With the new year comes the time for new innovations, and where else is it easier to find out what's new being developed than on Kickstarter? In addition to always fresh ideas, we are looking forward to quite a few projects that obtained enough funds last year and will see the light of day this year. So let's see which products will make our everyday life easier this year...
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So-called PDAs or small computers have recently lost their popularity. The company Planet wants to break this negative trend with the Gemini PDA laptop.
Porsche Design impresses with the thinnest and lightest laptops in the size of 15.6 inches.
Framework laptops? You haven't heard of them?! The days of disposable laptops may soon be behind us, thanks to Framework's innovative approach to design and sustainability. With laptops that can be fully repaired, upgraded and customized, the Framework shakes up the traditional consumer electronics model and offers a more sustainable future for computing.
Tech giant Apple has filed a patent for a laptop that turns an iPhone smartphone into a MacBook laptop, and the phone folds right into the place of the touchpad.
Lenovo has introduced a cheaper version of the groundbreaking 2-in-1 tablet Yoga Book, which was one of the brighter spots in the field of technological innovation last year and quickly networked much of the tech world. The Yoga Book for every pocket has the name Lenovo Yoga A12 and, like its older sister, it does not have a keyboard, but only a graphic tablet on which virtual keys are drawn, and the user can create on it with the attached pen. Yogo A12 can only be purchased with Android.
They say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery - but not for Asus. The Asus ZenBook 3 is lighter, thinner and faster than Apple's MacBook, and all it can fault is that the designers copied too much from Apple. The Asus ZenBook 3 is essentially a MacBook with Windows (Windows 10 Pro). If there was no Apple logo on the case, it would be hard to tell them apart. When we dig into the numbers, however, the ZenBook 3 sweeps the MacBook.
Apple's new MacBook may be the template for all laptops of the future, but it's hardly the best. He happened upon a Lenovo LaVie Z laptop. The latter, which runs the Windows 8.1 operating system, may not be as thin as the new Apple MacBook, but it is therefore lighter and has all the connections you need. No need for intermediate plugs and similar rods. The screen is also larger and with a higher resolution, and the processor is more powerful. Of course, all this comes with a price, so you will pay around 180 euros more for it than for a MacBook.
The Toshiba Satellite Z30 notebook has 16 hours of autonomy thanks to the fast and powerful, but at the same time very economical Intel Core i5 5200 processor from the Broadwell family. It is a compact notebook, weighing only half a kilogram and with ideal dimensions for portability (316 x 227 x 17.9 mm).
Xiaomi Mi Notebook Air or MacBook Air, that is the question. China's Xiaomi has swam into computing waters with the Mi Notebook Air, which strongly resembles the MacBook Air. Apple has long inspired many competitors with its products, but the Mi Notebook Air is perhaps the most blatant Apple copycat yet. Is Xiaomi's laptop a real rival to the MacBook Air or just its clone? Let's see.
A lot of choice often leads to more gray hairs. Especially when the things to choose from are relatively similar. This is now also the case with computing devices. Until recently, we only had a mobile phone and a computer at our disposal, but now there is a huge amount of 'grey area' in between. In addition to a smartphone, we usually need a laptop, a tablet, and recently the popular chromebook. What are the differences between them and what you should know before you decide to buy, read below.
USB-C may be becoming the standard, but as long as you have a bunch of devices in your home that rely on other types of connectors, you can't help it much if you don't have a connector conversion adapter. The MacBook Pro notebook is, as far as this is concerned, extremely 'discriminating', as it only has a USB-C input. That's why the Hyperdrive was created, which returns to the Apple laptop all those connectors and slots that we used at home until now.