Tag Archives: lighting

Inhabitat’s Week in Green: dog with prosthetic limbs, glowing sheep and gourd building blocks

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Each week our friends at Inhabitat recap the week’s most interesting green developments and clean tech news for us — it’s the Week in Green.

The start of May saw an abundance of groundbreaking stories about flora and fauna — first, there was th…


Next-gen mobile Kepler graphics demoed, said to make current tablet games look like ‘vintage 1999′ (video)

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Jen-Hsun Huang took to the stage during NVIDIA’s recent investor day to show off an interesting video, which VentureBeat fortunately managed to capture. It’s embedded after the break and consists of two contrasting parts: footage of a current “state …


Philips opens wireless multi-Hue lightbulb to app developers

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Philips this week launched an official developer program for its Hue lighting system, in response to the growing number of enthusiasts who have already created their own apps for the customizable LED array. As TechCrunch reports, Phil…


German court sides with HTC in Nokia patent dispute

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Nokia has lost on claims that HTC infringed upon two patents help by the Finnish company. The company brought the allegations in front of the District Court of Mannheim in Germany where a judge ruled in favor of the Taiwanese manufacturer of Android devices. The patents in question relate to a “method for using services [...]


Hands-on: NVIDIA introduces 5 new Tegra 4-optimized games [VIDEO]

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The folks at NVIDIA are in Mobile World Congress this week tooting the horn of its Tegra 4 platform. You had to expect the chipset vendor would be coming to town with some fresh new games to stuff into TegraZone, and we finally have an idea of what they are. We’ve already gotten some hands-on [...]


Photo contest controversy: how much Photoshopping is too much?

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Does Photoshopping a picture violate the tenets of photojournalism? That’s the subject of a fierce debate after a shot by Paul Hansen — which shows hints of editing — was named the World Press Photo of the Year. A …


Philips exits the consumer electronics business, will focus on medical and lighting products

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Philips is exiting the consumer electronics industry — according to The Wall Street Journal, the company has announced the sale of its audio, video, multimedia, and accessories divisions to Japanese company Funai for jus…


Temple Run 2 for Android coming January 24th

In case you haven’t heard the exciting news, Temple Run 2 for iOS is out! Well… that news would be exciting if it were out for Android, but we do have a date to look forward to for its arrival and the wait won’t be unbearably long. Us Android folks should be seeing the sequel [...]


Verizon lights up 29 new markets with 4G LTE

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Hot on the heels of expansion announcements from Sprint and AT&T, Verizon today looks to steal the thunder back from the rest of the pack by lighting up 29 new 4G LTE markets. That brings the nation’s largest carrier up to 470 different markets covered, with hundreds of millions of Americans within that ever-expanding circle. [...]


New Facebook update live on Google Play – Here’s an old vs new comparison [VIDEO]

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That totally wonderific Facebook update that was supposed to go live later today? It’s live and yes, it’s totally awesome. Just like the Facebook guys promised, going full-blown native Android has made a world of difference, bringing forth an app that’s lighting quick and responsive. Say good bye to painful load screens, and images taking [...]