Devices Stories for 2014

The One Mistake Google Keeps Making 386
Texas Instruments Builds New Energy Technology For the Internet of Things 54
"Infrared Curtain" Brings Touchscreen Technology To Cheap Cars 123
Extracting Data From the Microsoft Band 51
Ask Slashdot: What Can I Really Do With a Smart Watch? 232
Raspberry Pi In Space 56
OpenMotics Offers Open Source (and Open Hardware) Home Automation 36
$35 Quad-core Hacker SBC Offers Raspberry Pi-like Size and I/O 140
Civil Case Uses Fitbit Data To Disprove Insurance Fraud 99
How High-Tech Temporary Tattoos Will Hack Your Skin 57
IoT Is the Third Big Technology 'Wave' In the Last 50 Years, Says Harvard 196
Google, National Parks Partner To Let Girls Program White House Xmas Tree Lights 333
Security Experts Believe the Internet of Things Will Be Used To Kill Someone 165
Highly Advanced Backdoor Trojan Cased High-Profile Targets For Years 143
Nokia's N1 Android Tablet Is Actually a Foxconn Tablet 109
For Some Would-Be Google Glass Buyers and Devs, Delays May Mean Giving Up 154
Entrepreneur Injects Bitcoin Wallets Into Hands 77
Researchers Develop $60 Sonar Watch To Aid the Visually Impaired 30
Carmakers Promise Not To Abuse Drivers' Privacy 98
Eben Upton Explains the Raspberry Pi Model A+'s Redesign 107
Start-Up Vsenn Emerges From Stealth With Project Ara Modular Phone Competitor 30
Florida-Based Magic Leap Builds Its Team With Bay Area Hires 161
Amazon's Echo: a $200, Multi-Function, Audio-Centric Device 129
What People Want From Smart Homes 209
Smart Meters and New IoT Devices Cause Serious Concern 168
MPAA Bans Google Glass In Theaters 357
Microsoft Enters the Wearables Market With 'Band' 135
Getting 'Showdown' To 90 FPS In UE4 On Oculus Rift 30
How Apple Watch Is Really a Regression In Watchmaking 415
Help a Journalist With An NFC Chip Implant Violate His Own Privacy and Security 142
Lenovo Reveals Wearable Smartband To Track Exercise Stats 51
Rite Aid and CVS Block Apple Pay and Google Wallet 558
New Oculus SDK Adds Experimental Linux Support and Unity Free For Rift Headset 24
Deutsche Telecom Upgrades T-Mobile 2G Encryption In US 27
DHS Investigates 24 Potentially Lethal IoT Medical Devices 79
Google Leads $542m Funding Round For Augmented Reality Wearables Company 38
Microsoft Gearing Up To Release a Smartwatch of Its Own 172
Flight Attendants Want Stricter Gadget Rules Reinstated 406
Samsung's Wi-Fi Upgrades Promise Speeds Up to 4.6Gbps 92
Microsoft Develops Analog Keyboard For Wearables, Solves Small Display Dilemma 100
Oculus Hiring Programmers, Hardware Engineers, and More For VR Research Division 16
Factory IoT Saves Intel $9 Million 50
Matchstick and Mozilla Take On Google's Chromecast With $25 Firefox OS Dongle 106
World's Smallest 3G Module Will Connect Everything To the Internet 118
Nixie Wearable Drone Camera Flies Off Your Wrist 63
When Everything Works Like Your Cell Phone 175
From the Maker of Arduboy: Tetris On a Bracelet 15
John Carmack's Oculus Connect Keynote Probably Had Samsung Cringing 88
Popular Wi-Fi Thermostat Full of Security Holes 103
New Long-Range RFID Technology Helps Robots Find Household Objects 38
Vrvana's Totem HMD Puts a Camera Over Each Eye 25
New "Crescent Bay" VR Headset Revealed and Demo'd At Oculus Connect 65
SteadyServ Helps Keep the Draft Beer Flowing (Video) 48
Once Vehicles Are Connected To the Internet of Things, Who Guards Your Privacy? 130
Logitech Aims To Control the Smart Home 115
Oculus Rift CEO Says Classrooms of the Future Will Be In VR Goggles 182
Laid Off From Job, Man Builds Tweeting Toilet 115
Ask Slashdot: What Smartwatch Apps Could You See Yourself Using? 471
Using Wearable Tech To Track Gun Use 264
Intel Releases SD-Card-Sized PC, Unveils Next 14nm Chip 47
Apple Announces Smartwatch, Bigger iPhones, Mobile Payments 730
In France, a Second Patient Receives Permanent Artificial Heart 183
Moto 360 Reviews Arrive 87
Intel Unveils MICA "My Intelligent Communication Accessory" Smart Bracelet 48
New Usage-Based Insurance Software Can Track Drivers Using Smartphones 137
Post-Microsoft Nokia Offering Mapping Services To Samsung 67
Google Announces a New Processor For Project Ara 36
Securing Networks In the Internet of Things Era 106
60,000 Oculus Rift DK2 Orders, 20,000+ Units Shipped, New Orders Ship In October 67
