For those who only spend time in the kitchen out of necessity rather than a love for cooking, Whirlpool has added an integration with recipes app Yummly to help making meals a bit less stressful. At CES 2018, the appliance company has unveiled a new line of smart kitchen range an … | Continue reading
NextVR, a platform that specializes in recording sports, concerts, and other live events for viewing later in virtual reality, announced today at CES that it’s adding a new technology to make its recordings feel much more realistic. Called six degrees of freedom, or “6DoF” for sh … | Continue reading
As we enter into the first day of CES, headphone brands like House of Marley and Sol Republic are releasing a whole bunch of wireless headphones and portable wireless speakers.House of Marley is coming out with the No Bounds speaker that it claims are dust and water-proof speaker … | Continue reading
Canary is introducing a new indoor security camera — the Canary View — that's essentially the same as its original, self-titled device. The only differences between the two cameras are their price tags and the fact that the View doesn't support HomeHealth, which monitors your hom … | Continue reading
Asus ROG has concocted a solution to those pesky monitor bezels that tarnish an otherwise gorgeous three-monitor gaming setup — and it involves lenses and light refraction. The company, which stands for Republic of Gamers and exists as a gaming-specific sub-brand of PC maker Asus … | Continue reading
Future Motion is spending another CES improving its one-wheeled self-balancing electric skateboard, which is (perhaps obviously) called the Onewheel. The new version, called the Onewheel+ XR, is an advancement of last year’s Onewheel+, which was faster, quieter, and easier ride t … | Continue reading
A gadget that's part mesh router, part Alexa speaker seems like the logical next step in our collective gadget evolution, and Asus is taking us there. The company announced its Lyra Voice today, which functions as both a mesh router and an Alexa speaker. The future's here. It con … | Continue reading
Insta360 has revealed an upgraded version of its 360-degree Nano camera that attaches to iPhones, called the Nano S. The big change here is an upgrade to 4K video recording and 20MP stills. The Nano S has the same physical form as its predecessor and connects to your iPhone’s Lig … | Continue reading
Japanese startup Xenoma might just have cracked the secret to making successful smart clothing, and it involves a ludicrous skin-tight Spider-Man-style shirt, 14 sensors, and a running mini-game that’s as goofy as it is fun. The company’s “E-Skin” technology, which it debuted at … | Continue reading
Typically, the Consumer Electronic Show in Las Vegas is a feeding frenzy of big TVs, weird gadgets, and superfluous technology, but in recent years it’s become something else too: a car show. The auto industry, perhaps preferring the warm glow of the tech press, has been using CE … | Continue reading
Applying filters is ubiquitous on Instagram and other social media platforms. Now a new feature from Nvidia lets you apply filters over the top of games, rather than on your holiday snaps. The feature is called Nvidia Freestyle, and is part of its GeForce Experience software. Fre … | Continue reading
802.11ax is the next big jump in Wi-Fi, designed to be faster and better at coping with handling large numbers of devices connected at one time, as is increasingly common in our houses and offices. It’s also not actually quite finished, with the Wi-Fi Alliance not actually planni … | Continue reading
Tile wants to track all your gadgets, even those without a tracker attached. Today the company announced that it has partnered with multiple companies that'll soon incorporate its location sharing technology in their products. Bose, Boosted (the maker of Boosted board), Samsonite … | Continue reading
More and more companies are trying to sell you cameras to put outside the house. Now one of them is wondering: why not share their footage with neighbors, so more people can monitor what’s going on?That’s the idea behind Streety, a new app from the security provider Vivint. Peopl … | Continue reading
Petcube plans to release a new pet detection technology that will be compatible with both its Petcube Play and Petcube Bites devices. The feature uses artificial intelligence to recognize pets and then initiate selfie videos of the pet or even to allow the pet to initiate a two-w … | Continue reading
In 2017 Garmin introduced a dashboard device called Garmin Speak that gives turn-by-turn directions and wirelessly connects with a smartphone app to give drivers access to Amazon’s Alexa – offering, effectively, an on-the-go-solution for Alexa, which originated in home products. … | Continue reading
