Misfit will allow you to mix-and-match styles of Misfit devices to your own tastes. You can choose from the Misfit Shine 2, Misfit Ray or Misfit Phase and then decide on a color of black, rose gold, silver, black or gold before selecting a custom strap. For example, this new scheme will make it possible to buy the Misfit Shine 2 with a leather band for the first time. Misfit will then put your customization choices together and send out the device. Customizing your device doesn’t seem to cost an

That’s the important question posed by a collection of Japanese roboticists from the Inami Hiyama Laboratory, who’ve developed an additional pair of robotic arms that you can add to your body. It ties the movements of these robotic arms to the motion of your legs – with tracking markers on your feet and knees allowing you to control the wrist and elbow joints respectively. “We propose metalimbs – adding additional artificial limbs to your own body. The artificial limbs can be customised dependin

You still can’t buy the Android-toting Nokia 6, Nokia 5 and Nokia 3, but HMD Global, the firm behind the new Nokia handsets, has confirmed exclusively to TechRadar that the trio will be upgraded to Android O (Android 8) once it’s available. A spokesperson from HMD Global told TechRadar “the smartphones will get the Android O update once the new release is available from Google for their OEM partners, the same way HMD Global is committed to the monthly Android security updates”. Not available rig

Aorus has revealed a new external graphics enclosure over at Computex, with the GTX 1070 Gaming Box aiming to deal with many of the shortcomings commonly associated with these solutions. However, Aorus’ Gaming Box comes with a GeForce GTX 1070 card already built-in for just $599 (around £465, AU$810). And that’s another strength of the Aorus Gaming Box: it can be hooked up to any laptop with a Thunderbolt 3 port. The downside of the GTX 1070 Gaming Box is that you lose a little in the flexibilit

Naturally, this included games, and that meant The Curse of Monkey Island. A cursed monkey island and a cursed black pearl… you can see where my mind was making connections. In 2017, 20 years after it was first released, The Curse of Monkey Island is still a very good game. I think it’s safe to say video games like The Curse of Monkey Island encourage us to be creative in our thinking if nothing else. We’ve seen remasters of Full Throttle, Grim Fandango and even the first two titles in the Mon

That could be about to change, however, if there’s any truth behind recent images of a gold PS4 Slim that have appeared online. Sony hasn’t announced any plans to release a gold 1TB slim console, but an image posted on Reddit by a Target employee certainly makes it look like a release isn’t all that far away, in the US at least. Gold standardOf course, you can already purchase a gold PS4 controller (alongside many other colors) on its own but the opportunity to get a console that matches is no d

Despite Intel celebrating half a century of Moore’s Law two years ago, many tech firms have been talking about its death for a few years now – and Nvidia has been vocal in the past about us living in a post Moore’s Law world. Wanting MooreWithout the constant progress of Moore’s Law, companies have shown off other ways they are improving their devices at Computex 2017. Nvidia also looks set to combat the end of Moore’s Law with its focus on Deep Learning – a revolution in artificial intelligence

Amazon Echo and Google Home likely won’t make it to Christmas without a little extra competition, as it appears Apple’s smart speaker debut has been put into motion. Though the unveiling of Apple’s rumored Siri Speaker could come as soon as June 5, the report says it’s not expected to ship out until later this year. This isn’t the first time we’ve heard tell that a Siri Speaker would show at WWDC. KGI analyst Ming-Chi Kuo predicted earlier this month that Apple will reveal its smart speaker at t

Whittling down the best Android apps from nearly 3 million to just 12 is a tall order, but that’s exactly what we saw happen at Google IO 2017 in May. While Google’s impressive AI and VR initiatives took center stage at its annual conference, it did take some time out to focus on the apps that make its Android platform popular. Here are the 12 apps that were honored at the Google Play 2017 Awards this year.

