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By Jon Porter,Desire Athow Before it got into the business of making security cameras like the Nest Cam IQ and Nest Cam Outdoor, the smart home company was first and foremost about one thing: heating. The Nest Thermostat was the product that started it all, and it continues to be a very competitive and smartly…

By Andrew Williams The Creative Muvo 2C is the Bluetooth speaker equivalent of a Swiss army knife. It has more features than some speakers five times the price, but can still fit in your pocket. This is also one of the smallest speakers that has a bass radiator, netting you proper bass rather than just…

By Chris Paukert Encore for the world’s best-selling EV pins its hopes on a stress-reducing tech, a low price and styling with broader appeal. …read more Source:: cnet Camcorders

By Devin Coldewey The way Iron Man flies may be cool, but it’s also impractical. Even if your core strength is off the chart, as I assume Tony Stark’s is (you’re basically planking the whole time), putting jets on your hands and feet is just asking for broken bones. But the seeming foolishness of this…

By Harry Domanski To mark the release of Destiny 2, the Microsoft Store is offering some really excellent prices on Xbox One S consoles that come bundled with the game as well as two other free games. Microsoft is offering either the 500GB console bundle or 1TB console bundle for $329 and $399 respectively, which…

By Devin Coldewey For someone getting major dental work or reconstructive surgery, it can be hard to visualize what they’ll look like afterwards. You can do casts and make wax molds, but that’s a bit… 19th century, isn’t it? A Swiss startup brings the in retrospect obvious solution of augmented reality to the problem, giving…

By Andrew Hayward The Atari name still carries a lot of cachet with video game fans, given the company’s role in creating the home console market – but its last piece of new hardware, the 1993’s Jaguar, was a massive flop. Since then, the Atari brand has changed hands multiple times, emerged from bankruptcy, and…

By John Biggs This wild mask which looks like a cross between Hello Kitty and a face-hugger is made of soft electronics and colored liquid. It is based on a Masters thesis project made by Sirou Peng, Adi Meyer, and Silvia Rueda and uses Harvards Soft Robotics Toolkit. The mask is mapped to the wearer’s…

By Desire Athow The home 3D printing market has gained a tremendous amount of momentum over the past few years thanks in part to consumer geared brands such as MakerBot. However, both enthusiasts and professionals alike have been hindered by the fact that they can only print in one or two block colors at a…

By Matt Hanson No matter how good your gaming PC is, if you don’t have the best gaming monitor hooked up to it, you’re doing it a great disservice. You may have the most powerful graphics card money can buy, or a pre-built gaming rig that sits atop our list of the best gaming PC…

By Darrell Etherington Samsung’s Galaxy Note 8 launches with more baggage than have previous smartphones in the lineup: Its predecessor’s recall problems ended up killing the phone entirely in most markets. But the Note 8 also has a lot to live up to in the other direction, thanks to the success of the S8 and…

By John Biggs You’ve seen it all before: a drone takes off in an open field, everything is clear. The drone flies straight up for a moment then, on the way down, it hits a tree. A moment later the whole thing is a mess. Plastic everywhere, the motors whizzing and failing, a camera flinging…

By Sarah Buhr You can’t walk outside your door in San Francisco these days without seeing some tech worker or VC wearing a pair of Allbirds. The eco-friendly wool shoes have taken over the tech world since the startup’s launch a mere 18 months ago. Now, it plans to expand globally and develop new materials…

By Matt Burns I use a Hobonichi Techo Weeks as a daily planner. Like John found when reviewing planners, it’s the perfect size and has just enough space for my to-do list, appointments and a bit of journaling. But it doesn’t sync to my Google Calendar like Moleskine’s upcoming planner. I mean, my planner is…

By John Biggs Kristoffer Lawson created one of the coolest things I’ve seen in a while: Solu, the social computer. His tiny device uses a unique UI and UX to allow you to connect with friends and collaborate using an icon-based OS that lets you zoom in and out of work. Lawson and I spoke…