By Alastair Jennings Introduction and design XYZprinting has been producing budget printers since 2013 and unlike many other companies, such as Ultimaker, which has developed printers with fast print speeds, material compatibility and resolution, XYZ has strived to make the technology simply accessible and cheap. The Da Vinci range of printers aims to give the…

By Alastair Jennings Introduction and design XYZprinting has been producing budget printers since 2013 and unlike many other companies, such as Ultimaker, which has developed printers with fast print speeds, material compatibility and resolution, XYZ has strived to make the technology simply accessible and cheap. The Da Vinci range of printers aims to give the…

By Romain Dillet Parrot has had an interesting week. Many were expecting a new drone from the famous drone maker (among other things). But when you think about drones, chances are you are picturing a quadcopter in your mind. Instead, the company unveiled and airplane-like drone with two wings. Read More …read more Source:: TechCrunch…

By Jay Donovan I Am Cardboard, makers of a variety of Google Cardboard viewers, recently delivered their new DSCVR Headset (pronounced “Discover”) after a recent, successful Kickstarter campaign. They are showing this new headset from the floor of the South Hall at CES 2016. Read More …read more Source:: TechCrunch Gadgets

By Romain Dillet The competition was very fierce for the third edition of our Hardware Battlefield. 14 shockingly good hardware startups competed to win the coveted Metal Man trophy. These companies had a very special CES experience as they all pitched in front of multiple groups of judges on stage at the Sands Expo. The…

By Kevin Lee The Aorus X7 Pro-Sync was already a little monster of a gaming laptop and now Gigabyte has even managed to squeeze in a desktop Nvidia GTX 980 GPU. With the beefier graphics card this slim 17.3-inch notebook is as capable of pushing virtual reality as a full on desktop. Almost no thicker…

By Kevin Lee The Aorus X7 Pro-Sync was already a little monster of a gaming laptop and now Gigabyte has even managed to squeeze in a desktop Nvidia GTX 980 GPU. With the beefier graphics card this slim 17.3-inch notebook is as capable of pushing virtual reality as a full on desktop. Almost no thicker…

By Fitz Tepper Yesterday we checked out an event hosted by Lenovo and Google, where the duo announced that Lenovo would be making the first Project Tango Phone. While we found out that the device would ship this summer and cost under $500, we didn’t get many other details on the device. However, the company…

By Romain Dillet This week, we’re bringing you not one, not two but three episodes of the TechCrunch Gadgets podcast, live from CES. Every morning, we look back at the news coming out of the show. In case you missed it this morning, have a look at this morning’s show to get our take on…

By Sarah Buhr Self-driving drone Lily has had quite the success in sales and it’s not even on the market yet. The startup pulled in a whopping $34 million in pre-orders by the end of 2015, with 60,000 units already sold. While that’s not as massive as Apple Watch pre-sales (1.2 million sold in the…

By John Biggs Most 3D printer apps are fairly basic – mostly they’re used to monitor print jobs. MatterHackers has just released the MatterControl Touch T10, a 10-inch, $299 tablet that allows you to place items, edit them, and even print them on the fly using an powerful Android-powered tablet. Because the device is dedicated…

By Kevin Lee Forget about controllers, keyboards and mice; the new MSI GT72S G Tobii gaming laptop lets you control games with just your eyes. As the name might suggestion, MSI has teamed up with Tobii to integrate the eye-tracking peripheral right into the notebooks hinge. More than a gimmick, the new tech comes in…

By Kevin Lee Forget about controllers, keyboards and mice; the new MSI GT72S G Tobii gaming laptop lets you control games with just your eyes. As the name might suggestion, MSI has teamed up with Tobii to integrate the eye-tracking peripheral right into the notebooks hinge. More than a gimmick, the new tech comes in…

By Sarah Perez SOLS, a company using 3D-printing technology to make custom shoe insoles, has laid off 20 percent of its workforce, or 14 employees in total across all teams, TechCrunch has confirmed. The staff reductions come just ahead of a forthcoming product announcement due in a few weeks, as well as further efforts aimed…

By Kane Fulton Introduction Remember when people said the PC was dead? Judging by the external graphics card enclosures out in force at CES 2016, not only is the PC very much alive – it’s evolving, and growing a few multi-coloured limbs in the process. Alienware’s Amplifier and MSI’s GS30 Shadow felt like futuristic bolt-on…