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Hands-on review: CES 2015: Alcatel OneTouch Watch

Hands-on review: CES 2015: Alcatel OneTouch Watch

By John McCann Alcatel may not be the first name to spring to mind when you think of wearables, but it may just force its way into your consciousness with its latest product, the Alcatel OneTouch Watch. With a release date set for March the OneTouch Watch isn’t too far away from hitting stores, and…

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Hands-on review: CES 2015: Alcatel OneTouch Watch

Hands-on review: CES 2015: Alcatel OneTouch Watch

By John McCann Alcatel may not be the first name to spring to mind when you think of wearables, but it may just force its way into your consciousness with its latest product, the Alcatel OneTouch Watch. With a release date set for March the OneTouch Watch isn’t too far away from hitting stores, and…

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Google’s Android TV Will Power Sets From Sony, Sharp, and Philips Beginning This Spring

Google’s Android TV Will Power Sets From Sony, Sharp, and Philips Beginning This Spring

By Ryan Lawler Google’s latest attempt to get its operating system for TVs embedded on consumer electronics devices has attracted a handful of partners, which were announced at the Consumer Electronics Show. In a blog post today, the search giant said TVs from Sony, Sharp, and Philips would begin shipping soon. Read More …read more…

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Hands-on review: CES 2015: Dell XPS 13 2015

Hands-on review: CES 2015: Dell XPS 13 2015

By Juan Martinez The Ultrabook market is jam-packed with excellent laptops that pack a ton of power into tiny frames. The Lenovo Yoga 3 Pro (starting at $1,099, £1,099, AUS$1,254), the Acer Aspire S7 (starting at $1,349, £1,199, AU$2,599) and the Samsung Ativ Book 9 Plus (starting at $1,399, £1,412, AU$2,259) are just a few…

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Hands-on review: CES 2015: Dell XPS 13 2015

Hands-on review: CES 2015: Dell XPS 13 2015

By Juan Martinez The Ultrabook market is jam-packed with excellent laptops that pack a ton of power into tiny frames. The Lenovo Yoga 3 Pro (starting at $1,099, £1,099, AUS$1,254), the Acer Aspire S7 (starting at $1,349, £1,199, AU$2,599) and the Samsung Ativ Book 9 Plus (starting at $1,399, £1,412, AU$2,259) are just a few…

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CES 2015: New Mad Catz peripherals will let 2015 gamers lock and load

CES 2015: New Mad Catz peripherals will let 2015 gamers lock and load

By Cameron Faulkner At CES 2015, gaming peripherals company Mad Catz announced a slew of gaming peripherals. Surprise! Not really. But what is surprising about the few we got our hands on is that Mad Catz is touting them as platforms for playing games, not just gaming peripherals. Okay, this deserves an explanation. But thankfully,…

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CES 2015: Mad Catz’s 2015 peripherals will let gamers lock and load

CES 2015: Mad Catz’s 2015 peripherals will let gamers lock and load

By Cameron Faulkner At CES 2015, gaming peripherals company Mad Catz announced a slew of gaming peripherals. Surprise! Not really. But what is surprising about the few we got our hands on is that Mad Catz is touting them as platforms for playing games, not just gaming peripherals. Okay, this deserves an explanation. But thankfully,…

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FAA Allows First Real Estate Company To Use Drones For Aerial Photography

FAA Allows First Real Estate Company To Use Drones For Aerial Photography

By Frederic Lardinois Douglas Trudeau of Tierra Antigua Realty in Tucson, Ariz., today became the first real estate agent who can legally use a drone for real estate photography. If you have recently looked at the listings in your local MLS (or on Zillow and Redfin), you have likely seen plenty of images that could…

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With SkySpecs’ Guardians, The Drones Have Become Self-Aware

With SkySpecs’ Guardians, The Drones Have Become Self-Aware

By Matt Burns SkySpecs has solved the biggest problem with drones: avoiding obstacles. With the company’s first product, launching today at TechCrunch’s Hardware Battlefield 2015, drones become aware of their surroundings and will automatically avoid objects. If a person walks towards the spinning blades of death, the drone will casually back out of the way.…

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Peeple Is A Smart Peephole To Upgrade Your Door With Caller ID

Peeple Is A Smart Peephole To Upgrade Your Door With Caller ID

By Romain Dillet Meet Peeple, a connected peephole to screen who is knocking on your door. Whenever someone knocks on your door, Peeple snaps a picture and send it to your phone. This way, whether you are home or away, you can monitor who is passing by your home. Peeple is competing in our Hardware…

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Rdio Inks Google, LG, DTS, Hisense Deals To Extend Its Music Into More Home Devices

Rdio Inks Google, LG, DTS, Hisense Deals To Extend Its Music Into More Home Devices

By Ingrid Lunden Rdio, the music streaming service founded by Skype co-founder Janus Friis that offers 30 million songs in 60 countries, is trailing behind Spotify and Deezer in the race for paying music streaming subscribers; today it announced a raft of integration partnerships that it hopes will give its service more ubiquity and make…

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The Voltera V-One Makes Circuit Boards In Minutes

The Voltera V-One Makes Circuit Boards In Minutes

By John Biggs Building circuit boards is fun but difficult. While you could do it at home with a some etchant and some clear plastic, Voltera hopes to make the entire process much easier with their V-One circuit printer. The creators, James Pickard, Jesus Zozaya, and Alroy Almeida all studied Mechatronics Engineering at the University…

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Hands-on review: CES 2015: Razer Nabu X smartband

Hands-on review: CES 2015: Razer Nabu X smartband

By Lily Prasuethsut Razer has really stepped into the wearables game with the Nabu X. Not only is it much more affordable than its predecessor, the Razer Nabu, it’s essentially the exact same smartband, specs-wise. The X will deliver the same notifications from smartphones, track sleep, steps, calories, distance and has social band-to-band capabilities. It…

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Hands-on review: CES 2015: Razer Nabu X smartband

Hands-on review: CES 2015: Razer Nabu X smartband

By Lily Prasuethsut Razer has really stepped into the wearables game with the Nabu X. Not only is it much more affordable than its predecessor, the Razer Nabu, it’s essentially the exact same smartband, specs-wise. The X will deliver the same notifications from smartphones, track sleep, steps, calories, distance and has social band-to-band capabilities. It…

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CES 2015: Dell updates its Alienware and extra small XPS laptops for CES

CES 2015: Dell updates its Alienware and extra small XPS laptops for CES

By Michael Rougeau At CES 2015 this week Dell introduced a host of new laptops, including the XPS 13, which it says is the smallest 13-inch laptop in existence. The XPS 13 features what Dell calls a “virtually borderless infinity display” with an extra thin bezel, giving the 13-inch XPS 13 the actual footprint of…

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