Elgato creates portable charger that reminds you to bring it along

A mobile battery pack is a lifesaver on days when you can’t charge your devices. That is if you remember to bring it. Elgato has a solution for that with its 6000mAh Smart Power battery. It comes with Bluetooth and an iOS app to access your calendar and remind you to bring it on long busy days or on vacation. It can also let you monitor how much juice it has left and it can trigger an alarm if you can’t remember where you placed the battery pack. It can even remind you to charge the battery. 

Huawei debuts new Ascend Mate phablet

Huawei unveiled at IFA its new phablet, the Ascend Mate 7. This 6-inch device brings a bump in specs including a new 1080p display, 4100mAh battery, LTE Cat6 connectivity, and a single touch fingerprint sensor. Despite its size, it also has an amazingly thin bezel and 7.9mm thinness. It will also carry Huawei’s new Kirin 925 octa-core processor, which is made up of four large A15 1.8GHz and four small A7 1.3GHz chipsets. This big.LITTLE configuration means the 1.3GHz A7 cores will handle the lighter tasks, while the remaining four cores will take on the more processor-intensive apps.

The Ascend Mate 7 also packs in a 13-megapixel rear camera with a Sony sensor and 5-megapixel front-facing camera. It runs on Android 4.4 with Huawei’s EMUI 3.0 on top. It will come in two flavours: 16GB model with 2GB of RAM and 32GB model with 3GB of RAM. Prices so far are 499 and 599 Euros, respectively.

Source: Droid Life

Apple reportedly hires industrial design superstar Marc Newson to join Jony Ive's team

Apple has apparently hired industrial designer Marc Newson to join his besty Jony Ive in Cupertino. This enhances Apple's already formidable design team which is considered to be the best in the industry. Newson, who collaborated with Ive to create various objects for U2 frontman Bono's project (RED) charity which raised US $ 26 million for the charity. Newson's position as well as his title has yet to be announced.

"Marc is without question one of the most influential designers of this generation," Jony Ive said. "He is extraordinarily talented. We are particularly excited to formalize our collaboration as we enjoy working together so much and have found our partnership so effective." Looks like we have the makings of a dynamic duo to lead Apple's already storied design team and it will be exciting to see what this partnership will yield. Check out Marc Newson's fantastic watch designs here.

Video: First look at Moto Hint, the next generation bluetooth headset

By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

One of the most intriguing new products revealed in Motorola's recent Moto 360, Moto X, and Moto G launch event was the Moto Hint. A tiny, next generation Bluetooth headset that's full of innovative sensors, can manage voice controls to accompanying Moto X (2nd Gen) models as well as work as a regular Bluetooth headset for any smartphone by using capacitive controls. Anyone who has watched the Spike Jonze movie "Her" will realize that a voice activated headset is one possible future interface for computing, Motorola believes this is the next step. Being relatively new, the Moto Hint isn't ready for release but we'll be following this development and will review the device once it becomes available