Sony’s Life Space UX demo envisions projectors, screens everywhere
Among the announcements Sony dropped during Kaz Hirai’s CES keynote, the Life Space UX project seemed to be most outrageous, pushing an entirely new vision for projectors. We checked out the company’s...
View ArticleArchos’ Smartwatches don’t want to be smartphones-lite
Archos is coming at the burgeoning smartwatch space in a different way. Rather than hedge its bets on a single device offering, it’s planning to release a trio of smartwatches for every end of the...
View ArticleLive from the Engadget CES Stage: Samsung Mobile App Academy scholarships
Presenting the awards for Samsung’s Mobile Boot Camp was far and away one of the highlights of last year’s CES stage, so naturally, when the company asked if we’d be game to give it another go, we...
View ArticleThis Portable USB Charger Battery Pack Can Also Jump Start Your Car
The other day we wrote a guide to help people choose a battery pack for recharging their mobile devices, but we never considered that some people might want to also use it as a jump starter for their...
View ArticleGeek Trivia: What Do Dolphins Use Like A Recreational Drug?
What Do Dolphins Use Like A Recreational Drug? Sea Anemones Puffer Fish Jelly Fish Coral Think you know the answer? Continue reading here - Geek Trivia: What Do Dolphins Use Like A Recreational Drug?
View ArticleTalking Tech with Consumer Reports at CES 2014: Smart phones, tablets &...
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View ArticleAirtame wireless dongle mirrors your computer onto any HDMI display
Here’s yet another option for wirelessly mirroring your computer screen to another display, but don’t worry, this one rather impressive. Airtame, the creation of a group of Danish folks, is an HDMI...
View ArticleWWE Network to stream choke slams 24 hours a day for $10 a month
CES isn’t all about new devices. It’s about programming too, and World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) has an event of its own to announce plans for the year. Those plans include a subscription-based...
View ArticleLive from the Engadget CES Stage: The Engadget Mobile Podcast
Granted, it hasn’t exactly been a huge week for mobile devices, but the podcast crew still has plenty to talk about in what’s been a crazy busy week all around. Join Brad Molen and the rest of the...
View ArticleApple and Samsung CEOs to meet by February 19th, give peace another chance
Previous attempts by Apple and Samsung to negotiate a truce in the patent wars haven’t exactly panned out, but they haven’t given up hope yet. The companies’ CEOs have just agreed to attend mediated...
View ArticleHere’s a smart tennis racquet that’ll improve your swing
Unless you’re Novak Djokovic or John McEnroe, then it’s highly unlikely that you’re able to take advantage of the computer-assisted coaching used by tennis pros. Like Sony, French racquet maker...
View ArticleHome automation is the future and Archos knows it
Yes, this is another post about the internet of things blorg — you know, that terrible buzz phrase for this new and actually exciting era of connected gadgets. Except this time, it’s brought to you by...
View Article24 hours at CES
CES, it’s a thing. A big thing. For us here at Engadget, it’s kind of a big deal. For you, the gadget-loving public, it’s a chance to see what the year in tech will look like. But enough about you...
View ArticleThalmic Labs’ MYO armband does gesture control with muscles (video)
2013 saw the rise of gesture cameras for TVs and various smart devices, but Canadian startup Thalmic Labs thinks its MYO armband is the way forward. During our meeting at CES earlier, co-founder and...
View ArticleCES 2014, Day 3: The trade show highlights they don’t want you to see!
While the White House was busy extending the lifespan of the International Space Station, we were pounding the CES 2014 show floor. Sure, the Las Vegas Convention Center is packed with home automation...
View ArticleIBM spins Jeopardy-dominating Watson robot into a billion dollar business group
Ever since it was unveiled four years ago, Watson has been the factotum of the robotics world, working a slew of gigs in hospitals, on Wall Street and the like. Now IBM’s ready to give its...
View ArticleGemini Planet Imager photographs alien worlds in just a minute
Although it has been possible to take direct photos of exoplanets for a few years, the technology involved has been low-resolution and slow — it can take up to an hour to get a crude shot of a...
View ArticleSamsung’s 105-inch curved UHD TV and 85-inch bendable screen hit retail this...
If you dug the 105-inch curved Ultra HD TV and bendable 85-inch UHD screen (above) Samsung debuted this week, we have good news. They’ll both hit retail sometime in the second half of this year,...
View ArticleSwiftKey’s predictive text input makes its way into your car stereo
It’s no secret that we’re pretty big fans of SwiftKey ’round these parts, but even we couldn’t have predicted where it’d wind up next. Today, the keyboard app announced that its adaptive text-entry...
View ArticleConfide is like Snapchat for business, but without pictures
The written word has a nasty habit of sticking around, surfacing in hacked email accounts, accidental forwards and the on untrustworthy lips of your peers. That’s why former AOL executive Jon Brod...
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