Last year, the HU80K projector made a splash at CES for its small, tote-it-anywhere design. This year, LG plans to show its new sibling, the Cinebeam Laser 4K HU85L, which adds voice control via the remote and the company’s ThinQ platform. It packs the same compact projector into a more typical, handle-free design — LG …
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Smartwatches check heart rate, but they don’t do blood-pressure readings. This is why Omron’s blood pressure-taking watch HeartGuide got our attention at CES nearly a year ago. The HeartGuide uses an actual inflating wrist-cuff to take readings via oscillometry, the same way standard blood-pressure cuffs work, and can take period measurements throughout the day and night. The watch finally received FDA clearance …
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Samsung’s artsy lifestyle TVs, The Frame and Serif, sure are pretty, but they’ve not been as impressive when it comes to picture quality as the company’s “real” TVs, especially given their high prices. In 2019, you’ll be able to get a lot more for your money. Samsung’s updating The Frame and Serif with its QLED technology, which delivers better color …
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It seems like 2019 will be the year displays break the mold: Not only will our phones start to fold, reports indicate that LG’s amazing rollable TV will also ship next year. According to Bloomberg, the company is expected to start selling the TV in 2019. While the technology is a rollable OLED, you probably don’t want to roll it …
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Lenovo has updated its wallet-friendly ThinkPad L series with the latest versions of Intel’s eighth-gen Core processor. The ThinkPad L390, with its traditional clamshell design, starts at $659 (£522, AU$915), and the two-in-one version, the L390 Yoga, starts at $889 (£705 or AU$1,235). Apart from the new Whiskey Lake chips, the ThinkPad L390 and L390 Yoga are pretty similar to their …
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There are tons of products and companies vying for our attention during the chaos and bustle of the CES, the annual consumer electronics trade show held every January in Las Vegas. But whether or not those products actually hit store shelves by the end of the year — or any year — is a different question altogether. Some “concept products” …
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With its updated Notebook 9 Pen two-in-one laptop, Samsung is targeting creative professionals who want the flexibility of both a laptop and a pen-enabled tablet without needing separate devices or paying extra for a pen. Like with the 2018 model, Samsung will include one of its S Pens, an active pen that can be used to write and draw on …
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LG’s claim to fame with its Gram laptop line is light weight and long battery life — two of the most important priorities on many laptop-shoppers’ lists. At CES 2019, the company will add two notebooks in the line to carry on that tradition: the 17-inch LG Gram 17 (model 17Z990-R.AAS8U1); and the 14-inch LG Gram 2-in-1 (model 14T990-U.AAS8U1). The 2-in-1 will cost …
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Huawei, the second-largest smartphone maker and one of the biggest telecommunications equipment suppliers in the world, had a rough start to the year. A widely expected deal to be announced at CES that AT&T would carry the Huawei Mate 10 Pro never materialized. Then reports surfaced that Verizon Wireless had also pulled out of a deal. In March, CNET reported …
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Samsung last Wednesday offered the first glimpse of its upcoming foldable phone, saying it’ll be mass produced “in the coming months.” Justin Denison, Samsung senior vice president of mobile marketing, showed off the phone, which is a tablet when it’s fully opened and then a phone when it’s closed. It uses a new display technology called Infinity Flex Display that …
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