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Sculpteo Makes it Easy to Create Your Own 3D iPhone Case
Base Model This skull is one of the base models in the app you can start with, add to, and customize. Click here to view this gallery. LAS VEGAS -- Sculpteo is making it easy to create your own 3D iPhone case. Winner of this year’s Best of Innovations award at CES , the company has released an app called 3DP Case that lets you create a three dimensional case for your phone in just a few minutes. Cases can be customized almost any way you can imagine, however, there are a few base models to choose from. Highlights from Sculpteo’s booth at CES include cases with the recipient’s profile cut out of each side, and one case that had been customized to be cross-stitched after printing. Cases are easy to create and customize, and are affordable. The average 3D-printed iPhone case from the company is priced at around… Continue reading.. Read more »
E-Ink on a Smartphone? This Android Phone Has 2 Displays
Times Up You can use the rear of the YotaPhone as a clock, or to display wallpapers. Click here to view this gallery. LAS VEGAS -- What if your phone had two displays? Announced in mid-December, YotaPhone aims to change how people use their smartphones by bringing together a full-color LCD display on one side of the phone and an e-ink display on the other. I caught up with Yota Device’s Vladislav Martynov at CES to give the phone a closer look. In essence, the two displays on the handset each have their own unique purpose. The front display is used just as you might your traditional smartphone screen to run apps, browse the web or watch videos. The rear display on the YotaPhone is what makes it stand out. Read more »
CES 2013 Was a Celebrity-Fueled Marathon
After five days of hitting the ground running, the Mashable team at CES 2013 can finally rest. The Las Vegas convention is over, and the Mashable staff in attendance have collectively covered hundreds of miles. We tracked their progress using Nike+ FuelBands and can now deliver the final results: Our champion was videographer Evan Engel , whose lead from day one was never overtaken by the rest of the team. Heavy video equipment in hand, he racked up over 27 miles in five days, further than the standard marathon distance of 26.2 miles. Second-place finisher Samantha Murphy also traveled further than a marathon, completing 26.7 miles. But it was photo editor Nina Frazier who put in the… Continue reading... More About: CES , CES 2013 , Nike+ FuelBand Read more »
Hands On With the First Tegra 4-Powered Tablet
LAS VEGAS -- It was expected, but still impressive. Nvidia unveiled its quad-core Tegra 4 mobile processor at CES 2013, and many products with the next-generation chip are already planned. One of them was a the show: The 10.1-inch model in Vizio 's new Android tablets, and I got a little one-on-one time with it. The sample I checked out was a prototype. The finishing wasn't final, but the screen and software were pretty much final. The screen, by the way, is a 2,560 x 1,600 display, comparable with Google's Nexus 10. The software is close to pure Android 4.1 "Jelly Bean," mirroring Vizio's approach with its Windows 8 machines: Getting rid of the bloatware. Read more »
Google’s Android Is Coming to a Kitchen Near You
Android users can vouch for the perks of large screens, custom widgets, and now, optimum rice cooking. Google is expanding its free operating system to rice cookers, refrigerators and other home appliances. Adding the OS to more devices would be useful in helping Google and other manufacturers collect data, and also allow appliances to exchange information. In the case of rice cookers, the device would be able to determine the type of rice and set cooking instructions. Other intelligent systems could signal an alert from a washing machine to your TV, letting you know when it's done. Check out the video above for more. The International Data Corporation predicts the market for Int… Continue reading... More About: android , CES , ces2013 , Google , home appliances , operating sytems Read more »
Beware the Communicable Diseases of CES 2013
LAS VEGAS -- Walking the aisles of CES 2013 ? Watch out. It's a cauldron of microbes out there, and you can't be too careful. Nitrozac and Snaggy of The Joy of Tech have some comic relief: SEE ALSO: Previous comics Comic illustration provided by The Joy of Tech . Published with permission; all rights reserved. More CES 2013 Coverage [nggallery id=9517] More About: CES , Comics CES 2012 , mashable comics , The Joy of Tech Read more »
Samsung: 4K Ultra HD Content Will Come
Samsung's 4K UHD may be ahead of the curve, but the company believes content will catch up to the stunning pictures, More About: CES , CES 2013 , HDTV , samsung , UHDTV Read more »
Samsung Shows Off Curved OLED TV
LAS VEGAS -- You're not seeing things: This TV from Samsung has a slight curve to it. The company claims it's the world's first curved OLED TV, and we don't doubt it. What advantage does a curved TV have over flat panels? Samsung says the curves gives panoramic images such as nature scenes a more life-like viewing experience. A curved panel would theoretically also make viewing angle less of an issue, since the curve would bend pixels slightly toward the user. That would be more of an advantage for LCD TVs, however, which tend to lose color saturation at off angles, than OLEDs, which don't. Samsung's Curved OLED is just a concept right now, with no plans to bring it to market at the… Continue reading... More About: CES , CES 2013 , OLED , samsung Read more »
T-Mobile Brings Free Data to Windows 8 Laptops and Tablets
T-Mobile announced 4G Connect Tuesday, a new program that gives customers a free 4G data connection with the purchase of select notebooks, tablets, and Ultrabooks. With the program, customers will be able to access the web from their device, straight out of the box, for free. Every device comes with 200MB of data included for two years from the purchase date, with additional contract-free data available for purchase if and when they need it. 1GB of data, for instance, will be an additional $10. 'We're trying to really challenge the model of contracts –- and provide a delightful, easy experience for customers," T-Mobile's Brad Duea told Mashable . Traditionally, devices with bui… Continue reading.. Read more »