You’ve heard of self-parking cars, but if you’re like me, you’ll want your car parked in a shady spot, and you’ll want it as close as possible to the store’s exit so you won’t have to carry your groceries or other goods all the way across the parking lot. That’s one potential benefit of parking…
Sony has created a prototype device which they call SmartEyeglasses that converts your existing eyewear into ‘smart’ glasses. What sets this apart from Google Glass is that you won’t have to replace your existing glasses with it, you can simply attach it to your existing glasses. This is especially important to people wearing prescribed corrective…
Microsoft has created a new experimental version of Skype that can translate calls in real time. You could speak English on your end, while the other person can speak Spanish. Skype will automatically translate your language to theirs, and vice versa. The translated audio is not only spoken by Skype, but converted to text as…
The three finalists have been announced for the 2015 North American Truck/Utility Of The Year. Chevrolet Colorado Starting MSRP: $20,120 USD. The Chevrolet Colorado, which is the 2015 Motor Trend Truck Of The Year, is a small four-door pickup truck. One of the primary selling points of this vehicle is its technology, including the high-tech…
Since your grandparents were children, the only notable innovations to suitcases were the addition of smartphone and tablet compartments. Not much else changed apart from their colour. Now, a young group of designers has created the Bluesmart connected suitcase with modern technology. It weighs itself, you can lock or unlock it remotely via your smartphone,…
IBM researchers in India discovered that 70% of discarded laptop batteries have enough capacity to power an LED light bulb for 4 hours per day for a year. This is due to the fact that laptops lose their portability long before their batteries are completely dead (their battery life becomes unacceptably short), so they are…
Jolla, a Finnish mobile technology company, has been making smartphones that run the Sailfish OS, which they say has the stability and flexibility of the Linux core. The first thing some will wonder is if it stands a chance against Android and iOS. iOS only accounts for 11% of the global smartphone market, while the…
The government of Japan has ordered vehicles equipped with Takata airbags to be recalled due to a potential defect. The recall request came after the driver of a Honda subcompact vehicle in Malaysia was impaled with metal shards when her airbag exploded. There have been other dangerous airbag accidents unrelated to Takata which show that…
Today, it is common for apps to run in the background for no good reason, resulting in slowdowns due to those memory hogs. They also store what is called a ‘cache’ on your device, and this tends to grow over time. CCleaner is an app by Piriform which scans your device memory, cache, and downloads for…
You read that correctly. If you live in North America, BlackBerry will pay you $150 to trade in your old iPhone for the new BlackBerry Passport. According to Fortune, BlackBerry says the offer is worth up to $550. As of Thursday morning, BlackBerrys were the most sold unlocked phones. The trade-in program may have contributed…
The popular WhatsApp instant messenger is now encrypted by default on Android, and it will be rolled out onto the other platforms shortly. This was implemented in partnership with Open Whisper Systems, a company that develops open-source security software. Encrypted instant messaging has been an option for many years via the use of messengers specially…
Adidas is now selling their $400 Micoach smartwatch which provides performance data while running, and it acts as a coach. Its specifications and features include 4 GB of storage available for the playback of music while training, a 1.45″ full-colour TFT LCD touch screen, a stainless steel bezel, heart rate sensor, speed and distance measurement,…