Month: January 2015
CES 2015: Polar unveils A300 wearable activity tracker
Another day of CES 2015, another new fitness tracker is unveiled. This time we welcome the A300 wristband tracker from Polar, a wearable designed with both fitness and more general activity tracking in mind. Let's start with looks, the A300 like the Garmin Vivofit, is actually a small device that slots into a specially designed…
Samsung has unveiled the Galaxy Grand Max
Clearly not content with just announcing the new Galaxy E-Series, or waiting until the Galaxy S6 is ready to be unveiled, Samsung has just announced another new smartphone to add to its line-up: The Galaxy Grand Max. It'll come with a 5.25-inch 720p display, a quad-core 1.2GHz processor, a 13MP rear camera, a 5MP front…
CES 2015: Gibson Trainer headphones are the over-ears keeping runners safe
When we think of headphones for running in, we'd never go for over-ears. Just thinking of how much we'd sweat makes us, well, sweat. However, there are obviously still those who prefer over-ear headphones, and Gibson is aiming to satisfy those individuals' needs with these new Trainer headphones. Announced at CES, these Trainer headphones, made…
CES 2015: The eSkin Thermometer is an innovative (and cute) way to keep track of children’s health
A new, useful, but above all cute invention designed to improve children’s safety is making its debut at CES in Las Vegas this week. Silicon Valley company VivaLnk Inc has developed the eSkin™ Thermometer, an easy, non-invasive way to monitor children’s (or even adults’) health. A thin sticker in the shape of a teddy bear,…
CES 2015: Philips’ new noise-cancelling headphones plug into a Lightning port
Last year Philips unveiled a set of headphones that plugged straight into the Lightning port of an iOS device. Just a few months later it's gone one step further and unveiled a noise-cancelling version of those headphones, the Fidelio NC1L, and they don't need batteries to work. The fact that the headphones plug directly into…
Our 10 favourites from this week’s ASOS ‘New In’
[nextpage title="Next"] Just because we're going crazy over CES, this week, doesn't mean that we're neglecting our clothes shopping addiction. There's tons to buy on ASOS at the moment, including socks, handbags and coats, and we've chosen our 10 favourites from this week's 'New In' section, to save you the job of trawling through the…
CES 2015: The TAO Chair is a sitting-down exercise solution
This week at CES, TAO Wellness is introducing a new product for the smart-devices-filled home: the TAO Chair. Far, far more than just a place to sit, this chair lets you work out without standing up. Yep, it looks like a normal piece of furniture but instead it lets you sit back, put the TV…
There are no plans for a OnePlus tablet, but more phones are coming
We've been hearing bits and pieces about the OnePlus Two over the past month or so, along with rumours of a possible OnePlus Tablet. Sadly, OnePlus has confirmed that it has no plans to release a tablet of its own anytime soon. In an interview with Android Headlines, OnePlus co-founder and and Global Director Carl…
CES 2015: Toshiba has announced the world’s first NFC SD card
Wi-Fi enabled SD cards have been around for some time now, but Toshiba has used CES as an opportunity to unveil the next generation of wireless SD cards: SD cards with NFC. This means that you won't have to take the card out of your camera to have a good look at what's inside. If…
CES 2015: Parrot’s latest drone has a stabilising camera
Drones, like fitness trackers and smartwatches, are all the rage these days, so it makes sense that CES is full of them. Unlike some of the others that are on display, Parrot's eXom commercial quadcopter has a killer feature: a self-correcting stabilised camera on the front. We don't know too much about it just yet,…
