Gadgets

By Duncan Bell How about this for a plethora of innovative features? The Parrot Zik Sport, designed by Philippe Starck, has an unusual, slightly alien shape that gives great grip and noise cancelling, but with a “Street Mode” option that allows ambient sound through (thereby reducing your chance of being run over by an unheard…

By Gareth Beavis The main thing to note about the Samsung Galaxy A3 is that it’s one of the first widespread phones from the South Korean firm that brings an all metal unibody. That fact alone should be enough to make a few of you take a look at this hands on review, given this…

By Gareth Beavis The main thing to note about the Samsung Galaxy A3 is that it’s one of the first widespread phones from the South Korean firm that brings an all metal unibody. That fact alone should be enough to make a few of you take a look at this hands on review, given this…

By John Biggs It’s been a long, hard battle here deep in the deserts of Las Vegas but the judges have chosen and we are ready to rock and roll. We are pleased to announce the finalists for the 2015 Hardware Battlefield in Las Vegas where 15 amazing companies vied for $50,000 and the coveted…

By Darrell Etherington Nvidia’s focus this year on CES is on the Tegra X1 mobile chipset, a brand new SoC that offers desktop-like computing performance for a range of mobile devices, including smartphones and tablets, but extending also to automobiles. Already, Nvidia has a strong presence in the car, powering many of the in-car infotainment…

By Frederic Lardinois If it’s up to Robotbase, you’ll soon be coming home and a robot will greet you at the door. While you were away, the Robotbase Personal Robot patrolled your home, made sure the temperature was lowered when you left, maybe locked the door after you were gone and, through its built-in camera,…

By Jordan Crook One board. One wheel. Zero falls. If you’re wondering about my favorite thing at CES, look no further. The OneWheel is a self-balancing skateboard that uses one, big wheel to deal with obstacles, bumps, etc. with no problem at all. Oh, and if it wasn’t clear already, this thing is electric and…

By Alex Wilhelm You can get pretty much anything on a stick. You can actually, and I kid you not, get fried butter on a stick. And soon, thanks to Intel, you can even get a full, Windows 8.1 PC on a stick. The Windows 8.1-based Compute Stick contains a quad-core Atom processor, 32 gigabytes…

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 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 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 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…