This story is part of CES 2016. Our editors bring you complete CES 2016 coverage and scour the showroom floor for the hottest new tech gadgets around. I’ve been in refugee camps, been on Mars, glided through prehistoric aquariums and attempted to watch live debate coverage. I’ve walked across footbridges on Everest, painted in the …

So, you’ve got an iPad sitting around. What games should you play on it? Well…there are a ton to choose from. And thanks to some aggressive holiday sales, some of these games are available for a steal. And just what does make a good iPad game? We debated it for a while, and…well, for each person that decision will vary. …

Live Photos are only as good as the apps that work with them. One of the iPhone 6S’ most touted features, Live Photos automatically record GIF-like snippets of audio and video with every photo taken. But there were precious few ways to share Live Photos with others when the iPhone 6S and 6S Plus launched in September — unless you …

A whole year has gone by, filled with smartwatches. Apple makes them. Google’s software powers them. Sony, Samsung, Asus, Motorola, Pebble. Fossil. Tag-Heuer. It’s starting to come from everywhere: Everyone wants to put a high-tech thing on your wrist. There’s a problem, though: none of them feel necessary, or even necessarily desirable. In fact, most of them don’t even make …

I’m looking at a hovering watch. It splits into pieces above the table in front of me, exposing gears ticking underneath. My eyes move over glowing yellow dots, which expand into details: ad copy, indicating the Swiss watch’s inner workings and fine details. I click my way through the glowing holographic display using my finger, and then I look at …

Finally, Pebble watches can be regular fitness trackers. And older Pebbles can get some of the benefits of newer ones. Pebble’s smartwatches have always traded off having more advanced features in exchange for longer battery life and an always-on screen. One feature that never really made the cut was fitness tracking: Pebbles track activity in the background and work with …

Another week, another Star Wars-branded thing. But this one’s pretty fun: little foldable Google Cardboard VR viewers with character art, and they don’t cost a dime…if you’re a Verizon customer in the US, and can find one in a Verizon store. The price of virtual reality has basically hit free. The New York Times gave away pairs of Google Cardboard …

If you’re like me, you woke up this morning to find 800-plus Kindle books being offered up in a massive one-day sale and thought, “wow, what a numbing amount of books.” It is, and Amazon’s bounty isn’t clearly broken down by quality or genre. A lot of the books are older classics, and many have been trotted out in previous …

Now playing: Watch this: Which iPad should you buy? 2:56 The iPad comes in so many varieties now. Do you even need to buy one? The short answer is: no, of course you do not. If you have a laptop, a large phone, or even an iPad that’s several years old, a new iPad is hardly a must-have device. Likewise, …

VR viewers for phones can be fun, and cheap. But they’re usually not convenient. It’s what makes this particular VR phone accessory pretty clever: it’s made to snap into shape on the fly. Figment VR, launching today on Kickstarter, is a clever spring-loaded iPhone 6/6S or 6 Plus/6S Plus case that transforms into a stereoscopic viewer for your phone’s VR …