CNET’s Cheapskate scours the Web for great deals on PCs, phones, gadgets and much more. Questions about the Cheapskate blog? Find the answers on our FAQ page. And find more great buys on the CNET Deals page. Bravo, indeed! Three lucky winners will take home one of these. Two other lucky folks will take home …
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If you’re looking for holiday shopping ideas, there are some products you can get only one place — the Apple Store. No, we’re not talking about the iPhone. We’re talking about some other third-party products like the $40 Play-Doh Touch Shape to Life Studio, the $179 Roli Blocks for music creation, and the $130 Lifeprint photo printer that lets you …
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CNET’s Cheapskate scours the Web for great deals on PCs, phones, gadgets and much more. Questions about the Cheapskate blog? Find the answers on our FAQ page. And find more great buys on the CNET Deals page. Yesterday I shared an Android Wear-powered smartwatch. Today, let’s look at the Apple option. Specifically, the first-generation Apple Watch, which is now available …
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Smartwatches and fitness trackers — heck, all consumer electronics — have one major downside: battery life. They need to be charged. What if they didn’t, though? Conquering the challenges of batteries and the limits of power-efficient processing are things the electronics industry as a whole continues to struggle with. One company thinks it has found a small solution that could …
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Samsung’s Galaxy S8 could borrow from Apple’s playbook by introducing a pressure-sensitive technology, sometimes referred to as “force touch” or Apple’s term “3D Touch,” according to Korean news publication The Investor. “Samsung is [looking] to adopt the force touch technology partially from the S8 but the full adoption will come in one or two years,” anonymous sources told the site. …
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The optical heart-rate sensor on the Garmin Vivoactive HR. Sarah Tew/CNET Every few months we see studies about how fitness trackers aren’t accurate, or how they won’t help you lose weight. The latest comes from The Journal of the American Medical Association, or JAMA as it’s more commonly referred to. The peer-reviewed medical journal published a research letter questioning the …
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This is part of CNET’s “Tech Enabled” series about the role technology plays in helping the disability community. David Grissam was worried he’d have to quit his job. Grissam had steadily been losing his hearing, which was a serious problem for the 911 dispatcher based in Norman, Oklahoma. It had gotten to the point where normal hearing aids didn’t work …
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The Apple Watch does a lot of things, but it didn’t have a camera. Now it does, thanks to a new band. Are you ready to start taking wrist-snaps? Glide, makers of a video chat app for iPhone, just launched CMRA, a new Apple Watch band that has dual cameras built in. Much like Samsung’s long-departed Gear watches with cameras …
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You may have read reports claiming the smartwatch market is “tanking”, “crashing” or a number of other synonyms describing a decline. Numbers have been thrown around, and they’ve been interpreted like tea leaves: questionably. The numbers aren’t wrong, but don’t prepare for a smartwatch-free future just yet. Apple shipped a whopping 3.9 million Watches in Q3 2015 and accounted for …
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Tim Cook says everyone should have access to technology. CNET Apple cares so much about accessibility that CEO Tim Cook started the company’s new-product event Thursday with a video about it. “Technology should be accessible to everyone,” Cook said. Along with introducing a new line of MacBook Pros on Thursday, Apple also unveiled its new accessibility website that focuses more …
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