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The market for messaging apps is rapidly growing and highly competitive, so how can you compete? In Alibaba’s case, the Chinese company is actually paying its users to invite friends to its chat app Laiwang. The company hopes that this new method will help Laiwang compete with rival apps like
Barilla, the world’s largest producer of pasta, has been working with TNO Eindhoven to design the perfect pasta printer for use in restaurants around the world. Having these machines will restaurants to produce past quickly and cheaply on their own. If you’re wondering why a Barilla woul
As time goes by, more and more consumers are choosing cheaper, low-end smartphones over high-end smartphones. Not only are Asian phone vendors ramping up low-end smartphone production, but large companies like Samsung are starting to transition away from high-end devices in order to follow the money
The Elder Scrolls Online will be released for the PC and Mac in April and for the Xbox One and the PlayStation 4 later in June, but profitable will it be? According to a recent leak, the new MMO cost over $200 million to make, putting it behind only Star Wars: The Old Republic and Grand […]
Lenovo has decided to announce four new smartphones ahead of CES 2014, most notably, the LTE-compatible Vibe Z. The Vibe Z will be the Chinese company’s first LTE-compatible smartphone and also highest-end new offering. The Vibe Z is slightly leaner than its South Korean competitors at 0.31 in
The introduction of the Internet has all but killed off the traditional hand-written letter, and by extension, the traditional mailbox. This doesn’t mean we no longer need mailboxes, quite the opposite. More and more people are purchasing their goods online and having the goods delivered to th
Using the most advanced mind-controlled exoskeleton in the world, a young teenager, who’s paralysed from the waist down, will be kicking off the 2014 World Cup in BRazil this year. Electrodes on his scalp will wirelessly beam his brainwaves to the exoskeleton which will then process them into
GymPact, now renamed Pact, is an app that makes you form a “pact” to exercise, log your meals on MyFitnessPal.com, or eat vegetables for a certain number of days. Completing your end of the pact gets you rewards in the form of small change that accumulates. Failing to meet the daily requ
Three Japanese researchers, Yoichi Ochiai, Takayuki Hoshi, and Jun Rekimoto, have managed to create an ultrasonic array that can push items around in 3D space. The system has two original features. One is the direction of the ultrasound beam, which is arbitrary because the force acting toward its ce
It was only matter of time before the Canadians did something like this, a Canadian company has managed to build a working pick-up truck out of ice. The truck was made out of 11,000 lbs of ice and averaged 20km/h and managed to drive a 1.6km which the company is hoping is a world record of […
Samsung’s Galaxy Grand Lite has been leaking quite a bit lately, and today it looks like we’re finally getting some confirmation on specs and naming. The Grand Lite will likely be marketed as the Galaxy Grand Neo, and you can expect it to have a 5 WVGA screen as well as a 1.2 GHz A7 CPU. A […
iMpulse is a tiny portable controller for touchscreen devices that connects through Bluetooth. Despite its size, the controller still manages to squeeze in a directional pad, seven buttons, and a rechargeable battery good for nine solid hours of continuous play. We’ve been promised that touchs
