By Ryan Lawler Last year at CES we were introduced to Onewheel, a crazy new self-balancing skateboard built by electromechanical engineer and board sports enthusiast Kyle Doerksen. Less than a year after the project went up on Kickstarter, Onewheel is shipping to early backers and those who pre-ordered the device. A few weeks ago, we…

By Matt Burns,John Biggs If you’re attending the show we want to see you. As in year’s past, TechCrunch will have a large broadcast tent in front of the Las Vegas Convention Center. You can’t miss it. There are LED panels all over it. Twice a day we will hold Hardware Battlefield where 16 startups…

By Desire Athow Western Digital introduced the My Passport Wireless 2TB drive in response to a perceived increase in demand for high capacity wireless storage devices. Seagate with its 2TB Wireless Plus drive and LaCie (a Seagate subsidiary) with the Fuel 2TB launched on the market months earlier. Of the three, Western Digital is the…

By Desire Athow Western Digital introduced the My Passport Wireless 2TB drive in response to a perceived increase in demand for high capacity wireless storage devices. Seagate with its 2TB Wireless Plus drive and LaCie (a Seagate subsidiary) with the Fuel 2TB launched on the market months earlier. Of the three, Western Digital is the…

By TechRadar Happy New Year! If you thought 2014 was pretty cool, you ain’t seen nothing yet: 2015 has barely begun and we’ve already discovered a whole bunch of really exciting phones, the future of Windows and why Samsung wants you to watch some milk. But new years aren’t just about looking forwards. They’re a…

By TechRadar Happy New Year! If you thought 2014 was pretty cool, you ain’t seen nothing yet: 2015 has barely begun and we’ve already discovered a whole bunch of really exciting phones, the future of Windows and why Samsung wants you to watch some milk. But new years aren’t just about looking forwards. They’re a…

By Kane Fulton LG has placed gamers on alert by announcing that it will launch the first ultrawide 21:9 gaming monitor with AMD FreeSync support at CES 2015. The 34-inch 34UM67 has a 3440 x 1440 pixel-resolution which provides a wider field of view than 16:9 monitors and can help with spotting enemies. The initially…

By Kane Fulton LG has placed gamers on alert by announcing that it will launch the first ultrawide 21:9 gaming monitor with AMD FreeSync support at CES 2015. The 34-inch 34UM67 has a 3440 x 1440 pixel-resolution which provides a wider field of view than 16:9 monitors and can help with spotting enemies. The initially…

By Hugh Langley It’s likely that any PlayStation gamer reading this will be aware of the PlayStation Network outage that took place over Christmas, due to a DDoS attack from “hacker group” Lizard Squad. The service is now running again smoothly, but to apologise for the downtime Sony has promised a couple of freebies to…

By Hugh Langley It’s likely that any PlayStation gamer reading this will be aware of the PlayStation Network outage that took place over Christmas, due to a DDoS attack from “hacker group” Lizard Squad. The service is now running again smoothly, but to apologise for the downtime Sony has promised a couple of freebies to…

By John Biggs What did I tell you? In a last-ditch effort to save themselves, watchmakers are now turning to the band in order to ensure that timekeeping remains well in the realm of the mechanical. The new band, part of the Montblanc Timewalker Urban Speed collection, is a little metal screen that can receive…

By John Biggs Head spinning? Stomach gurgling? Did you just drink a Bloody Mary just to find some respite from your pounding gulliver? Why not take a look at Pekka Väänänen’s project, an attempt to play Quake on a Hitachi V-422 oscilloscope. Why? Because if it can’t run Quake it’s not a true piece of…