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It’s hard to imagine a television show that has had more examples of techfiction becomie techfact than the original Star Trek series. The multimedia franchise has a grip on the collective unconsciousness of geeks on the level of few other things. While the movies and spin-offs have their own assortment of impressive gadgetry made real, the original [...]

The non-contract smartphone industry keeps growing, and we can’t help but wonder if some of the more established players in that market are going to react. Virgin Mobile, for example, gives you $100 credit when you switch to the Sprint-owned contractless service. Virgin also offers yet another low-end Android phone from Kyocera, kings of the [...]

Some companies try a little too hard to appeal to tech-savvy parents. Smart PJs have a code printed on them that bring up a story on your smartphone when scanned by the company’s app. Really. This isn’t a gag. This is clearly what it looks like when someone learns about QR codes and thinks they’re [...]

You know what’s never a good sign? When a “hot” product has prices slashed after barely a month on the market. As such, people took notice this weekend when the HTC First was slashed in price to $0.99 with no fanfare. Now, there are rumors that this is just the first stage. AT&T reached out [...]

BlackBerry outsmarted me. Amid rumors of a third BB10 device to debut this summer, I chided the obvious potential to damage sales of existing hardware as users waited for a third. Today, BlackBerry showed that yes, there is a third device. However, it won’t be available in the United States or Canada. As those are the [...]

Remember all the hubbub about 3D printed guns? No? Not even when the U.S. government gave a firearms licence to Defense Distributed, the biggest name in renderable firearms? This past week was another huge one for DD, as it printed and tested the new Liberator gun, an all plastic gun that only needs the addition of a nail to serve [...]

As someone who swaps devices frequently, there’s a certain level of frustration when playing mobile games. For example, take the classic Angry Birds. I have no choice but to play the same levels, over and over again, when going from phone to tablet and back again. The folks at Rovio clearly feel my pain, and [...]

It feels like there’s a story about 3D printing in the news every day lately. The once science-fiction concept of creating complex solid objects out of raw materials on demand has the potential to disrupt just about every form of industry in the world. One of the biggest blockades has been acceptability. While some universities have [...]

Techcitement touched upon some of Tony Stark’s wardrobe the other day, but we didn’t deal with one of the coolest aspects of the armor — the predictive nature. A lot of what was far-out science fiction in 1962 is science fact today. The first thing you need to be aware of is that in the [...]

HTC was one of the first to join the smartphone party, which makes the company’s current lowest ever earnings even more disappointing. While Samsung and Apple battle for top dog, HTC has been putting out well-reviewed handsets and fighting for scraps. In a shot across everyone else’s bow, HTC is aggressively pursuing owners of existing handsets. This isn’t [...]