Okay, hear me out. The duel-sided YotaPhone is not a gimmick. It makes sense. On the back of the YotaPhone is an e-ink display that can mirror anything displayed on the main screen. And because e-ink screens do not require battery life, these images are available even if the phone battery dies. Get it? Probably not yet. → Read More
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
It’s day three at CES 2013. It’s a bit cold out. But here we are, for the third episode of TechCrunch Gadgets Live. We’ll be chatting with Pebble Watch. Did you hear it’s going to ship soon? Following Pebble Watch, Sphero is going to demo their latest technology and they’re going to give away to two of their robotic balls. Just like before there are more interviews… → Read More
If you haven’t yet experienced the world of light field photography, it’s time to step into the Lytro. (See what I did there?)
The Lytro camera is a brand new form of photographic technology that produces what the company calls a “living photo.” This means that the user has the ability to change the focus from the foreground to background, shift perspective, and add cool color filters to the… → 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
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
Research In Motion has said that it plans to release a wide range of BlackBerry 10 devices that will hit low, middle and high price points in order to capture more of the smartphone market. In addition, three major U.S. mobile carriers — Verizon, AT&T and T-Mobile — say they will support BlackBerry 10 products. → 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
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
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
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
We were lucky to have a few minutes to sit down with Bre Pettis of Makerbot. The company just announced an interesting improvement to the Replicator 2, called the Replicator 2X, that is tweaked to work with ABS plastic rather than the rigid, organic PLA. This new version is for experimenters who are looking to print in more materials. The extruders – the things that squirt out plastic – are also… → Read More
More than a few companies take up the fight against waterlogged gadgets (heck, there was one at ShowStoppers last night) but California-based Liquipel has quickly become one of the most interesting.
The company announced yesterday that it tweaked its formula to create an even more effective 2.0 version of its water-resistant nanocoating, but they’ve done much more than just that. What seems… → Read More
Our cars today feature lots of sensors, but it’s not easy for developers and hardware hackers to get access to all of this data, which is typically proprietary and manufacturer specific. Last year, Ford, in collaboration with Bug Labs, announced its OpenXC program to allow developers to access metrics from its car’s internal network and today, it is opening up the program and launching an SDK so… → Read More
Ah, ShowStoppers. It’s always a nice change of pace for us — just about two hours after the first day of CES has wrapped, companies come to us to show off their wares instead of the other way around. As per tradition, we’re gearing up to chat with a slew of new and just plain neat companies, and to top it all off, we’ll be streaming the whole thing. → Read More
Most of the time when we cover a new phone launch, it’s all about something that’s small, lightweight, fully-featured, and mobile — and often it’s aimed at the cutting edge of hip young consumers. But today at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, we met the folks behind a very compelling new gadget that happens to be none of those things: The Clarity Ensemble. → Read More
The surprisingly small and light Jamstik is, in short, one of the coolest things I’ve seen at CES Today. It is a MIDI guitar that is actually a musical controller. By playing and plucking the strings you can play music using synthesized sounds and it recognizes chords, notes, and nuances including bends and hammers. → Read More
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