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		<title>What Happened to Glasses-Free 3D TV?</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/01/16/what-happened-to-glasses-free-3d-tv/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jan 2013 13:52:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jared Newman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A brisk walk around the show floor at CES last week was all it took to confirm that the 3D TV craze is over. Vendors such as Samsung and Sony no longer thrust 3D glasses in everyone&#8217;s faces; most of their television sets weren&#8217;t showing 3D video at all. Instead, TV makers fixated on 4K displays, and how wonderful they looked without the assistance of eyewear. In fairness, 3D TV hasn&#8217;t gone away. As Sony Electronics President Phil Molyneux told my colleague Harry McCracken, it&#8217;s simply become a default feature embedded in all of the company&#8217;s new televisions. (The other way to look at it, of course, is that consumers are getting 3D TV whether they want it or not.) Now that 3D is a standard feature, TV makers are turning their attention to 4K as the next big thing. I wondered, then, what that meant for glasses-free 3D. At one point it seemed like the next natural step for televisions, but that was while 3D was still in vogue. Does the bursting of the 3D TV hype bubble spell doom for a glasses-free version? Not quite. I did see a couple of glasses-free 3D technologies at CES this year, and they both looked better than anything I&#8217;d seen before. Even so, they&#8217;re a long way off from becoming actual products that the average person can afford. The most impressive effort was a 55-inch, 4K glasses-free 3D TV prototype from Vizio, developed with Dolby and other undisclosed partners. Unlike other glasses-free panels I&#8217;ve seen in previous years (like the Toshiba model pictured above), Vizio&#8217;s set was comfortable to look at from anywhere, not just from a few specific angles. The TV did have several 3D sweet spots, and apparently the best place to watch was from about five to six feet away, but the effect simply became less pronounced or non-existent at other angles. The video itself remained crisp enough to watch. Although the 3D effect was somewhat mild in my demo, Vizio said users would be able to adjust the<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=155083&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Best Phones and Tablets at CES 2013</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jan 2013 13:00:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jared Newman</dc:creator>
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		<title>Christie Street: Like a Picky, Gadgets-Only Kickstarter with Refunds</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jan 2013 19:00:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug Aamoth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What happens if you successfully fund a product on Kickstarter, realize the product can&#8217;t be built, and then find out you have no way of refunding your backers? If you&#8217;re Jamie Siminoff, you build your own version of Kickstarter. &#8220;This is crazy that we raised all this money and we can&#8217;t even refund it if we can&#8217;t build the product,&#8221; Siminoff said, referring to POP, a portable charging station with retractable cables for various devices. POP was fully funded on September 1, but ran into trouble for promising to ship with the connectors that would be found on the iPhone 5, which wasn&#8217;t announced until September 12: &#8220;[I]f the iPhone 5 does have a 19 pin connector as rumored, our plan is to ship with 2 iPhone 5 connectors and 2 standard 30 PIN connectors. This way you will be able to charge the old and new devices. We should know by mid-September what Apple is doing which will give us more than enough time to modify the product for the iPhone 5,&#8221; read the product page. However, Apple originally refused to approve the use of its new Lightning connector in products that also used other connectors, including Apple&#8217;s own 30-pin connector found in older models of iPhones and iPads. In an update declaring &#8220;POP could no longer fulfill its true promise,&#8221; Siminoff announced that &#8220;refunding the money is the only acceptable thing to do.&#8221; Call it good timing, capitalizing on an opportunity, or both, but the same update contained the announcement of Siminoff&#8217;s own crowd-funding site, Christie Street (named after the street on which Thomas Edison&#8217;s lab was located), saying it was &#8220;designed to handle needs that can arise from products – such as refunds – in order to prevent compromised products from being delivered.