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Most wearable fitness trackers give you the option to choose your own headphones to listen to while you exercise, but the new Vi headphones from LifeBeam actually bundles a pair of proprietary “biosensing” headphones along with an artificial intelligence app to put a personal fitness coach right in your ear. Vi is outfitted with eleven …

Pet tech is one of the emerging trends in the gadget world. Plenty of those “security” cameras are used for checking in on cats and dogs, and newer models like Furbo even let you say hello and dispense treats. But while it’s good to know that your dog is safe and sound, there’s often a tinge of guilt: I’m sorry …

If you purchased a pair of home audio speakers in the past ten years, there’s a good chance you’ve auditioned Fluance as an option, but the company is venturing into new territory today with the official release of two belt-drive turntables that both feature a built-in preamplifier. The company launched a Kickstarter page back in March to fund the project …

Now playing: Watch this: Pebble unveils two new smartwatches and a wearable not… 2:43 Editors’ note, December 7, 2016: Pebble has announced that its assets have been acquired by Fitbit and it will no longer release new products. While the Pebble 2 and other Pebble watches will continue to work, no new software updates or features will be released. Pebble …

Now playing: Watch this: The Cowa Robot is a smart suitcase that follows you 1:06 It doesn’t have multiple tiny feet or lots of big square teeth, nor is it made out of sapient pearwood, but Shanghai-based Cowa’s walking suitcase has already got lazy me falling in love with it. And you would too, once you realised you would almost …

It’s not a mystery that most people use their smartphones as their primary camera, if not only camera. So it makes sense that you’d want the experience of using your phone’s camera to be a bit more, well, camera-like. There have been attempts including cases and slide-on grips and LG recently stepped up with an add-on grip for the G5 …

Despite announcing the company would close tomorrow, music subscription service Drip has been saved at the eleventh hour by crowdfunding platform Kickstarter. Drip announced in February that after five years it was due to close its doors on March 18. However, Kickstarter announced today on its blog that Drip cofounder Miguel Senquiz would continue operations as part of Kickstarter. Unusually …

It’s a simple Spanish word that means “hands,” but to those who grew up with “Mystery Science Theater 3000,” the word “manos” means something else. “Manos: The Hands of Fate,” made in 1966 by a Texas fertilizer salesman, is a legendarily awful movie about a vacationing family that stumbles upon the creepy Valley Lodge and ends up falling into a …

Nextbit’s Robin is ready to leave the nest. There aren’t many in the flock. The San Francisco startup, which captivated Kickstarter last year by promising a phone that taps the cloud for massive amounts of storage, will open its online store in the coming days. Enlarge Image The Robin phone promises 100GB of cloud storage. CNET Chief Design Officer Scott …

Every Pebble Time smartwatch has a hidden feature — you can get more functionality by connecting it to a “smart strap.” Just imagine extending the battery life of your Pebble with a battery-packed watch strap or using an NFC (near-field communication) chip to pay for groceries with a wave of your wrist. Enlarge Image Fit Pay If a company called …