Gadgets: Card reader helps you shop safer online

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Nov 26, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

NetSecure Technologies SmartSwipe credit card reader is a new device to help Internet shoppers or small business owners.


New robot skier takes to the slopes

New robot skier takes to the slopes (w/ Video)

Electronics / Robotics

created Oct 23, 2009 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (6) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new robot skier has been invented that can be fitted with off-the-shelf skis. This is not the first skiing robot, since Japanese scientists have produced their own (see PhysOrg.com article here), but is bigger and heavie ...


Two men and a woman were testing robotic suits designed to give mobility to the injured and disabled

Cyborg-walkers stride toward Japan's robotics future

Electronics / Robotics

created Aug 03, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (21) | comments 11

Three Japanese cyborg look-alikes turned heads on busy Tokyo streets and subway trains Monday as they made their way to a robotics conference on a hot summer's day -- without breaking a sweat.


Suggestions for tech-happy holidays

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Nov 25, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The holiday season is as much a time for tech as for toys. Electronic gadgets are at the top of many wish lists and account for an ever-growing share of holiday shopping budgets. Fortunately for shoppers, tech gifts don't ...


iCub, the Toddler Robot

iCub, the Toddler Robot (w/ Videos, Pictures)

Electronics / Robotics

created Sep 09, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (13) | comments 3

(PhysOrg.com) -- A little humanoid robot called iCub is learning how to think for itself, bringing the world of science fiction to reality. The major goal of the "RobotCub" project is to study how humans learn ...


Mobile phones on display (A)

Choosing a Low Radiation Cell Phone

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Sep 10, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (12) | comments 10

(PhysOrg.com) -- An Environmental Working Group (EWG) team has released a consumer guide on the radiation levels emitted by over 1,000 cell phones sold in the U.S. The guide is the most comprehensive ever ...


Patent: Nintendo's Wii Football Controller

Patent: Nintendo's Wii Football Controller

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Sep 02, 2009 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (4) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Nintendo has come up with yet another idea for an accessory to add to its list of Wii peripherals. This time it's a soft football-shaped controller that is said to simulate the feel and touch ...


Microsoft XBOX 360

Xbox Live boots pirate videogame players; will link to Twitter, Facebook, Last.fm

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Nov 12, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Microsoft said Thursday that its Xbox 360 videogame console will be able to link online starting next week with Twitter and Facebook along with Internet radio star Last.fm.


Robot Tiles

Robot Floor Tiles Move Beneath Your Feet

Electronics / Robotics

created Sep 22, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (10) | comments 8

(PhysOrg.com) -- In a stroke of odd creativity, Japanese researchers have created robotic blocks that automatically detect where you're walking and position themselves in front of you before you take your ...


Hoya Robot

South Korea's little firefighting robots (w/ Video)

Electronics / Robotics

created Oct 08, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (7) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- Two South Korean firms have developed mini firefighting robots to help human firefighters safely plan their course of action before entering a blazing building.


Review: New BlackBerry Storm improves on original (AP)

Review: New BlackBerry Storm improves on original

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Nov 11, 2009 | popularity 2.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0

(AP) -- The first touch-screen BlackBerry phone, the Storm, got a few things right, but generally it was a chore to use.


Apple iPhone 3G

iPhone worm Rickrolls Australia

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Nov 10, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (9) | comments 3

(PhysOrg.com) -- iPhone users in Australia have been hit during the last few days with a worm called "ikee". The worm replaces the default wallpaper with a difficult to remove picture of British singer Rick ...


The Asus New Folding E-Book Reader

The Asus New Folding E-Book Reader

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Sep 09, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (14) | comments 9

(PhysOrg.com) -- Asus has demonstrated a prototype of an e-book reader it is developing. Unlike its competitors, the device resembles a normal book, having two touch screens that will fold up.


LG to Launch 15-inch OLED TV

LG to Launch 15-inch OLED TV

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Sep 01, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (20) | comments 5

(PhysOrg.com) -- The Korean company, LG Electronics, the second largest television manufacturer in the world, has announced it will launch a 15-inch organic display TV set in early September. The announcement, ...


Intel's Atom CE4100 SoC

Intel's Atom CE 4100 SoC Will Transform Internet TV (w/ Video)

Electronics / Hardware

created Sep 25, 2009 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (12) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- At the IDF event, in Santa Clara, California, Intel announced the debut of their newest System-on-Chip (SoC), the Intel Atom processor CE4100. The CE4100 SoC is designed exclusively to facilitate ...