Innovation

Write directly to iPhone or iPad with the $150 Livescribe 3 smartpen

While we’ve all been watching the news, eagerly awaiting a smartwatch that will actually impress us, we’ve totally missed the boat on smartpens. Enter…

Guardian: the wearable Bluetooth tech that helps you track your kid

Nearly 8-million children get lost every year. The shocking statistic inspired Taiwanese startup Beluvv to create Guardian, a small wearable device that is able…

Google Watch with Nexus could launch 31 October

These type of situations are bound to happen. First Sony, then Samsung and soon (hopefully) Apple. Today though, there’s more news on the Google…

20 awesome ways you can use a Raspberry Pi

The Raspberry Pi is a humble circuit board that opens the door to an endless variety of gadgets. It’s sold over a million units…

Sony’s wearable 3D TV, HMZ-T3W ready for a $999 pre-order

Sony’s stab at the future of wearable tech, the HMZ-T3W Personal 3D Viewer is ready for pre-order for R10 000 (US$999), if you’re living…

Samsung, Nikkei developing 13MP camera with insane image-stabilisation

Samsung’s electronics and mechanical innovations department have developed a new 13MP camera with very generous auto-stablisation and anti-shake technology, said a release from Nikkei…

Wildcat is world’s fastest robot, runs into our nightmares

As if plucked directly from our nightmares, the “Wildcat” robot by Boston Dynamics is capable of speeds of up to 29 miles per hour…

UK student develops invisible keyboard for iPhone

While there are keyboard attachments for smartphones, they are less than sightly and takes your phone back to the “brick design” days. But a…

A 48-core chip for smartphones? Intel certainly thinks so

“Typically a processor with one core would do jobs one after another: with multiple cores, they can divide the work among them.” So says…

Toilets eat 9% of iPhones says wacky infographic

There’s great evil in the toilet, for smartphones. Nothing wipes an iPhone like a drop in the loo, and it’s the best method for…

South Africa gets first LTE network, care of poppa Vodacom

Mobile telecom Vodacom has gone and launched the first LTE services in sunny South Africa. LTE is roughly double the speed of 3G according…

8-bit Radiohead albums are retro gold

We rarely discuss music on the Gear, usually we’re too busy with games, gadgets and illicit psychedelics. Today is special though. Two Radiohead albums,…

8 things you can do with the Kinect – besides play games

When Microsoft launched the Kinect in 2010, I think the world must have collectively sighed. Here was a device that recognised your movements and…

The real emotion engine? Meet Kara

A tech demo showcasing impressive motion capture and raw acting talent promises much as a CGI film. How much of that promise can be…

Creepy robot can run faster than you [Video]

The robots are coming for you. The boffins over Boston Dynamics have built a robot that can run 18mph (almost 29km/hr) — smashing the…

iOS-linked Tongue Drive System hands over wireless control to the paralysed

Gadgets are extremely personal, if not selfish devices. How many of us need that remote controlled vacuum cleaner, or Bluetooth backscratcher? When does a…

Future tech: Dash – the awesome iPhone car stereo

Devium is utilising Kickstarter to bring Dash to life, a car stereo dock that will put your iPhone in the center of your center…

Waterproof your mobile life with Liquipel

Quickly, what is the number one bane of mobile phone owners? The answer: water. Dropping a phone in coffee, the pool or the kitchen…

USB 3.0 set for smartphones, tablets by end of 2012

USB 3.0, the blazing-fast data transferral medium which promises theoretical speeds of 625MB per second will migrate to tablets and smartphone by the end…

Gearburn Award: Best Innovation in Hardware 2011

As a gadget site we’re not looking at core hardware innovations that shake the world, we’re looking at the awesome innovations that knocked our…

Clock ticking: cheap 50x faster memory

Every year or two there’s an announcement from researchers of some MASSIVE REVOLUTION in storage. So here we go with a new crop –…

Eight household items your smartphone’s made redundant

There are items common only a few decades ago we’d simply not recognise if they were put in front of us. A fleem. A…

Broadband Africa Forum 2024

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