Looking at reduced support for Windows 10 Mobile over the past year, combined with plummeting sales of Windows phones, we wouldn’t blame you for thinking Microsoft’s last big push into the mobile space would be its, well, last. However, it looks like the tech bigwig is warming up for another crack at the mobile bat as industry sources tell Thurrott.com that Microsoft if actively developing something new for Windows Mobile. According to the report, Microsoft is testing not just hardware, but also

The Samsung Galaxy S8 unlocked price accurately reflects this Android phone’s elongated screen: it’s bigger than you’d ever expect, even if it gets you the best phone in the US. It’s the classic tale of ‘you get what you pay for’ as the Samsung Galaxy S8 costs $724, while the larger Galaxy S8 Plus costs even more $824.99 in the Midnight Black color only. Both the Galaxy S8 and Galaxy S8 Plus cost more than their Apple counterparts, the iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus, as well as the Google Pixel, Pix

While all eyes have been on a long-rumored MacBook Pro 2017 refresh on the horizon for some time, a recent development has roped the far younger 12-inch MacBook into those reports. Alongside a revived MacBook Pro, many expect to see a revamped 12-inch MacBook for 2017 as well. The new 12-inch MacBook refreshThe new 12-inch MacBook refresh When is it out? Likely as much as current modelsMacBook 2017 release dateBased on the foremost rumor regarding the very existence of such an Apple laptop, Bloo

That’s why, starting today, Oculus is adding Chromecast support to the Samsung Gear VR headset — making sharing your VR experiences to onlookers both possible and a snap. All you need (besides the Gear VR itself) is a compatible smartphone running the latest version of Android and the most recent update to Oculus’ mobile app. Next, you just hit the newly added “Cast” button before strapping on the headset, and the phone will connect to the Chromecast. Once complete, viewers will be able to see w

We don’t even know the official sweet-treat name for Android O yet, but OnePlus has already confirmed that once it’s available it will come to the OnePlus 3T and OnePlus 3. The company’s CEO, Pete Lau, said as much in a tweet, though no time frame for the Android O update was given. That, plus the fact that OnePlus will almost certainly prioritize the OnePlus 5 for Android updates, means that we probably won’t see Android O on the OnePlus 3T or OnePlus 3 until 2018. They each only got one major

Bixby on the Samsung Galaxy S8 and Samsung Galaxy S8 Plus is about to finally become more useful, as reports state it will gain its much-needed voice capabilities in late June. Samsung first showed us Bixby, its promising, new virtual assistant that’s set to take on the likes of Siri and the Google Assistant, on the S8 when it launched a few months ago. It wasn’t a good look, especially since there’s a hardware button dedicated to activating it right on the brand new phones. Coming soonHowever,

No, it’s your Amazon Prime ice lolly order being gently parachuted down to your location in your time of lazy need. This is a scenario that could very well be on the drone-populated horizon if a recent patent granted to Amazon is anything to go by. Issued by the US Patent and Trademark Office, the patent depicts a shipping label fitted with built-in parachutes. The idea is that the shipping label would house a series of cords, a parachute, a breakaway cover and a harness to keep everything in pl

In fact, AMD said that the hotly anticipated Radeon RX Vega GPUs destined for mainstream PCs won’t be launched until SIGGRAPH 2017, which takes place in Los Angeles, kicking off on July 30. Keep up with all the latest at Computex 2017So, the earliest we’ll see these graphics cards is the very end of July, and that might just be an initial reveal of the hardware, as opposed to an actual launch – the RX Vega cards may not hit the shelves until several weeks after. Fingers crossed that the reveal a

Thankfully I was on my way to an event to use the HTC Vive VR headset as a meditation tool. There was Guided Meditation VR, where you can choose your music, your setting, and the type of guided meditation you want. It felt like you were looking at a computer screen while being guided through a meditation. The cables are cumbersome (I almost garrotted myself getting out of the guided meditation experience), the screen fidelity isn’t quite good enough, and it’s still seriously expensive. There is

Why does DC do so well in videogames, but drop the ball every other time on the silver screen? That’s the question the top brass at DC are still asking themselves with the three poorly received films that proceeded the surprisingly successful Wonder Woman in their DC Extended Universe. Why does an ultraviolent Batman work so well in Batman: Arkham Knight, but trend almost into farce with the Batfleck? Yet 2015’s Batman Arkham Knight went all out in its own final act, offering perhaps one of the

We’ve known since February that Middle Earth: Shadow of War is coming and from what we’ve seen so far it looks like it’s going to be a stunning game. It’s the sequel to the 2014 action role playing game Middle Earth: Shadow of MordorIt’s the sequel to the 2014 action role playing game Middle Earth: Shadow of Mordor When can I play it? Release dateMiddle Earth: Shadow of War will be released on PS4, Xbox One and PC on August 25 2017. GameplayGameplay is something we’ve had an extensive look at fo