There’s a ton of trackers to find items that are always vanishing around the house, but most aren’t much good long-range. Samsung is now jumping into the tracker game with the Connect Tag, which uses a cellular connection to get a GPS readout essentially anywhere there’s a cell phone tower.
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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.
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For this year's Glastonbury Festival, EE is pitching a high-tech tent to keep festival-goers connected. Acting as a 4G Wi-Fi hotspot, the camper packs VR headsets, voice-activated mood-setting, livestreams of performances, a solar-powered boot warmer and a fridge that reminds you to restock it.
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The name “Atari” might not make a young gamers’ eyes light up like Nintendo, Xbox or PlayStation, but it still carries a cultural cachet with old timers. Now the company has announced that it’s getting back into the hardware game with a new console called the Ataribox.
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Ikea has moved to improve the functionality of its line of Wi-Fi-connected lights known as Trådfri, announcing that in the coming months they will become compatible with Amazon Alexa, Google Assistant and Apple's Siri to offer users another means of setting the mood.
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Thanks to the Internet of Things, the home of the future could be full of smart devices. A team at Carnegie Mellon University is trying to untangle that web, by developing a single device that uses a suite of sensors to monitor an entire room’s worth of regular appliances.
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A team at Disney Research is looking at harnessing a technique called ultra-wideband (UWB) ambient backscatter, which would allow IoT devices to save power and ditch their radio transmitters by piggybacking their communications on the multitude of FM and cellular signals already in the air.
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Why are Apple, Samsung and Google marketing AI assistants so earnestly? They're not just battling for phone sales. They're also battling to control your entire consumer technology ecosystem.
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Last week, Asus officially released its own project board challenge to the immensely popular Raspberry Pi in the shape of the Tinker Board. Now Huawei has joined the fray, but a high price tag will likely keep its HiKey 960 way beyond the reach of many makers, hobbyists and amateur enthusiasts.
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Asus has announced US availability for its Raspberry Pi challenger, the Tinker Board. The single board computer boasts a quad-core processor supported by 2 GB of system memory, UHD video playback and Hi-Res audio support, and a Bluetooth/Wi-Fi double act. It does cost slightly more than a Pi though.
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