Just as some watch makers are figuring out how to stream music from our tiny wrist-computers, Garmin is catching up to the times and starting to offer music storage on its GPS watches. Garmin’s newly-announced Forerunner 645 watch, revealed at CES, stores music locally on the wat … | Continue reading
Sennheiser is known for doing affordable earbuds consistently well. Now, with plenty of consumer headphones going wireless, the company has revealed the CX 6.00BT, a new set of budget Bluetooth in-ear headphones. Priced at just $99.95 (€99), the company says the earphones deliver … | Continue reading
I’ve been using HyperX’s new Cloud Flight wireless gaming headset for a little more than a week now, and I’m dreading ever going wired again. The device, a new addition to the upper end of peripheral maker HyperX’s Cloud headset line, is the first wireless option the company has … | Continue reading
Asus is bringing its new ZenFone Max Plus (M1) smartphone line to North America, where it joins the ZenFone Max line known for its high-capacity batteries. The Plus has a 5.7-inch display with an ultra-wide 18:9 display ratio, but curiously doesn’t have as much battery power as t … | Continue reading
The world is another step closer to a single unified wireless charging standard, with news that Powermat has joined the Wireless Power Consortium (WPC), developers of Qi wireless charging. Powermat is best known for developing the PMA/Airfuel standard — the only major outstanding … | Continue reading
Sony phones will finally come to the US with a fingerprint sensor on them. I know, that probably doesn’t sound very exciting because every phone ships with a fingerprint sensor on it. But for some reason, Sony has always disabled the fingerprint sensor on its phones in the US, wh … | Continue reading
When friends ask me about my endgame headphones — the ones that I would buy, love, and cherish above all others — my answer is usually the Sennheiser HD 800 S, a pair that I reviewed back in 2016. I’m not alone in my admiration for Sennheiser’s pricey flagship cans, and I suspect … | Continue reading
HP has a pair of new laptops at CES 2018 this year, although the word new is kind of a stretch. That’s because, like many other laptop companies at the show this year, what HP means by “new” is “updated versions of our models from last year”, because truly there is nothing new un … | Continue reading
Amazon’s Alexa digital assistant is seemingly everywhere these days, and now it’s arriving on Windows 10 PCs to challenge Microsoft’s built-in Cortana assistant. HP, Lenovo, Asus, and Acer all plan to integrate Alexa into a range of Windows 10 laptops and desktops being released … | Continue reading
Anker today announced a second-generation version of its extra-large PowerHouse portable battery that is lighter and smaller than the original, with less than half the capacity but almost half the price. The device, unveiled at CES, will be available this summer for $299.99, or a … | Continue reading
Anker’s sub-brand Nebula, which is focused on home theater and launched its first projector product last year, is now bringing a miniaturized version to general availability after a successful Indiegogo campaign. First unveiled in September of last year, the Nebula Capsule is a s … | Continue reading
MSI has announced two new gaming monitors that are the first to work with Steelseries’ GameSense lighting system. What does that mean? It means a lot of colored LEDs on the bottom edge and rear. GameSense lets you program these RGB lights to flash in sync with in-game things like … | Continue reading
Amazon’s Alexa assistant has slowly been making its way into cars in recent years; BMW, Ford, and Nissan are among the automakers adding capabilities to remotely start or lock vehicles, for example. The level of integration with cars has been limited to those brands and only the … | Continue reading
Nvidia’s big push into the world of autonomous vehicles has attracted a vast amount of customers for what is still early stage technology — over 320, by the company’s count. This week at CES the company announced that it’s finally making Xavier, an AI chip made for self-driving v … | Continue reading
Nvidia is unveiling what it calls Big Format Gaming Displays (BFGDs) at CES today. The displays are 65 inches, and PC makers like Acer, Asus, and HP will be manufacturing them as 4K HDR displays. Essentially they’re giant gaming monitors with G-Sync, perfect for a high-end gaming … | Continue reading
L'Oreal introduced a new wearable UV sensor today that you can stick on your nail. It's truly just a sensor; it doesn't pair over Bluetooth or Wi-Fi to your phone. Instead, it's NFC-enabled so you can scan it with your phone to retrieve the UV data it's collected. It should work … | Continue reading
