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Apple Drifts Away From Jobs

March 27,2015
Steve Jobs' Apple displayed a rather fascinating balance between design and utility. Granted, it often shifted more toward the design side, which resulted in problems like Antennagate, but that tended to happen when Jobs wasn't around. He made sure the products worked well and looked good -- he understood the need to do both. By any financial measure, Tim Cook has been doing a great job.


The Micro Bit's Mega Promise

March 27, 2015
The BBC last week announced that it would give programming PCs to 1 million students through its Make It Digital initiative, an effort to spark greater interest in technology. The 11- and 12-year-old UK school children will receive Micro Bit, a stripped-down computer that can be worn on a lanyard. The Micro Bit is designed to serve as an entry point for individuals interested in coding.

Asus to Sport Powerful New Nvidia GPU

March 27, 2015
Nvidia on Thursday launched the latest in its GTX 900s series of mobile GPUs -- GTX 960m and 950m -- designed to make a gaming laptop as future-proof as possible. Asus' recently unveiled GX501 is one of the machines that already has incorporated the latest Nvidia tech. The new GPUs include such gaming-enhancing features as BatteryBoost, ShadowPlay and Optimus.



New MacBook: Computing Rethought

March 26, 2015
The Apple Watch may have dominated Apple's Spring Forward event earlier this week, but an unexpected new MacBook could herald the future of mobile computing. It will be available April 10. Thinness, lightness and tomorrow's technology are its salient features. Its 12-inch Retina display is 0.88 mm thick, and the MacBook itself is 24 percent thinner than the 11-inch MacBook Air.

Apple Springs Bevy of New Products at Watch Event March 27, 2015 The Apple Watch wasn't the only new product to take the stage at Apple's Monday media event -- Apple also introduced an all-new sleek MacBook. In addition, Apple nabbed the chance to be the exclusive launch partner for HBO's new streaming subscription service. Among the event highlights: Apple Watch will be available for preorder April 10, sale April 24; and Apple Watch Edition starts at $10,000.

Valve To Put Steam Behind VR Efforts With New Headset March 27, 2015 Valve on Monday announced that it's getting into the virtual reality hardware business. In a terse tease posted to the Web, the company trumpeted its intentions to reveal its SteamVR hardware system next week at the 2015 Game Developers Conference in San Francisco. Valve also announced that it is looking for developers and publishers to create content for its new VR hardware system.

Lenovo Rapped for Preinstalling Spyware March 27, 2015 Lenovo has come under fire for preinstalling spyware on some of its laptops. The software, Superfish, uses the same techniques cybercriminals often employ to crack encrypted traffic. "Superfish is purposely designed to bypass the security of HTTPS websites in a manner that would allow malware and attackers to also bypass the security provided by HTTPS," said Bluebox cofounder Adam Ely.

Gadget Ogling: An On-the-Go Digital Safe, a Portable Power Plant and a Gimmicky Ghost Buster March 27, 2015 Welcome to a new edition of Gadget Dreams and Nightmares, your weekly guide to the best and worst of gadgets that have just rolled off the production line for the first time or have the proverbial ink still drying on their press releases. On our conveyor belt this week are a gas-powered portable charger, a clever key fob, a flash drive for secret keepers and a pocket ghost detector.

In Search of the Perfect Windows 10 Hardware March 27, 2015 I'm well into the user testing of the next generation of Microsoft's operating system and things are really looking up. Windows 10 is becoming a blend of the many things we liked about Windows 7, and the things that most folks don't know about that are great about Windows 8. Windows 10 should be like a breath of fresh air for those truly annoyed with Windows 8.

A Personal Power Plant in the Palm of Your Hand March 27, 2015 The problem with most portable battery-based chargers is that you still need to plug them into a wall socket to gain a charge. While some inventors have turned to solar, or even wind power, for off-the-grid power sources, solar and wind power take time and require Mother Nature to provide sun or wind. Enter Kraftwerk, a fuel-based hand-held portable generator that has launched as a Kickstarter project.

Launch Window: Upcoming Tech Product Releases

Wondering when you can get your hands on the coolest new gadgets? This calendar tells you when the best new stuff ships.         

Wondering what's coming in the weeks ahead? You could consult your favorite fortune teller, but she won't tell you what's really important: the latest gadget releases!
Whatever it is—a game, a phone, a tablet, or a mysterious new product—if we've got the scoop on when it's going to make a public debut, we'll share it here. Bookmark this page so you'll know when you can get your hands on the latest products. Maybe you'll even discover something here you didn't know you absolutely had to have.

