Crowdsourcing campaigns on Indiegogo and Kickstarter continue to give birth to new tech products, like the Nextbit Robin phone and this motorized suitcase you can ride like a scooter. Joining them soon is a Windows 10 2-in-1 tablet-laptop hybrid dubbed the Eve V. Launching on Indiegogo November 21, the LTE-optional hybrid uses an Intel processor …
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South Korea has brought us Samsung, the world’s biggest phone maker. Now, the country’s government is investing big bucks so that the world’s biggest robotics maker hails from South Korea, too. The country will invest $450 million, or 500 billion won, to cultivate a strong robotics industry, Yonhap News reports. Vacuum robots are the most widely used type of robot …
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CNET’s Cheapskate scours the Web for great deals on PCs, phones, gadgets and much more. Questions about the Cheapskate blog? Find the answers on our FAQ page. And find more great buys on the CNET Deals page. Now playing: Watch this: The crowd-pleasing Coolest is the Swiss Army knife of… 2:02 For a couple of years I wrote a series …
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It’s been a few weeks since the iPhone 7 and 7 Plus went on sale, which means some owners are already sick of carrying around the headphone adapter. And unless you’ve picked up a pair of Lightning headphones for yourself, you’re probably either hating the dongle life right now or rigging some other ways to output audio from the smartphone. …
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Kano has a different philosophy about computers. “Most of them are sealed up by these polished panes of glass, and people want to know how they work inside,” says founder Alex Klein. So in 2013, the startup turned the inexpensive Raspberry Pi into an award-winning kid-friendly computer by adding a simple picture-book instruction manual and Lego-like blocks of code so …
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Why would you want a board game inspired by a fitness app? There are some advantages to pretend-running: You can play in a group, you’re not dependent on weather or time of day, and you can still feel like you’re preserving human civilization against zombies even after you blow out your knee and can’t run for six months. [cries] The …
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Tired of the barrage of advertisements that greet you everywhere you go? Imagine an alternate reality where all ads have been replaced by photos of adorable cats. You’ve just entered the Clapham Common tube station in South London. For the next two weeks, pictures of cats with big round eyes will stare out at you from the spot where ads …
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Your desk is your sanctuary at work. It’s where you sit (or stand) and while away your employment hours. Maybe you’re really good at holding still. Or maybe you’re the kind who taps your toes, flips pencils and bends paperclips. If that sounds like you, you might already be a backer of the Fidget Cube from Antsy Labs on Kickstarter. …
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Now playing: Watch this: Up close with Apple’s wireless AirPods 1:17 When Apple launched the iPhone 7 and 7 Plus, a lot people were expecting it to announce new wireless headphones from Beats, which it acquired last year, and a wireless version of its EarPods that rumor had it would be called AirPods. The new Beats did indeed materialize in …
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If you shoot a lot of video with your phone, you may have considered picking up a motorized gimbal. It’s a battery-operated handgrip that typically uses three motors to counteract shake and sudden movement to make your movies look smooth even while you’re running. There are several out there to pick from, but the MarSoar, currently a crowdfunding project on …
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