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Sony Patents Solar-Powered Controller to Solve Short Battery Life Issue
Modern video game controllers are filled with impressive features. For example, the DualSense controller offers haptic feedback, adaptive triggers, a built-in microphone, and more. However, one common issue many players face is the short battery life, which often leads to frequent recharging—a somewhat inconvenient process. Now, Sony seems to have…
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Phanteks Is Confident That Its D30 Does Not Infringe On Lian Li’s Patent
Two days ago it was found that Lian Li had opened a lawsuit against Phanteks surrounding the daisy chain system that Lian Li has patented on their UNI fans alleging that Phanteks had infringed upon this with their D30 fans. Today Phanteks has shared an official statement surrounding this lawsuit.…
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Samsung Sued For $303 Million Following Memory Patent Lawsuit
Samsung has been hit with a $303 Million fine due to an infringement of several patents related to improvements in data processing. Samsung Fined $303 Million In an article from Reuters, it was revealed that Computer memory company Netlist Inc had taken Samsung to court and had managed to convince…
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Intel Raptor Lake’s New DLVR Tech – Better Laptop Performance For Less Power?
While laptops are certainly getting more and more potent in their configurations, this does often come with a notable problem for users. In its simplest terms, the stronger the components get, the more power they require. And the more power they require, the less time they’ll run off their batteries.…
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Valve Patents System that Allows Games to Be Played While Downloading!
While Steam undoubtedly represents one of the biggest gaming portals available on the PC platform, it does come with a pretty notable flaw. Namely, that if you fancy playing something, you have to wait for the game to download and install before you can try it out. Not so much…
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Apple Issues Patent for Screen Crack Detection System
It’s the stuff of nightmares for many smartphone owners, but it’s hard to deny the general ethos that as technology gets more advanced, it (largely) becomes a lot more susceptible to breaking. With this in mind, I daresay many of you reading this might have a cracked screen on your…
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Apple is Reportedly Working on 2 Folding iPhone Designs
I have to admit that I’m not personally a huge fan of smartphones and certainly not Apple products. Given the huge success seen with their recent iPhone launches, however, I’ll freely admit that I’m probably in the minority here. – In terms of folding screen designs, however, despite for years…
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Microsoft Issues Patent for Smart Tech that Scores Meetings
Since the start of effective lockdown following the COVID-19 pandemic earlier this year, I have had to become a lot more familiar with online conference calls and meetings than I ever really wanted to. It’s not that I dislike the technology in principle. It just seems harder to maintain an…
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PS5 Patent Suggests Console Will See Better Cooling Performance
It’s pretty clear that in terms of specifications, the PS5 is going to be pretty powerful. When it comes to hardware, however, where there’s power, there’s (nearly always) a lot of heat involved. As such, it’s been a matter of some curiosity as to how the PS5 is going to…
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Valve Patents a New Steam Controller Design
Released back in 2015, when Valve introduced the Steam Controller it wasn’t received overly well by the community. Owning one myself (albeit, I can’t quite remember where it currently resides) while it did offer some unique functionality, ultimately it felt both cheap and clumsy. Whether it was an outright failure…
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Sony Patent Hints at a (Potentially) Big PS5 Controller Change
With Sony expected to release the PS5 before the end of this year, it is only a matter of time before they formally announce the console and what we can expect to see from it. In a report via BGR, however, a new patent application by Sony may have revealed…
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Microsoft Patent a Vibrating Floor Mat for VR
It’s not uncommon for the big names in the industry to file patents. However, sometimes they stand out a little more than others. For example, check out this patent for a vibrating floor mat! It looks built for both feedback to the user, but also as a sort of safety…
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AMD Patent Application Reveals Hybrid Ray Tracing Plans
AMD Ray Tracing Patent Application With the upcoming release of the AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT graphics card, while we may have some rough ideas as to how well it will perform one thing is certain. Namely, that the graphics card will not include any hardware based ray tracing support.…
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LG Patent Transparent Folding Phone Design
LG Smart Phones While LG might not be the biggest name in term of smartphone design, they are not a branding to be ignored either. In terms of research and development, the company has some pretty huge resources at their disposal and in the world of smartphones, being innovative is…
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Patent Application Hints At Touchscreen PS4 Controller
Patent Application Hints At Touchscreen PS4 Controller One of the more interesting features surrounding the PlayStation 4 Controller was it’s ‘scratchpad’. This is, admittedly, a technology that has barely been used since the console was released, but it seems, at least in principle, Sony might be planning something more interesting.…
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