News & Reviews:   Technology

Previously we have covered about Superbook here when it was first mooted online. Now that it has started its kickstarter period, they have surpassed expectations – their current USD 944,000 (~RM 3.8 million as the time of this post) amount is about twenty times their initial request!

While other countries are busy using Android Pay, Apple Pay or Samsung Pay for their daily payment convinience, we as a country have yet to embrace wireless payment technology – until now. Maybank just introduced MaybankPay, the banking company’s own mobile payment service via smartphones and supported devices.

Softbank, one of the world’s largest telecommunication conglomerate, just announced that they will agree to invest in ARM for USD 32 billion (~RM 127 billion). Just as a recap, ARM is the company that creates the basic chip building blocks for just about every mobile chipmaker out there.

More cameras these days are WiFi-enabled, allowing you to connect it to your tablet or smartphone to control it remotely from a distance. What about for cameras that has no WiFi built-in?

Samsung may just turn phone design on its head soon, if this feature concept becomes true. The Smart Glow is the company’s attempt to turn the standard notification LED into something more interactive.

While we may have great sensor sizes in modern phones, mobile photography is stymied by one thing – physics. The megapixel number may be high, but physically the camera module is small, that the lens size is limited by the space available on the phone itself. A new breakthrough in material design may just do away with this problem – and it involves putting metal on your phone cam

Next year may be the year of the multi-mode smartphone. We have seen several companies playing around with bendable screen technology so we can expect a product in the mid to far future that will have a foldable screen. Samsung had patented a design for their foldable smartphone which looks interesting yet a little baffling.

The research team at Carnegie Mellon University has made some impressive technological breakthrough that may help you extend the way you use your smartwatch. Instead of just using the screen, you can now use your arm as an extended screen or control surface for your smartwatch.