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Our laptops, tablets and smartphones serve us well when we're away from home or the office, but sometimes we want more. More speed, more storage and much more screen. We can already buy portable screens, but few tick as many boxes as the minimalist BladeX and BladeX Pro.

After updating the lower end of its Fire tablet line earlier this year, Amazon has now refreshed the flagship model, the Fire HD 10. The new tablet sports a higher-resolution screen than its predecessor, more powerful internals, a new hands-free Alexa mode, and a lower price tag.

Samsung has a novel new concept for making your TV screen bigger – just push another one next to it, or above it, or below it. The company had its modular display technology at its CES 2016 booth in Las Vegas this month.

The JVC Everio GZ-R450 and GZ-R320 are a pair of new rugged camcorders which are dust-proof, water-proof, drop-proof and freeze-proof. The duo also feature 40x optical zoom lenses and 3-inch touchscreens.

Today, Canadian company UrtheCast is celebrating the release of three full-color videos shot from its Ultra HD Iris imaging device, mounted on the exterior of the International Space Station (ISS).

Looking to take the capabilities of 360-degree cameras to a new level, a group of young French designers and engineers has created a compact video camera with a 360 x 300 degree field of view that can shoot 2048 x 1024 video at 30 fps.

The Camileo X-Sports is Toshiba's answer to a GoPro camcorder. At £180 (US$300), it lines up against GoPro's entry level Hero3, which itself retails for £199 ($330). Gizmag took a look at the Camileo X-Sports' specifications and how it performs.

GameChanger is a damage-resistant screen designed to act as a virtual surface for tabletop games. Using a connected laptop or smart device, gamers can set it to display custom game boards for games such as Dungeons & Dragons and Warhammer, or more traditional board games, like Monopoly.

It's often said that that you shouldn't mix business with pleasure. If that's the case, someone needs to tell the folks at Dell, because the high-end business-focused Venue 11 Pro tablet is a joy to use.

As of April 30, NASA has been running its High Definition Earth Viewing Experiment (HDEV), granting viewers the breathtaking experience of observing their planet in exquisite detail from space.

Dutch company Dimenco has launched a Kickstarter campaign to create a 39-inch multiview glasses-free 3D TV with a 150 degree viewing angle, for an early bird pledge of about US$1250.

TV and movie streaming services like Netflix have been around for years now, but still continue to gain popularity. Perhaps due to the production logistics, streaming live music from gigs has been less commonplace. Wayra-supported Living Indie is one firm trying to crack this market.