Westinghouse wants its TVs in your house, and thinks Google’s Android TV — and budget pricing — will help it get there. The company’s new series of TVs with the Android TV operating system consists of four sizes, starting with a 43-incher for $350 in the US. There are also 50-inch ($400), 55-inch ($450) and 65-inch …
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A few years ago, engineers came up with an incredible, amazing idea. What if we could piggyback internet connectivity on the lights that fill our homes, offices and cities? Imagine it: anywhere the light touches, you could have internet. No more looking for finicky airport Wi-Fi. No more internet passwords. Best of all? You’d never have to worry about your …
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In fall 2017, chipmaking rivals Intel and AMD made a splash when they announced a low(er)-power processor combining Intel’s eighth-generation series of Core i H-series CPUs with AMD Radeon RX Vega M discrete graphics. They didn’t offer much in the way of details at the time, and at CES 2018 Intel followed up with specifics and more. The new “G” …
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Maybe the next wave of AR toys will avoid your face entirely. Merge’s 6DoF Blaster looks like a Laser Tag gun and uses a phone. And that’s basically what it is: Laser Tag, for AR. And it might be one of my favorite things at CES. Seriously. Now playing: Watch this: Merge’s toy AR gun turns the iPhone X into …
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Samsung still doesn’t make TVs that use OLED display technology, but at CES 2018 its best LCD TVs are trying harder than ever to topple OLED’s image quality dominance. Samsung’s 2018 flagship LCD, which at this point remains unnamed, follows in the footsteps of its 2017 predecessors by augmenting the liquid crystals with quantum dots — hence the “Q” in …
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FOMO is real. Luckily, you can kick your fear of missing out of Huawei’s affordable, classy-looking Honor phones — because they’re both coming to the US. At the annual CES show in Las Vegas, the company announced that the Honor 7X will sell for $199 (roughly converting to £150 and AU$255), to be followed later in 2018 by the Honor …
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It’s not about what bands you listen to. It’s all about the headphones you listen on. After all, if you’re paying $5,000 for 4G-connected headphones with gold plating and an LCD touchscreen, you’d better be damned sure someone sees you while you’re listening to those sweet, sweet tunes. French startup Debussy is keen to make your listening device (whether it’s …
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What if I told you that useful information that could help protect you from skin cancer is only a raindrop-sized button away? That’s what L’Oreal debuted at CES 2018 with their UV Sense device. The company developed the first battery-free wearable that measures UV exposure. At only 2mm thick and 9mm in diameter, the tiny electronic sensor can be worn …
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DJI already owns the camera drone market by offering better tech than its competitors at aggressive prices. It’s now taking the same path with its camera stabilizers. The Osmo Mobile 2 handheld stabilizer brings the same smooth and steady videos DJI’s drones are known for to your phone’s camera. You get autotracking capabilities, programmed shots, direct camera controls and more …
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These days it’s pretty easy to get a one-off T-shirt printed by a service, but what do you do if you want to print, say, T-shirts for people with pictures of their pets on them or customized with their names? Those can get a bit tedious, and you’re generally limited to the T-shirt choices a particular printer has. Or what …
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