Daily Crunch: Zen

Here are some recent stories on TechCrunch Gadgets: The Zen Table Practices Mindfulness So You Don’t Have To The Wheel: What Is The Foxconn Debate Really About? iModela Adds CNC Milling To Your Home 3D Printing Arsenal [......]

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Dropbox Offers Up To 5GB Of Additional Space To Beta Build Users

Dropbox has a lot of things going for it, but if you use the cloud storage service with any regularity, there's a good chance you'll bang up against the 2GB offered in the free version fairly quickly. (Assuming that you don't Gmail account chain trick outlined in our Dropbox Cheat Sheet , that is.) If you're chafing at your no-cost bonds, the service is giving you an opportunity to add up to another 5GB of space absolutely free -- if you're willing to be a guinea pig, that is. Dropbox is still working out kinks in its as-yet-unreleased automatic photo and video upload support, you see. [......]

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Gary Marshall: Tablets are no longer just idiot toys

From time to time even jaded tech hacks get a "wow!" moment. [......]

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The $199 PlayBook Returns For A Limited Time

Back in November, there was a run on PlayBooks when the price was briefly reduced to $199. For a tablet that started out with a premium price, the deal proved enticing to many buyers. And again at the beginning of January, with a slightly odd promotion pricing all models at $299 . [......]

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Daily Crunch: Swarm

Here are some of yesterday’s stories on TechCrunch Gadgets: Swarming Robots Will Fly Menacingly Towards Your Loved Ones In Perfect Formation Mint.com Launches Android Tablet App The New Android Watch In The Google Store Isn’t What You Think Review: Panasonic Lumix GX1 Back To Basics: Sony Appoints Kazuo Hirai, Ousts Stringer [......]

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In Depth: Why the future of TV is gesture controlled

Beyond the remote control: using gestures Who needs buttons and onscreen menus when our hands and feet lay idle? It was the Nintendo Wii that first got us moving, before augmented reality apps and games-stuffed smartphones had us waving them in a ridiculous figure-of-eight, but so far the humble television has remained stoically still. [......]

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Daily Crunch: Wraiths

Here are some recent stories on TechCrunch Gadgets: nanox: High-Quality iPod nano Watch Conversion Kit WiGig: Panasonic Tablet Wirelessly Transmits A Full DVD Video In 60 Seconds (Video) Flying People Spotted Over New York City…Film At Nine [......]

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EA’s Madden simulation predicts Giants Super Bowl win

The New York Giants will defeat the New England Patriots in the Super Bowl on Sunday if EA's annual Madden simulation proves to be accurate. The game publisher matched-up the two teams in a single game of Madden '12 on Xbox 360, with Eli Manning's Giants emerging victorious 27-24. [......]

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Kindle Sales Growing Faster Than The Nook’s

Barnes & Noble may be challenging Amazon’s dominance of the e-book world, but Kindle sales are still growing faster than the Nook’s — at least if you connect the dots between some of the numbers included in a recently-published article by The New York Times . The article doesn’t hide the fact that Amazon has the vast majority of marketshare, with Barnes & Noble saying it has 27 percent of the market, compared to Amazon’s share of "at least 60 percent." At the same time, the article writes that "to the delight of publishers" (who see Amazon as a competitor), Barnes & Noble has "grabbed a lot of market share from Amazon." In response, Amazon told The Times that Kindle sales (a number that includes both the Kindle Fire tablet and[......]

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Daily Crunch: Conductive

Here are some recent stories on TechCrunch Gadgets: A Really Nice Flying Ornithopter Video For Your Friday Enjoyment Disney, Q-pot Choco, Honey Bee: Japan Gets 3 Extra-Cute Android Phones Mujjo Conductive Gloves Let You Slide To Unlock With Your Begloved Knuckle [......]

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Android Smartphone Round-Up: December/January Edition

We took a break from the Android round-up in December because, well, to be honest I was on vacation. But January gave us a few extra smartphones and the holidays are over, so we’re back. [......]

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Disney, Q-pot Choco, Honey Bee: Japan Gets 3 Extra-Cute Android Phones

Android adoption is growing rapidly in Japan, with local handset manufacturers doing everything they can in order to meet the demands of customers in all segments of the population. One particularly attractive target group seems to be women, given how many Japanese companies say they design Android phones specifically for female users. [......]

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Steam Takes First Steps Into Mobile With iOS And Android Apps

As a gamer with admittedly poor impulse control, the newly-released Steam app for iOS and Android has me very worried. On the one hand, it seems like an ideal way to to keep tabs on the popular gaming service on the go[......]

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Nintendo Reports US$630 Million Net Loss Between April And December 2011, Announces Wii U For 2012

3DS sales have picked up lately , but Nintendo ‘s financial numbers are still weak. [......]

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A Foothold For HealthTech: Ultra-Cheap Pacemakers

I read with great interest Vinod Khosla’s column two weeks ago that discussed the role of tech in healthcare. But as much as tech has to offer the healthcare institution, its effects are perhaps more reliably trackable in the actual medical devices field. [......]

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