By Jordan Crook It’s been almost a year since Takuro Yoshida and his team blew up Kickstarter with the Ring, a wearable that uses simple wand-like gestures to control gadgets in the home. Promises abounded: You’ll be able to control the lights in your home with the flick of a finger. You’ll be able to…

By Juan Martinez Workstations like Lenovo’s ThinkPad W540 ($2,573, £1,606, AU$2,946) and Dell’s Precision M6800 ($3,490, £2,075, AU$3,750) are among the best on the market. For business users that would love a workstation, but can’t afford to go above $1K, Lenovo’s ThinkPad T line has traditionally been a safe bet. This year, Lenovo is unveiling…

By Juan Martinez Workstations like Lenovo’s ThinkPad W540 ($2,573, £1,606, AU$2,946) and Dell’s Precision M6800 ($3,490, £2,075, AU$3,750) are among the best on the market. For business users that would love a workstation, but can’t afford to go above $1K, Lenovo’s ThinkPad T line has traditionally been a safe bet. This year, Lenovo is unveiling…

By Romain Dillet French startup Lima is presenting another piece of its offering at CES, the mobile app. And it is a very promising app for those who backed Lima to seamlessly access their photos, music library and movies from their phones and tablets. While the team still needs to polish the app interface, it…

By Alex Wilhelm At CES this year, Snail, a Chinese gaming company, demoed a new console it is working to release early this year called the OBox. The device is essentially a modular — their word — computer that runs Android games. I tinkered with the thing earlier today when it was attached to a…

By Romain Dillet Next week will be my first CES. Over the past couple of months, when I talked with CES veterans, they all told me that CES is a horrible experience. And yet, I am still incredibly excited. I plan to take advantage of my fresh perspective on the show to share my experience…

By Darrell Etherington Withings has shored up the only major complaint I had with its Activité fitness and activity tracker/watch: The price. The French health accessory maker has revealed the Activité Pop, which is a version of its flagship Activité that costs only $149.95, rather than $450, and it goes on sale tomorrow, at Best…

By Joe Osborne Save for Apple, Samsung is the only laptop manufacturer yet to hop on the hybrid train. In 2015, the Korean firm presses on with its conservative approach, perhaps even trying to beat its archrival to the punch with the fanless, 12.2-inch Samsung Ativ Book 9. Of course, Samsung is as focused on…

By Joe Osborne Save for Apple, Samsung is the only laptop manufacturer yet to hop on the hybrid train. In 2015, the Korean firm presses on with its conservative approach, perhaps even trying to beat its archrival to the punch with the fanless, 12.2-inch Samsung Ativ Book 9. Of course, Samsung is as focused on…

By Hugh Langley How will you remember Christmas 2014? Maybe it was setting fire to the tree with your new drone, or perhaps Grandma managed to go a whole hour without making a slightly racist remark. For many people it was the frustration of not being able to access PSN or Xbox Live because a…

By Hugh Langley How will you remember Christmas 2014? Maybe it was setting fire to the tree with your new drone, or perhaps Grandma managed to go a whole hour without making a slightly racist remark. For many people it was the frustration of not being able to access PSN or Xbox Live because a…

By Michael Rougeau Tobii and SteelSeries showed off their eye-tracking Sentry gadget throughout last year, but at CES 2015 they’ll introduce one of its coolest features yet. With the help of as-yet-unnamed “popular streaming personalities” the companies will show how the SteelSeries Sentry can track the vision of players streaming their gameplay on Twitch to…

By Michael Rougeau Tobii and SteelSeries showed off their eye-tracking Sentry gadget throughout last year, but at CES 2015 they’ll introduce one of its coolest features yet. With the help of as-yet-unnamed “popular streaming personalities” the companies will show how the SteelSeries Sentry can track the vision of players streaming their gameplay on Twitch to…

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…