Who doesn't love a little initiative? Toyota has been pushing its new App all over the interbutts and it's hard to not be impressed with the ambition of it. The app comes with a host of marketing and sales features but at the core is the ability to book a service from the couch. If you
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It happens to the best of us. You’re out and about, streaming music,taking selfies, and before you know it, that low-battery percentage has crept up on you. Oh, what’s that? You wanted to use your phone to help navigate your way back home at 3AM? Tough break kid. Unless of course, you’ve got the CrankCase. This fresh-faced Indiegogo offering claims to juice up your phone simply by cranking the handle on its rear, and works in a similar fashion to wind up torches and radios, by using an in-built electric dynamo to generate electricity. Creator Ampware states that you can…
Breitling’s B55 can’t control your music or show you directions to the nearest Steers, but that’s OK – it’s not pretending to be a smartwatch. Instead, it’s a regular watch that’s decided to level up a bit and learn a few new tech tricks, without compromising on the design, durability and soul of a traditional mechanical watch. The B55 is an electronic multifunction chronograph with both analog and digital displays, and can manage a host of aeronautical time functions, including measuring RPM with an electronic tachometer, a mission elapsed time counter, and a countdown/countup system. You can even record flight times,…
Avid Wiiers – we really need to think of a new word for that – it’s time to celebrate: Nintendo is releasing a new games console in 2017. The gaming giant has been quick to show that its recent mobile games announcement isn’t a sign of a dwindling passion for console gaming. It’s given away practically no information about the console, bar its NX codename, though we hope to hear more during the next 18 months. It’s likely to be a next-gen successor to the struggling Wii U, but we still don’t have enough information to guarantee that it’s not…
Samsung’s present lineup of tablets not complicated enough for you? Don’t fret: the Korean tech giant has revealed its latest contributions to the mid-range tab-war at a secretive press event in Russia. The Galaxy Tab A (8in) and A Plus (9.7in) are likely to be placed around the €300 price-point (about R3,950), pitching them squarely between more expensive offerings from Google and Apple and the cheaper options out there. With 24 tablets presently listed on the Samsung site, their current range is a maze of glass-fronted rounded-rectangles. So what can the A and A Plus bring to the table to…
“Tesla press conf at 9am on Thurs. About to end range anxiety … via OTA software update. Affects entire Model S fleet.” That’s a slightly cryptic recent tweet from Elon Musk, Tesla CEO – and it suggests great things lie ahead for Tesla drivers. “What’s range anxiety”, you ask? It refers to the worry of running out of juice before your electric car reaches its destination, leaving you stranded in the middle of nowhere with no means to recharge it. Kind of like that panic you feel when your phone starts running out of battery and it’s only 4pm. It’s…
Gamers have craved Nintendo mobile games since the first App Store slithered out of the primordial ooze. And now their time has come. Nintendo has officially announced that it’s bringing its iconic games and beloved characters to mobile devices, by partnering up with Japanese mobile gaming company DeNA. Until now, Nintendo has (some might say stubbornly), refused to release its many franchises from the confines of its own hardware. But a combination of disappointing Wii U sales and hundreds of millions of smartphone and tablet users appears to be an opportunity too gargantuan to pass up. While Nintendo’s handheld consoles…
The LG G4 has yet to be revealed, but that hasn’t stopped rumours of a G4 Note from flittering around the interwebs and causing a bit of a stir. According to the Korea Herald, LG will release its mysterious phablet to compete against the Samsung Galaxy Note 4 and Apple iPhone 6 Plus. The company already reportedly filed for the G4 Note trademark with the the Korean patent office last month, and it could very well be the handset that will “stand above the G series” that LG Mobile CEO Juno Cho has previously referred to. The new G4 Note…
It debuted on Apple’s new MacBook, then the second-generation Chromebook Pixel a couple of days later. Where next for USB Type-C? Android phones, that’s where. Google has revealed that Android smartphones are in line to adopt the new socket standard, along with more Chromebooks. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-J0FWWDuRg In a YouTube video posted by Google, the Chrome team bigged up USB Type-C to the max, saying it offered a triple whammy of power (it can carry 100W of it), high-speed data transfer and the ability to output 4K video – all in a connector around the size of micro-USB. “USB Type-C delivers more…
Apple opened up public beta testing for the Mac OS X not too long ago, and iPhone users who want to live on the edge can now sign up for Apple’s public beta for the latest version of iOS too. While Apple has done everything it can to ensure that iPhones won’t be hurt by the latest OS beta, they are called betas for a reason. Signing up for it makes you a guinea pig, willingly accepting potential bugs and issues. As for what there is to look forward to? Well, if the developer’s version is any guide, there’s the…