&#8221; Kickstarter had no way to handle refunds, so the project&#8217;s backers would be set up with Christie Street accounts and refunded directly. It never came to that, as Apple later reversed its decision, citing the resolution of &#8220;technical issues that prevented accessories from integrating<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=155002&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Your Smartphone Will Become the Hub of Your Digital Lifestyle</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/01/14/your-smartphone-will-become-the-hub-of-your-digital-lifestyle/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jan 2013 15:00:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Bajarin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the winter of 2000, Steve Jobs took the stage at the Macworld conference and laid out what we now consider a very forward thinking idea: He said that the Mac would become the center of our digital lifestyle. We didn&#8217;t know it at the time, but Jobs and his team at Apple were secretly working on the iPod and a music store that used the Mac to side-load downloaded music to the iPod. When Jobs introduced the iPod the following year, he literally made the Mac a hub connected to a &#8220;spoke&#8221; &#8212; or cable &#8212; that was then connected to the iPod. For most of the last decade, the idea of the Mac working as a hub that side-loaded content to products like the iPod, iPhone and the iPad played itself out well, making it very easy for consumers to buy digital content and load it onto these devices. Over the past few years, Apple has refined this vision and starting making iCloud more of the hub to wirelessly organize content from its online stores to be downloaded directly to Apple products. While making the cloud the hub in this scenario is still the best way to think about this idea, it became pretty clear to me while at CES last week that in many ways, smartphones are really emerging as the hub of our digital lifestyles. Yes, smartphones are still connected to the cloud in terms of accessing data and transmitting information, but it seems to me that the smartphone in many ways is becoming the one device sitting at the center of our lives and working more like a hub in its own way. (MORE: Check out TIME Tech&#8217;s complete CES coverage) A good example of this is the role my smartphone plays in my connected car. My smartphone uses Bluetooth to connect to my car&#8217;s digital display, which has channels for music, data and voice. When a call comes in to me, the phone serves as the hub that connects to my car&#8217;s screen and<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=153587&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>CES 2013: The View from Sony&#8217;s Phil Molyneux</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/01/13/ces-2013-the-view-from-sonys-phil-molyneux/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Jan 2013 19:09:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Harry McCracken</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The International Consumer Electronics Show may have a long-standing reputation for hype and hoopla, but overall, I found this year&#8217;s edition to be relatively restrained on the over-the-top pizzazz front. One striking example was Sony&#8216;s press conference. There were no celebrity guests or special effects &#8212; just Sony executives showing off Sony products onstage. Sure, the execs lavished praise on the gear, and some of the items were technology concepts which may never reach consumers in their current form. But it was still refreshingly low-key by CES standards. One of those executives was Phil Molyneux, a Sony employee since 1987 and the president of Sony Electronics since 2010. Later in the week, when I got the chance to chat with him, I told him that I found the press conference to be more focused on, well, stuff than usual. He told me that was intentional. And when I asked him what Sony&#8217;s big story was for CES 2013, he said &#8220;We&#8217;ve got more than one story &#8212; that&#8217;s the beautiful thing.&#8221; The goal with the press conference, he told me, was to show off multiple Sony products and technologies and explain how they work together. &#8220;Particularly with the Sony One-touch demonstrations, it&#8217;s about how the consumers can use products from Sony to easily use their content,&#8221; Molyneux said. One-touch is Sony&#8217;s brand for a gadget-linking feature based on Near-Field Communications (NFC); it lets you, for instance, send music from the company&#8217;s new Xperia Z smartphone to a Sony speaker by tapping the phone on the speaker. The Xperia Z was the first Sony smartphone to debut at CES since the company took full control of its phone unit, which was formerly a joint venture with Ericsson and distinct from the rest of its electronics business. Molyneux told me that it was crucial for Sony to create its own phones and make them work well with other Sony products: &#8220;The handset is going to be the sensor of consumers&#8217; lives &#8212; how they manage their content, how they communicate, how they<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=154854&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Watch Me Levitate a Remote Control Helicopter with My Mind</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Jan 2013 02:16:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jared Newman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The first thing you need to know about mind-controlled helicopters is that they feed on relaxation or concentration. So when the Puzzlebox Orbit started lifting off the ground before I could even start to meditate, I have to assume it&#8217;s because CES had already reduced my brain to ooze. The video above was shot after multiple attempts, when I&#8217;d finally coerced my mind into getting hyperactive enough to prevent the helicopter from immediately flying away. Usually it&#8217;s not that easy &#8212; Puzzlebox CEO Steve Castellotti recommends simple brain exercises, such as solving math problems or running through the alphabet in another language to get the chopper airborne. To fly the Puzzlebox