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Zotac Unveils Wearable VR PC
Zotac has revealed a new VR-ready PC which features straps, making it wearable as a backpack. The Zotac VR Go is a powerful PC with hot-swappable batteries for virtual reality gaming unencumbered by trailing wires. Remove the straps, and the VR Go can also be used as a desktop PC.…
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Google Glass Enterprise Edition Headset Found on eBay
Ever since being removed from sale last year, Google has slowly but surely been removing all reference to the device. Now, an unusual version of the headset has been found on eBay, which appears to be the long-rumoured enterprise-focused edition of the AR headset. The headset in question is in…
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Sony’s Future Lab Shows Off First Prototypes
It hasn’t been long since they revealed their Future Lab program, a research and development-focused part of the company that would show off its prototypes in order to get input from the public. At SXSW, the department showed off some of their first prototypes including the rumored “Project N” wearable device.…
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MIT Researchers Find Way to Power Wearable Tech with Bending Motions
From smartwatches to fitness trackers, the number of wearable electronics in our lives are only set to increase, but they all have one limiting factor: power. But what if all of these wearables could power themselves from your movements, just like a self-winding mechanical watch? MIT may just have the…
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Omate Rise Android Smartwatch Crowdfunder Raises $50,000 in Half-an-Hour
The Omate Rise, billed as the “World’s first standalone water-resistant smartwatch with carbon Fiber bezel powered by Android 5.1” by its creators, has smashed its $30,000 goal on Indiegogo, raising over $50,000 in the first half-hour of its 65-hour crowdfunding campaign alone. Omate is an ambitious, two-year-old startup, based in…
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Norton Develops Wireless-Blocking Jeans
Anti-virus service provider Norton has helped develop a pair of jeans capable of blocking wireless signals, designed to protect credit cards and passports from being remotely hacked via radio frequency identification (RFID) signals. The jeans were designed in conjunction with fashion retailer Betabrand and uses silver-lined pockets to form a…
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Smart Helmet Is Indiegogo’s Fastest Funded Campaign of $1 Million
The world’s smartest helmet, the Skully AR-1, is the fastest Indigogo campaign to hit the $1 million donation milestone. Looking at this helmet and what it has to offer, it’s really no surprise. They had set a fundraising goal of $250.000, an impressive amount of money on it’s own, but it didn’t…
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Need To Charge On The Go? How About A Solar Dress?
With smartphones becoming so essential to everyday life for most people keeping your device charged is always an issue. So how do you keep your device charged on the go? Well you could buy a battery pack, mobile charger, even a solar powered mobile charger. But if you’re feeling really…
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Turn Any Watch “Smart” with Glance
I bet there are a fair few people our there that want a smart watch, but don’t want to swap our their current favourite time piece in favour of a garish looking LED display. Smart watches aren’t exactly cheap, and there is a good chance that if you’re a series…
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Oculus VR Snap Up Valves Michael Abrash
While many reacted badly to Facebook buying up Oculus VR earlier this week, both companies could do with some good news, and now it looks like they have it. Plucked from the ripe tree that is Valve, home of lord Gaben, Oculus VR have bagged themselves a new Chief Scientist…
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Facebook Drops Oculus Rift Bomb, Internet Fights Back!
Facebook have swooped in to pick up some serious hardware real estate this week, shelling out a staggering $2bn for virtual reality headset creators Oculus. While this new source of financial support is great news for Oculus and their Oculus Rift VR headset, many of the financial backers, consumers and…
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Virgin Atlantic To Trial Google Glass On Flights
Virgin Atlantic are planning to run a six week trial, equipping their cabin crew with Google Glass to see if they can improve the level of customer service they provide to passengers. Google’s wearable tech could allow them to make passengers journeys more personalized, offering each passenger up to date…
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Some Of The Weirdest Patents Of 2013
Since we are closing in on the last days of 2013 we thought it would be interesting to look back on some of the most weird and unusual tech patents of this year. Motorola’s Throat Tattoo The patent by Google owned Motorola was filed in May 2012 and published on…
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Pebble Seeds Engineering Schools With 4000 Free Smartwatches
Pebble are looking to spark the fires of innovation with their new project which is aimed at education. The company will be donating over 4000 of their Pebble smart-watches to higher ed schools including Carnegie Mellon, MIT, Stanford, Virginia Tech and more. Overall the will be donating around $600,000 worth…
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ION Glasses, The Back To Basics Wearable Technology
Google Glass is about giving you a lot of information via its heads-up display, overlaying that information into your vision and that can be a little intrusive and intense for some people, plus you look like with it on your glasses (at least in my opinion). ION are promising a…
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