Browsing Category: Reviews and Gadgets

  • Firefox experiment helps you get the best shopping deals

    The Firefox Test Pilot team has rolled out a couple of new experimental features, one of which can help make this year's holiday shopping a bit easier on your wallet. It's called Price Wise, and it's an online shopping comparison tool that lets you a… Source: Engadget | Firefox experiment helps you get the best …

    November 12, 2018 | by Raheel
  • Canon EOS R review: Brilliant mount, but flawed 4K video

    Canon has a lot riding on its first-ever full-frame mirrorless camera, the EOS R. Not only is it an important camera on its own, but it's the ambassador for Canon's all-new RF mount system. It isn't just competing against Sony's heavily entrenche… Source: Engadget | Canon EOS R review: Brilliant mount, but flawed 4K video

    November 12, 2018 | by Raheel
  • Meat-free 'Beyond Burger' hits UK restaurants and supermarkets

    The Beyond Burger — a meatless alternative that oozes beetroot-red "blood" — has overcome supply shortages to land on UK supermarket shelves. Leading retailer Tescos is stocking the product at £5.50 for a pack of two and you can also order it… Source: Engadget | Meat-free 'Beyond Burger' hits UK restaurants and supermarkets

    November 12, 2018 | by Raheel
  • The ExoMars rover may search for life near the Red Planet's equator

    Europe and Russia's ExoMars rover has been assigned its destination on the Red Planet. The robot explorer will almost certainly land on Oxia Planum — a site rich in iron-magnesium clays near the equator — say scientists from the Landing Site Select… Source: Engadget | The ExoMars rover may search for life near the Red …

    November 12, 2018 | by Raheel
  • The Morning After: Air purifier and headphones together at last?

    Welcome back! This Monday, we're preparing ourselves to reinstall Overwatch, boggling our minds over China's Alibaba sales and imagining some new headphones that could double as an air purifier. Source: Engadget | The Morning After: Air purifier and headphones together at last?

    November 12, 2018 | by Raheel
  • Watch real-life Iron Men do the first jetpack launch from the ground

    Iron Man might make flying look easy, but strapping on a jetpack and wings ranks as one of the more dangerous things you could ever try. Jetman Yves Rossy and his two protégés (Fred Fugen and Vince Reffet) are bringing you closer to tha… Source: Engadget | Watch real-life Iron Men do the first jetpack …

    November 12, 2018 | by Raheel
  • Samsung's foldable phone could cost over $1,700

    Less than a week since Samsung unveiled its "Infinity Flex" display for its upcoming bendy smartphone, a new report from South Korea claims to know the name, price and release date of the device. The Yonhap News Agency's industry sources suggest the… Source: Engadget | Samsung's foldable phone could cost over ,700

    November 12, 2018 | by Raheel
  • Heat-rejecting film could reduce air conditioning costs

    Climate change can be a vicious cycle when folks crank up the air conditioning during heat waves and add even more CO2 to the atmosphere. Scientists from MIT and the University of Hong Kong have developed a new type of window coating that could curb… Source: Engadget | Heat-rejecting film could reduce air conditioning costs

    November 12, 2018 | by Raheel
  • Magnetic eye implants could save the eyesight of glaucoma patients

    Glaucoma patients can use implants to treat the condition by draining the eye, but the existing technology rarely lasts more than a few years thanks to the accumulation of microorganisms that wreck the functionality. A Purdue-led team might have a cl… Source: Engadget | Magnetic eye implants could save the eyesight of glaucoma patients

    November 12, 2018 | by Raheel
  • Alibaba's shopping event sales hit $1 billion in 85 seconds

    Chinese internet giant Alibaba is fond of crowing about its online shopping records, and that's truer than ever this year. The company's annual Global Shopping Festival, aka Singles Day, broke last year's record by selling $30.8 billion in goods acr… Source: Engadget | Alibaba's shopping event sales hit billion in 85 seconds

    November 12, 2018 | by Raheel