Orbit, you must wear an electroencephalography (EEG) headset, made by NeuroSky, with one prong that connects to your forehead, and a clip that attaches to your earlobe. The headset measures electrical activity in the brain, and sends the data to an iOS or Android device paired via Bluetooth. Once you reach a user-defined threshold of attention or meditation, an infrared emitter connected to the phone or tablet instructs the helicopter to fly. Keep in mind, though, that EEG readings can only control so much. While it&#8217;s possible to make the helicopter levitate or hover, steering it in multiple directions through mind control is out of the question. Puzzlebox hopes that the Orbit, its first commercial product, will help educate people about the principles of neuroscience while teaching them how to focus or relax. The company will also let users tinker with the product, as it&#8217;s publishing all software, protocols and hardware schematics under open source licenses. The $199 product was successfully funded on Kickstarter last month, and Puzzlebox was at CES looking  to secure wider retail distribution. NeuroSky sells the standalone headset, which works with several iOS and Android apps, for $100, as well as a pair of brainwave cat ears for the same price. MORE: Check out TIME Tech&#8217;s complete coverage of CES<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=154831&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Nvidia&#8217;s Project Shield Can Succeed Even If It Fails</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jan 2013 14:00:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jared Newman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Among a predictable sea of 4K TVs, fitness trackers and connected car tech at CES, Nvidia&#8217;s Project Shield turned out to be the show&#8217;s biggest surprise. No one expected that the company best known for PC graphics processors &#8212; and more recently, mobile chips &#8212; would announce its own handheld Android-based gaming system. Suddenly, Nvidia had to juggle a lot more meeting requests with the press, who were eager to try out the new hardware. I was barely able to finagle some hands-on time during my last day at the show. The bulk of Project Shield consists of a full-sized game controller that&#8217;s a bit larger than an Xbox 360 gamepad, with Nvidia&#8217;s Tegra 4 processor inside. A 5-inch, 720p touch screen folds open from the controller like a clamshell. Although Nvidia&#8217;s still working on some aspects of the controller, its dual thumbsticks were smooth and precise even in the prototype I played with. The Tegra 4 chip made mincemeat of the latest Android games, running them at velvety smooth framerates even when outputting video to a television over HDMI. Project Shield has another neat trick: If you have a gaming PC running on a newer Nvidia graphics card, the handheld can play those PC games over your home network connection. Think of it like OnLive, but streaming right from your PC instead of from faraway servers. To my surprise, input lag was insignificant in Nvidia&#8217;s meeting room as I lined up sniper shots in Call of Duty: Black Ops 2. Nvidia says it&#8217;s all thanks to the work it&#8217;s done in its Kepler PC graphics cards, and claims that the latency over an 802.11n router is no worse than that of a wireless game console controller. If you&#8217;re into gaming, this might all seem pretty nifty. What&#8217;s not to like about the combination of low-priced, low attention span Android games to play on the road, and hardcore PC games to play on your couch or in your bedroom? Well, it turns out that Project Shield has plenty of detractors.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=154713&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Story About Steve Jobs, Steel Balls and Gorilla Glass (You, with the Cracked Phone: Read This)</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/01/11/a-story-about-steve-jobs-steel-balls-and-gorilla-glass-you-with-the-cracked-phone-read-this/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jan 2013 13:00:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug Aamoth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The idea behind the Apple iPhone 5C is that it comes with a pre-cracked screen so you don&#8217;t have to worry about cracking it yourself. But since it&#8217;s not an actual product, we generally have to wait patiently for our own clumsiness, drunkenness, short temper or a combination of the three to do the job. You may not know it, but your smartphone or tablet probably uses Corning&#8217;s damage-resistant Gorilla Glass already. There&#8217;s a short list of devices here, though pay attention to the part that says, &#8220;Due to customer agreements, we cannot identify all devices that feature Gorilla Glass. Your favorite device may include Gorilla Glass, even if you don’t see it listed.