A French startup, called Energysquare, has created a new type of technology that can wireless charge almost any device. This includes devices that don’t have wireless charging capabilities built-in, such as Apple‘s iPhone and iPad. The company launched a successful Kickstarter campaign last May and is promising to ship the product in the coming months …
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No one wants to be a crazy cat lady. But if you love your cat, you’re probably feeding it into an early grave. And it’s about damn time that something got that box of kibble out of your hands and took control of the situation. The Catspad could be here to help. Debuting at CES 2017 to time in with …
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Mio wants you to stop worrying so much about hitting 10,000 steps. The metric that was made famous by Fitbit may soon be a thing of the past following the release of the Mio Slice on Tuesday. It’s available now for $129 — that’s about £105 or AU$179. Rather than relying on the number of steps you take, the Slice, …
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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. Ten movies for 10 bucks. Yes, please! iTunes Happy 2017, everyone! I’m back from an incredible trip, but only for a couple days …
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One of the world’s largest stages for new gadgets and devices will be in the spotlight this week — so you would expect to see a flood of innovative and high-powered phones there, right? Wrong. Phones are still coming to CES 2017, but not a laundry list of outstanding smartphones. Instead we’re expecting: Midrange devices rather than top-shelf products Phones …
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In a few years, you’ll wear a smartwatch measuring your heart rate, a belt buckle tracking your eating habits and glasses displaying the news while recording what you do in your self-driving car. But what’s Silicon Valley got in mind for your kids? A four-day exhibition called the Baby Tech Summit, held during the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas …
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Virtual reality? Augmented reality? Asus is working with Google to release a phone that does both, and it’s being built with Qualcomm’s chips. A leaked announcement via Qualcomm in advance of Asus’ January 4 CES press conference revealed the Asus Zenfone AR, a phone that merges Google’s Daydream View VR platform and its Tango depth-sensing cameras. A likely photo of …
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Las Vegas is the city of splashy, neon-lit promises. When the hype circus known as the CES trade show arrives in early January, well, things get even crazier. This is, after all, the show that last year brought you Samsung’s super-fridge. So there’s no better place to talk about 5G, which is simultaneously the one of the most overhyped technologies …
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Samsung has been lying low this holiday season. And for good reason. You’d want to keep your head down, too, if the year ended as poorly for you as it did for Samsung. The Galaxy Note 7, one of its most high-profile phones, blew up in its face, suffering multiple recalls and bans by airlines before only now flickering out …
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For a week in early January, televisions run Vegas. Sure there’s other stuff announced at the massive Consumer Electronics Show there: audio/video gear, phones, tablets, computers, streaming media devices, car tech, drones, action cameras, wearables, appliances and a whole pavilion worth of accessories. But TVs always seem to draw a big chunk of the buzz, and dominate the booths of …
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