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By Matt Burns Boeing just revealed a prototype drone capable of carrying much more than a camera. The company tasked engineers with designing and building a cargo drone and the prototype they came up with is able to haul 500 lbs of goods. The vehicle is huge and much larger than anything DJI sells. It…

By Matt Burns LiveMap launched in TechCrunch’s Hardware Battlefield CES 2014 and is getting closer to producing its augmented reality helmet. Since launching, the product has evolved to a working prototype. I tried it on at CES and it seemed to work fine. The current version of helmet features a small transparent screen mounted on…

By Dan Ackerman Project Linda is this year’s high-concept CES 2018 prototype, dropping a Razer Phone into a Razer Blade Stealth. …read more Source:: cnet Cell Phones

By Emma Boyle Will they, won’t they, why won’t they? It’s been a rollercoaster couple of days for Nintendo fans who have been waiting to hear confirmation or denial of a hotly rumored Nintendo Direct stream. Rumored to be taking place on January 10, fans were waiting eagerly for Nintendo to make some kind of…

By Gerald Lynch If you’ve ever thought that the only thing stopping you from truly immersing yourself in blowing demons’ limbs off in Doom was the feeling of a fiery blast of heat from the muzzle of your shotgun, then CES 2018 has the gadget for you. The Vortx from Whirlwind FX looks like a…

By Andrew Gebhart The Ubtech Walker is a roaming, voice activated security bot. …read more Source:: cnet Cell Phones

DJ Koh, Samsung’s mobile chief, confirmed that the new Galaxy S9 flagship smartphone will make its debut at MWC 2018 next month. Here’s what to expect. …read more Source:: TechTimes.com – Smartphones

By Megan Wollerton The Nokia Sleep pad goes under your mattress and tells you about your slumber. …read more Source:: cnet Cell Phones

By John Biggs When PicoBrew announced its PicoStill, a $249 distilling add-on to its Pico C brewing system, I was nonplussed. How could you produce good whiskey or gin in a compact system? Well you can. Since then I’ve tried PicoBrew’s beer system and was very impressed and now, after a solid taste of the…

By Matt Burns Everyone needs a robotic friend and the Loomo might be the best yet. Part pack mule, part Segway, part voice assistant, the Loomo packs a lot of goods into its self-balancing frame. The device is from Segway Robotics, which is backed by Intel and Xiaomi. Intel’s RealSense provides sensors to make it…

By Jon Porter When it comes to Bluetooth speakers, you pretty much know what you’re going to get. Chunky sound and decent battery life have become the norm in recent years, and it’s becoming increasingly difficult to decide between Bluetooth speakers without focussing on raw sound quality alone. The $249.99 (around £185 / AU$320) Sony…

By Devin Coldewey Voice control is everywhere these days, but to hear people effectively from every direction, devices like the Echo need to have a whole collection of microphones in them — but they take up space, require extra processing power, and restrict industrial design. Soundskrit aims to replace those many mics with a single…

By Megan Wollerton Tabs sensors merge home security and personal safety into one tidy package. …read more Source:: cnet Cell Phones

By Darrell Etherington Nvidia issued a security bulletin on Tuesday detailing updates it made to its driver software to address the so-called Meltdown CPU vulnerability revealed by Google’s Project Zero. The bulletin was misinterpreted by some outlets as an admission that Nvidia’s GPUs were also affected “Our GPUs are immune, they’re not affected by these…

By Megan Wollerton Ooma adds a next-generation camera, a siren and a smoke detector to its home security lineup. …read more Source:: cnet Cell Phones