Las Vegas, NV | January 8 - 11, 2013
The Pebble Smart watch is one of the best-known Kickstarter projects. A compact e-ink device designed to work with almost any smartphone, the Pebble grabbed attention when it hit $10 million and sold 85,000 watches after expecting to sell 5,000 units. → Read More
As someone who devours way too much science fiction, I’ve always secretly believed that I’ll be wearing giant VR goggles at some point in the future. (I’m patiently waiting for my jetpack, too.) Now it looks like I might not be crazy after all — Palmer Luckey, founder of Oculus, is hoping to take VR goggles out of the lab and put them into the hands of gamers at an affordable price.
The company… → Read More
The Fitbit pedometer is a fun way to track your daily perambulations. They’ve launched a number of products over the past year, including the One and the Aria scale. → Read More
Meet the best product at CES 2013: Razer Edge.
Simply put, the Razer Edge is a pure gaming tablet. But it’s not that simple. With the right accessories, the Edge transforms from a tablet, to a gaming machine, to a desktop. Picture the Microsoft Surface Pro but instead of being designed for productivity, it’s a portable gaming rig. → Read More
Slava Rubin knows a thing or two about crowdfunding. Founded in 2008, his company, IndieGogo is a major funding powerhouse, bringing together such disparate projects like the Misfit Shine and The Oatmeal’s anti-troll lawyer fundraiser. → Read More
The Parrot AR Drone has captured the attention of many a gadget geek over the past couple of years for pretty obvious reasons: The thing is just cool, and really fun to play with.
As Parrot’s CEO Henri Seydoux told John Biggs here at TechCrunch’s on-site stage at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas this week… → Read More
This CES has been a surprisingly musical. Aside from the usual headphones and speakers, we’ve already seen a number of electronic musical instruments including the Artiphon Instrument 1, a well-made electronic guitar analog with a pressure sensitive fretboard. → Read More
CES is an event filled with plastic, metal, and germs, so one tends to take notice when a booth is festooned with wood and apples. Such with was the case when we stumbled upon Russian hardware startup Lapka and its array of cute blocks. The Lapka is a strangely beautiful product, and that peculiar sense of wonderment only grows once you figure out what the thing actually does. → Read More
One thing Rovi Product Management Director Charles Dawes is excited about is the ratification of H.265 or the High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) format, which will provide higher-quality video streams over the Internet while using less bandwidth. After the standard gets ratified, you can expect content owners to start pushing even high-quality video files. → Read More
When we walked the floor at CES this week, I had to stop by and visit one of my favorite iOS device power accessory makers. Innergie, which created a power cable that has micro USB, mini USB and 30-pin connectors all in one, had some new things on display here in Vegas, including the PocketCell Duo, portable power bank with a whopping 6,800mAh of battery power. → Read More
Ignore all the noise at CES and just get a Double, a Telepresence robot with an iPad for a face. Pay someone to turn it on at CES and enjoy all the sights and sounds from the comfort of your home. Sounds like paradise to me.
In fact, just for a lark, that’s what John Biggs did one cool CES morning. Instead of slumming it on the CES showfloor with Jordan and Greg, John joined the live streaming… → Read More
LEGO just introduced the third generation LEGO Mindstorm sets. Like previous versions, a central computer controls motors and servos, essentially bringing the LEGO kit to life. This new version is heavily upgraded. And as a father, I must attest, I would use this set more than my kids. It’s that awesome. → Read More
We’ve covered Tovbot’s Shimi from inception to launch at TechCrunch Disrupt and this week we got a closer look at the little dancing robot that could at our CES stage. → Read More
Two days down, two days to go.
We’ve seen Samsung, Sony and LG. We’ve hit up Huawei, Parrot, and Verizon.
We even met a few different celebrities like Xzibit, Nick Cannon, and Run of Run-DMC. It’s been an eventful, hilarious, and overwhelming experience, and we’re only halfway through. → Read More
We sat down with Greg Duffy, CEO of Dropcam, to talk about his company’s move into online DVR services connected with their cool little HD webcams. The big news? Dropcam cameras now upload more video per day than YouTube. → Read More
It is sad that no one who reports on technology has the balls to straight up pull a Hunter S. Thompson at CES. I mean peel away from the PR stunts and parties and just do mushrooms and walk around the iLounge or that crazy room with the 4K HDTV screens, or that weird fluorescent light tunnel with all the cars. → Read More
The annual Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas is where companies show off the latest and greatest in gadgets — but with all the sleek exteriors and specs it can be easy to forget about the tiny bits and pieces of technology that really make the magic happen.
