Smart lighting may be the easiest route into home automation, but nothing quite wows like motorized shades. Arguably the king of the category is Hunter Douglas, with a range of shades, blinds, rollers, shutters and more so wide, you’d be forgiven for feeling overwhelmed. If you’ve got an unusual window, though, that flexibility really pays off. Here’s the problem with my big windows I live in a MCM house in the Midwest: that means big windows, which I love, but not a lot of privacy, which I’m less keen on. At night, in particular, the living room is basically an…
Author: Miley Selena
Facebook has revealed another step in its path to augmented reality Smart Glasses, a wrist-based controller that blends AI and nerve-tracking EMG to leapfrog traditional input systems. While the eventual goal is a super-smart artificial intelligence that instinctively intuits what you might want from your high-tech glasses, Facebook says, this wrist-based input controller is much more practical in the shorter term. Earlier this month, Facebook discussed its roughly 10 year vision for smart glasses and augmented reality. Designed to be comfortable for all-day wear, as well as the technological advances of transparent displays, they’d also feature a new, proactive AI…
A new set of iPad Pro devices will likely be released in the very near future, according to a new tip. The next iPad Pro is reported to roll will a two different display size iterations, one with an 11-inch display, the other with a 12.9-inch display. These devices will look very similar to their predecessors, coming here in 2021 with new processors and camera power, as well as a significantly upgraded sort of USB-C connection. According to sources familiar with the subject speaking with Bloomberg, the next-generation iPad Pro 11-inch and 12.9-inch models will replace the models already on…
Since the dawn of the space program in the Apollo era, the technology NASA develops for its space missions often spillover into the civilian world in the future. Technology that NASA is developing for space exploration research still spills over into the civilian world today. The latest example is a company called SMART that was founded in 2020 with the partnership between it and NASA through the Space Act Agreement. The Space Act Agreement is part of the agency’s formal program to commercialize some NASA innovations. SMART has revealed its first product, a bicycle tire with no air inside, based…
Chinese smartphone makers like Xiaomi, OPPO, and Vivo have traditionally been quite adventurous when it came to unconventional and new features but they all seem to take a “wait and see” approach when it comes to foldables and rollables. These companies have at one point or another showed off their concepts and prototypes for these new form factors but none have followed Samsung, Huawei, and Royole in actually launching foldable phones. Xiaomi, however, might still be planning to change that and its foldable phone prototype was just spotted in the wild yet again. The alleged Xiaomi foldable phone was actually…
There has been a surge in content available on the Internet especially in the past months as people created more posts, music, and videos while navigating through the COVID-19 pandemic. Unfortunately, these pieces of content aren’t exactly designed to be accessible to all peoples. Videos, in particular, tend to leave out a lot of users that either have hearing disabilities or vision problems. The latter can be served at least by the audio of the video but the former will have to rely on captions. Fortunately, Google is now rolling out its Live Caption to Chrome on the desktop for…
Microsoft already declared that this year’s first major Windows 10 update will be a smaller one than usual, focusing more on keeping the operating system stable and polished. That doesn’t mean, however, that it won’t be introducing new features, some of them bigger than others and might even change the way you see things, quite literally, too. The latest Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 21337 gives a glimpse of what’s coming and it has something for every Windows user, from gamers to multi-taskers and even to die-hard Notepad fans. Microsoft has been trying to bridge the gap between two of…
Samsung has revealed its new Galaxy A series line-up, with the Galaxy A52, A52 5G, and A72 distilling some S21 magic for far more affordable devices. Unveiled this morning in the company’s latest Unpacked event, the three phones all pack quad cameras, offer Super AMOLED displays with up to 120Hz refresh rates, and up to two days of battery life. Samsung Galaxy A52 Most affordable of the trio, the Galaxy A52 has a 6.5-inch FHD+ Super AMOLED display, with an 90Hz refresh rate and up to 800 nits of brightness. It’s one of Samsung’s Infinty-O panels, while a 32-megapixel f/2.2…
With the announcement of Intel’s 11th-gen Core CPUs today, Dell wasted little time in announcing that it will be refreshing both the XPS Desktop and the Alienware Aurora R12 with the new processors. These new desktops are not only home to Intel’s latest processors, but they could also be one of the easier ways to land a hard-to-find RTX 30-series graphics card, as at least the XPS Desktop’s graphics options top out at an RTX 3070. That, combined with the 11th-gen Intel Core processors, should make the XPS Desktop quite the capable machine not just for graphics-intensive work like content…
ASUS’ ZenBook 13 OLED (UX325) has gone on sale, offering what the company promises is the world’s lightest OLED laptop. Super-skinny with a glossy pine gray metal chassis, it kicks off at under $900 with a choice of Intel 11th Gen processors. The whole thing measures in at 304 x 203 x 13.9 mm, and tips the scales at 2.45 pounds. There’s a larger keyboard than on previous ZenBook 13 models, ASUS says, as well as room for a set of extra function keys tuning along the right edge. An ErgoLift hinge, meanwhile, raises the keyboard up for a more…