Hands-on with Pixie Points: A fun, interactive accessory that uses AR to find lost items
Devices that help you find lost items via Bluetooth already exist, but Pixie shows the potential of AR outside of gaming.
Devices that help you find lost items via Bluetooth already exist, but Pixie shows the potential of AR outside of gaming.
After a week with the Nexus 5, it is clear to me that the hardware is solid, the software is compelling, and while everything is not perfect it is possible to achieve more with some updates.
It's too early for businesses to adopt 802.11ac, but this high-speed 5GHz wireless standard offers enough advantages, especially for BYOD, that you'll want to start planning soon.
Health and safety is important, of course — it's tricky enough to remain fit and healthy without the added risk of driving without a seat belt, or inhaling your colleagues' cigarette smoke at work all day. However, it can be said to have "gone mad", or at least a little screwy, when a significant piece of the country's scientific heritage comes under threat of destruction.
Cybercrime is now allegedly a bigger problem in the UK than street crime, but hackers may not be the biggest problem.
Whenever possible, learn from other people's failures — it's cheaper than learning from your own. Eric Ries didn't have this advantage when, as a Yale undergraduate, he co-founded Catalyst Recruiting.
It's a given that something under your Christmas tree has a little 'batteries not included' note no-one spotted while wrapping it up. No problem if you keep alkaline batteries in the drawer, a little more irritating if you save money with rechargeable batteries because those NiMHs you have are almost certainly pretty flat.
Energy consumption concerns can only get greater as the cost of power is set to rise and rise. Larger businesses have complex energy management schemes in place, but smaller companies, and those individuals who work from home, often go for simper strategies.
In a market dominated by powerful, but power-hungry, Intel Xeon and AMD Opteron processors, SeaMicro is bucking the trend in using the humble Intel Atom to create highly scalable and remarkably energy-efficient servers.Its first product, the 32-bit SM10000, was launched last year, and now there's a 64-bit version, cramming 256 dual-core N570 Atom processors into a 10U rack unit.
The ever so humble mouse comes in a lot of different shapes and sizes and even Microsoft, which has a solid sideline in keyboards and mice, produces a few models.The latest addition to the range, the Arc Touch Mouse, packs flat for travel, and becomes mouse-shaped when you flex its centre.