&#8221; Apple isn&#8217;t listed, but the existence of Gorilla Glass as a consumer product came about as a result of the original iPhone, according to an interview Steve Jobs&#8216; biographer Walter Isaacson had with Fortune&#8216;s Adam Lashinsky in 2011. The short version is that Jobs wanted to use glass instead of plastic for the iPhone&#8217;s screen, but glass cracked too easily. Someone suggested he check with Corning, which had gained notoriety by developing a type of tough but light glass in the 1960s called Chemcor that eventually made its way into &#8220;tableware, ophthalmic products, and applications for the automotive, aviation, and pharmaceutical industries,&#8221; according to the company. As the story goes, Jobs flew to Corning, New York to meet with Corning CEO Wendell Weeks and explained that he wanted the iPhone&#8217;s screen to be made of glass, but that it had to be durable and he needed enough of it within six months to be produced for all the iPhones he was planning to sell. Weeks apparently told Jobs about the development of Gorilla Glass, but said he wasn&#8217;t set up to actually mass-produce it. Jobs, in typical Jobsian fashion, apparently placed an order for a ton of Gorilla Glass anyway, repeatedly telling Weeks, &#8220;Don&#8217;t be afraid. You can do this.&#8221; Corning&#8217;s official version of the story is simply that the company &#8220;began developing a tough new<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=154798&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>In Pictures: Gadgets Galore at the Consumer Electronics Show</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/01/11/in-pictures-gadgets-galore-at-the-consumer-electronics-show/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jan 2013 09:45:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug Aamoth</dc:creator>
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		<title>Next in Motion-Controlled Gaming: Crotch Harnesses and Bungee Cords</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/01/10/next-in-motion-controlled-gaming-crotch-harnesses-and-bungee-cords/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jan 2013 16:00:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug Aamoth</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Innovation]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Picture yourself playing a first-person shooter while strapped in an adult-sized baby bouncer that controls your onscreen movement. I know, right?! That&#8217;s the idea behind Intellect Motion&#8217;s SMotion system, which is on display at CES here in Las Vegas. The entire setup is almost comically elaborate, consisting of a four-pole steel frame anchoring heavy duty bungee cords which are attached to a harness worn around the player&#8217;s torso and crotch. The actual guts of the system, however, are contained in little more than a sensor-laden belt (see below) attached around the player&#8217;s waist that communicates with a standard webcam to track motion. The bungee cords are merely there for stability as the player moves left, right, forward, backward, up and down. The movements are mapped to keyboard keys, such as the arrow keys, controlling the motion of the in-game character. What&#8217;s perhaps most interesting about this system is how accurate the controls are: With motion controllers still in their relative infancy, it&#8217;s generally more the norm than the exception to experience things like lag and unregistered movements. Intellect Motion Intellect Motion credits the pairing of its motion belt with a webcam for accuracy within a couple millimeters and a response time of 20 milliseconds, boasting that its product is &#8220;10 times more accurate and 10 times faster than existing purely camera based products such as Microsoft&#8217;s Kinect.&#8221; My dreams of installing one of these things in my house whenever my wife goes out of town next were quickly shattered when I learned that they&#8217;re not intended for home use. Intellect Motion founder Slava Solonitsyn told me that the company is targeting arcades instead. &#8220;We want people to get out of the house and play this with their friends,&#8221; he said. Games will need to be specially coded to work with the system, but it&#8217;s a relatively trivial feat to remap existing controls to the SMotion belt and, in the case of shooting games, the IM GUN controller. Developers who create games for the system will get a cut of each<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=154643&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Basis Health-Tracking Watch Sports Serious Sensors, New Android App</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/01/10/basis-health-tracking-watch-sports-serious-sensors-new-android-app/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jan 2013 15:00:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug Aamoth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[While there&#8217;s certainly no shortage of wearable health gadgets these days, the $200 Basis watch packs enough fancy sensors that you&#8217;d probably look like the hypochondriac version of Robocop if you wore them all separately. That all the data the watch compiles is synchronized to a straightforward website and new companion Android app helps as well. As for the watch itself, there&#8217;s an optical blood flow sensor that captures your heart rate, a three-axis accelerometer that acts like a suped-up pedometer and pulls double-duty to analyze your sleep quality, a perspiration monitor that gauges the intensity of your workouts, and a  sensor that measures how much you&#8217;re exerting yourself by comparing your skin temperature against the ambient temperature around you. Oh, and it tells time, too. I first met with Basis CEO Jef Holove way back in October of 2011 as his company was preparing to launch the watch, but it ended up getting delayed until late November 2012. Here&#8217;s a look at the finally-finished product, along with the companion Android app the company announced here at CES: MORE: Check