How do you interact with a pair of augmented-reality smartglasses? Maybe with your hands or a controller or a touchpad? Rokid, a Chinese company that’s developed voice assistant-based products, believes the answer is voice. Last year, Rokid unveiled a little Amazon Echo-alike called the Rokid Pebble at CES, which used an AI called Melody to attempt …
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Smartwatches have become the new iPod replacements, especially for runners. Most smartwatches like Apple Watch, Android Wear models and Samsung Gear can already store music, but in the fitness watch landscape, it’s new territory. Fitbit made its first music-storing watch last year with the Fitbit Ionic, and now Garmin’s first music watch is the Forerunner 645 Music. It’s a GPS running …
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Why record the entire world around you? These are not questions to be answered at CES in Las Vegas, merely questions to be asked. I wore Orbi Prime, which claim to be the first pair of 360-degree camera glasses, and I have no idea what I was recording. But hey, I looked OK. Now playing: Watch this: Recording the world …
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Maybe the next wave of AR toys will avoid your face entirely. Merge’s 6DoF Blaster looks like a Laser Tag gun and uses a phone. And that’s basically what it is: Laser Tag, for AR. And it might be one of my favorite things at CES. Seriously. Now playing: Watch this: Merge’s toy AR gun turns the iPhone X into …
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Packing and wearing blood pressure cuffs, if you have hypertension, isn’t easy. I measure my high blood pressure, and wish I had a smartwatch to do it. Omron, makers of medical-grade blood pressure monitors, have a fitness watch coming this year, called the HeartGuide. I love the idea of it. I hope it works as well as promised. More: The …
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I’ve seen VR, AR, iPhones, smartwatches, laptops and robots. But the gadget that impressed me the most, by a longshot, was the Nintendo Switch. It was a familiar story. Nintendo has a weird, wild idea. Detachable controls on a tablet. A dock that turns a handheld into a console. Even the name of the little wireless, button-studded mini-remotes was weird: …
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Apple firmware sometimes slows down older iPhones with aging batteries to keep them from shutting down unexpectedly. That’s the recent news that has the tech world abuzz. But we’re checking in on a totally separate, completely unrelated, iPhone battery story. Of the newest 2017 models — the iPhone 8, 8 Plus and iPhone X — which ones have the best …
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Apple just made connecting to treadmills and ellipticals as easy as tapping your Apple Watch on a piece of gym equipment. GymKit, a feature built into WatchOS 4.1, enables seamless tap-to-connect tech. It’s like CarPlay, but for fitness machines. Apple announced GymKit as a feature for Apple Watch back in June at its WWDC keynote, promising it would arrive this year. It’s just …
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Looking for a way to turn your home computer into a deep-learning AI super-monster? Nvidia has an expensive answer. The new Titan V GPU promises a crazy amount of processing for deep learning and AI applications. It’s nine times more powerful — at 110 teraflops — than last year’s Titan X, Nvidia’s last massive desktop graphics processor aimed at machine learning …
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Amazon’s subscription music service, Music Unlimited, launched last year to compete with existing services like Spotify and Apple Music. It’s now getting a bigger global footprint: it’s available in 28 new countries starting today, Amazon announced. The service boasts 40 million tracks, is independent from Amazon Prime and works on iOS, Android, Macs, PCs, web browsers and Amazon’s Fire TV …
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