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Phillips develops a roadside drug tester for police use

In the near future, you may want to think twice (or maybe even three times) before hitting the road if you have been abusing any substances. Cops may soon have another device in…

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The Philips CushionSpeaker: part laptop stand, part speaker, part...

It bodes ill for the weary gadget blogger — scooping the congealed snot leaking from his vitreous jelly out of his bagged and swollen ocular cavities while mumbling a litany of profane curses…

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Philips pays compliment to Nintendo with uWand remote

In an obvious tip of the hat to Nintendo Philips has announced a new remote control called the uWand for use with all of the gadgets sitting under your TV, the TV itself,…

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Philips combine Bluetooth/USB/touchpad in a mouse

Philips is really starting to experiment with the new gadgets it is releasing lately. Last week we saw a nod to Nintendo with the Wii Remote inspired uWand remote control, and this week…

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Leave a comment: 2009′s best tech gifts

Whether you do the Christmas thing or not, you probably found yourself on either end of some gift giving this holiday season. We want to know, did you give or receive any amazing…

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Say goodbye to drab nightshots, the next iPhone’s camera might feature the...

There’s a good reason why you don’t see folks pulling an iPhone to photograph dimly-lit scenes, but this could change with the next iPhone. Say goodbye to grainy and washed-out nightshots because a…

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Philips adding 3D to 21:9 true cinema experience TV

Last year Philips released a 56″ LCD TV for the film lover. It has a 21:9 aspect ratio allowing you to view movies as they were meant to be seen (2.39:1), rather than…

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Philips launch GoGear Muse MP4 player

Philips has laucnhed its latest challenger to the iPod and named it the GoGear Muse. The portable music and video player sports the following features: 3.2″ HVGA display 720p HD video playback FullSound…

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Philips develops LED bulb to replace your incandescents

CFL bulbs have been making some great progress but the next step in lighting technology is the LED. These have been making rapid advancements in design and color temperature control while seeing price...

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Philips Home Control DUAL remote gives your internet-connected set a QWERTY...

For years, one problem home theater enthusiasts with an PC hooked up to their HDTVs have wrestled with is just how to go about controlling a computer from across the room. Logitech has…

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Philips’ latest 3DTV: absurdly wide, passive 3D, fancy multiplayer gaming tech

Every kid knows that 3D doesn’t have to be an expensive technology. After all, the back of a cereal box can do 3D: just take a set of cardboard glasses, lens them with…

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Portal’s sentry turrets inspired by a 2001 Philips webcam?

Game designers and artists take inspiration from many different places, some of them very unusual or unexpected. In the case of Valve’s Portal game, it looks like a Swedish gadget catalog played an…

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Philips ends production of Cinema 21:9 TVs

21:9 aspect ratio displays aren’t a common site (yet), so it’s quite surprising to find one company beginning and another ending production of 21:9 displays on the same day. But that’s exactly what…

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Philips’ A21 LED is the 100W replacement bulb you’ve been waiting for

While we’ve seen great improvements in LED lighting over the past few years, there is still a lack of very bright replacement bulbs. It’s easy to go out to Home Depot and pick…

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Review: Philips Hue is where gadgets, apps, and lighting meet

One of the major advantages that will come along with the move to LED lighting will be the integration of technology into our bulbs and fixtures. The light will be a technology platform,…

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Seven manufacturers share $1.92 billion fine for 10 years of CRT price fixing

The two big price fixing scandals we’ve reported about in the last few years were to do with LCD panels and DRAM chips. LG, Sharp, and Chunghwa were fined for LCD price fixing,…

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The perfect (belated) Christmas gift: Philips Lumiblade OLED desk lamp

OLEDs are going to be everywhere soon. Right now they are expensive and not to easy to produce, so they are limited to smaller sizes, appearing mainly on phones, cameras, and select gadgets,…

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End of an era: Philips sells off consumer electronics division

Philips has decided to get out of the consumer electronics market, no doubt causing consumers everywhere to either feel nostalgic about the end of a legend, or to think, “Oh yeah, I totally…

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Ambient lighting for Minecraft bathes your room in the game’s day-night cycle

After your first session of Minecraft, where you inevitably began playing while it was light out and then realized it had gotten dark out and was close to sunrise again, you probably noticed the…

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Light Fair 2013: A tour of the show and a look at the future of lighting

In case you’re not familiar with it Light Fair is exactly what you’d guess it is — a giant tradeshow featuring all manner of lighting products. It’s like CES but smaller, and you’ve…

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