- Even you can build your own social wearable
It’s easier than you think to create your own wearable gadget — assuming you’re handy with a needle and thread. At Engadget Expand this weekend, Kate Hartman, an associate professor at OCAD (Ontario College of Art and Design) University led… - DARPA goes beyond killer robots with prosthetics and Ebola research
DARPA, the military’s mad science division, is also a master of PR — we all cheer them on, even though they may be building a robot army that one day hunts us down. But the robots have become a cliche, of course. DARPA was actually founded to… - The top 9 tablets you can buy right now
The tablet market hasn’t seen the turnover that smartphones have enjoyed, but there’s still a steady stream of new and improved slates coming out. However, this time around we’ve only seen fit to add a couple of new devices to our buyer’s guide… - 60 seconds with the kit that makes everyone their own 'mini EPA'
Sure, there are plenty of consumer-focused gadgets in our Insert Coin competition. But at least one group has a much more altruistic vision. Public Lab wants everyone to have a spectrometer in their home that allows people to detect pollutants in…
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First OnePlus 6T camera sample appears
OnePlus is announcing the 6T next Monday, but we've already seen CAD-based renders how the phone will look. We still have a week until the official unveiling, but Pete Lau, the company CEO, just teased the camera performance of the upcoming flagship. He posted a night shot of downtown Shenzhen saying what roughly translates to "Bring your own filter". The first OnePlus 6T camera sample The 13 MP photo was uploaded in full resolution, but without the EXIF info, so we can't reveal more details like aperture or the manufacturer of the sensor. The image looks like proper flagship...
Week 42 in review: It's raining phones
It rarely gets as exciting in the mobile world as week 42 of 2018. We saw so much new hardware that it was almost impossible to keep track. Of course Huawei's event was the most interesting, delivering 4 flagship phablets as well as a couple of wearables. The Mate 20 lineup dominated the headlines and took over our trending chart. Nokia delivered an exciting upper mid-ranger too - the X7 or 7.1 Plus as it will be known in most markets. Lenovo's S5 Pro and K5 Pro also got your attention and so did Vertu, which returned from the dead to bring the new Aster P. In other news Xiaomi...
Amazon Echo Plus (2nd gen) review
A couple of weeks ago we reviewed the new, third generation Echo Dot. Today, we have with us its more expensive sibling, the Amazon Echo Plus second generation, which was also launched alongside. As with the smaller Echo Dot third gen, the story with the new Echo Plus second gen is the same; it now has a new design and the sound quality is better. Starting with the design, the second generation Echo Plus looks like a stretched out version of the new Echo Dot. It looks like a giant marshmallow, especially in our white colored variant. The new model is largely covered in fabric...
Weekly poll: which of the Huawei Mate 20 phones is the best?
The Huawei Mate 20 Pro could well be the most advanced smartphone on the market. And it's joined by three siblings, which offer more variety than previous iterations. The Leica triple camera on the Pro is a refinement on the P20 Pro camera. The Black & White module is out, replaced by a 16mm ultra-wide angle camera. There's a 5x zoom ratio covered by that and the 80mm telephoto cam. In between you have the monstrous 1/1.7" 40MP Quad Bayer sensor. Then there's the in-display fingerprint reader, something that was exclusive to the pricey Mate RS just a few months ago (but has reached...
LG Watch W7 hands-on review
LG announced an unorthodox smart wearable alongside the V40 ThinQ - LG Watch W7. We got a chance to spend some time with it and we are ready to share our first hands impressions with you. The Watch W7's key feature is naturally its unique touch screen + mechanical hands hybrid solution. Developed with Soprod, a company from Switzerland, it looks quite big on the wrist and is not quite as pretty as the Apple Watch 4 or Samsung Galaxy Watch. The 1.2" P-OLED display is developed by LG and works as fine as any other touch-screen panel on a wearable. There are two keys - one for...
