The CS1 goes all old school on your iPhone. Lumenati “And…action!” Some of us dream of spouting those words while peering through the lens of a big fantastic movie camera. You can capture a little bit of that feeling with the Lumenati CS1 on Kickstarter. It’s a case for your iPhone 6 that looks (and …

Enlarge ImageThe Kingii inflates instantly to float you to safety. Kingii I was on an ocean liner recently. Passengers had to go through a muster drill where we all gathered large orange life vests from our rooms and learned how to put them on in case of an emergency. Life vests are effective, but bulky. They’re not the sort of …

Kirk to Enterprise. Beam me off this pleasure planet. The Wand Company As a young impressionable “Star Trek” fan, I dreamed of having a communicator of my very own. I imagined flipping it open, hearing that iconic sound and requesting a beam-up to the Enterprise. The closest I ever got was making one out of Lego. It took a long …

A winning image of a sea lion caught on camera by a teenager.Ann Basu You don’t have to be all grown up to take great photographs. Kids between the ages of 9 and 17 are showing off their camera talents with a collection of pictures capturing crackling light bulbs, swarming ocean life and a curious young sea lion. National Geographic …

Sleep tight, sweet smartphone. Amanda Kooser/CNET I confess. My smartphone sits next to my bed on a nightstand while I slumber. I set it to do-not-disturb mode during sleeping hours, but then it comes to life as my alarm clock every morning. Turns out, I’m completely normal. A Bank of America Trends in Consumer Mobility Report released Monday shows that …

The humble keyboard never looked so good. Keyboardio We don’t usually give much thought to keyboards. They’re utilitarian devices that help make our computers function and our commands known. But what if keyboards were also works of art, something gorgeous to look at, a pleasure to view as well as type on? That’s the concept behind the Keyboardio Model 01, …

Grizzler wants to be the Robert Frank of the dog world. Screenshot by Amanda Kooser/CNET Watch out, cat photographers, you have some competition from the canine world. A black-and-white dog named Grizzler is capturing arty images using a new system from Nikon Asia. Heartography consists of a heartbeat monitor, a camera and a special housing that includes a shutter trigger …

It’s a skateboard and an elegant sculpture. Gridboard It’s no “Back to the Future” hoverboard, but the Gridboard on Indiegogo is one futuristic-looking device. Everyone knows what a regular skateboard looks like — essentially a plank with rounded ends and four wheels underneath. The Gridboard has four wheels and a recognizable silhouette, but the rest of the longboard looks like …

The Apple Watch is about to be tested on the open market. James Martin/CNET Back in early 2013 — long before the official Apple announcement in late 2014 — we polled CNET readers about whether they would want to buy an Apple Watch. Back then, we still called it the “iWatch.” The results split out pretty evenly between “yes,” “no” …

Here’s a preview of the rose-gold watch with diamonds. Picasa A race is on to find the highest price someone will pay for an Apple Watch. At first, some analysts thought the gold Apple Watch could cost $5,000 and we all thought, “Ooo, that’s so expensive!” Then, we got the official announcement from Apple that the watch would cost $10,000. …