By Frederic Lardinois If it’s up to Robotbase, you’ll soon be coming home and a robot will greet you at the door. While you were away, the Robotbase Personal Robot patrolled your home, made sure the temperature was lowered when you left, maybe locked the door after you were gone and, through its built-in camera,…

By Juan Martinez The small-footprint desktop computer market features a wide range of affordable options. At the better end of the spectrum you’ll find the Apple Mac Mini (starting at $499, £399 and AU$620), a small, quiet and energy efficient desktop. At the bottom end there are options like the Samsung Chromebox (starting at $329,…

By Juan Martinez The small-footprint desktop computer market features a wide range of affordable options. At the better end of the spectrum you’ll find the Apple Mac Mini (starting at $499, £399 and AU$620), a small, quiet and energy efficient desktop. At the bottom end there are options like the Samsung Chromebox (starting at $329,…

By Joe Osborne Gaming laptop manufacturers have been wrestling with the issue of performance versus available power and space since their inception. While chip makers like Nvidia are quickly closing the power gap between mobile GPUs and their desktop counterparts, notebook vendors like MSI and Alienware aren’t about to sit around waiting for that day.…

By Joe Osborne Gaming laptop manufacturers have been wrestling with the issue of performance versus available power and space since their inception. While chip makers like Nvidia are quickly closing the power gap between mobile GPUs and their desktop counterparts, notebook vendors like MSI and Alienware aren’t about to sit around waiting for that day.…

By Jordan Crook One board. One wheel. Zero falls. If you’re wondering about my favorite thing at CES, look no further. The OneWheel is a self-balancing skateboard that uses one, big wheel to deal with obstacles, bumps, etc. with no problem at all. Oh, and if it wasn’t clear already, this thing is electric and…

By Alex Wilhelm You can get pretty much anything on a stick. You can actually, and I kid you not, get fried butter on a stick. And soon, thanks to Intel, you can even get a full, Windows 8.1 PC on a stick. The Windows 8.1-based Compute Stick contains a quad-core Atom processor, 32 gigabytes…

By Darrell Etherington Oculus is at CES 2015, giving a larger set of people a chance to experience virtual reality with its latest prototype, the Crescent Bay version of the Oculus Rift. The Crescent Bay edition of the VR hardware originally broke cover back in September of 2014, but only a small handful of folks…

By Duncan Bell Yesterday’s CES smartwatch contender the Alcatel OneTouch is very much your standard-issue wearable, aimed at proper techies. The Withings Activité Pop, however, is a more mass-market kind of deal, priced at $149/£119. Judging from our experience, it deserves to succeed. Perhaps the primary triumph of the Pop is that it looks like…

By Duncan Bell Tuesday’s CES smartwatch contender the Alcatel OneTouch is very much your standard-issue wearable, aimed at proper techies. The Withings Activité Pop, however, is a more mass-market kind of deal, priced at $149/£119. Judging from our experience, it deserves to succeed. Perhaps the primary triumph of the Pop is that it looks like…

By John McCann Following on from the well priced and highly specced Honor 6, the Honor 6 Plus adds more screen and doubles up on cameras on the rear. The Honor 6 Plus certainly has a familiar sounding name, and I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s ruffled some feathers over at Cupertino, especially considering it…

By John McCann Following on from the well priced and highly specced Honor 6, the Honor 6 Plus adds more screen and doubles up on cameras on the rear. The Honor 6 Plus certainly has a familiar sounding name, and I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s ruffled some feathers over at Cupertino, especially considering it…

By Jordan Crook Babies are glorious miraculous blessings, but parents trying to get through a good night’s sleep with a newborn in the next room may have a tough time remembering that. The NapTime is a new baby monitor that employs Bluetooth-connected, vibrating bracelets to rotate through parental night time duties. Read More …read more…

By Alex Wilhelm Today at TechCrunch’s Hardware Battlefield at CES 2015, Fogo Digital showed off the prototype of its smart flashlight, a tool that will offer everything from GPS to Bluetooth once it comes to market. Fogo intends to launch the device on Kickstarter in the near future, selling various editions of the flashlight at…

By Matt Swider Have a pencil, scissors, fork or even moist carrot handy? That’s how we were able to control the new Lenovo Yoga Tablet 2 with AnyPen at CES 2015. Sure, I’ve always found Lenovo’s Yoga tablets extremely versatile given the fact that they can strike a number of poses. But this stylus-free slate…