Gadgets
Low-cost infrared cameras have been flooding the market since FLIR and Seek Thermal opened up the consumer thermal camera market in the late 2010s. The rise of smartphones has enabled these manufacturers to take out a good chunk of the regular thermal camera cost, allowing them to focus on the core sensor and USB bridge alone. The consumer products from vendors like FLIR and Seek Thermal are limited by US laws to a 9 Hz frame rate. However, we have seen a new crop of thermal cameras from Asian vendors that don't seem to be subject to these limitations. Two vendors - InfiRay and TOPDON - reached out with review samples of their consumer-focused smartphone-attachable thermal cameras. Read on for a comparative look at...
The iPad 2 and iOS 4.3 Announcement
Today, Steve Jobs took a sabbatical from his sabbatical to hop up on stage and tell us all about the iPad 2, the next revision of Apple’s wildly popular...
104 by Andrew Cunningham & Cara Hamm on 3/2/2011CES 2011: Motorola Xoom & NVIDIA Tegra 2: The Honeycomb Platform
The two biggest announcements at CES 2011? Intel’s Sandy Bridge and pretty much everything NVIDIA talked about at its press conference (as well as the MS Windows 8/ARM announcement...
8 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 1/10/2011Parrot Asteroid - An Android Head Unit
We're going to be touring pre-CES and CES show floors looking for interesting things to make note of, and already found something that piqued our attention. While walking around...
27 by Brian Klug on 1/5/2011Samsung Galaxy Tab - The AnandTech Review
The iPad started shipping in April, and since then it has basically had the tablet market to itself. Literally, in the six months after the iPad’s release, it didn’t...
97 by Vivek Gowri on 12/23/2010Microsoft Kinect: The AnandTech Review
For better or worse, new user interfaces are all the rage right now in the console gaming scene. Nintendo was first to the block in 2006 with 3D motion-controlled...
73 by Brian Klug on 12/9/2010First Look: Viewsonic G Tablet and Tegra 2 Performance Preview
The slate computing market is about to explode, with a literal flood of new tablets releasing over the coming months. Many of them will be Android based, running NVIDIA’s...
81 by Vivek Gowri on 12/9/2010The Boxee Box Review
Content aggregation has been instrumental in the development of the web. In the early days of the web, destinations held all the power. If you wanted news or reviews...
44 by Anand Lal Shimpi & Ganesh T S on 11/23/2010Netgear Roku XD: Streaming for the Masses
Today I have in my hands the Netgear Roku XD media streamer, the latest media streaming solution for the living room to get retail store distribution by allying itself...
27 by Alan Lueke on 11/12/2010Corsair HS1 Gaming Headset
At the risk of sounding like a puff piece and marketing drivel, Corsair has been essentially synonymous with quality hardware for a while now. If you were having trouble...
38 by Dustin Sklavos on 11/4/2010Asus WiCast: Wireless 1080p to your TV
Intel's been making a decent amount of noise with their Intel Wireless Display, or "WiDi" technology, something our own Vivek Gowri is a big proponent of. But WiDi has...
38 by Dustin Sklavos on 11/1/2010Western Digital WDTV Live Hub Review
Western Digital has become a noted player in the media streamer market over the last two years. Instead of resting on the laurels received for the WDTV, they have...
53 by Ganesh T S on 10/26/2010Zotac ZBOX Blu-Ray HD-ID34 Review
Zotac has become quite popular in recent times for their entry level products in the mini-ITX motherboard, Atom / ION nettop and nVidia GPU space. Their mini-PC lineup started...
40 by Alan Lueke on 10/19/2010Compro Technologies IP540 PTZ Camera
There are currently many choices in IP cameras for those looking to monitor their homes and business locations. Today we are looking at an IP PTZ (Pan-Tilt-Zoom) camera offering...
37 by Cameron Butterfield on 10/12/2010The Apple TV (2010) Review
The new Apple TV is a lot like the old Apple TV, at least functionally. You get the same limitations and the same plays-well-with-others* behavior (if by others you...
36 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 10/4/2010The Apple TV (2010): Dissected
Honestly, Roku's price drop and yesterday's announcement of Hulu Plus coming to the platform probably stole much if any remaining thunder from the imminent arrival of the new Apple...
23 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 9/29/2010Context-aware Computing, Intel Paints the Future of Devices
Traditionally a large focus of IDF is looking at future computing trends. For the longest time the name of the game was convergence. The shift to mobility highlighted many...
23 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 9/15/2010Moorestown Preview: OpenPeak Tablet Benchmarked and Impressions
In IDF’s technology showcase, we got a chance to catch up with OpenPeak, makers of the OpenTablet 7, a 7” Android tablet running atop the Moorestown Atom Z6xx SoC...
8 by Brian Klug on 9/14/2010Apple's iPod Touch (2010) Review, Not a Poor Man's iPhone 4
Last week Apple announced a complete overhaul of its iPod lineup including a new Shuffle, a new Nano (with multitouch screen) and a new iPod Touch. While the nano...
89 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 9/9/2010LG Optimus Series Smartphones to Feature NVIDIA Tegra 2 in Q4 2010
LG was one of the first companies to demonstrate a Moorestown based phone as recently as earlier this year. Just one hour ago however LG announced that starting in...
25 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 9/6/2010Samsung Epic 4G Review: The Fastest Android Phone
This one has been a hotly requested item from you all: a review of the Samsung Galaxy S. Samsung sent us their newest Galaxy S phone, the Epic 4G...
98 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 9/6/2010