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Fitbit Ultra Counts Those Steps at The Gadget Show

Most of us could do with being a little bit fitter and shedding a few pounds. Fitbit wants to help us achieve that goal by combining technology with peer pressure and our natural competitiveness. The Fitbit Ultra wireless tracker is the 21st century equivalent of a pedometer, recording the steps taken during the day for later upload to your home

Screen Cleaning with Stickems at The Gadget Show

If you have a smartphone, tablet or other fingerprint magnet, there's a pretty good chance that you've also got something to clean your screen, whether it's a microfibre cloth or carbon-based wiper. However, these all suffer from the same problem....you never have it when you want it. Stickems solve this problem by sticking to the back of your phone or

Apple Pursues Perfection

As the Apple roadshow rolls out of town for another few months, I doubt anyone will claim that this was a classic performance. Even the most zealous worshipper has to admit that it was a straightforward and by the numbers presentation with no real surprises. You might even argue that there have been two mediocre events in a row and

Ford has In-Car Tablet Compatibility

Ford has produced a brand new feature called SYNC. This is the perfect name for the first system designed to give you in-car tablet compatibility. In other words, SYNC will allow drivers to hook up their favorite tablet device to their car, and access it through voice commands while they are driving. The voice commands make things safer. Drivers won't

Out of the Shadow of the iPhone

At this time of year the technology circus does its tour of the world....CES in Las Vegas, MWC in Barcelona and CeBIT in Hanover, Germany. Interspersed are product launches by major companies like Apple. When Apple and subsequently Microsoft decided to move away from the industry events and do their own mini-shows, many commentators noted that it was disappointing that

Is Google Releasing a Nexus Tablet?

Details that have surface so far include such details as a 7 inch size, Asus as the manufacturer, and a Tegra 3 chipset.   Rumors continue, by stating that the new Google Nexus tablet will retail for $199, once again matching the Amazon Kindle Fire.  The details have mostly filtered out of Mobile World Congress, which happened last week in Barcelona, and many came courtesy of the web site Android and Me, who naturally cited "unnamed sources".

Fulton Innovation’s Wireless Charging

The great thing about CES is that every now and then an unknown shows off something cool. I'd never heard of Fulton Innovation but they have smart products based around wireless power transmission. Todd learns more about eCoupled from Dave Baarman. Fulton Innovation have developed an inductive coupling solution that scales from simply making a magazine cover light up as