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CES 2015: Turtle Beach announces high-end Elite 800X Xbox One headset

CES 2015: Turtle Beach announces high-end Elite 800X Xbox One headset

By Andrew Williams During CES 2015, Turtle Beach unveiled its 2015 range of Xbox One gaming headsets, including the top-tier Elite 800X. The Turtle Beach Elite 800X is an altogether classier kind of wireless gaming headset, with integrated microphones that avoid the call-centre look of a boom mic arm. The set also offers active noise…

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Hands-on review: Sony Smart B-Trainer

Hands-on review: Sony Smart B-Trainer

By Gareth Beavis If there’s something runners like, it’s more toys to play with when pootling around the streets and fields of the world. With that in mind, the new Sony Smart B Trainer prototype (B stands for Beat, apparently) offers a lot of new things to play with – well, it offers the same…

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Hands-on review: CES 2015: Sony Smart B-Trainer

Hands-on review: CES 2015: Sony Smart B-Trainer

By Gareth Beavis If there’s something runners like, it’s more toys to play with when pootling around the streets and fields of the world. With that in mind, the new Sony Smart B Trainer prototype (B stands for Beat, apparently) offers a lot of new things to play with – well, it offers the same…

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Nintendo’s new 3DS has come to Europe, but only for a select few

Nintendo’s new 3DS has come to Europe, but only for a select few

By Andrew Williams The Nintendo 3DS Ambassador edition is a way for folks into the EU to get hold of a new-style 3DS, but only rabid Nintendo fans get the privilege of buying one. The new 3DS has only been released in Japan, Australia and New Zealand to date, but the Ambassador bundle offers gamers…

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Misfit Debuts “Bolt,” A $50 Smart Bulb That Works With Sleep Monitoring Devices

Misfit Debuts “Bolt,” A $50 Smart Bulb That Works With Sleep Monitoring Devices

By Sarah Perez On the heels of yesterday’s announcement of a new collection of Swarovski-encrusted Shine wearable devices, connected products maker Misfit today unveiled a wirelessly-connected, color-changing light bulb called Bolt. The bulb, which competes to some extent with Philips Hue’s smart bulbs, as it supports multiple colors into addition to white light, but can…

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iDrive Debuts 1 TB And 2 TB Wireless Drives Offering Encrypted Local Backups And Cloud Storage

iDrive Debuts 1 TB And 2 TB Wireless Drives Offering Encrypted Local Backups And Cloud Storage

By Sarah Perez Cloud storage and backup company iDrive today launched its first hardware product sold directly to consumers and businesses, with the debut of the new iDrive Wi-Fi. The encrypted external drive offers either 1 TB or 2 TB in storage space and, as the name implies, includes wireless connectivity. This allows customers to…

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ZBoard’s New Foot-Triggered Electric Skateboards Go Far But Feel Unstable

ZBoard’s New Foot-Triggered Electric Skateboards Go Far But Feel Unstable

By Josh Constine There’s no lazy thrill quite like not having to kick-push while riding an electric skateboarding. And now ZBoard has added more miles of effortless cruising to that dream with its new bigger-battery generation of vehicles. But a core design problem still poisons the ZBoard experience: you clumsily control acceleration and braking with…

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HTC Reports Slender $14.7M Profit In Q4 2014 But No Big Holiday Cheer

HTC Reports Slender $14.7M Profit In Q4 2014 But No Big Holiday Cheer

By Natasha Lomas HTC has released unaudited results for its Q4 2014 and the Taiwanese mobile maker is reporting a slim net profit, of $14.7 million (NT$0.47 billion), following the slender $19.7 million (NT$0.6 billion) profit it reported for its Q3 back in October. Read More …read more Source: TechCrunch Gadgets

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Fitbit Finally Starts Shipping The Charge HR And Surge Smartwatch

Fitbit Finally Starts Shipping The Charge HR And Surge Smartwatch

By Matt Burns Fitbit announced its latest and greatest fitness trackers back in October and the company announced today at CES that the devices finally shipping. The Charge HR retails for $150 while the Surge smartwatch commands $250. These are the models to carry Fitbit into 2015 and beyond. The company carved out a dominate…

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Razer Announces $199 ‘Open Source’ Virtual Reality Headset

Razer Announces $199 ‘Open Source’ Virtual Reality Headset

By Kyle Russell The headset, which the company says will arrive this June, is meant to serve as an alternative hardware test bed for developers looking at the VR space. Read More …read more Source: TechCrunch Gadgets

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Razer Unveils Its $100 Android-Powered Gaming Console, Razer Forge TV; Nabu X ‘Basic’ Smartband

Razer Unveils Its $100 Android-Powered Gaming Console, Razer Forge TV; Nabu X ‘Basic’ Smartband

By Ingrid Lunden Earlier this year, high-end gaming tech company Razer announced at Google I/O that it would be soon be making its first foray into Android-based gaming consoles. Today at CES, that device made its public debut. The Razer Forge TV is a micro-console, 4×4 inches and selling for $100, and Razer hopes it…

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CES 2015: MSI debuts gaming laptop with built-in mechanical keyboard at CES

CES 2015: MSI debuts gaming laptop with built-in mechanical keyboard at CES

By Michael Rougeau MSI brought its gaming muscle to CES 2015 this week, debuting the GT80 Titan SLI, which it claims is the first gaming laptop with an integrated mechanical keyboard. The Titan has a SteelSeries-designed mechanical keyboard with clicky Cherry MX Brown switches, and it also comes with easily upgradeable dual NVIDIA GTX 980M…

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CES 2015: Razer Forge TV: part Android box, part complete surprise

CES 2015: Razer Forge TV: part Android box, part complete surprise

By Cameron Faulkner Introduced at Google IO back in June 2014 amid the flurry of hype surrounding Android Lollipop and Google Cardboard, Razer announced an Android micro-console. Not much was said about it; no name, no specs, no price. Razer loosened its lips today at CES 2015, announcing the Forge TV for $99.99 (£99.99) and…

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CES 2015: Razer ups virtual reality game with OSVR and new head mounted display

CES 2015: Razer ups virtual reality game with OSVR and new head mounted display

By Lily Prasuethsut Will 2015 be the year of virtual reality? Razer sure thinks so. On top of its other news, the company took to the CES 2015 show floor to announce a new platform called OSVR plus a brand new VR head mounted display. With Oculus Rift inching closer to reality, Razer has set…

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CES 2015: MSI debuts gaming laptop with built-in mechanical keyboard at CES

CES 2015: MSI debuts gaming laptop with built-in mechanical keyboard at CES

By Michael Rougeau MSI brought its gaming muscle to CES 2015 this week, debuting the GT80 Titan SLI, which it claims is the first gaming laptop with an integrated mechanical keyboard. The Titan has a SteelSeries-designed mechanical keyboard with clicky Cherry MX Brown switches, and it also comes with easily upgradeable dual NVIDIA GTX 980M…

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