Google is making it easier to continue your old searches by adding activity cards When you do a repeat search on mobile, the new feature will show links to pages you’ve visited previously and searches you’ve already made. Google The links show up under the “Your related activity” dropdown menu at the top of your …
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You never realize just how fragile your everyday smartphone is until you hold a rugged phone in your hand. The folks at Verizon clearly agree — soon, the rough ‘n’ ready Cat S48c phone will join Big Red. Rugged phones are built to survive drops, extreme temperature, sand, humidity, dust and vibration in intensities that could crack, shock or otherwise …
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Every time I pick up a new smartphone, tablet or gadget, I suddenly develop a mild case of sadism. “I bet I could snap this thing in half,” I think to myself. I never do, but that overwhelming urge to bend expensive technology in on itself never goes away. At CES 2019, I finally encountered a gadget that could bend …
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The first time I opened my Lyft app to summon a ride here at Las Vegas for CES 2019, I nearly screamed. Instead of seeing the usual map interface, a message popped up offering me a chance to ride around Las Vegas in an autonomous car. HELL, YEAH! I couldn’t opt-in fast enough, imagining myself pulling up to events in …
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The memories you have before the age of three are inaccessible. Any special moments with your parents are lost in our minds. At CES, the French company Babeyes, pronounced babe-eyes, launched a tiny camera to record those moments so that your baby can see them when they’re an adult. The Babeyes camera records videos from a baby’s point-of-view. It’s about …
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In recent years, there have been any number of pet cameras that allow you to see what your dog is doing while you’re away from home. Some are just cameras, other have speakers so that you can talk to your furry friend and, more recently, several can give your dog or cat a treat. But at CES, the French company …
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Every major PC maker has a division that makes PC gaming desktops and laptops, from Dell’s Alienware brand to HP’s Omen line. But at an event like CES 2019, it’s a bad idea to sleep on the smaller boutique PC makers who often bring new and interesting prototypes to the show. Origin PC’s sweet sixteen Origin PC has been building …
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Phones don’t typically get a lot of love at CES, but Samsung managed to steal the spotlight by using the show to announce the launch date for its 10th anniversary Galaxy phone, widely expected to be called the Galaxy S10. The event will take place Wednesday, Feb. 20 at 11 a.m. PT at the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium in San …
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If you can’t take the heat, get out of the clamshell. That was part of the motivation behind Asus dramatically reimagining the design for its luggable 17-inch gaming laptop it revealed at CES 2019. The ROG Mothership (GZ700), in order to pack in the new Nvidia GeForce RTX 2080 GPU, an overclocked Intel Core i9-8950HK and more. The Mothership takes …
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Helite, the French company behind protective motorcycle and ski jackets with built-in airbags, now has a protective vest for cyclists that uses the same technology. Helite B’Safe is a smart airbag vest that protects bike riders in case of accident. Helite first came to our attention at last year’s CES when it shared the Hip’Air (now the Hip’Safe), a pair of …
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