Sarah Tew/CNET The iPad is nearly 5 years old. That product, ever since, has continued to ride a thin dividing line between iPhones and Macs: mobile, and computers. Apple’s world has since become all about the iPhone. Look at the latest sales numbers, and they’re shockingly lopsided: iPhones now represent almost three-quarters of Apple’s revenue. …

Sarah Tew/CNET It happened. Something I didn’t want, or expect. I’m a big-phone guy. Phablets are a big trend. Have been for years. I’ve seen them, I’ve appreciated them, and I avoided them. Why? Because I liked a pocketable phone, that’s why. I liked having something that fit in one hand, was magically small, and yet versatile. The iPhone fit …

Sarah Tew/CNET Turn off your lights with your wrist, click. Turn up the thermostat, click. The Misfit Flash , an entry-level fitness tracker released last year that’s already a really good, cheap gadget, will get a lot more useful soon. Misfit announced it’ll soon work as a sort of smart-home-operating remote, too, via a set of partnerships detailed in a …

Now playing: Watch this: Now you can play Xbox games on Windows 10 PCs or tablets 1:10 The Xbox One has always been a big black box full of promise. Would it be more than a game console? With Microsoft’s Windows 10, it looks like the Xbox One’s big convergence moment is finally here. Microsoft wants your Xbox to be …

Screenshot by CNET “This is your world with holograms.” That’s how Microsoft’s Alex Kipman pitched the Microsoft HoloLens Wednesday during the company’s Windows 10 event: an event that ended up being about a lot more than PC operating systems. The HoloLens is a pair of goggles, but they create immersive, three-dimensional virtual worlds that blend with your own world. The …

A mock-up of the Avegant Glyph, arriving later this year. Richard Peterson/CNET Somewhere between VR headsets and smart glasses, there are “media goggles;” for lack of a better word, headsets that double as mobile displays. These types of things have been lurking around the dark corners of electronics-convention show floors for well over a decade, but thanks to the rise …

Google Glass has gone into hiding, but headsets aren’t going away. CES, this year, was full of them. Google Glass-alikes, augmented reality, virtual reality and plain old over-the-head movie-watching goggles were lurking throughout the show. Virtual reality, however, has become the eye-catching showstopper. Largely, thanks to Oculus. Its headsets were everywhere in Las Vegas: not just at its own massive …

Withings Activité Pop. Sarah Tew/CNET LAS VEGAS — “Hey, you’re not wearing anything smart on your wrist.” That’s what a Mophie spokesperson said to me, and I explained that wasn’t true: I had the Withings Activité on my wrist. It looks like a regular watch. It feels like a regular watch. And it’s smart-connected via Bluetooth underneath. The new, more …

Now playing: Watch this: Sony looks to steel to class up its smartwatch 0:51 LAS VEGAS — Just add steel. The Sony Smartwatch 3 debuted last fall, one of many smartwatches running Google’s Android Wear software. Our CNET review wasn’t that enthusiastic. Its plastic design and pop-out body, unfortunately, gave it a bit of a clunky look. But at Sony’s …

Now playing: Watch this: Talk to your watch with Martian Monarch 1:30 Regular watches getting smarter seems to be a mini-trend at this year’s CES: first the Withings Activité Pop , and now Martian’s updated lineup of watches. The Martian Notifier launched last year, and now there’s four new watches plus the special Guess Connect, a Guess-designed variant on Martian’s …