Joshua Goldman

Holy Shift! Perceptiv’s drone upgrade kit lets you add auto

Perceptiv Labs Having auto-follow capabilities on a drone means that it can chase after a subject without assistance from a pilot, essentially giving you your own private flying camera operator. We saw it featured a lot at CES 2015, but in its current state, it doesn’t allow for a lot of creative control — something …

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GoPro custom streaming channel gets a big boost with Roku deal

GoPro GoPro’s content partnerships have come in more of a slow trickle than a deluge. An in-flight entertainment channel on Virgin America kicked things off in October 2013. That was followed by channel apps for Microsoft’s Xbox 360 and Xbox One entertainment systems in January 2014, and an LG Smart TV app a year later this January. While those first …

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GoPro teams with NHL, NHLPA for real

GoPro GoPro is trying to change the way people view sports on TV and it’s starting with hockey fans. As part of a partnership with the National Hockey League (NHL) and the National Hockey League Players’ Association (NHLPA) — the action-cam maker’s first with a major pro sports league — GoPro cameras will be worn by players throughout the 2015 …

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Microsoft shows off touch

Now playing: Watch this: Microsoft demos Office, PowerPoint apps across PC and… 5:05 Promising a “nearly no-compromise experience” for phones, tablets and PCs, Microsoft today demoed its upcoming universal apps for Word, Excel and PowerPoint. The new Office apps are designed for Windows 10 and were made with touch in mind and will be included in Windows 10 on phones …

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GoPro announces at CES 2015 new features coming to Hero4 cameras

Joshua Goldman/CNET LAS VEGAS — Despite all the rumors of a GoPro drone showing up at CES 2015, it didn’t materialize. There was some good news announced, though, for current and potential owners of the Hero4 Black and Silver cameras. A firmware update arriving sometime in the first half of 2015 will add several new features. One of those is …

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SuperTooth pumps your tunes to multiple rooms on the cheap

Joshua Goldman/CNET LAS VEGAS — There’s no denying that wireless multiroom speaker systems are popular, but the cost can get prohibitively high. Bluetooth accessory maker SuperTooth says that doesn’t have to be the case. Unveiled at CES 2015, the Multiroom System (yes, that’s the name) consists of one base speaker and up to four satellite speakers, priced from $300 for …

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DJI makes the Inspire 1 drone’s flying 4K camera into a handheld

Joshua Goldman/CNET LAS VEGAS — In November of last year, drone manufacturer DJI announced the Inspire 1, a quadcopter with a 4K-resolution camera for capturing aerial videos and photos. While that’s sure to result in some impressive shots, it’s a lot of camera to be used solely for up in the air. Enter the Inspire 1 camera mount announced at …

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How to know where not to fly your drone

Joshua Goldman/CNET Editors’ note: What follows is not legal advice. Please contact officials in your area or consult an attorney for laws, rules and regulations for where you plan to fly. The current furor about drones and what you should and shouldn’t be allowed to do with them is another case of technology being ahead of laws and regulations (not …

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SnapBox expands its high

SnapBox The idea behind it is pretty simple: Give people an easy, affordable way to turn their smartphone or other snapshots into high-quality canvas prints and ship them fast. That’s exactly what SnapBox delivered when it started up back in 2012. This year, though, it has grown its print options to include prints to fine art paper, lustre photo paper, …

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Motrr Galileo gets GoPro mount for motorized 360

Motrr The Motrr Galileo is a cool robotic iPhone dock that, when paired with one of more than a dozen apps, can be used to create high-resolution 360-degree panoramas and smooth time-lapse sequences among other things. To further expand its usefulness, Motrr made a mount that holds a GoPro Hero3, 3+ or 4 camera that squeezes in where you would …

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