Blog Layout

CES shows new LCD sound system: Debussy touchscreen headphones

It’s not about what bands you listen to. It’s all about the headphones you listen on.  After all, if you’re paying $5,000 for 4G-connected headphones with gold plating and an LCD touchscreen, you’d better be damned sure someone sees you while you’re listening to those sweet, sweet tunes.  French startup Debussy is keen to make your listening device (whether it’s …

Read More »

Watch Nvidia’s CES 2018 press conference Sunday at 8 p.m. PT

Continuing what has become a CES tradition, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang kicks off the week of the show with a Sunday night press conference. While the company once held gaming enthusiasts spell-bound with its graphics card announcements, in recent years it has pivoted largely to automotive, tackling the intense computational challenge presented by self-driving cars. At last year’s conference, Huang …

Read More »

Ricoh Ri 100 puts a T

These days it’s pretty easy to get a one-off T-shirt printed by a service, but what do you do if you want to print, say, T-shirts for people with pictures of their  pets on them or customized with their names? Those can get a bit tedious, and you’re generally limited to the T-shirt choices a particular printer has. Or what …

Read More »

Intel and AMD ally to shrink your next gaming laptop. A lot.

In fall 2017, chipmaking rivals Intel and AMD made a splash when they announced a low(er)-power processor combining Intel’s eighth-generation series of Core i H-series CPUs with AMD Radeon RX Vega M discrete graphics. They didn’t offer much in the way of details at the time, and at CES 2018 Intel followed up with specifics and more. The new “G” …

Read More »

Orbi Prime debuts 360

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 …

Read More »