How do you interact with a pair of augmented-reality smartglasses? Maybe with your hands or a controller or a touchpad? Rokid, a Chinese company that’s developed voice assistant-based products, believes the answer is voice. Last year, Rokid unveiled a little Amazon Echo-alike called the Rokid Pebble at CES, which used an AI called Melody to attempt …
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Panasonic wants to be everywhere. Marking the company’s 100th anniversary, Panasonic at CES 2018 ran through a wide range of areas in tech where it wants to make inroads, including highways, cities, cars and of course, your living room. “We can take pride in our ability to help consumers with their needs of today and tomorrow,” said Panasonic Canada President Michael Moskowitz …
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iHeartRadio has gone to bot. The streaming music service unleashed a slew of product integrations announcements at CES Monday. Listeners will be able to access iHeartRadio through its first bot, a helper on Facebook Messenger; and Garmin’s GPS running watch Forerunner 645 Music. iHeartRadio, the digital arm of traditional radio giant iHeartMedia, has been extending itself deeper into technologies after …
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Foreo, the makers of the beloved and popular Luna face brush, is looking to revolutionize the face mask industry. Today the company announced the Foreo UFO, the “first smart mask treatment.” The device offers 90-second facial treatments that combine LED light therapy, thermo-therapy and T-Sonic pulsations. It’s used in conjunction with specific UFO-Activated smart mask treatments. At the time of …
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Ultra HD 4K Blu-ray has been around for over two years now and, as is customary with maturing technologies, the size of the devices drops alongside the price. Sony has long been the master of miniaturization, and it’s applied its shrink-ray technology to the UBP-X700, its latest 4K Blu-ray player. The X700’s biggest claim to fame? It now supports Dolby …
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Hip injuries can be deadly, and it takes nothing more than a simple fall to get one. But at a tiny booth at CES in a Mandalay Bay Hotel ballroom, a woman wearing fluorescent airbags around her waist had the answer: the Hip’Air. The Hip’Air deployed. Helite She was from a French company called Helite that specializes in wearable airbags …
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Monster’s iSport line is one of its most popular headphone lines and the company has announced a few new additions to it: The wireless iSport Victory X ($150, which is about £110 or AU£190), totally wireless AirLinks iSport ($200, roughly £150 or AU$250) and the updated iSport Victory 2 ($100). All three now offer MonsterTalk, a voice control feature powered by …
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This is a $200 laptop. The HP Stream, to be exact. And take our word for it — this computer’s lowly Intel Celeron processor couldn’t possibly play most modern video games. There’s no discrete graphics chip, and barely enough storage (generally 32GB) to install a single title. But watch this: Gaming on a $200 laptop? That’s the power of game …
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Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: A Chinese phone maker riding a bit of buzz wants to make a splash in the US market. There are the ceaseless rumors that Xiaomi, once the most valuable startup in the world, will eventually come here. Alcatel, Huawei and ZTE have spent years trying to break into the market in a …
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Sony’s Extra Bass portable Bluetooth speaker line up is getting three new additions this spring: The SRS-XB41 ($250), SRS- XB31 ($150) and SRS-XB21 ($100). There’s no word yet on international pricing, but $250 converts to about £185 or AU$320. The company is billing these as mini party speakers, as all of them also incorporate LED lighting effects. “We are excited …
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