Gadgets

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…

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…

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…

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…

By Jordan Crook Press day is over. The monster companies — Samsung, LG, etc. — have had a chance to say their piece. And now, we focus on what’s really exciting: the little guys looking to make it big in the hardware game. Read More …read more Source: TechCrunch Gadgets

By Frederic Lardinois,Alex Wilhelm At its CES keynote today, Ford announced its Smart Mobility initiative, a set of 25 experiments ranging from big data analytics to a car swap service that let you swap your Mustang in for a minivan for the weekend. The company also talked about its plans for autonomous cars. Ford CEO…

By Gareth Beavis The Sony SmartEyeglass Attach is a new idea from Sony (surprisingly) to bring augemented reality to your run. Well, in theory the piece can attach to any pair of glasses and could be used to improve any activity with info near your pupil, but the first iteration is designed for sport and…

By Gareth Beavis The Sony SmartEyeglass Attach is a new idea from Sony (surprisingly) to bring augemented reality to your run. Well, in theory the piece can attach to any pair of glasses and could be used to improve any activity with info near your pupil, but the first iteration is designed for sport and…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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

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…