Enlarge ImageThe ActionProof Bumper is available for preorder now and is supposed to ship in May. ActionProof The Apple Watch isn’t even out yet, but already companies are announcing accessories for it, including cases designed to toughen it up. Italy-based ActionProof has launched an Indiegogo campaign for “The Bumper,” which it bills as the first …

Apple’s “Spring Forward” event on March 9 was supposed to fill in the missing details on the company’s new Apple Watch , which it initially unveiled back in September. However, Apple being Apple, decided to leave us with a number of unanswered questions and keep the mystery going. However, unnamed Apple spokespeople have been giving bloggers and journalists tidbits of …

Screenshot by Sarah Tew/CNET With Apple’s March 9 ‘Spring Forward’ event now behind us, it’s time to look back and take stock of what we did — and, more importantly, didn’t — get from Apple. As expected, that event mostly focused on the Watch , and we learned its ship (April 24) and massive price range — from $349 to …

Enlarge ImageOn March 9, Apple is expected to tell the world when its new Watch will go on sale and ship. James Martin/CNET With Apple’s ‘Spring Forward’ event on March 9 in San Francisco just days away, it’s time to look at — and recalibrate — our expectations for the occasion. We know that the event will focus on the …

Enlarge ImageKeys is available for pre-order now for $100 and will ship early this summer. David Carnoy/CNET In 2012, Opho, a San Francisco-based startup known back then as Incident Technologies, had one of the more successful Kickstarter campaigns, raising $350,000 for its digital guitar, gTar, on the crowdfunding site. Now it hopes to do even better with with the launch …

The Galaxy S6 looks swanky but doesn’t have a removable back or storage expansion slot. Josh Miller/CNET Say it ain’t so, Samsung. When the Galaxy S5 came out last year, I wrote about how I was thankful that Samsung hadn’t dramatically changed the design of its flagship smartphone, keeping its replaceable battery and storage expansion slot, both of which could …

Enlarge ImageThe new MDR-ZX770BN features both active noise cancelling and Bluetooth. David Carnoy/CNET Over the last few years Sony’s put out a number of wireless Bluetooth headphones, some better than others. Now we get four new models — the MDR-ZX770BN ($230), MDR-ZX770BT ($150), MDR-ZX330BT ($100) and MDR-AS600BT ($100) — which form the core of Sony’s entry-level and mid-range Bluetooth headphone …

Sonos is making only about 4,000 Play:1 Blue Note Limited Edition speakers. Sarah Tew/CNET We’re fans of Sonos’ entry-level wireless speaker, the Sonos Play:1 . Like Sonos’ other speakers it only comes in black or white — until now, that is. To honor 75 years of Blue Note Records and its year of collaborations, Sonos’ design team whipped up a …

Enlarge ImageA couple of upcoming Philips headphones, including the Fidelio M2L, offer a direct Lightning connection to your iOS device. David Carnoy/CNET One of the advantages of Apple’s Lightning port is that it’s bidirectional, meaning that it can be used for charging its host device or have the host device power an accessory connected to it. Until now most of …

Dish’s new 4K Joey with one of two new remotes that will be available this spring. David Carnoy/CNET LAS VEGAS — Here at CES, the big story for Dish is the rolling out of its $20-a-month over-the-top Sling TV Internet TV service. But the company also had a number of smaller announcements to pick through. Later this year — apparently …