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…

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…

By Josh Constine A smart home hub is a dumb purchase if most of your appliances aren’t smart, too. So Ukrainian startup Branto developed a hub that has a built-in 360-degree camera and speaker for security and telepresence, in addition to being able to operate gadgets over Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, ZigBee, and infrared. That’s a lot…

By Anthony Ha Sutro, a startup presenting at TechCrunch’s Hardware Battlefield in Las Vegas, aims to remove one of the big headaches of owning a backyard swimming pool or spa. Now, I don’t own a pool myself (weird, I know), but co-founders Ravi Kurani and Amanda Nagai told me that owners are expected to constantly…

By John Biggs Scott Jordan has been a tech fixture for almost a decade. His company, ScotteVest, makes clothing for gadget lovers, feature pockets for almost everything including tablets, phones, water bottles, and even passports. Now he’s taking on a new persona, Pocket Man, and trying to help people follow their passion. While his adventure…

By Matt Burns I arrived at a massive shooting range compound where a security guard promptly introduced himself as a retired police officer and not a friend of the media. I had to follow his self-proclaimed “diesel-guzzling pig” of a Dodge through the facility’s maze of shooting ranges to the edge of a canyon. It…

By Sarah Perez Amazon’s Fire Phone made news this week with the backstory of why the phone flopped, and Amazon’s plans to reorganize the hardware group, Lab126, responsible for the smartphone. Now the retailer is trying again to clear the shelves of this device, selling the Fire Phone today for $189, off contract, including a…

By Andrew Williams Nyko has announced the Databank, a PS4 add-on accessory that lets you plug a 3.5-inch hard drive into your console. The 500GB hard drive that ships in most PS4 consoles is a 2.5-inch model, but the Nyko Databank lets you use the larger 3.5-inch kind found more often in desktops. It’s not…