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Motorized Shoes Let You Go for a SpinFor those hoping for flying cars and jetpacks, a new product is launching at the Consumer Electronics Show that is a huge step for personal mobility: motorized skates that let you zip around at up to 10 mph. SpnKiX by Action Inc. turns any pair of sneakers into wearable skates. The battery-power... I Shot Asteroids – With My Eyes [VIDEO]LAS VEGAS — The concept of eye-tracking has been around for more than a century, but it’s only in recent years that we’ve seen it applied to computing. Early implementations let you control, say, your cursor with your eyes, but only if you kept your head perfectly still and onl... Huawei Reveals the World’s Thinnest SmartphoneSo far, “thin” has been the keyword for this year’s CES. We’ve seen the world’s thinnest tablet and ultrabook, and now Huawei has revealed an Android smarpthone that claims to be the world’s slimmest. Ascend P1 S, as the device is called, sports a 4.3-inch, ... 13 Essential Resources for Socially Responsible CompaniesIn our recent Commerce With a Conscience Series, supported by FedEx, Mashable wrote about the intersection of tech, entrepreneurship, business and social good. This roundup showcases the innovations from the series and is a great resource for business owners, marketers, social entrepreneurs and c... Toshiba Unveils the World’s Thinnest 10-inch TabletLAS VEGAS: Super thin, super light, rather sexy. It’s hard to believe that those are the words one would use to describe a new tablet from Toshiba, the company that brought us the hefty, too-thick Thrive, 10-inch Android Tablet. Yet, I challenge you to look at and, if you’re luck... Cobra Wants You to Tag and Find Your Lost StuffLAS VEGAS — Even the most conscientious person will occasionally forget something: keys, wallet, phone, gloves. They’re all sitting somewhere, left behind until you or someone else recovers them. Cobra Electronics, though, thinks it has a solution. The communication and navigatio... Canon Unveils New Flagship PowerShot Camera, G1 X [HANDS ON]Canon unveiled three new PowerShot cameras at CES today, led by the G1 X. Superior to most point-and-shoots but without the feature set of a full DSLR model, the G1 X costs a hefty $799 and has the largest image sensor Canon’s ever put in a point-and-shoot camera. The sensor is a 1.5-inch, ... Acer Debuts Its iCloud Clone, AcerCloudNot content with just being a PC and tablet maker, today at CES 2012 Acer announced a cloud service for its devices. Dubbed AcerCloud, it’ll enable easy sharing of documents and photos on Acer devices, but in a limited way. Unlike Apple’s iCloud, which is primarily designed to sync me... USB 3.0 Is Coming to Smartphones and TabletsBy the end of 2012 smartphones and tablet devices will sport a USB 3.0-based microUSB connector, which will allow speedier data transfer than the current USB 2.0 standard. USB 3.0 theoretically allows for data transfer rates of around 625 MB/s, which is 10 times faster than USB 2.0, whose maximum... Acer Unveils Aspire A5, ‘World’s Thinnest’ UltrabookUltrabooks — compact and powerful Windows laptops — were promised to be big at CES 2012, and the show just saw Acer draw first blood in the category. Today the PC maker unveiled the Aspire A5, which Acer claims is the world’s thinnest Ultrabook. That may be true, but unveilings ... |