So it was nice to talk to Weilli Dai, a co-founder of Marvell Technology… → Read More
Samsung is known around these here parts as the Fifth Horseman. The company has risen from a boring mega-conglomerate to Apple’s biggest competitor, the world leader in TVs, and one of the most crucial manufacturers in the world. The proof of this is in the pudding, or rather the $1 million booth the company has set up to dominate CES.
This booth is rivaled only by Sony’s, and I’d venture to… → Read More
Boxee launched the Boxee TV shortly before Christmas. At 3,000 Walmart stores. And a major feature is still in beta. Boxee is the poster child of a lean startup — they just happen to ship hardware. → Read More
Kids these days have it so much better than we all did, am I right? Better clothes, funner food, cooler hair, and amazing tech-enabled games.
Reinforcing that last example is Sifteo, a San Francisco startup that has built an especially unique interactive gaming platform aimed at age 7 and up → Read More
If you’re smart, you probably think twice before using a WiFi network anywhere outside of your own home to log into things like your bank account and even your email. Being on a shared network notoriously leaves you more vulnerable to having someone else monitor all the details of your web browsing activity and access your personal data. But if you’re a remote worker, as more and more people are… → Read More
CES is in full force and TechCrunch is in the middle of it all. Literally. Our massive broadcast booth — it looks like a greenhouse — is in front of the Las Vegas Convention Center. And coming up at 1:00PM PST is the second episode of TechCrunch’s Gadget Live webcast.
After a quick recap of the morning’s live streaming video coverage, Lytro is going to take the stage to discuss the latest… → Read More
Making what he said was his first trip to the Consumer Electronics Show since he was a teenager, Salesforce.com co-founder and CEO Marc Benioff took the stage today to talk about the big shifts in the technology industry.
Benioff, who was interviewed by MediaLink’s Michael Kassan, noted that CES is traditionally a show for things like health tech, automotive tech, and other consumer tech —… → Read More
In the dozen years since it first launched, personalized Internet radio pioneer Pandora has become a staple on people’s computers and mobile phones. But the company’s mission definitely does not end there. Recently, Pandora has become more and more prevalent as a built-in feature in automobiles. It’s a big market — tons of radio is listened to while people are commuting in their cars — but it… → Read More
Pebble, the company that says it’s creating “the first watch built for the 21st century,” announced today that it plans to start shipping on January 23.
The announcement was made via a presentation this morning at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, with a post set to go up on the company blog soon. → Read More
Formlabs, the little 3D printer company that could, sat down with us to show off their Form 1 printer, a stereolithographic system that creates surprisingly high resolution objects using lasers and and plastic resin. → Read More
Later today, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff will be giving a keynote speech at CES. That might be a surprise to some, considering that the trade show usually has keynotes from folks like Microsoft’s Steve Ballmer or Intel’s Paul Otellini, who typically show off a range of new devices during those presentations. We asked Mike Lazerow, CMO of Salesforce Marketing Cloud, how Salesforce fits in. → Read More
It’s a brand new day and the sun is high.
So ready yourself for yet another eight hours of TechCrunch live streaming coverage from the CES showroom floor. Yesterday was exciting, especially visiting the massive booths of Samsung, Sony, and LG. But it’s impossible that you’re satisfied.
I’m not. → Read More
Going into this year’s CES, Qualcomm had a hell of a problem on their hands — how would a company that planned to talk about mobile chipsets of all things make its big keynote one to remember? As it turns out, its answer was to make said keynote as equally hilarious and cringeworthy as possible. → Read More
Las Vegas is not exactly known as a place where people want to think about responsibly saving their money, so you’ve got to hand it to the folks at New York startup Betterment for bringing their goal-focused investment app here to the Consumer Electronics Show in Vegas this week.
It was good to catch up with Betterment founder and CEO Jon Stein while he was here at CES… → Read More