out TIME Tech&#8217;s complete coverage of the Consumer Electronics Show<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=154652&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Razer Edge Hands-On: A Modular Tablet for PC Gamers</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jan 2013 14:00:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jared Newman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For north of $1,500, the Razer Edge could be your next tablet, game console, laptop and desktop &#8212; and a way to play high-end PC games from pretty much anywhere. Razer, which has dabbled in making its own PCs but is mostly known for gaming peripherals, has spent the last year refining its concept for a powerful gaming tablet. We first got a glimpse of this concept, formerly dubbed &#8220;Project Fiona,&#8221; at CES 2012, when Razer showed off a tablet with game control handles attached to its sides. The idea was to bring portability to the kinds of games people play at home, like Call of Duty and Skyrim. The Razer Edge is the end result of Razer&#8217;s experiments. &#8220;We wanted something that wasn&#8217;t Angry Birds,&#8221; said Min-Liang Tan, Razer&#8217;s CEO, co-founder and creative director. Jared Newman / TIME.com The Edge, which starts at $1,000, is a 10.1-inch Windows 8 tablet that&#8217;s twice as thick as Apple&#8216;s iPad, and 25 percent heavier, but much more powerful. Inside, Razer&#8217;s managed to pack an Intel Core i5 processor, an Nvidia GT640M graphics card, 4 GB of RAM and a 64 GB solid state drive. For players who need even more power, there&#8217;s a $1,300 &#8220;Pro&#8221; version with a Core i7 processor, 8 GB of RAM and either a 128 GB or 256 GB solid state drive. But the tablet alone isn&#8217;t the whole story. The Razer Edge is a modular device, able to take on different forms through extra peripherals. Foremost, there&#8217;s a $250 gaming controller, which wraps around the tablet and provides a pair of grips on either side, each with their own thumbsticks, triggers and buttons. Also, a $100 docking station provides HDMI output and three USB ports for external controllers, turning the Razer Edge into a desktop PC or living room game console. In the third quarter, Razer will sell a $200 keyboard dock, which collapses shut like a laptop. The whole package isn&#8217;t cheap, but then again most gaming laptops aren&#8217;t, and the whole point of the Razer Edge is that it&#8217;s a<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=154621&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Popular Pebble: Why Your Wrist Is a New Frontier for Apps</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/01/10/popular-pebble-why-your-wrist-is-a-new-frontier-for-apps/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jan 2013 13:00:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug Aamoth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[To say the Pebble smartwatch is a Kickstarter success story would be an understatement almost as big as the disparity between the amount of money the company was trying to raise ($100,000) and the amount of money the company actually raised ($10,266,845). The $150 watch connects to a smartphone via Bluetooth to display and control incoming calls, text messages, e-mail, and music playback. Developers will be able to create apps and custom watch faces that can be loaded onto the Pebble as well, and it&#8217;ll feature integration with task automation website IFTTT. While Pebble isn&#8217;t the first connected smartwatch by any stretch, its use of a low-power, monochrome e-paper screen means it&#8217;ll be able to run for around seven days before needing to be recharged. Smartwatches with commonly-used color LCD screens need to be charged more frequently. At first glance, Pebble&#8217;s screen appears similar to the screens found in e-book readers such as Amazon&#8216;s Kindle, which sacrifice fluidity and complex animation for weeks and weeks of battery life. But at a press conference during the Consumer Electronics Show on Wednesday, Pebble founder Eric Migicovsky told a group of reporters, &#8220;This display is not actually e-ink. It&#8217;s an LCD variant, which means that it still has an amazing refresh rate of 30 frames per second, so we can drive cool animations and user interface elements onto the display.&#8221; Other hardware features include a water-resistant design with a magnetic charging cable that does away with exposed ports, an ambient light sensor, a magnetometer, a vibrating motor and an accelerometer. Pebble&#8217;s relatively robust integration with Android and Apple devices is another selling point. The watch works with Android version 2.3.3 and above, and Apple handsets from the iPhone 3GS to current models. While deep Android integration is more straightforward for connected devices such as the Pebble, doing the same with Apple devices is more challenging. Migicovsky indicated that Pebble would be able to hook more deeply into iOS, but wouldn&#8217;t elaborate, saying, &#8220;We&#8217;ve been sort of dipping and ducking some of the different<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=154660&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>In Defense &#8212; More or Less &#8212; of CES</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/01/10/in-defense-more-or-less-of-ces/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jan 2013 09:45:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Harry