Mophie outs aluminum-clad power banks

Mophie is giving you mobile warriors a more premium-looking set of power banks with different capacities and capabilities. The new powerstations come built with an aluminum shell for a classier look. It comes in five different models including a smaller 1X model (US$40) with 2,000mAh capacity and charging speeds of up to 1.8A. The 2X model ($60) has 4,000mAh capacity with 2.4A charging speed. The 3X ($80) shares the charging speed of the 2X but it has a 6,000mAh capacity and a second USB port. Meanwhile, the powerhouse battery packs are the 5X ($130) and 8X ($150), both include Bluetooth monitoring using the free Power app on Android and iOS. The 5X has 10,000mAh capacity, while the 8X has 15,000mAh power. These two have dual charging capabilities. It’s said t be coming to Apple Store locations so hopefully it makes its way here, too.

Source: 9to5Mac

Hyundai to introduce augmented reality manuals for its cars

While Hyundai might not be the first to do this, they are for the first time introducing augmented reality manuals for their cars. It’s not appealing to be reading thick paperback manuals, especially in this age where there’s so much technology in cars, so this solution might work quiet well. The mobile-based Virtual Guide comes with 82 how-to videos, six 3D overlay images, and over 50 informational guides. With the 3D overlay, all you have to do is scan the area of the vehicle, like the engine bay and the images will appear there. It makes use of 2D and 3D tracking technology to help provide information about different parts of the car, just position over the part you want to learn about and then you’re all set. The Virtual Guide will first be available for the 2015 Sonata model and it works for both Android and iOS users.

Source: Hyundai

HP serves up thinner and lighter mobile workstations

Workstations are traditionally expected to be thick, heavy and clunky because they are desktop replacements and require a lot of space for ports, power supplies and graphics cards. HP is changing this notion dramatically with thin, light and sexy laptops that manage to stand out in the sea of corporate notebooks. 

The HP ZBook Studio - HP’s thinnest and lightest full performance model ever brought to the market and can be configured to fit business and road warrior needs with professional choices of memory, processor, graphics and more. The 15.6-inch diagonal HP ZBook Studio, the world's first quad core workstation class Ultrabook sporting Intel Xeon processors as well as fast SSDs and graphics cards. How did they keep the profile so thin? There's an ZBook Studio Dock for expansion with up to 10 ports accessed via a single USB 3.0 slot. The HP ZBook Studio starts at US $1699.00.

Philips and Canada’s Mackenzie Health announce $300 million, 18-year strategic partnership

 Royal Philips and Mackenzie Health, a regional healthcare provider serving Southwest York Region in Ontario, Canada, today announced a CAD 300 million (approximately EUR 210 million), 18-year large scale alliance that will advance Mackenzie Health’s medical technology procurement and maintenance programs for the existing Mackenzie Richmond Hill Hospital and the future Mackenzie Vaughan Hospital, which will be completed in 2019.

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