Samsung Buys Kickstarter-Funded Internet of Things Startup For $200MM 107
Gartner: Internet of Things Has Reached Hype Peak 98
Study: Firmware Plagued By Poor Encryption and Backdoors 141
Enthusiast Opts For $2200 Laser Eye Surgery To Enhance Oculus Rift Experience 109
Google Fit Preview SDK Arrives For Android Developers 13
Student Uses Oculus Rift and Kinect To Create Body Swap Illusion 88
The Oculus Rift DK2: In-Depth Review (and Comparison To DK1) 54
A Router-Based Dev Board That Isn't a Router 54
Household Robot Jibo Nets Over $1 Million On Indiegogo 61
Day One With the Brand New Oculus Rift DK2: the Good, the Ugly and the Games 48
How the Internet of Things Could Aid Disaster Response 60
Led By Nest, 'Thread' Might Be Most Promising IoT Initiative Yet 79
Slashdot Asks: Do You Want a Smart Watch? 381
Take a Picture Just By Thinking About It, Using Google Glass With MindRDR App 41
Finnish National TV Broadcaster Starts Sending Bitcoin Blockchain 73
Hacking a Tesla Model S Could Net $10,000 Prize 77
The Future of Wearables: Standalone, Unobtrusive, and Everywhere 56
Avast Buys 20 Used Phones, Recovers 40,000 Deleted Photos 231
Here Comes the Panopticon: Insurance Companies 353
Coddled, Surveilled, and Monetized: How Modern Houses Can Watch You 150
Android Wear Is Here 129
Apple Hires Away TAG Heuer's VP of Global Sales 67
Hacking Internet Connected Light Bulbs 63
Microsoft Backs Open Source For the Internet of Things 136
Philips Ethernet-Powered Lighting Transmits Data To Mobile Devices Via Light 104
Disappointed Woz Sells His "Worthless" Galaxy Gear Watch 242
The Internet of Things Comes To Your Garden 66
On the Significance of Google's New Cardboard: An Idea Worth Recycling 42
Tom's Hardware: Microsoft Smartband Coming In October With 11 Sensors 70
The Military Is About To Get New Augmented Reality Spy Glasses 58
Ask Slashdot: What Would It Take For You To Buy a Smartwatch? 427
Don't Want Google In Your House? Here Are a Few Home-Tech Startups To Watch 88
Google I/O 2014 Begins [updated] 49
$500k "Energy-Harvesting" Kickstarter Scam Unfolding Right Now 448
Google's Nest Buys Home Monitoring Camera Company Dropcam 82
SpaceX's Friday Launch Scrubbed 28
Chicago Adding Sensors For Public Monitoring 107
US Wants To Build 'Internet of Postal Things' 113
Privacy Worries For 'Smart' Smoke Alarms 90
The Nightmare On Connected Home Street 186
British Army Turns To Oculus Rift To Take the Sting Out of Battlefield Trauma 23
Google Fit To Curate Steps, Calories, Heart Rate, Other Biometric Data 53
Tiniest Linux COM Yet? 76
Google Glass and the Future of Wearable Gaming 39
Unlock Your Android Phone With Open Source Wearable NFC 81
Samsung 'Smart' Camera Easily Hackable 62
Japanese and Swiss Watchmakers Scoff At Smartwatches 399
Google's Business Plan For Nest: Selling Your Data To Utility Companies 167
DIY Wearable Pi With Near-Eye Video Glasses 59
For $20, Build a VR Headset For Your Smartphone 50
Bugs In SCADA Software Leave 7,600 Factories Vulnerable 70
The Amazon Fire TV Is Kind of a Mess 96
Microsoft: Start Menu Returns, Windows Free For Small Device OEMs, Cortana Beta 387
A Third of Consumers Who Bought Wearable Devices Have Ditched Them 180
Contact Lenses With Infrared Vision? 99
Did Facebook Buy Oculus To Counter Google Glass? 108
Russian Officials Dump iPads For Samsung Tablets Over Spy Fears 198
Google Tries To Defuse Glass "Myths" 363
Google Unveils Android Wear 103
Microsoft Dumping License Fees For Windows Phone? 125
Replicant Hackers Find and Close Samsung Galaxy Back-door 81
Woman Attacked In San Francisco Bar For Wearing Google Glass 921
Google Fighting Distracted Driver Laws 226
Lechal Haptic Footwear Guides You By Buzzing Your Feet 26
Ask Slashdot: Should I Get Google Glass? 421
Google Tells Glass Users Not To Be 'Creepy Or Rude' 341
Cops With Google Glass: Horrible Idea, Or Good One? 192
Apple Reportedly Testing Inductive, Solar and Motion Charging For Its Smartwatch 219
Electric Cybersecurity Regulations Have a Serial Problem 40
CES 2014: 3-D Scanners are a Logical Next Step After 3-D Printers 87
I Became a Robot With Google Glass 134
Google Buys Home Automation Company Nest 257
Intel Puts a PC Into an SD Card-Sized Casing 219
Coming Soon: Prescription Lenses For Google Glass 195