McCracken</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Like most of the technology journalists I know, I&#8217;m in Las Vegas this week to attend the International Consumer Electronics Show. Matt Buchanan is not. Over at BuzzFeed, he has explained why he thinks the venerable conference is no longer relevant, or at least not relevant enough to be worth the trek to Vegas. A sampling of his reasoning: By Google chairman Eric Schmidt&#8217;s reckoning, there are now four technology companies that truly matter to people: Apple, Amazon, Facebook and Google. None of them are at CES. Apple&#8217;s last appearance was in 1992. Microsoft, which delivered the CES keynote for years, announced — before last year&#8217;s keynote, even — that it would not return in 2013. Its keynote spot is being taken over by Qualcomm, which is mostly known for making chips for phones, and its centerpiece booth now hosts Hisense, a state-owned Chinese manufacturer you probably haven&#8217;t heard of. There probably isn&#8217;t a more precise illustration of what&#8217;s happened to CES: The booth of the world&#8217;s biggest software company is now occupied by a company mostly noted for its production of cheap HDTVs that line the shelves of Walmarts across the country.And any event, by any of those five companies, announcing nearly anything — even the flops — is instantly more significant to consumers than practically anything announced at CES. iPhone. Kindle. Windows. Timeline. Project Glass. Buchanan&#8217;s piece is a good read, and he makes a convincing case that CES is a fundamentally flawed enterprise. But&#8230; I&#8217;ve been attending humongous tech trade shows since Adam Osborne was alive and keynoting them. I attended my first CES in 1994 and have been to more than my share of Comdexes, IFAs, CEATECs, Mobile World Congresses and other CES-like events on multiple continents. Altogether, I must have spent more than a year of my life at them, which is enough to leave me wanting to plead for special dispensation when it comes time to chat with St. Peter. And you know what? There was never a golden age of CES, or shows<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=154437&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>5 Clever Gadgets from CES 2013</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jan 2013 00:15:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jared Newman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At the electronics mecca that is CES, it&#8217;s easy to get caught up in all the big ideas&#8211;things like Ultra HD, connected cars and natural input&#8211;that aim to transform the world. But sometimes, the neatest gadgets can be found on the fringes of the show floor, where the goal is simply to make life a little easier. Here are a few of my favorite small-scale, clever ideas from CES 2013: Wi-Fi-Connected Light Bulbs (pictured above) Greenwave Reality has gotten rid off all the electrical work required to remotely control your house&#8217;s lighting, and instead just stuck Wi-Fi chips in its light bulbs. That allows users to turn lights on or off&#8211;either by room or individual bulb&#8211;through a free smartphone and tablet app, or with an included remote control. Users can also set lighting profiles, such as &#8220;Work&#8221; or &#8220;Away,&#8221; and program daily lighting routines. The up-front price is a bit steep, at roughly $200 for a starter kit with four bulbs, a wireless gateway and a remote control, and each additional bulb costs $20. But GreenWave claims that a well-configured home would save $150 per year on energy costs. Greenwave is working with distribution partners instead of selling the bulbs directly, and hopes to have them on the U.S. market within 60 days. Jared Newman / TIME.com SleepPhones You like listening to music before bed. Your spouse does not. A company called AcousticSheep has the solution: SleepPhones is a headband with two small speakers located around the ears, so it&#8217;s more comfortable to wear in bed than earbuds or headphones. The headband can double as an eye mask as well. Although the wired version of SleepPhones has been around for years, AcousticSheep is just getting around to releasing a Bluetooth version in April, so you won&#8217;t have to worry about strangling yourself with an audio cable. It&#8217;ll also have a built-in button that controls volume and playback, and should last between 5-7 hours per charge when listening to music. The company&#8217;s hoping to hit a price of $80. Jared Newman /<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=154585&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Fork from the Future Senses When You&#8217;re Eating Too Fast, Vibrates to Slow You Down</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/01/09/fork-from-the-future-senses-when-youre-eating-too-fast-vibrates-to-slow-you-down/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jan 2013 18:20:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug Aamoth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[And lo, on the eighth day of the calendar month of January in the year 2013, a fork from the future appeared before the bewildered eyes of weary pressfolk attending a technology event in the city of Las Vegas. They called the fork HAPIfork. But this was no common fork, and he who beholds such a fork may find no HAPI-ness in having to use it – for this fork&#8217;s purpose is to goad its owner into sensible eating patterns. The common fork cares not how