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Using the world’s first phone with a fingerprint scanner built into the display was as awesome as I hoped it would be. There’s no home button breaking up your screen space, and no fumbling for a reader on the phone’s back. I simply pressed my index finger on the phone screen in the place where …

Wonder Woman is coming to the US — not to fight for justice, but to sell phones. Samsung competitor Huawei has just named “Wonder Woman” actress Gal Gadot its official brand ambassador in the US, in the hopes that Gadot’s popularity and backing will put the world’s third-largest phonemaker on the national stage for the first time in years. For …

Like a lot of us here at CES this week, my diet of fried finger food and coffee leaves a lot to be desired. Doing laps on the convention center floor and chasing stories up and down the Las Vegas Strip certainly helps — but if I wanted to crank that exercise regimen up to the max, I might consider …

This would have been the perfect speaker for Kevin McCallister in “Home Alone.” The Kevin (yes, the name is an excellent ’90s throwback) is a clever little speaker designed to ward off burglars and nosey neighbours. It simulates the lights and noise of someone being at home — whether that’s the flickering blue light and noise of an action movie playing …

You’ve probably never heard of Oska Wellness, but it’s a startup that makes the Oska Pulse ($399), a Pulsed Electromagnetic Field (PEMF) device that’s designed to help alleviate chronic muscle pain by increasing blood flow to impacted areas of your body. Now the device is getting an app, Oska Pulse Active, that tracks your pain relief progress. The app will also …

While competitors have offered Alexa voice assistants with their own proprietary microphones, Polk has announced the first sound bar at CES 2018 with what is essentially an Echo Dot built into it: the Command Bar.  The Command Bar integrates Amazon’s own far-field microphones and controls into the speaker and you can use either to control your smart home as a fully-fledged …

Sony is no stranger to expensive ultra-short-throw projectors, but its latest example, the LSPX-A1, strives to be different. It’s designed to look like a stylish credenza or side table. The top is artificial marble, the frame is finished in half-mirror aluminum and there’s a wooden shelf below. Turned off, it would blend into a modernist living room seamlessly. Now playing: …

Google did us no favors when it announced Google Clips last year, reviving a not-much-loved product category that had pretty much died with the Narrative Clip. Following in Google’s footsteps comes the $199 Roader Time Machine Camera which made its debut at CES 2018. The Time Machine Camera is less creepy, for sure. It constantly buffers video, and when you …

I tried the original AirSelfie drone, a tiny flying camera that attaches to your phone case, and it wasn’t as bad as I thought it would be. But it still had some issues, including so-so image quality and poor battery life. Now we get the AirSelfie2, announced here at CES 2018, which should be significantly better. It has an upgraded …

Alcatel is a phonemaker that often slides under the radar, but the company has made some pretty great value handsets in the past, so we like to keep an eye on what it’s planning. Ushered into a sun-lit luxury suite at CES 2018, Alcatel didn’t share many details about its upcoming crop of new phones for the year. Rather, it …