Latest Peripherals News

• 24 May 2013

• News: iWatch Sighting in Latest Apple Ad?

  Apple's newest TV ad might be revealing a glimpse of the rumored iWatch, best that's the only good thing about it, writes CIO.com's Tom Kaneshige.

• News: Corning says Gorilla Glass trumps sapphire screens, but the truth is more nuanced

  Corning has begun a pre-emptive strike against a competitor to Gorilla Glass, its product widely used in the displays of many smartphones.

• News: My car, my office: Essential gadgets for the road warrior

  Commuting is tough. Working out of your car all day is tougher. From traveling salesmen to offsite service professionals to couriers, millions of people worldwide spend their nine-to-five hours behind the wheel. And they need to stay in touch--online, dialed in, and powered up--all day. That's not easy to do when you're constantly on the move.

• News: Next-generation Kinect for Windows won't be for the average user

  Microsoft has made it official: The new-and-improved Kinect that will ship with the Xbox One later this year will also come to Windows in 2014.

• 22 May 2013

• News: Amazon's Kindle Worlds to publish officially licensed (but probably still insane) fan fiction

  Online fan fiction (or "fanfic") has long been a bizarre literary sideshow where crazy people go to explore completely impractical scenarios and insane sexual fantasies involving established characters from all the branches of the pop culture tree. All the branches. However, this darkened surreal corner of the Internet may soon find itself dragged out into the light of legitimacy. Amazon has announced that it is jumping into the officially licensed fan fiction business with its new Kindle Worlds publishing platform.

• 21 May 2013

• News: Awesome video shows Leap Motion's Windows 8 gesture control capabilities

  Leap Motion doesn't have to replace your PC's mouse, but it certainly can.

• 20 May 2013

• News: Samsung readies world's most pixel-packed laptop display

  Retina who? Not to be outdone on the display front, Samsung is showing off a 13.3-inch LCD notebook panel with a whopping 3200-by-1800 resolution screen.

• 17 May 2013

• News: At Google I/O, Glass wearers say 'trust us'

  Google is facing some tough questions from Congress over the privacy concerns raised by Glass, its fledgling augmented reality system for recording and receiving information on the fly. But on the ground at the company's I/O conference for developers, attendees are largely enthusiastic about the technology.

• 16 May 2013

• News: Now you see it: How Apple's Retina display is a boon to accessibility

  iOS's accessibility features are great, particularly on the iPad--as I've written elsewhere--but for disabled users, accessibility is more than just a niche set of options in the Settings app.

• 14 May 2013

• News: Don't hold your breath for a Kindle with a color screen any time soon

  Amazon's Kindle e-readers and tablets could someday be brighter, cheaper, and more battery efficient, now that the company has acquired Liquavista--but the acquisition doesn't necessarily mean color e-ink screens are in our immediate future, as many have been quick to speculate.

• News: Ailing Sharp sacks chief, vows turnaround on robots, LCDs

  Japan's Sharp booked another huge loss on Tuesday, and unveiled its latest turnaround plan, which includes relying on partnerships with Samsung Electronics and Foxconn Technology Group for business, sacking top management, and expanding into new fields such as robotics.

• 13 May 2013

• News: Feds looking to make health data more user-friendly to tech developers

  The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services wants health tech developers in Silicon Valley to make greater use of its data to help make advances in the field and aid entrepreneurs in the region.

• News: Sony to launch super-thin, flexible e-reader for universities

  Sony will soon launch a flexible e-reader device that is less than 7mm thick and weighs 358 grams, targeted for use in university classrooms.

• 11 May 2013

• News: Banned 3D printed gun files will never truly vanish from the Web

  Schematics for 3D printing a working handgun have been yanked from their original website by order of the State Department--but the files remain online at the Pirate Bay website and elsewhere.

• 09 May 2013

• News: Obama plays up 3D printing's military applications under new manufacturing plans

  3D printing has been attracting more attention in recent months as a tool to create gadgets, toys and miniature works of art. Now President Barack Obama thinks it can also play a role in strengthening the military and America's sagging manufacturing industry.

• News: What could Microsoft gain from buying Nook?

  More than a year ago, Microsoft invested $300 million in Barnes & Noble's plan to spin-off its Nook business. At the time, the deal promised a few tablet-centric possibilities. Would Nook tablets dump Android in favor of Windows? Would the Nook catalog be part of an entertainment-centric device like the still-mythical Xbox Surface?

• News: Slideshow: 10 great technologies to secretly install on Mom's PC

  She's your mom. She's risen to every challenge, not the least of which was raising you to be the fine, upstanding PC enthusiast you are today.

• 08 May 2013

• News: Facebook-Led Open Compute Project Tackles Network Switches

  Speaking at Interop today, Open Compute Project Chairman and President Frank Frankovsky announces plans for a new open source project to develop a specification and a reference box for an open, OS-agnostic switch.

• News: Facebook to design an open source switch

  As part of the Open Compute Project (OCP), Facebook's network engineering team is leading a project to develop an open source networking switch.

• 07 May 2013

• News: Indian engineering students design anti-rape lingerie

  Rape has become one of the most frequently reported crimes against women in India. To battle this scourge, a group of engineering students in Chennai have designed lingerie that gives electric shocks to sexual offenders.

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