Huawei offshoot Honor is one of the few phone brands that makes a point of showing up at CES these days, and this year’s no different. The company is confirming US releases for a couple of phones that look to be pretty impressive for the price.First up is the $199 7X, following t … | Continue reading
Imagine being at the DMV, but instead of waiting in line with other grumpy people while idly scrolling through your phone, you can read a short story — a nice poem, perhaps. French publisher Short Edition created the Short Story Dispenser as a way for customers waiting in lines a … | Continue reading
Merge Labs, a San Antonio-based company known for its inexpensive, toy-like AR/VR products, is making a Nerf-like toy gun that supports mixed reality games from a smartphone. Called the “6DoF Blaster,” the plastic toy gun has a shoe for your smartphone, so you can prop a smartpho … | Continue reading
Guillermo del Toro has won the 2018 Golden Globe for Best Director for his dark fantasy film The Shape of Water, a Cold War-era monster movie and remixed fairy tale musical, starring Sally Hawkins and Michael Shannon. Following Oprah Winfrey’s speech about the plight of women in … | Continue reading
Falls are an enormous problem for the elderly — and one company believes the solution is an $800 belt with airbags. | Continue reading
Swiss watch company MyKronoz has a new version of its ZeTime hybrid smartwatch, the ZeTime Petite, which solves one of the biggest problems with the original ZeTime — it makes it smaller, with 39mm case size. The MyKronoz ZeTime was a crowdfunding project that looked to offer the … | Continue reading
Aziz Ansari won the 2018 Golden Globe for Best Actor in a TV series, Musical or Comedy, beating out Anthony Anderson in Black-ish, Kevin Bacon in I Love Dick, William H. Macy in Shameless, and Eric McCormack in the recently returned Will & Grace. Ansari was previously nominated f … | Continue reading
Amazon’s The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel just won the Golden Globe for Best Television Series, Musical or Comedy. The period comedy was up against Black-ish, Master of None, SMILF, and Will and Grace. This is the second Golden Globe The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel has picked up tonight, with … | Continue reading
There are plenty of automatic cat feeders out there, but Catspad is the first connected food and water dispenser for cats and small dogs. Not only can it automatically deliver both to your pet, it can differentiate between pets to dispense different amounts to each.The Catspad wo … | Continue reading
Last year at CES, I was taken aback by Bellus3D, a company with an uncannily accurate 3D face scanner that took incredibly unnerving selfies, but it was just a prototype. But this year, the company is back with a finished version that you can preorder now for $499 over at Bellus3 … | Continue reading
Samsung has come to CES 2018 with an enormous TV it’s calling The Wall — and it’s also claiming The Wall to be “the world’s first modular TV.” The Wall measures 146 inches and uses MicroLED technology to produce its picture. MicroLED shares many benefits with OLED; each microscop … | Continue reading
Coco will be taking home 2018’s Golden Globe for Best Animation Motion Picture. The Pixar film won out over a field of other animated films, including Loving Vincent, The Boss Baby, Ferdinand, and The Breadwinner. Coco’s victory was a major win for the Latinx community, as it’s t … | Continue reading
I didn’t need to know much more about the 32-inch Thunderbolt 3 5K ultrawide monitor that LG announced last month. Just knowing it really existed would suffice for me to want it on my desk immediately.Now that I’ve seen the 32UK950 in person under the glaring lights of a Las Vega … | Continue reading
HQ has hit a milestone of 1 million people participating in its live mobile trivia game today. The app has soared in popularity after being released originally for iOS a few months ago, and has regularly had between 500,000 and 750,000 people playing the trivia game over the rece … | Continue reading
The time before the big companies hold their grand CES events is a chance to check out the products from smaller outfits, and today I got to grips with one such project in the form of the Orosound Tilde. This is a noise-cancelling headset designed primarily for office use, and it … | Continue reading
Display startup MirraViz is here in Las Vegas this week for CES to show off a gadget that at first blush looks like some arcane trickery, allowing two off-the-shelf DLP projectors to layer images on top of one another so two people can view two different images simultaneously. Th … | Continue reading