More Peripherals Articles

• 04 February 2013

• News: Expo Notes: Monitor2Go a handy presentation display for the iPad

  Mobile Monitor Technologies' Monitor2Go is an external display designed with the iPad in mind. Its physical design is much like a laptop; it has two parts attached by a hinge, with the external display on one side, and an iPad docking space on the other. You slip the iPad into the dock, connect the video cable to the iPad (an HDMI adapter is required), and then you access the iPad screen through a cutout on the device.

• 01 February 2013

• Opinion: App Spotlight: FineReader Touch brings multi-lingual OCR scanning to iOS

  There are plenty of apps that can turn your phone into the equivalent of a mobile scanner, using the camera to take snapshots of various documents, then letting you file and/or share those documents.

• 30 January 2013

• News: 10 PC peripherals that push the limits of science and tech

  The future is (almost) now

• 29 January 2013

• News: Optus braces for data spike with Juniper switch

  To prepare for growing data traffic, Optus will use a packet transport switch by Juniper for its converged wireline and 4G mobile network, Juniper said.

• 28 January 2013

• News: Acquisition math: Belkin CTO predicts outcome of Linksys deal will be "1+1=3"

  News that Cisco intended to divest its Linksys home-networking business unit broke last December, but Belkin's decision--announced last Thursday--to acquire that division came as a surprise. Belkin's intentions are even more interesting: The company isn't just buying a prestige brand to slap on its existing home-networking product line; it plans to market networking products under both brands.

• 24 January 2013

• Buying Advice: Best monitor for playing Skyrim in HD

  Our Helproom Editor helps a reader select a display on which he can play Skyrim at a decent resolution.

• 22 January 2013

• News: NEC rolls out OpenFlow for Microsoft Hyper-V

  NEC this week unveiled a virtual switch for Microsoft's Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V hypervisor which is designed to bring OpenFlow-based software-defined networking and network virtualization to those Microsoft environments.

• 19 January 2013

• News: New Plantronics headsets answer calls for you

  Plantronics is now shipping new business headsets for travel and desktop use, plus a wireless portable speakerphone, all shown earlier this month at the International CES.

• 17 January 2013

• How-Tos: Answer Line: I've got a dead key on my keyboard

  Vaibhav Jadhav's keyboard won't type the letter T.

• Opinion: The printer primer

  Much as you may have heard about the “paperless office,” the truth is that paper is still a popular item to have around the home and the office. And it is because many of us have at least one printer attached to our computers—either physically tethered via a cable or virtually connected over a network. Whether you hope to use that printer to produce photographs, drafts of your next novel, or flyers for your kid’s upcoming jai alai tournament, it will do you little good sitting in its box. Now’s the time to break it out and configure it for your Mac. The means for doing that is Mountain Lion’s Print & Scan system preference.

• News: App Spotlight: Receipt scanner Piikki is free, today only

  Receipts are the bane of my existence. I'm constantly misplacing ones I need to file for expense and travel reports. Isn't this the 21st century? Why do we need to save bits of paper anyway?

• 16 January 2013

• News: The Week in iOS Accessories: Wrapping up CES

  The Week in iOS Accessories

• News: Leap Motion signs exclusive deal with Best Buy

  Leap Motion, a highly accurate 3D motion controller, has signed a deal with Best Buy for the retailer to be the exclusive place where shoppers can purchase the device, according to TechCrunch and others.

• Best new products of CES 2013

  We round up the best new products of CES 2013 from Full HD smartphones to 4k TVs.

• 15 January 2013

• Opinion: Remains of the Day: Bolt from the blue

  Apple may be about to strike down the current Thunderbolt display, the front of the Apple Store makes a better window than garage door, and Apple's lawyer is hitting the slopes. The remainders for Monday, January 14, 2013 are crashing, hard.

• News: Curtin and WASM the first in Australia to combine satellite technologies

  A pair of spatial science researchers have completed the first research in Australia to integrate Global Positioning System (GPS) technology with the emerging Galileo satellite system.

• 12 January 2013

• News: Magellan heads in a different direction with SmartGPS device

  Most GPS devices excel at getting you from Point A to Point B. Where they come up short is in telling you about all the stuff in between.

• 11 January 2013

• News: E Ink's future foretold at CES: Next-gen will be high-res, support color

  While dedicated e-readers struggle in the face of competition from multipurpose tablets, the company E Ink and its electrophoretic display technology (more commonly known as electronic paper) continues to evolve.

• Opinion: Displair gives you a touchscreen out of thin air

  You can build more than you might expect with just a little bit of air flow and two microns of water. Like a virtual touchscreen display that appears out of nowhere. That's what Displair can boast anyway, with one of the more eye-catching demos I saw at CES 2013.

• News: iHome focuses on Lightning, Bluetooth, and fitness

  iHome makes so many different audio products that even the PR people have a hard time keeping them straight. The new lineup introduced at CES is no exception, and here for your enjoyment are some highlights from my personal tour of the company's 2013 products.

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