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There ain’t no party like a TechCrunch party 🎉 because at a TechCrunch party you can meet investors who may or may not give you a term sheet for your…

Going to CES? Join us at the official Hardware Battlefield Party in Las Vegas

What ended up being my favorite episode of CES 2016 was watching someone experience Las Vegas on their own terms. An avid gamer named @hardlyeverwrong was posting some frustration online…

Las Vegas On Your Own Terms: A CES Recap

Last week, 190 French startups came to Las Vegas for CES. Everywhere around Vegas, people were talking in French, as if French entrepreneurs were trying to take over the city.…

France’s Economy Minister Emmanuel Macron On French Startups

The Eye Tribe first brought their clever eye-tracking hardware to our Hardware Battlefield where they showed us how easy – and potentially useful – it was to track eye movements…

Aerodrome is working with the City of Boulder, Nevada, to launch the first commercial drone airport — the Eldorado Droneport. It’s one of only a handful of FAA-appointed UAS test…

Aerodrome Is The First Commercial Airport For Drones

You can call Ledger Wallet CEO Eric Larchevêque the Winklevoss of France given that he stores around 1,000 bitcoins on his bitcoin wallet — that’s around $450,000 as of today.…

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A Vegas Drone Rodeo In The Rain

10:00 am PST • January 10, 2016

Just like last year, we paid a visit to the annual Drone Rodeo in the Nevada desert ahead of the first day of CES this year. Unlike last year, though, the…

A Vegas Drone Rodeo In The Rain
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C-Way Is An Apple Watch For Kids

4:05 pm PST • January 9, 2016

[tc_aol_on code=”519399697″] While wandering the Eureka Park floor at CES, we ran into C-Way, a cool French startup that is making GPS-enabled smart watches for kids. So what exactly does a…

C-Way Is An Apple Watch For Kids

Bonaverde co-founder Hans Stier took the stage this week at CES to give us an update on his company. As a reminder, Bonaverde raised nearly $700,000 on Kickstarter a few…

Figuring out how to manage drone traffic over the United States to allow for drone delivery services and other drone-based service is going to be critical if Amazon and Google ever…

Google And Amazon Talk About Managing Drone Traffic At CES

We met tons of brand new tech startups at CES this year and saw gadgets ranging from health-focused wearables, drones, 3D printers, and AR/VR headsets. We even got views of the Las Vegas…

10 Of The Coolest Gadgets We Saw At CES 2016

[tc_aol_on code=”519400009″] I’ve had a pretty decent amount of conversations with my college roommate about his great distaste for the fact that almost every new device in existence is “connected”…

Edwin The Duck Is A $99 Connected Rubber Ducky 🐥

[tc_aol_on code=”519399969″] Yesterday on the CES TechCrunch Hardware Battlefield stage I sat down with Edward Mason, Founder and CEO of VR Headset startup GameFace Labs. Founded in London, GameFace Labs makes…

[tc_aol_on code=”519399742″] There are affordable computers, there are cheap computers and then there’s the Endless Mini, which is available for as little as $79. “Everybody in the world deserves the…

Endless Has Built A $79 PC For The Offline World

Faraday Future’s Nick Sampson joined me on the TechCrunch CES 2016 for what turned out to be a lively interview. Sampson is Faraday’s Senior Vice President of R&D and engineering…

Faraday Future’s Chief Engineer Is Short On Answers, Full Of Buzzwords

Parrot has had an interesting week. Many were expecting a new drone from the famous drone maker (among other things). But when you think about drones, chances are you are…

Parrot’s Henri Seydoux Shares His Vision Of The Future Of Drones

I Am Cardboard, makers of a variety of Google Cardboard viewers, recently delivered their new DSCVR Headset (pronounced “Discover”) after a recent, successful Kickstarter campaign. They are showing this new…

I Am Cardboard Showing Newly Funded DSCVR Headset AT CES

[tc_aol_on code=”519399693″] Yesterday we checked out an event hosted by Lenovo and Google, where the duo announced that Lenovo would be making the first Project Tango Phone. While we found out…

This week, we’re bringing you not one, not two but three episodes of the TechCrunch Gadgets podcast, live from CES. Every morning, we look back at the news coming out…

[tc_aol_on code=”519399783″] Self-driving drone Lily has had quite the success in sales and it’s not even on the market yet. The startup pulled in a whopping $34 million in pre-orders…

Lily, A Camera Drone That Automatically Follows You, Pulls In A Mountainous $34 Million In Pre-orders

Most 3D printer apps are fairly basic – mostly they’re used to monitor print jobs. MatterHackers has just released the MatterControl Touch T10, a 10-inch, $299 tablet that allows you…

MatterHackers Releases A Tablet That Lets You Design 3D Prints On The Go

Lenovo announced at CES that the company would be producing the first Project Tango phone. As a reminder, Project Tango is an ambitious project that adds depth as well as…

Lenovo Is Making The First Google Project Tango Phone

The third annual Hardware Battlefield at CES 2016 is nearly complete. Fourteen companies took to the TechCrunch stage at the Sands Expo with six minutes to prove their viability in…

Announcing The Finalists For The TC CES Hardware Battlefield: Nima, Carbon, IdentiLock, And Wiivv

These days, it’s hard to stand out in the Smart Glasses category. There are many underwhelming products coming to market now and many more that while extravagant seem to be…

Lumus Is Showing A Wide Field-Of-View Smart Glasses Prototype

This week at CES, IBM unveiled some new Watson partnerships that underscore its push into big data, machine learning and artificial intelligence. But at the same time, the company has…

IBM Sells Salary.com Compensation Business To The Original Founding Team

Fire is for prehistoric man. The modern man uses the sustainable and renewable energy of solar power to cook meats an veggies – like the GoSun Stove. The company was…

The GoSun Stove Cooks With Just The Power Of The Sun

This week, we’re bringing you not one, not two but three episodes of the TechCrunch Gadgets podcast, live from CES. Every morning, we look back at the news coming out…

Another day, another autonomous two-wheeled robot. Segway, the maker of two wheeled riding machines, has released something called the Segway Robot. This little robotic head connects to a standard Segway…

Segway Made A Robot That Connects To Your Two-Wheeled Scooter

Snap, a flying camera we first wrote about in September, is ready for the spotlight as it takes the stage today to compete in the TechCrunch Hardware Battlefield at CES.…

Snap, The 4K Flying Camera With Auto-Tracking, Is Ready For The Spotlight

Lazy grillers, rejoice. Thanks to the Grillbot, you may never have to clean your grill again. Today at CES we discovered the Grillbot, and it’s exactly what it sounds like…

The Grillbot Is A Robot That Cleans Your Grill
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