It’s happened to all of us before. You need to make a call but you’ve run out of battery life! Well, just give your cellphone a shake for an extra burst of power – that’s the idea behind a new cellphone charger that turns your movement into power. Shashank Priya and his colleagues at Virginia Tech are designing an emergency onboard charger that gets its power from what is called, piezoelectric force, which is generated…
CNET is reporting that Microsoft is planning on creating Office apps that will run natively on iOS and Android that will finally launch early next year. In a statement to CNET, Microsoft said that “Office Mobile will work across Windows Phones, Android phones and iOS, and we have nothing additional to announce today about retail availability of the new Office.” This is an interesting development in the world of smartphones as Microsoft attempts…
2011 brought us the rise and fall of numerous gadgets. HP’s tablet fell into oblivion. Apple, of course, made big headlines with the release of the iPad 2 and a combination of sighs and grunts from consumers when it released the iPhone 4s. Personally, I made the upgrade from a two year old Android phone to an iPhone 4s so for me, that is the best gadget I have run into in…
The presents are opened, all the sweets have been eaten and everyone is ready to add to their new gifts or return the ones they got. At Abt, we are here for all your accessory needs. If you found yourself opening a new fancy gadget, chances are you will want to keep is safe and efficient. Find hundreds of add-ons to your new tablets, MP3 players, TVs or more in our post-holiday…
Engineers at Northwestern University are creating batteries that last longer and charge faster, a potential solution to battery drain on mobile devices. Using the innovation, a typical smartphone is expected to charge fully in 15 minutes and last for at least a week on a single charge. As consumers use smartphones and tablets for more data-intensive purposes like watching movies, playing games and surfing the web, battery life has become a big…
One of the most talked about tech stories this year is, “what will the iPhone 5 look like?” With that comes a vast array of rumors, false reports on tech specs and stories of hopeful ideas. Some are true, some are close, others are completely wrong. One of the more interesting stories that seems to be true is that the iPhone 5 is coming to Sprint. From the beginning, the iPhone was…
You can find them all over the place now. What you ask? Well it is a portable hard drive that will work with my iOS devices including the iPhone, iPad or iPad Touch. Since these drives have come out in the last few months many people have asked, “Why do I need an additional drive if my device already has storage?” Let me take a moment and answer that question. I have…
As you may or may not have already ascertained from my previous blog entries, I am a huge movie fan. Huge. So I’m pretty excited to follow this weekends events. January 20-24th in Park City, Utah is the CES of movies: The 11th Annual Sundance Film Festival. Four days of new, independent films presented by filmmakers, to other filmmakers, movie stars and cinema freaks alike. This year is a bit different as…
Sometimes I get a lot of grief from my friends for wearing fingerless gloves during the wintertime. “You look like a hobo. How do your fingers keep warm?” says my one friend, wagging their mitten covered hand at me. I know fingerless gloves don’t exactly keep you as warm as you would like, but for me, it’s their functionality that warms me over. Simply put, I like wearing them because I can…
Abt is pleased to announce the opening of the new Bose® room in our audio/video department. Like many of the trusted brands featured in our store, Abt has worked closely together with Bose for many years to create a tremendous shopping experience. This new Bose® area in our store does just that! The new room features 20 Bose home theater and personal audio products on display, including the newest Lifestyle® home entertainment…