often it shovels food into its owners mouth; the HAPIfork&#8217;s magical motion sensor knows how often food is shoveled into its owners mouth and vibrates if it deems such mouthfuls too frequent. The HAPIfork demands its owner eat slowly! Perhaps by eating slowly, the owner will feel full without overeating. The common fork is an inexpensive investment; the HAPIfork will cost $99 when it ships in the springtime. The HAPIfork connects to a computer with a USB cable, transfers information to the Internet and makes the information available via the web and smartphone apps so its owner can experience ultimate levels of self-loathing and/or pride; the common fork, of course, does no such thing. Product Page: HAPIfork [HAPILABS.com] MORE: Check out TIME Tech’s complete coverage of the 2013 Consumer Electronics Show<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=154604&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Would 4K Ultra-HD TV Be Good or Bad for Gaming?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jan 2013 17:57:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Peckham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Take the pulse of CES 2013 and you&#8217;ll find the usual gizmo lineup: smartphones, tablets, cameras, cars and high-end audio products. But this year, the show&#8217;s opening salvo involved something the industry refers to as &#8220;4K ultra-high-definition television.&#8221; These are towering TV screens &#8212; over 80 inches in a few cases &#8212; with several times the resolution of today&#8217;s top-end 1080p (1920 x 1080) sets: 3840 × 2160 pixels, even more than something like Apple&#8217;s groundbreaking Retina MacBook Pro (2880 x 1880). (Note 3840 x 2160 is technically short of 4K by 160 lines &#8212; marketing always rounds up.) Manufacturers are positioning this sort of pixel brawn to compensate for two things: diminishing visual returns as screens scale up, size-wise, and the lack of interest in 3D technology. According to NPD DisplaySearch, global TV shipments declined 6% in 2012, and the market&#8217;s expected to remain flat through 2013 (to be fair, NPD chalks this up more to &#8220;economic uncertainty&#8221; and slow declines in TV prices). Companies like Sony, Samsung, Toshiba and LG thus seem to be treating 4K TV as &#8220;plan B&#8221; in their bid to reinvigorate a stagnant market. I have zero interest in 3D technology, but I&#8217;ve long been mindful of display resolutions and screen sizes. Play games or movies on 60, 70 or 80-inch screens at today&#8217;s idea of &#8220;high-definition&#8221; and you really notice the pixels, especially sitting close to the screen. You can really see it in games, where even the top engines still render well short of reality-caliber visuals and three-dimensional objects start to look aliased and blocky on bigger screens. 4K TVs in theory ameliorate this by increasing the horizontal and vertical line counts to give you the experience at 80 inches, say, that you might have at 1080p on a smaller set. No one actually sits up close to an 80-inch screen for the same reasons we call comparable viewing positions in a movie theater &#8220;nosebleeds,&#8221; but if you had to, the idea with 4K TV is that you&#8217;d be far less likely to notice the individual<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=154499&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Hands-On with Russia&#8217;s YotaPhone: Finally, Something Different</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jan 2013 15:00:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jared Newman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[New smartphones have been hard to find at CES, and the ones we have seen are short on innovative new features and long on incremental spec boosts. To find something truly different, I had to venture off the show floor for a private meeting with Yota Devices, the Russian company behind the upcoming YotaPhone. The YotaPhone&#8217;s main attraction is a 4.3-inch E-Ink display that sits on the phone&#8217;s curved backside. The E-Ink screen allows users to keep certain types of information in view, such as the time, notifications or a photo, without draining battery life. I was a bit skeptical of the YotaPhone when it was announced last month. The E-Ink display is unique on paper, but I wondered if it would seem too gimmicky in the real world. After seeing the YotaPhone up close, I&#8217;m starting to understand how the secondary display could be a really useful feature. For one thing, Yota Devices sees the E-Ink display as a way to save us from our phones, as Microsoft once put it. If YotaPhone users can get accustomed to leaving their phones on a table or desk, with the E-Ink display facing up, they&#8217;ll be able to keep an eye on notifications without having to pick up the phone and fiddle with it. &#8220;We believe strongly that with our phone we will bring people back to real life,&#8221; said Vladislov Martynov, CEO of Yota Devices. Jared Newman / TIME.com Martynov brought up some other interesting possibilities: Because the phone can take a screenshot of anything on its main display and send it to the E-Ink screen, users could &#8220;print&#8221; boarding passes, so they&#8217;re out and ready when they get to the airport. That&#8217;d be more convenient than Passbook on Apple&#8216;s iPhone, which requires users to keep their screens powered on and focused on the boarding passes. On a related note, Yota imagines that users could load their loyalty cards onto the phone so they&#8217;re ready to scan in E-Ink form. The YotaPhone has a sense of humor as well. When<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=154558&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Plastic Logic Proposes a Futuristic Kind of Paper</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jan 2013 14:00:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jared Newman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For all the guilt-tripping about dead trees, we still can&#8217;t live without paper. But some day, we may be able to use flexible sheets of digital ink instead. At the Consumer Electronics Show, U.K.