While they had some small drawbacks, Jabra’s first and second generation Elite Sport earphones were among the better early totally wireless headphones on the market. Now Jabra’s stepped things up with its third-generation models: The Elite 65t ($170, which roughly converts to £125 or AU$215) and water-resistant Elite Active 65t ($190, roughly £140 or AU$240). …
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While pretty much every TV maker is working with Amazon or Google (or both) to add voice capabilities, Samsung is sticking it out alone with Bixby. Samsung’s digital assistant, already available on its phones, will appear on its 2018 TVs too. The company promised as much earlier in the month, but confirmed new details on Sunday at its CES TV …
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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 ($700) sizes in the series. …
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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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