Accessories & Peripherals

Ford Needs To Give Lessons on How To Use MyFord Touch

If you’re in the market to purchase a 2011 Ford Edge, don’t be surprised if you get some classes thrown in as well. Ford is offering lessons on how to use the MyFord Touch, the in-car voice command system, for those less tech-savvy individuals who may not know how to tell their car what to do. The car manufacturer is offering …

Experian Buys Social Media Company

Experian, the international credit information company, is branching out into social media. The company has purchased a majority stake in British social marketing tools company Techlightenment.

Techlightenment, founded in 2007, provides social media services to clients including Skype, Facebook, Universal Pictures and GlaxoSmithKline. …

Check Out The Soundwagon, A Record Player On-The-Go

Here at Techland, we get tickled by quirky electronics that might not be the best at what they do but come up with a unique way to a taskt. We recently ran across the Soundwagon, a portable record player that you put on top of your vinyls and plays the record as it “drives” over it. Shaped like a Volkswagen bus, it might be the cutest …

Depression-Fighting Earbuds Shine Light Into Your Brain

Light box therapy has long been the way of treating those with Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD). But a new development from the Finnish company Valkee could make treatment for SAD as simple as wearing earbuds for 8-12 minutes per day.

Finnish researchers have found that it’s not the eyes that need the light, but the brain, so …

Is 3D Going Too Far With Contact Lenses?

3D images projected by your contact lenses? It might not be that far fetched of a science fiction reality. In-eye 3D image displays are being developed for contact lens technology, according to the New Scientist. Nanotechnology has worked in contact lenses already. Sensimed, a company founded from the Swiss Federal Institute of …

5 E-Readers For 2011

At last week’s Consumer Electronics Show, e-readers were still a venerable showcase, and manufactures were out in full force to show off upcoming devices. Though big names like Kindle and Nook still rule the e-reader market, convergence devices (i.e. tablets) featuring snazzy e-reader apps are biting at the industry’s heels. While big …

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