Apple Adds A New Entry-Level iMac For $1,099
Apple has a new iMac model today, an entry-level machine that brings the price of entry to the all-in-one desktop to $1,099, or $200 less than was the case just yesterday. The new version has a 1.4 GHz dual-core Intel Core i5 processor, 8GB of memory, a 500GB hard drive and Intel HD Graphics 5000…
Interactive Map Site Lets You Travel the World Through the Lenses of Drones
Most of us have become accustomed to the amazing imagery of the world available on Google's Street View, but a new site promises the same kind of virtual tourism from the aerial perspective of drones. Launched back in April by Switzerland-based Jan Hiersemenzel, Travel By Drone is a site that…
Honeywell Has a Thermostat That Can Compete With Nest
Honeywell introduced the Lyric thermostat ($279) on Tuesday, the first smart thermostat on the market that uses geofencing technology within the device itself. There's a healthy collection of programmable and smart thermostats already available (and some work with geofencing), but this one can…
Nokia Lumia 1320 lands in US This Friday
The Lumia 1320, you may or may not recall, was unveiled back in October, with China and Vietnam selected as its first launch locations. Younger brother of of the Lumia 1520, the 1320 Windows Phone is now on its way to the US, with Cricket Wireless announcing today it’ll start offering the 6-inch…
How '3D' Smartphones Just Might be the Future
Two years ago, the term "3D phone" would more likely fill phone-watchers with anxiety than excitement, as ghosts of the ill-fated LG Thrill and HTC Evo 3D come home to haunt. But unlike 2011's efforts, which focused on 3D photography and gaming, companies' new-wave 3D vision ranges from gestures…
Modio App Turns Your iPad into a 3D Monster Toy Design Company
3D printing has brought the world some pretty awesome products, but Modio could be one of the coolest we’ve seen. Modio is an iOS app that lets you design your own “monster robot” from scratch, using a selection of different modules and colors. Once you’ve finished your amazing design, you can send…
Google Reveals 3D-Sensing Project Tango Tablet Prototype
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTL1IXTDH30#t=13 Google just unveiled a $1,000 tablet prototype equipped with 3D-sensors and a motion-tracking camera. The tablet is the latest venture of Google's Project Tango initiative aimed at bringing 3D motion and depth sensors to mobile devices. The 7-inch…
The iPhone-Controlled Visiobike Will Take You For A Ride
Zoom zoom! A Croatian company wants to put your butt onto a new kind of bike, a sort of electric/mechanical hybrid that uses battery assist to help you up the hills and includes an automatic transmission system that ensures you rarely have to use the battery. Called the Visiobike, the $5,303 bike…
Your Next Smartphone Could Have a Holographic Projector Inside it
If you keep hold of the phone you already own until late 2015, you may have the chance to buy a new model with a holographic projector inside. That’s the vision of California-based startup Ostendo Technologies, which has been hard at work creating projectors small enough to be used in a mobile…
ASUS Introduces to the 'World's Largest' Curved LED Monitor
ASUS announced a slew of high-profile devices at its press conference yesterday, but the company's booth at Computex still turned up a few gems today. Among them: a prototype of a 32-inch curved LED monitor, which ASUS says is the largest of its kind. At least in its current incarnation, the…