FOMO is real. Luckily, you can kick your fear of missing out of Huawei’s affordable, classy-looking Honor phones — because they’re both coming to the US. At the annual CES show in Las Vegas, the company announced that the Honor 7X will sell for $199 (roughly converting to £150 and AU$255), to be followed later …
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7 January
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 …
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7 January
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 …
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7 January
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 …
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7 January
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” …
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7 January
CES 2018: Samsung’s slimline speaker offers a magnetic volume puck
Samsung has announced the stylish looking VL5, a speaker featuring a puck-like magnetic dial that appears to work in a similar way to the Microsoft Surface Dial to control volume. The puck will stick to any magnetic surface and control the volume via a slick dial. The volume control on display at the company’s First Look event in Las Vegas at CES …
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7 January
Pump and slump: Freemie is the breast pump for sleepy mothers
Until now, pumping breast milk has involved sitting in an easy chair, hooked up to a contraption of tubes and suction cups that looks more like a B-movie Sci-Fi prop than a way to feed your baby. Freemie wants to change that. From US health-tech company Dao Health, Freemie has been making storage cups for breast pumps for years. But …
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7 January
CES 2018: L’Oreal’s tiny wearable helps you protect your skin
What if I told you that useful information that could help protect you from skin cancer is only a raindrop-sized button away? That’s what L’Oreal debuted at CES 2018 with their UV Sense device. The company developed the first battery-free wearable that measures UV exposure. At only 2mm thick and 9mm in diameter, the tiny electronic sensor can be worn …
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7 January
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 …
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7 January
Samsung TVs tap Bixby for voice, SmartThings for home control
While pretty much every TV maker is working with Amazon or Google (or both) to add voice capabilities, Samsung is sticking it out alone with Bixby. Samsung’s digital assistant, already available on its phones, will appear on its 2018 TVs too. The company promised as much earlier in the month, but confirmed new details on Sunday at its CES TV …
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