-based Plastic Logic demonstrated an E-Ink &#8220;tablet&#8221; dubbed the PaperTab, which was little more than a thick, floppy sheet of plastic, connected to a high-end Core processor from Intel. Each of these sheets can accept touch input, and can share data when in contact with one another. Think of it like paper with benefits. In one demonstration, a single sheet contained an e-mail, while another sheet was blank. Tapping the blank sheet against the e-mail transferred the message to the other sheet. In another demo, a map was extended across two sheets of the digital paper by placing them side-by-side. Certain functions, such as bookmarking or moving to the next page, could be accomplished by bending the display at its edges. Jared Newman / TIME.com Why would any of this be useful in the real world? I get the sense that Plastic Logic is still figuring that out. But a few ideas start to bubble forth: You might, for instance, want to spread out a bunch of documents on your desk for easy viewing, or throw some sheets in your backpack like a magazine, without worrying about damage. I could imagine sending an article to a sheet, then doing some old-school editing with a stylus. Although Plastic Logic developed the technology, it collaborated with Queen&#8217;s University in Ontario on the interface and implementation, and with Intel for the processors. Roel Vertegaal, a professor at Queen&#8217;s University&#8217;s Human Media Lab, said he expects the sheets to become a product in about five years. The idea is for them to become cheap enough that the average consumer could own up to a dozen sheets. If the name Plastic Logic sounds familiar, you might recall that the company tried to get into the e-reader market a couple years ago with the Que. Like several other hopeful contenders, Plastic Logic got priced<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=154545&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Diminishing Returns: The Cold, Hard Truth for CES Smartphones</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/01/09/diminishing-returns-the-cold-hard-truth-for-ces-smartphones/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jan 2013 13:00:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jared Newman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[CES 2013]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gadgets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Smartphones]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sony]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sony has a new flagship phone at CES called the Xperia Z, and it is pretty decent. The company has another one, called the Xperia ZL, that&#8217;s also fairly nice. They&#8217;re both roughly as okay as the flagship Ascend D2 phone that Huawei was showing off in another part of the room. If my descriptors seem lacking, that&#8217;s intentional. The truth is that none of these phones seem markedly better than last year&#8217;s holiday handsets. They&#8217;ve got a few perks that some older phones don&#8217;t, like 1080p displays and quad-core processors, but in real world use it&#8217;s hard to see the added benefit. When I sampled another new phone this morning, Pantech&#8217;s Discover, the experience seemed practically as solid as Sony&#8217;s and Huawei&#8217;s flagship devices, despite a mere 720p display and a dual-core chip. The biggest difference is that Pantech&#8217;s phone will sell for $50 on AT&#38;T, starting this Friday. Huawei&#8217;s and Sony&#8217;s phones will likely be more expensive if they ever reach the United States. This is the bitter reality for Android phone makers right now. The improvements in the latest, most premium phones aren&#8217;t really that big of a deal. A 1080p display doesn&#8217;t look much different from a 720p display at normal viewing distances. A quad-core processor doesn&#8217;t provide much of a real-world benefit over a dual-core one. Photos from a 13-megapixel camera don&#8217;t look significantly better than photos from an 8-megapixel one, and shutter lag on most good smartphone cameras dropped to near zero a year ago. As a result my brain feels a bit mushy as I look at the latest phones from CES. In the context of quick hands-on demos, there aren&#8217;t a lot of remarkable things to relay about the cream of the crop. At a glance, they&#8217;re all just pretty good phones. (Okay, let&#8217;s give the Xperia Z credit for one cool trick: It can survive up to 30 minutes dunked in water.) Jared Newman / TIME.com Google is partly to thank&#8211;or to blame&#8211;for this situation. Ever since Android 4.0, known as Ice Cream Sandwich, Android<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=154534&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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