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 …
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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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Continuing what has become a CES tradition, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang kicks off the week of the show with a Sunday night press conference. While the company once held gaming enthusiasts spell-bound with its graphics card announcements, in recent years it has pivoted largely to automotive, tackling the intense computational challenge presented by self-driving cars. At last year’s conference, Huang …
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What started as a spin-off project from Samsung’s experimental C-Lab arm is now a fully fledged, fully funded product that makes you look like a secret agent when you answer your phone. The smart strap Korea-based Innomdle Lab connects to your phone via Bluetooth and allows you to listen to phone calls conducted through the tip of your finger into …
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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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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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If you have one of the many Android Wear watches compatible with Android Wear 2.0 (full list in link), you’re in for a treat. With Android Wear 2.0, and the more recent Android Wear update bringing the platform in sync with Android Oreo, Google redesigned the interface and added new features that are aimed directly at competing with the Apple Watch, and …
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Hey, Bixby. How do you work on my refrigerator and TV? Next week, we’ll likely find out. Samsung will talk up its newest products when it hosts a CES press conference at 2 p.m. PT on Monday at the Mandalay Bay hotel in Las Vegas. You can expect a parade of televisions, home appliances and other electronics, though it’s likely …
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The lobbying group representing Amazon, Facebook, Google, Netflix, Twitter and several other big tech companies plans to join the legal fight to protect net neutrality. The Washington, DC-based Internet Association on Friday said it plans to “intervene” in lawsuits that are expected to be filed against the Federal Communications Commission challenging its repeal last month of the 2015 net neutrality regulations. …
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OLED, or Organic Light Emitting Diodes, are the best advancement in display tech since LCD itself. Their inky blacks lead to image quality that outpaces traditional LCD, and unlike LCD-based displays they don’t require a backlight, so they can be super-thin. The advantages of OLED show up screens both tiny and huge. Many of the the flagship smartphones currently use …
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