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Diminishing Returns: The Cold, Hard Truth for CES Smartphones
Sony has a new flagship phone at CES called the Xperia Z, and it is pretty decent. The company has another one, called the Xperia ZL, that’s also fairly nice. They’re both roughly as okay as the...
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Plastic Logic Proposes a Futuristic Kind of Paper
For all the guilt-tripping about dead trees, we still can’t live without paper. But some day, we may be able to use flexible sheets of digital ink instead. At the Consumer Electronics Show, U.K.-based...
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Hands-On with Russia’s YotaPhone: Finally, Something Different
New smartphones have been hard to find at CES, and the ones we have seen are short on innovative new features and long on incremental spec boosts. To find something truly different, I had to venture...
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Would 4K Ultra-HD TV Be Good or Bad for Gaming?
Take the pulse of CES 2013 and you’ll find the usual gizmo lineup: smartphones, tablets, cameras, cars and high-end audio products. But this year, the show’s opening salvo involved something the...
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Fork from the Future Senses When You’re Eating Too Fast, Vibrates to Slow You...
And lo, on the eighth day of the calendar month of January in the year 2013, a fork from the future appeared before the bewildered eyes of weary pressfolk attending a technology event in the city of...
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5 Clever Gadgets from CES 2013
At the electronics mecca that is CES, it’s easy to get caught up in all the big ideas–things like Ultra HD, connected cars and natural input–that aim to transform the world. But sometimes, the neatest...
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In Defense — More or Less — of CES
Like most of the technology journalists I know, I’m in Las Vegas this week to attend the International Consumer Electronics Show. Matt Buchanan is not. Over at BuzzFeed, he has explained why he thinks...
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Popular Pebble: Why Your Wrist Is a New Frontier for Apps
To say the Pebble smartwatch is a Kickstarter success story would be an understatement almost as big as the disparity between the amount of money the company was trying to raise ($100,000) and the...
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Razer Edge Hands-On: A Modular Tablet for PC Gamers
For north of $1,500, the Razer Edge could be your next tablet, game console, laptop and desktop — and a way to play high-end PC games from pretty much anywhere. Razer, which has dabbled in making its...
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Basis Health-Tracking Watch Sports Serious Sensors, New Android App
While there’s certainly no shortage of wearable health gadgets these days, the $200 Basis watch packs enough fancy sensors that you’d probably look like the hypochondriac version of Robocop if you wore...
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Next in Motion-Controlled Gaming: Crotch Harnesses and Bungee Cords
Picture yourself playing a first-person shooter while strapped in an adult-sized baby bouncer that controls your onscreen movement. I know, right?! That’s the idea behind Intellect Motion’s SMotion...
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A Story About Steve Jobs, Steel Balls and Gorilla Glass (You, with the...
The idea behind the Apple iPhone 5C is that it comes with a pre-cracked screen so you don’t have to worry about cracking it yourself. But since it’s not an actual product, we generally have to wait...
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Nvidia’s Project Shield Can Succeed Even If It Fails
Among a predictable sea of 4K TVs, fitness trackers and connected car tech at CES, Nvidia’s Project Shield turned out to be the show’s biggest surprise. No one expected that the company best known for...
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Watch Me Levitate a Remote Control Helicopter with My Mind
The first thing you need to know about mind-controlled helicopters is that they feed on relaxation or concentration. So when the Puzzlebox Orbit started lifting off the ground before I could even start...
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CES 2013: The View from Sony’s Phil Molyneux
The International Consumer Electronics Show may have a long-standing reputation for hype and hoopla, but overall, I found this year’s edition to be relatively restrained on the over-the-top pizzazz...
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Your Smartphone Will Become the Hub of Your Digital Lifestyle
In the winter of 2000, Steve Jobs took the stage at the Macworld conference and laid out what we now consider a very forward thinking idea: He said that the Mac would become the center of our digital...
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Christie Street: Like a Picky, Gadgets-Only Kickstarter with Refunds
What happens if you successfully fund a product on Kickstarter, realize the product can’t be built, and then find out you have no way of refunding your backers? If you’re Jamie Siminoff, you build your...
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What Happened to Glasses-Free 3D TV?
A brisk walk around the show floor at CES last week was all it took to confirm that the 3D TV craze is over. Vendors such as Samsung and Sony no longer thrust 3D glasses in everyone’s faces; most of...
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