Author: Nic Boerma

Today Venice-based company GlassUp unveiled their first take on augmented reality glasses. The prototype looks to be an combination of Google Glass with a typical heads-up display. The difference is in the way GlassUp works. It projects an image onto a lens that sits in front of your eye, and not on an offset prism the way that Google Glass does. The reason for this is the folks at GlassUp envision a more functional role for their product. The prototype is aimed at giving drivers, doctors and fighter pilots, among others, access to text-based info that does not necessitate them…

Lego, the Danish toy company, stated in August 2013 that they were planning to launch a series of Lego that would appeal to fans of the Simpsons. And yesterday, according to a Eurobricks user, one of the first sets was caught on camera, immediately proving that 2014 is looking to be so much better than moldy old 2013. No other details other than those we can read of the box are available, but so far it looks like 2523 pieces, six minifigures of the Simpsons family and Flanders will be a part of the package. No release date is forthcoming as…

A couple of hours ago at CES 2014, Intel’s CEO Brian Krzanich announced the Edison, a miniature computer that is the size of an SD card. The computer is based on Intel’s 22nm transistor technology, runs Linux and has built in WiFi and Bluetooth modules. The Edison can even connect to its own app store. The device is aimed at developers, and Intel hopes it will spark the next generation of wearable and connected devices. As an example Intel showed their collection of “Nursery 2.0” products which uses the Edison computer. “Nursery 2.0” can, via a toy frog, report an…

Lenovo makes a lot of shiny things, including a host of laptops, tablets and even some phones. And then there is the Beacon, the glorious intermingling of personal cloud storage and media server. It stores 6TB of data, held in dual hard drive bays, and is powered by an unspecified Atom processor. This means that the Beacon can stream pretty much anything you store inside it without much hassle on multiple PC and Android devices. At the back it has HDMI, Ethernet and twin USB ports, which means it can link up to your big screen for better viewing. Another…

News agencies have been dusting off the tribute pieces for years in anticipation of what has just taken place. Around the Stuff offices there’s no obligation to cover politics, so what we have to say is entirely out of character love – something the man had a knack for eliciting. It’s a bifurcated mourning and the tears are flowing freely across the country. Most of the grief is for a man who suffered to convert disparity into a unique beauty; the other half for his legacy, constantly under siege. Maybe some relief  for the old boy too. Nevertheless, on behalf of…