get 50 percent of your battery life back with just 30 minutes of charging? You can do that with the iPhone 8 (and 8 Plus) and iPhone X (via Engadget). These are...
Why the iPhone X is the new iPhone you’ll want now
The iPhone X is billed as a future-focused device with a lot of cutting edge tech, available at a premium. It kind of reminds me of the positioning of the original MacBook Air, or...
Animoji are dumb and I detest them
Apple today announced the digital equivalent of a singing telegram, a perversion of the emoji concept that embodies the worst of both the company’s exclusionary philosophy and the worst of CG animals and excreta....
Modular, self-healing robot swarms are definitely a great idea
Robots are going to have to work together if they want to destroy us, their soft, fallible masters. But the current paradigm of having a Skynet-like (or rather, Zerglike) overmind control a set of...
Apple’s LTE-enabled Watch could be a wearable watershed moment
Apple’s Series 3 smartwatch may look the same on the outside as the previous generation (albeit with a new ceramic gray options and contrasting red-tipped digital crown) but what they have inside might help...
Zoom, artificial bokeh and other phone camera features now figure in DxOMark’s tests
Testing cameras is what DxOMark does, but while many DSLRs and mirrorless systems have remained more or less the same for the last decade, one can hardly say the same for mobile phones. Dual...
Everything Apple announced at its iPhone X keynote
Apple’s September event is always a big one. And this year is no different. There were new iPhones, a new Apple Watch and even a new Apple TV. Surprisingly, Apple announced not one, not...
How Apple TV 4K could outpace competition from Roku, Amazon and more
The Apple TV 4K is here, and it has both 4K resolution (as the name implies) and HDR support, which means it can work with the latest TVs, projectors and content formats for better...
All the videos from Apple’s iPhone event
In case you happened to miss the presentation of Apple’s latest iGear, we’ve got your back. The company today announced Apple Watch Series 3, a new 4K Apple TV, the iPhone 8 and iPhone...