The Om/One
It's tough to innovate on Bluetooth speaker design. You mostly get a rectangular box with a variety of  designs and/or features, like waterproofing. Om/One is a little different. It levitates. In the air. Levitation is where the evolution of speakers is heading, naturally. There aren't many benefits to have your speakers levitate, apart from perhaps eliminating the transmission of sound vibrations to the surface they would normally sit on. Otherwise, it just looks cool.

Thalmic Labs MYO Armband
We've seen the Leap Motion Controller use relatively antique infrared sensors to translate your hand movements into input your computer understands (sort of), but it was limited to say the least. The Myo Armband uses Thalmic Labs' proprietary EMG sensors to sense the electrical activity on your arm's muscles, as well as motions and rotations, to wirelessly control your computer or mobile device.

Earin
The Earin earbuds are the tiniest Bluetooth aptX earbuds we've ever heard about, weighing in at just 0.18 ounce and measuring only 0.78-inch tall and 0.55-inch in diameter. Just in case that's too small, you'll be able to get small Concha locks, which grip the contours of your ear, or you can get a tight fit with the included foam tips. We'll certainly get these in as soon as they're available to hear how big a sound comes out such small earbuds.

Peri Duo
For years, we've been restricted to the iPhone's loudspeaker if we forgot, or couldn't bring along, a separate Bluetooth speaker. No longer. The Peri Duo is a slim iPhone speaker case that connects over Bluetooth or Airplay to play your tunes. It has its own battery, which lets you take off the case to use as a standalone Bluetooth speaker if you so wish. You can also multicast your music to several Duos for a more powerful sound.

Scultpify David 3D Printer
If you've ever worked with spool-fed 3D printers, you'll know they can get finicky sometimes, and they're expensive, too. Sculptify is one of the first 3D printers to use plastic pellets rather than spools. It's actually surprising that pellet-fed 3D printers aren't more common, especially since the majority of our plastic products start out as pellets in manufacturing plants.

Sense
Hello's Sense comes with a sleep tracker called Sleep Pill that attaches to your pillow to track your movement while you sleep using a six-axis accelerometer and gyroscope. The main Sense unit contains ambient light, noise, temperature, humidity, proximity, and particulate sensors to analyze just about everything else that has an impact on your quality of sleep. It relays all the information it collects to your mobile devices via Wi-Fi and Bluetooth LE.

Sony Action Cam FDR-X1000V
Sony's Action Cam FDR-X1000V will break you free from the confines of 1080p-resolution action footage, and brings you closer to the Ultra-High Definition world of 4K. The Action Cam obviously hasn't been released yet, nor have we reviewed it, but we can tell you now that 4K video is stunning, and once you record your ski trips or scuba dives in UHD, you'll wonder how you used to tolerate regular

Project Ara
What if you could upgrade your phone's processor after the next generation of apps proves too much for it? Or replace its stock camera with a third-party shooter that outclasses even what you'd get on an iPhone? Project Ara is an initiative devised by Google to develop an entirely modular smartphone with components that can easily be swapped out at any time. With the Ara, everything from the case and the display to the speaker and sensors will be completely customizable.

Asus GX500
Asus is already well known for its gaming hardware, but it's pushing things to the next level with its upcoming GX500 laptop. This latest Republic of Gamers model is incredibly thin (just 0.75 inch), unites a top-tier quad-core Intel processor with the latest Nvidia GeForce GTX 860M graphics, and adds a 15.6-inch, 4K IPS display to help make every title look terrific. The company also claims it will be the coolest ultraportable gaming laptop ever with its intelligent dual-fan cooling system, all while weighing only 4.85 pounds.

LG Quantum Dot 4K Ultra HD TV
A quantum dot may sound like something that will take you to a fourth dimension, but it's really a technology that uses microscopic crystals to produce a brighter picture with an extremely wide color gamut and even more accurate colors than the already-brilliant OLED. LG's new 4K TVs will use this technology for superior picture quality, and will also contain no toxic heavy metals such as cadmium.

 Mellow Sous-Vide
Though sous vide machines, which use water to slowly cook food in a sealed plastic bag at a relatively low temperature over a long period of time, are becoming a staple of restaurants, they've had more trouble breaking through to the home kitchen. Mellow might change that. In addition to the usual sous vide feats of cooking your food evenly and letting it retain its moisture, it's also smart, so you'll be able to control the Mellow via your mobile devices.

myBrain Melomind
There are countless ways to relax. For example, you could go on vacation, unwind in the tub, or get lost in a good book. But we're in the 21st century, so there's obviously some battery-powered method out there. Enter the myBrain Melomind. It measures the electrical activity and brainwaves through your scalp with electroencephalography (EEG) sensors. Melomind then sends the information to a mobile app to let you visualize your results and monitor your progress, and it coaches you to relax better.




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