Neowin News Feed for: Gadgets

BlackBerry Z10 sales estimate cut by 83%

Stephen Robinson — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 19:00:46 +0000

Canaccord Genuity analyst T. Michael Walkey slashes BlackBerry's Z10 smartphone sales estimates after the launch in the UK and Canada came with limited supply and less demand than expected. Read more...

Review: USB Missile Launcher

Paul Ferson — Sun, 16 Sep 2012 03:57:18 +0100

Paul Ferson launches rockets at things from the comfort of an armchair in order to bring you this this review of a USB-powered missile launcher for your own computer. Read more...

TechSpot's Product Finder: Our Latest Project

Julio Franco — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 12:21:31 +0100

For about a year we've been working behind the scenes at TechSpot on our latest project, the Product Finder, a comprehensive up-to-date catalog of tech products... Read more...

TechSpot's Holiday Gift Guide 2010

Julio Franco — Mon, 15 Nov 2010 11:23:27 +0000

It’s mid-November already, the holidays are quickly approaching and like every year you want to find the perfect gift for your loved ones. If you are reading this, chances are someone on your list is... Read more...

All those gadgets might make your brain explode

Brandon Boyce — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 21:07:10 +0100

Spending all day and night staring at your computer screen and all your other gadgets in between may be rotting your brain. According to the New York Times, scientists say all the digital devices in... Read more...

Win $6000 of gadgets in the HP Magic Giveaway

Tom Warren — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 07:53:20 +0000

Update: Our contest is now live, click here to enter! At a time when less is in reach for most, HP and Microsoft want to help spread the magic through the HP Magic... Read more...

Exam cheats to be thwarted by gadgets

Tom Warren — Tue, 27 May 2008 18:27:54 +0100

Exam chiefs are employing an armoury of James Bond-style gadgets to crack down on teenagers cheating in their GCSEs and A-levels this summer. The Edexcel exam board's hi-tech approach, including electronic tagging of question papers,... Read more...

Outlook 2007 Gadgets for Windows Sidebar

Steven Parker — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 13:56:08 +0000

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If you're a fan of the Outlook 2007 To-Do Bar, but wish your upcoming appointments and tasks could be shown even when Outlook was minimized, I've got great news for you, you can do this... Read more...

Gadgets 'ruin' film, claims Scott

Lt-DavidW — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 12:53:48 +0100

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British director Sir Ridley Scott has claimed technology which allows people to watch films on mobile phones and computer screens is killing cinema. "We try to do films which are in support of cinema,... Read more...

Google Gadgets can be misused by phishers

Slimy — Sun, 19 Aug 2007 19:37:38 +0100

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Google Gadgets are little programs that gather information on the Web and then display them on multiple Web pages, making it easy for Webmasters to display everything from sports scores to astronomical data across their... Read more...

Gadgets 'threaten energy savings'

Tom Warren — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 09:29:28 +0100

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The growing popularity of hi-tech devices, such as flat-screen TVs and digital radios, threaten to undermine efforts to save energy, a report says. UK consumers spend Â£12bn a year on electronics, much of which... Read more...

Solar Jacket Charges Gadgets on the Run

Slimy — Sun, 24 Jun 2007 09:20:47 +0100

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At a fashion show in Florence, Italian fashion company Ermenegildo Zegna Holditalia SpA showed off the Solar JKT, an outdoor jacket lined with integrated wearable electronics developed by Germany's Interactive Wear AG and Innovative Solarprodukte... Read more...

Americans Spend $1,200 A Year On Tech Gadgets

Slimy — Sat, 28 Apr 2007 05:05:03 +0100

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In their annual survey, the Consumer Electronics Association has found that U.S. households are spending an average of $1,200 a year on electronic gadgets; the average home has 25 consumer-electronic devices, with the top five... Read more...

AOL: Top 5 gadgets you shouldn't buy

Steven Parker — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 10:28:35 +0000

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According to AOL the world would be better off without Blu-ray and HD-DVD because it creates the format war identical to the 80's Betamax/VHS stand-off where VHS ultimately came out as the clear winner. Their... Read more...

The role of gadgets on Windows Vista

Brad Wardell — Thu, 13 Jul 2006 20:05:18 +0100

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Over in the Microsoft development community there has been an increasing amount of concern over just what role gadgets (in the form of the Windows Sidebar) are going to take. Windows Vista is... Read more...

The 50 Greatest Gadgets of the Past 50 Years

stncttr908 — Mon, 26 Dec 2005 16:58:47 +0000

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Our infatuation with gizmos and gadgets never ceases. Most of us would be lost without our digital music players, cell phones, USB thumb drives, and other gadgets that make our lives more convenient. ... Read more...

Multimedia Gadgets Lead Digital Sales

Daniel Fleshbourne — Mon, 12 Dec 2005 15:33:49 +0000

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Shoppers are expected to take advantage of lower prices and scoop up the latest MP3 players, LCD and plasma TVs, digital cameras, and notebook computers as retailers enter the holiday season, is entering its third... Read more...

Gadgets get their own site

Brad Wardell — Tue, 20 Sep 2005 18:41:20 +0100

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Last week at the Professional Developer's Conference (PDC) Microsoft announced that gadgets would be a native part of Windows Vista. This week, DesktopGadgets.com, a website dedicated to the sale and distribution of gadgets has... Read more...

The Neowin Gadget, can gadgets trump widgets?

Cordelia — Wed, 20 Jul 2005 22:06:56 +0100

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For the past couple of years, we've heard a lot about widgets. Widgets are clever mini-applications that reside on users desktops. Programs such as DesktopX, Konfabulator, Kapsules, Samurize, amongst others have helped popularize putting... Read more...

Stardock - From Widgets to Gadgets

Tom Warren — Mon, 07 Feb 2005 20:27:35 +0000

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Software developer Stardock has unveiled its plans for DesktopX 3. Neowin readers maybe familiar with DesktopX already. DesktopX was originally released as v 1.0 in 2000. It allowed users to add objects to... Read more...