The first smart TV sets powered by Amazon Fire TV software are coming this year. Today Amazon announced that we’d see 4K televisions from Seiki, Westinghouse, and Element Electronics later this year. They all feature the same software that runs on an Amazon Fire TV… plus a few extra features including support for watching live TV from the same user interface.
Element is showing off a 50 inch Fire TV-powered television at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, and a representative demonstrated how you could launch live TV channels using your voice thanks to Amazon’s Alexa voice service and a remote control with a built-in microphone.
Continue reading Closer look at Element’s Smart TV with Amazon Fire OS and Alexa at Liliputing.
The first smart TV sets powered by Amazon Fire TV software are coming this year. Today Amazon announced that we’d see 4K televisions from Seiki, Westinghouse, and Element Electronics later this year. They all feature the same software that runs on an Amazon Fire TV… plus a few extra features including support for watching live TV from the same user interface.
Element is showing off a 50 inch Fire TV-powered television at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, and a representative demonstrated how you could launch live TV channels using your voice thanks to Amazon’s Alexa voice service and a remote control with a built-in microphone.
Continue reading Closer look at Element’s Smart TV with Amazon Fire OS and Alexa at Liliputing.
Zwei statt vier GByte: Nvidia spendiert der mobilen Geforce GTX 1050 doppelt so viel Videospeicher wie dem Desktop-Pendant, die Ti-Variante hatte den schon vorher. (Nvidia Pascal, Grafikhardware)
Zwei statt vier GByte: Nvidia spendiert der mobilen Geforce GTX 1050 doppelt so viel Videospeicher wie dem Desktop-Pendant, die Ti-Variante hatte den schon vorher. (
Nvidia Pascal,
Grafikhardware)
Für den Auftragshersteller von Blackberry-Smartphones, TCL, ist die Zeit der Tastatur-Smartphones nicht vorbei: Kurz vor dem offiziellen Start der CES hat der Hersteller einen vielsagenden Videoclip auf Twitter geteilt. Mit der Präsentation eines neuen Modells ist auf der Messe zu rechnen. (CES 2017, Smartphone) 
Für den Auftragshersteller von Blackberry-Smartphones, TCL, ist die Zeit der Tastatur-Smartphones nicht vorbei: Kurz vor dem offiziellen Start der CES hat der Hersteller einen vielsagenden Videoclip auf Twitter geteilt. Mit der Präsentation eines neuen Modells ist auf der Messe zu rechnen. (
CES 2017,
Smartphone)
DJIs neuer Crystalsky Monitor soll dank hoher Helligkeit die Steuerung von Multicoptern im Sonnenlicht erleichtern. Die neue App Ground Station Pro soll zudem die Programmierung komplexer Flugrouten erleichtern. Außerdem hat der Hersteller noch eine feuerrote Phantom 4 vorgestellt. (CES 2017, H.264) 
DJIs neuer Crystalsky Monitor soll dank hoher Helligkeit die Steuerung von Multicoptern im Sonnenlicht erleichtern. Die neue App Ground Station Pro soll zudem die Programmierung komplexer Flugrouten erleichtern. Außerdem hat der Hersteller noch eine feuerrote Phantom 4 vorgestellt. (
CES 2017,
H.264)
French startup Miraxess is showing off a new device at the Consumer Electronics Show this wee. The Mirabook looks like a laptop, but it’s really a smartphone accessory. .
Plug in your phone and you can interact with your smartphone apps on a 13.3 inch 1080p display while using a touchpad and keyboard.
This isn’t the first time we’ve seen this type of smartphone accessory. But The Mirabook has a few interesting features to help set it apart.
Continue reading Mirabook is (another) dock that turns smartphones into PCs at Liliputing.
French startup Miraxess is showing off a new device at the Consumer Electronics Show this wee. The Mirabook looks like a laptop, but it’s really a smartphone accessory. .
Plug in your phone and you can interact with your smartphone apps on a 13.3 inch 1080p display while using a touchpad and keyboard.
This isn’t the first time we’ve seen this type of smartphone accessory. But The Mirabook has a few interesting features to help set it apart.
Continue reading Mirabook is (another) dock that turns smartphones into PCs at Liliputing.
Sometimes you need to transfer some data from device to device, so you plug in a USB flash drive to copy a few movies, documents, or other files. And sometimes… you want to transfer more data than your computer can hold. That’s where Kingston’s new USB flash drives come in.
Kingston has unveiled the world’s first flash drive with a whopping 2TB of storage.
I’m honestly not sure what I’d use it for, but I’m still impressed that it’s possible to cram so much storage capacity into a device that measures 2.8″ x 1.1″ x 0.8″.
Continue reading Kingston launches a 2TB USB flash drive at Liliputing.
Sometimes you need to transfer some data from device to device, so you plug in a USB flash drive to copy a few movies, documents, or other files. And sometimes… you want to transfer more data than your computer can hold. That’s where Kingston’s new USB flash drives come in.
Kingston has unveiled the world’s first flash drive with a whopping 2TB of storage.
I’m honestly not sure what I’d use it for, but I’m still impressed that it’s possible to cram so much storage capacity into a device that measures 2.8″ x 1.1″ x 0.8″.
Continue reading Kingston launches a 2TB USB flash drive at Liliputing.
Some headphones can make a tight fit around (or in) your ears to help block out environmental sounds. But even better are headphones that use active noise cancelling technology to sample the sounds around you and adjust the audio to filter it out.
That can let you hear more clearly on a plane, train, or other noisy environment without cranking up the volume to levels that might damage your eardrums.
But good noise cancelling headphones can be pretty expensive.
Continue reading Qualcomm’s new Bluetooth audio chip features active noise cancellation at Liliputing.
Some headphones can make a tight fit around (or in) your ears to help block out environmental sounds. But even better are headphones that use active noise cancelling technology to sample the sounds around you and adjust the audio to filter it out.
That can let you hear more clearly on a plane, train, or other noisy environment without cranking up the volume to levels that might damage your eardrums.
But good noise cancelling headphones can be pretty expensive.
Continue reading Qualcomm’s new Bluetooth audio chip features active noise cancellation at Liliputing.
Qualcomm says its new Snapdragon 835 chip has the chops to handle virtual reality and augmented reality applications. So it shouldn’t be surprising that device makers aren’t only putting the Snapdragon 835 processor into smartphones.
Osterhout Design Group (ODG) has unveiled two new wearables that will use the chip.
The upcoming ODG R-8 is a consumer-oriented set of glasses with augmented reality features for superimposing virtual items on your real-world view, (with a 40 percent field of view).
Continue reading ODG unveils augmented reality glasses with Snapdragon 835 at Liliputing.
Qualcomm says its new Snapdragon 835 chip has the chops to handle virtual reality and augmented reality applications. So it shouldn’t be surprising that device makers aren’t only putting the Snapdragon 835 processor into smartphones.
Osterhout Design Group (ODG) has unveiled two new wearables that will use the chip.
The upcoming ODG R-8 is a consumer-oriented set of glasses with augmented reality features for superimposing virtual items on your real-world view, (with a 40 percent field of view).
Continue reading ODG unveils augmented reality glasses with Snapdragon 835 at Liliputing.
The Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer should launch in 2020 and cost $188 million.
Google says it’s “committed to building Android as a turn-key automotive platform.”
