Gadgets

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.…

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…

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…