Before the 2012 make-or-break U.S. holiday buying season (which this year ran from 23 November to 24 December), the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) estimated that spending on consumer electronics would increase a few percentage points. Unfortunately for manufacturers and retailers, an analysis released in January by the CEA showed that actual spending was flat. But that overall figure conceals that some categories are booming while others are in decline.
The Agent, a crowd-funded smartwatch, offers a second, low-power processor, wireless charging, and fashion-forward design
The Kinsa Smart Thermometer can also tell you what illnesses are going around your school or community
Apple’s purchase of navigation startup is just the latest sign that a hot technology is getting hotter.
Tomorrow it becomes illegal to unlock smartphones in the U.S.
Used to your devices sharing a data plan? How about sharing power?
Liquipel’s invisible coating, introduced last year, now covers tens of thousands of mobile devices
Electrowetting combines the best of LCD and E Ink
How much portables giants make off of each tablet varies a lot
The texting-surfing-facebooking-tweeting-while-driving problem is getting worse, not better.
IEEE Spectrum tests a sensor-laden smartphone that maps where GPS can’t
NTT DoCoMo app allows callers to converse without language barriers
Battery powered radios—and batteries--were in short supply in the storm-struck Northeast; is it time for FM chips in cell phones?
The smartphone industry is gearing up to get you around when out of sight of GPS satellites
Indoor navigation on mobile devices goes beyond GPS to rely on a variety of wireless signals and built-in sensors.
Coming generations of smartphones will act as surrogate guardians and friends
Advertising opportunities drive the technology that can steer you around the mall
A new smartphone OS is Baidu’s bid to own mobile search
A USB-based fuel cell system will recharge your portable electronics for pennies
Asustek’s upcoming offering is a hybrid that could alter how notebook computers are made
Seriously Microsoft? You’re calling a 10.6-inch tablet “Surface”?
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