Nintendo Switch Nintendo refreshes the Switch with a battery-boosting new modelnewatlas.com - Michael Irving Just a week after Nintendo announced the Switch Lite, the company has quietly unveiled a new hardware revision for its full-sized console. Nintendo …
NAMM Pickups on a carousel cater for quick change tonenewatlas.com - Paul Ridden There are a number of ways to change your guitar's tone on-the-fly, such as using effects pedals, but if you want to change your pickups mid-song, …
Review: Phil the Tip Jar, a card-dispensing tip jar for musiciansnewatlas.com - Paul Ridden For working musicians, interacting with your audience is an important part of playing live. And so is getting paid. Sadly, even if your band manages …
Typing Click&Touch keyboard puts the trackpad in the keysnewatlas.com - Paul Ridden Bluetooth keyboards are great when you need to type on a tablet and don't want much of the screen lost to virtual keys, but a built-in trackpad would …
Google Translate Review: Langogo's Genesis translator takes a pocket-sized axe to the language barriernewatlas.com - Loz Blain The Langogo Genesis is a hand-held pocket translator, smaller than a smartphone, that uses noise-cancelling microphones to translate between more …
Sony Sony packs "world's fastest" card reader into its latest USB hubnewatlas.com - Nick Lavars Sony has wheeled out a versatile new USB hub geared toward working professionals with a need for speed. The MRW-S3 is packed with ports to support a …
Bracelets Bone-conducting bracelet lets you make payments, phone calls and tracks your healthnewatlas.com - Matt Kennedy It looks like an elegant fitness tracker and acts like a smartwatch, yet it has has no buttons nor a screen. It also plays audio when you touch your …
Remote-controlled lifebuoy propels itself to save troubled swimmersnewatlas.com - Paul Ridden Time is critical when rescuers are alerted to a swimmer in trouble, a surfer who's taken a dive or a yacht guest who has fallen overboard. We've seen …
Mobile Technology DroneShield's latest jamming gun takes down nearby targets with a single handnewatlas.com - Nick Lavars DroneShield has again expanded its lineup of weaponry built to disable unmanned aircraft, this time taking aim at targets a little closer to home. …
Chronographs Louis Moinet's Memoirs Only watch puts the chronograph front and centernewatlas.com - David Szondy For this year's Monegasque Association against Muscular Dystrophy annual Only Watch charity auction, Louis Moinet has come up with something …
Analog McIntosh's new Hi-Res DAC debuts in C53 Preamplifiernewatlas.com - Paul Ridden New York's McIntosh Labs has announced a new addition to its high end audio catalog in the shape of the C53 preamplifier, which is the first product …
Portable, rechargeable bidet takes a swipe at the wipenewatlas.com - Matt Kennedy Positioned as an answer to the environmental toll associated with toilet-paper and flushable wipes, a startup from Santa Monica in California has …
Synthesizers Boss squeezes 121 synth sounds into a floor stompnewatlas.com - Paul Ridden If your band doesn't have a keyboard player but your guitarist wants to rock the house with the spirit of Rick Wakeman or Jean-Michel Jarre, you can …
Auctions Rare original 1976 Apple-1 operation manual up for auctionnewatlas.com - Matt Kennedy The Apple-1 computer, launched in July 1976, wasn't the first personal computer per se, but to many, it may as well be. After all, this is the …
South Africa Springboks SpaceBok robot designed to bound around in low-gravity environmentsnewatlas.com - David Szondy We've seen robots that can walk, trot, run, and even do backflips, but now a student team is working on a rover robot prototype that hops about like …
USB 3.0 Vaio's latest mini laptop packs in the portsnewatlas.com - Paul Ridden If you're a user of a recently-produced laptop, you may have found yourself needing to spend extra cash on a USB-C multiport hub so you can continue …
Ants Tiny ant-inspired Tribots embrace collective intelligence to tackle big tasksnewatlas.com - David Szondy In a demonstration that less can be more, EPFL scientists are working on simple robots that behave and cooperate like ants. The 10-g (0.35-oz) …
Nintendo Switch Lite Nintendo launches the Switch Lite for smaller, cheaper gaming on the gonewatlas.com - David Nield With the huge success of the Nintendo Switch, it's no surprise to see a variation on the original console making its debut today. The Nintendo Switch …
Remote Controls Haptic vest guides working dogs by remote controlnewatlas.com - Ben Coxworth Among other things, trained dogs are capable of sniffing out bombs, locating buried survivors at disaster sites, assisting the physically challenged, …
Guitar Novel travel guitar folds down to backpack size for transportnewatlas.com - Paul Ridden Guitars are already pretty portable instruments. You just throw one in a gig bag and you're all set. But those long necks can suffer much more than a …
ETH Zurich Scientists can use data hidden in music to send Wi-Fi passwords to your phonenewatlas.com - David Nield Researchers have developed a new method for transmitting data to smartphones – by embedding it in music. That means phones might one day receive …
Apple Store Apple updates MacBook Air and MacBook Pro in time for the new school yearnewatlas.com - Matt Kennedy Apple announced updates to the MacBook Air and MacBook Pro lines this week, and – just in time for the beginning of the North American school year – …
Drones Moment's stick-on lens for DJI drones takes anamorphic aspect ratios airbornenewatlas.com - Nick Lavars Over the past few years the folks at Moment have been busy building lenses and accessories to give mobile cameras a boost. They are now turning this …
British Army UK expands laser and radio frequency directed energy weapons programnewatlas.com - David Szondy The UK's Ministry of Defence has ordered three laser and radio-frequency weapons demonstrators for the country's Armed Forces. Today's announcement …
University of Wisconsin Your smartphone's analog glass may one day recognize your facenewatlas.com - Ben Coxworth Although biometric face-recognition security tech is now becoming quite common on devices such as smartphones, it does still require a lot of …
Coffee Cold-brew coffee maker brews, stores and pours – and looks cool while doing itnewatlas.com - Matt Kennedy Nitro-infusion cold-brew is a big thing among coffee aficionados, but most of us need to go to a specialist coffee shop to get our fix, and it's not …
Synthesizers Two-dimensional cellular automation game inspires retro synthnewatlas.com - Paul Ridden Regular readers will be familiar with the retro wooden wonders of Love Hultén. Over the years, the Swedish designer has created wood-encased games …
Abu Dhabi Abu Dhabi throws the switch on world's largest single-site solar projectnewatlas.com - Matt Kennedy Abu Dhabi is claiming the title of the world's largest single-site solar project, having hit the go-button on the Noor Abu Dhabi project this week, …
Lettuce Machine learning helps robot harvest lettuce for the first timenewatlas.com - Rich Haridy Engineers from the University of Cambridge have developed a vegetable-picking robot that can autonomously identify and harvest iceberg lettuce, one …
