The KDE-empowered version of Ubuntu, Kubuntu, now has a high-powered laptop to call its own: The Kubuntu Focus.

Gadgets, gizmos, and concepts abound at CES; you probably couldn't see them all in a month even if you spent all day every day trying.

It took Amazon four years to populate the world with 100 million Alexa-powered devices. It took the company just one more year to more than double that number. The e-commerce titan announced Monday that there are now "hundreds of millions of Alexa-enabled devices" in customers' hands worldwide, a massive increase from the 100 million it announced last January.

The device rapidly chills packaged drinks meaning they do not need to be refrigerated before use.

This year didn’t see much of worse gadgets. Manufacturers lived up to the expectation of tech geeks. Irrespective of all that, there is always going to be a problem when it comes to technology. Earlier I have posted about some great gadgets we witnessed in 2019 in my previous post. In this post, I’m going to be reviewing the worse gadgets in 2019. Gadgets that didn’t perform, failed to impress as expected. We cannot say that 2019 was excellent or without fault, obviously there were shortfalls and that is why am going to talk about in this post.

You might never have to plug the Reflect Eternal in for a recharge.

I’m sure that you have been in the middle of a conversation a time or twenty where the Google Assistant fired up in the background, spewing out random unwanted responses based off of the conversation you were having that Assistant should have had no part of. If so, there’s one command you should know to respond back with.

Stadia offers some good ideas but is half-baked at launch.

The age of the foldable device is upon us! Or at least it will be very soon, pending a slight delay. Either way, a lot of industry analysts are of the opinion that folding smartphones are the future. That means the apps of the future also need to be foldable. Consumers are clamouring at the bit to get a taste of this new hardware direction. But as for us developers? It’s just one more form factor to target — the Android landscape is becoming even more fragmented! Yay!

AirPods are a product of the past. They're plastic, made of some combination of carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, chlorine, and sulfur. They’re tungsten, tin, tantalum, lithium, and cobalt. The particles that make up these elements were created 13.8 billion years ago, during the Big Bang. Humans extract these elements from the earth, heat them, refine them. As they work, humans breathe in airborne particles, which deposit in their lungs.

Headphones are a fact of life inside open plan offices, but Airpods have quickly become a staple of life at ad agency life, with staffers walking around all day with the signature little pods in their ears. For those who remember when people used phones to make voice calls, this is a somewhat disconcerting development in a business that theoretically thrives on collaboration.

It all comes down to cost.

Cassette tapes are having a minor comeback: sales were (somehow) up almost 19 percent year over year in 2018, and where there’s a market, there’s a Kickstarter project looking to cash in. Case in point: the Ninm It’s OK. It’s sort of what a portable cassette player like an original Walkman would be if Sony continued to develop tape-based tech in 2019.

Everyone and their Undodog seems to be launching their own Switch accessories at the moment, but this new project stands out from the rest thanks to its nifty, detachable design. The Grip Clip is a new accessory now funding on Kickstarter. It comes in three parts - two chunky controller grips that attach to each of your Joy-Con, and a third central part which can combine the set to work just like Nintendo's own Joy-Con Grip.

Xiaomi has long raised its commitment in the field of wearables, and for this it created its Huami brand that is responsible for the development of quantifying watches and bracelets of the Amazfit family.

iPhones are not now, nor have they ever been, worth their high price tags. And, yes, that includes the iPhone 11. Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols shares his disdain for Apple's ubiquitous device.

Amazon doesn't just want to bring its virtual assistant, Alexa, to your home. Now, it's aiming to have Alexa come with you everywhere, by putting it on your face, in your ears, and even on your finger. At a major media event on Wednesday, Amazon introduced a wide range of new products and services — all part of an ongoing effort to make Alexa an ever-more-important part of users' lives.

A common refrain is that if phones cost a thousand dollars, why can't Xbox Series X or PS5 cost $600 or more? This is why.