This year a lot more of us will be spending time wearing augmented and virtual reality headsets. Regardless of a growth slump in 2017, the AR/VR headset market is predicted to increase by 48.5 percent year-over-year to volumes of 12.4 million units, according to market research by IDC. The firm also says headsets will grow …

To celebrate Pi day, March 14 (3/14), Microsoft has slashed prices by up to 31.4 percent on dozens of laptops, gaming desktops and two-in-ones available through its online store.  This is the fourth year Microsoft has celebrated the mathematical constant of pi with a sale, according to The Verge. The price cuts include PCs from Dell, Lenovo, HP, MSI, Asus, Acer …

Dell’s XPS 13 is one of our favorite ultraportables and has been for a while now. A lot of the love has to do with its design — it not only looks great, but is the smallest 13.3-inch laptop available from anyone, anywhere right now. Combine that with its excellent performance, features and battery life, and you’ve got a travel-friendly …

For me, it all started with the Hubsan X4 H107C, a palm-size quadcopter with a low-res camera that can be picked up for less than $40 (or about AU$100 or £45). It has a paltry 5 to 7 minutes of flight time and I crashed it loads, but I was hooked and wanted to fly as much as possible. This …

The first round of Windows mixed reality headsets are now all present and accounted for.  Made by Microsoft’s PC maker partners, the designs for the new headsets were shown at the end of August at IFA Berlin, one of the world’s biggest consumer technology trade shows. Prices initially started at $299 (roughly £250 or AU$400, converted) for the headsets alone, but …

Thirteen eyes, the brain of a self-driving car and a 4K-resolution camera to record your every move. And it flies.  No, it’s not a creepy surveillance robot (though I’m sure it could be), but actually the first camera drone from robotics company Skydio, the R1.  The “fully autonomous flying camera” uses its 13 cameras to see in all directions and …

GoPro’s $5-a-month subscription service, GoPro Plus, was designed to make it easier to edit and share your adventures from your phone, tablet or computer by automatically sending your photos and videos from your camera to cloud storage.  For the camera maker’s hard-core users, automated backups and the service’s handful of other offerings might have made the fee worthwhile. But for …

At this point, DJI is only trying to outdo itself.  The leader in camera drones announced the Mavic Air on Jan. 23, a $799 foldable quadcopter with a 4K-resolution camera that slots nicely into its lineup between the $399 entry-level Spark and $999 Mavic Pro (see table below for UK and Australian prices). The Air is sort of a mashup …

The big promise of Windows Mixed Reality headsets was to bring augmented and virtual reality and anything in between to people at more reasonable prices and with an easier setup than competitors. By the time they rolled out late last year, though, it was mostly just the latter that came true: Once the headsets were bundled with controllers the WMR …

Digital Storm’s Project Spark is a full gaming desktop you actually have room for — on your desk. Measuring 6 inches deep by 4 inches wide by 12 inches tall, it’s the boutique PC builder’s smallest desktop to date made for enthusiasts. Configurations are based on Intel’s Z370 chipset with an Nvidia GTX 1080 GPU and an Intel Core-i7 8700K processor, …