It was about this time last year that Tactus -- the company behind the amazing disappearing touchscreen keyboard -- really started making a name for itself. So what does a buzzy company do to top its
Three days go by awfully quickly, don’t they? The Consumer Electronics Show — and by extension our Hardware Battlefield — only started on Tuesday but we’ve seen no shortage of
The buzz around drones is undeniable these days -- as it turns out, even Martha Stewart uses one to survey her farm -- but there still hasn't been a runaway drone hit that has captured that imaginatio
Access to clean water is something that most us probably take for granted — after all, it just comes out of taps and faucets and hoses and shower heads with little more than the twist of a spigo
If there's one lesson to be learned at this year's CES, it's that everybody and their mothers are going nuts for wearables. More than a few of these peculiar gadgets are meant to make sure you're gett
The Z1S is a brand new Sony Xperia smartphone the company unveiled at CES 2014. It has the same 5-inch screen as the Z1, but it's fatter and heavier because of its 3,000 mAh extended battery.
LG played up its push into wearable tech earlier this morning, and now it looks like Sony's turn to do the same. Sony Mobile president and CEO Kuni Suzuki took the stage at the tail end of Sony's CES
Oh how times have changed. When Huawei showed off its flagship smartphone at CES last year, it did so in a smallish conference room with some chairs in the middle and crudites and demo phones flanking
Heads-up bibliophiles: social e-book retailer <a target="_blank" href="http://www.zolabooks.com">Zola Books</a> has acquired curated book recommendation site <a target="_blank" href="http://www.bookis
LG’s CES press conference just kicked off here in Las Vegas, and the Korean tech giant is talking up services at a breakneck pace. In a bid to improve how people interact with the company’
There were plenty of media darlings at last year’s CES, but few tickled people’s fancies the way that <a target="_blank" href="http://tactustechnology.com/">Tactus</a> and its <a href="https://tec
The quantified self movement has grown to the point where you could easily bedeck your limbs with thousands of dollars of tracking gadgets, and the race to measure your movement isn’t going to end a
Let’s be real here: there’s a decent chance that you picked up a new smartphone at some point during the holidays, so you’re off the market for at least a little while longer. As it turns out th
CES 2014 is — amazingly enough — just around the corner, along with enough new gadgetry to fill several lifetimes. Last year we saw a glut of activity trackers pop up in the wake of notable hits l
Chances are that if you’re reading this, you didn’t recently buy an iPhone in Taiwan. As it happens, that may be for the best — according to a Wall Street Journal report published ea
Darrell and I spent a good chunk of <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2013/12/18/this-week-on-the-techcrunch-droidcast-what-to-get-the-android-lover-who-has-everything/">our last Droidcast</a> discussin
It always seems like the flagship phones get the most attention, but what about a device that doesn't even bother trying to claim that title? Motorola CEO Dennis Woodside has been saying for months an
The jury is largely still out on wearable gadgets like Google Glass that let you passively consume information that appears in front of your eyes, but Soulaiman Itani isn't satisfied with just looking
After a whirlwind trip in Toronto, my co-host Darrell Etherington and I are back in our respective countries and ready to talk about what's new with Android. But first, a heartrending disclaimer -- we
The road to immersive virtual reality has been a long and strange one -- it was fodder for wide-eyed futurists and engineers for years before it became painfully clear that the sorts of experiences we
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