The race is now officially on in South Korea to create the world’s first holographic smartphone.
Category: Gadgets
IBM is bringing the corporate world’s unbreakable encryption to your phone
IBM wants to use your phone’s accelerometer to match the the specialized encryption hardware used by the world’s largest organization.
Samsung’s future phone covers will irradiate your screen to clear germs
A light-activated titanium dioxide sanitization layer destroys any organic material on the screen.
Patent filling reveals the Samsung Galaxy S7 iris scanner
A new patent filling reveals that the Galaxy S7’s iris scanner will have not one but two separate biometric cameras to maximize accuracy
LG’s radical smart glasses wrap a battery around your neck
A new patent filling reveals LG has some interesting ideas on how to address the logistical limitations of wearable technology.
Sony's cylindrical display will shake up wearables
Wearables have evolved unrecognizably from the original wristwatches of the early 19th century, but manufacturers still have ship their hardware attached to low-tech wristbands for lack of a better option. The first exception may be Sony, which hopes to exploit recent advancements in display technology to break out of the trend line. Revealed in one of the…
Here’s the rugged Surface Pro Microsoft designed for the NFL
The ultra-durable design can withstand up to 220 pounds of force thanks to a special protective layer sandwiched between the display and the backlight.
Samsung has averted the mobile industry’s indium shortage crisis
The mobile giant’s engineers have created new alloy that can substitute the rapidly dwindling metal in the specialized electrodes that power touchscreens.
Google's Dropcam wants to take its wireless cameras outdoors
A new patent filing reveals a set of unreleased designs that that could present some serious competition for GoPro if and when they’re brought to market.
Samsung’s smart TVs will intelligently zoom when you squint
A new set of specifications that surfaced on the US Patent and Trademark Office’s online database last week reveals that Samsung is taking another shot at applying eye-tracking technology to TVs after its failed attempt to develop a gaze-aware remote, and on a much grander scale. If its efforts bear fruit this time, watching video could get a lot…
Microsoft once considered putting an electric shocker in its wearables
Redmond planned to use electric shocks to let a user know they have new notifications in situations where audio and vibration alerts fall short.
Remember the “tall iPhone” parody? Samsung is applying for the rights to make it in real life
The Apple rival is exploring novel ways of using its flexible display technology to increase the available screen real-estate on phones without compromising on formfactor. Or at least not too much.
This smart slap bracelet can turn into a phone (or a backscratcher, depending how you look at it)
The South Korean research institution that invented 4G LTE has come up with a smart slap bracelet that can curve around your wrist or turn into a phone. Oh, and it’s a stylus, too.
Here’s the ambitious smart TV controller Samsung axed after two years of development
The smart remote that was never to be held the potential to fundamentally change the way you interact with your TV through a nifty combination of mobile synchronization and multi-angle gaze tracking.