There’s a flood of wearable tech arriving early 2014, and it feels unavoidable. Look around and spit, and there’s a product in the works. Samsung, Sony, LG, Huawei, Pebble, Garmin. They’re all coming sooner or later, be it by wrist or glass. January, February, March, April: most of the wearable gear we’ve seen at CES …

It’s way too early to get excited about a product that was just announced — and that I’ve barely had much time to play with. But Samsung’s latest wearable, the Gear Fit, marks a territory that has been emerging since CES in January: half fitness band, half smartwatch, the little, curved-screen device looks like it’s trying to be both a …

Now playing: Watch this: Fly, shoot, and drive: the best robots and RC vehicles… 2:52 Toy Fair has a lot of remote-controlled things. Robots, RC vehicles…and odder stuff. I drove a few, was shot by a few, and ducked while nearly being hit by a few. While there are admittedly more than I could ever take in during my one …

File this under “wearables that don’t look like activity bands or men’s watches.” What if your golden bangle or pendant could get a buzz when someone needed you? Cuff founder Deepa Sood, former VP of product development at Restoration Hardware, created her company to develop a line of jewelry and accessories that would work interchangeably with a pop-out Bluetooth device. …

iWatch concepts: will it look like, or do, all of these? Todd Hamilton When Apple releases its iWatch — or whatever it’s called — it seems like a pretty safe bet that it’ll be heavily focused on health and fitness. That’s what recent reports suggest, and that’s what Tim Cook wearing a Nike+ FuelBand wherever he goes would portend. But …

Seth Rosenblatt/CNET The latest design iteration of Google Glass is here. Unlike the weird headband-visor-with-a-monocle design of the original, there are now prescription versions of Google Glass: real glasses, on top of which are Glass. I’m a glasses-wearer. I struggled with Glass on my glasses, and eventually even got temporary contacts. And I remember that, a year ago at Google …

Wearable tech has a single large challenge: it’s wearable. Many people don’t want to wear their gadgets, and if they do, they want that thing to be perfect, stylish, useful, and non-annoying. Most wearable tech right now fails at being any of that. And so, welcome to 2014. Can any gadget emerge that hopes to be that thing, that perfect …

In case you haven’t already figured it out, there are a lot of good free games on the iPad. In fact, free-to-play might be the future of mobile gaming, period. Look to Candy Crush Saga and Plants vs. Zombies 2 if you need any convincing. See for yourself in the slideshow below, and click through for our picks. Board games, …

2014 may just be the year of virtual goggles. We already know about Oculus Rift, but Avegant, makers of the intriguing virtual retinal display technology demoed earlier this year, have unveiled Glyph, its own set of consumer goggles, which will be available to order on Kickstarter on January 22. But these goggles won’t ship until “later in the year,” and …

Editors’ note: Updated December 16, 2013, with three new accessories. Must-have iPad accessories +15 more See all photos The iPad, while being astonishingly versatile, can’t do everything. That’s where peripherals come in. Maybe you want to connect a camera, stream audio or video to a TV or stereo, or write with a real keyboard. Or maybe you’re just looking for …