Author: The Tech Guy
Here’s a party trick: Try opening a bottle of water using your thumb and pointer finger while holding it without spilling. It sounds simple, but the feat requires strength, dexterity, and coordination. Our hands have long inspired robotic mimics, but mechanical facsimiles still fall far short of their natural counterparts.To Aude Billard and colleagues at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, trying to faithfully recreate the hand may be the wrong strategy. Why limit robots to human anatomy?Billard’s team has now developed a prototype similar to Thing from The Addams Family.Mounted on a robotic arm, the hand detaches at the…
Why you can trust TechRadar We spend hours testing every product or service we review, so you can be sure you’re buying the best. Find out more about how we test. GEEKOM GeekBook X14 Pro: 30-second reviewOut of the box, the GeekBook X14 Pro instantly strikes you as a premium laptop, with the magnesium alloy build not only contributing to the lightweight and robust design of this 14-inch laptop, but also giving it the unmistakable look and style of many other premium laptops of this size, most notably the MacBook Air and Microsoft Surface machines.While it is lightweight and sleek,…
According to leakster Yogesh Brar, Xiaomi will launch two of its 17-series flagships on the global market around MWC time (March 2-5) – Europe should get them just before, while the Indian launch is reportedly set for early March. The vanilla Xiaomi 17 and the Xiaomi 17 Ultra flagship (including the Leica Edition) are the ones that will be available globally, while the 17 Pro and 17 Pro Max will stay in China. Xiaomi 17 It’s not like you haven’t seen them before, but here are leaked images of the Xiaomi 17 and 17 Ultra for…
Ilana Panich-Linsman for The Washington Post via Getty Images For over a millennium, measles have ravaged humanity. Physicians as far back as 10th century Persia have been documenting the virus, which killed millions of children well into the 20th century. Finally, in 1963, biochemist John Enders developed the first measles vaccine, a development which virtually eradicated the virus from the US population by the year 2000. That was then. Now the virus is back, threatening to tear through a Texas immigration detention center with a vengeance — a grim collision of Trump-era vaccine skepticism and brutal immigration enforcement that seems…
Not everyone has the space for a surround sound system or even a full-sized soundbar. If that’s your situation, we’ve come up with several small options that will work for your crowded space. We’ve tried to ensure with this list of the best small soundbars that even though they’re small, there’s still an option that will suit every need. We’ve chosen Dolby Atmos soundbars, soundbars that work with older TVs that don’t have HDMI ports, or models that come with subwoofers. We’ve got an array of options to choose from. Any soundbar we look at, we do so by watching…
DisplayPort and HDMI are dueling video interface standards, and you’ve probably come across each of them on different devices. Unlike other universal communication standards like USB, display communication standards are splintered into two very common protocols. HDMI is the more common cable and port, and it’s commonly found on laptops, TVs, and gaming consoles. DisplayPort, meanwhile, is more often found on PCs and high-performance gaming monitors. Have you ever wondered why this dichotomy exists? It would seem like the sensible solution is for the industry to pick one standard, HDMI or DisplayPort, to go all-in for the future. However, that’s…
TL;DR Google has confirmed that Android’s Quick Share-AirDrop interoperability is expanding beyond the Pixel 10 series to more Android devices this year. The company says it’s working with partners to expand the functionality across the rest of the Android ecosystem and that we should expect some exciting announcements very soon. Google says this expansion is part of a broader push to make switching from iPhone to Android easier. When Google shocked everyone last year by making Android’s Quick Share interoperable with Apple’s AirDrop, the feature launched out of nowhere and has been limited to the Pixel 10 series ever since.…
There are several reason why the Tesla and SpaceX merger will not happen and definitely not this year. It would be the largest merger deal involving a global public company ever. It would be the largest by several times. This makes it risky and complex. It will involve EU approval and if the EU rejected the Nvidia purchase of ARM, then they will reject any Tesla and SpaceX merger. Most of the benefits of a merger can be obtained with regional joint venture. SpaceX and Tesla could set up a US only joint venture that would only need US approval.…
Despite the global memory crisis worsening and rising DRAM prices rattling the PC and laptop industry, Apple’s entry-level MacBook plans remain intact, and so does its initially rumored price. Citing supply chain sources, folks at Mirror Daily claim that Apple has “secured its memory supply,” which could be a reference to the long-term deals the company signs with memory suppliers for its products, and is on track to “launch a new entry-level laptop.” Fionna Agomuoh / Digital Trends Apple’s low-cost Mac is still coming The report also mentions the annual shipments of the entry-level MacBook, expected to be between five…
E-readers are some of the most beloved devices on the market. They made single-use tech cool again and completely eliminated the choice paralysis speed readers like myself faced when they had to choose just one book to throw in their bag. Although I’m curious about the various other e-reader brands on the market (like Kobo), I’ve always gravitated towards Amazon’s Kindles. Maybe it’s the way ‘Kindle’ is synonymous with the word ‘e-reader,’ or maybe it’s the thousands of titles I’ve collected via the shopping giant’s e-book store. Regardless, when it was time for me to buy a new e-reader, I…