Cameras have become one of the most important features on our phones. In phones’ early days, cameras were an afterthought — the original iPhone didn’t even record video. But now phone cameras can record 4K video, slow-mo and shoot beautiful portrait photos with artistically blurred backgrounds (bokeh). Phone makers have largely improved phone photography in …
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Nvidia just announced a chip that crams $10,000 worth of power into a tiny box. But it’s not for your laptop. The chip, Jetson Xavier, is for robots. “This little computer is going to be the brain of future robots,” company co-founder and CEO Jensen Huang announced at Nvidia’s Monday press conference at Computex in Taiwan. “Robots that drive, that …
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Each year in June, just about every head in the tech world starts dutifully craning toward California to see what genius Apple will come up with next at WWDC. But this June, there’s a whole other world of tech happening outside the US. Forget WWDC, forget E3, forget Silicon Valley — if you want to see how the rest of …
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Optus wants to show you what the 5G future looks like, and it’s all robots, VR and watching sports matches streamed in 8K to the back of your car. The telco opened a 5G showcase on the Gold Coast on Thursday, showing the public what the new mobile technology will offer when it starts rolling out next year. It’s also …
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Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that’s taken over our lives. Enlarge Image In Samsung’s ad, the robots are desperate to please. Samsung/YouTube screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNET Can humans and robots happily co-exist? Ultimately, I suspect not. The robots will be too clever, humans will be too insulted and the robots will rid themselves of our …
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When wandering around with a VR headset on, I’m afraid of going too far without someone to spot me. The reason is simple: I can’t really see where I’m going. Odds of tripping over a chair or a table are extremely high. One company seems to have tried to solve that problem, and I tried out the result deep in …
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You can stick Amazon’s Alexa into all sorts of things: speakers, cars, phones, watches, robots and even refrigerators. Add smartglasses to that list. Vuzix, makers of various smartglasses and Google Glass-like head wearables for years, are now making smart eyewear compatible with Amazon’s Alexa. Bloomberg broke the news ahead of CES, but I got to wear the glasses in Las Vegas. Smartglasses, …
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When people look back at CES 2018 in five or 10 years, it’ll be the heavy rain, flash flooding and power cuts that’ll stand out more than the tech on display. While 1.33 inches (3.38 cm) of rain may not sound like a lot, it was a record for the desert city of Las Vegas: The first precipitation in 116 …
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Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that’s taken over our lives. Is it hard to achieve a silent consensus via gadgets? Tetra Images The other day, I was on a Skype call with a hard-headed (and hard-nosed) techie. We could see each other. I could hear him. He couldn’t hear me. We fiddled and we fiddled. …
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From far away the Litter Robot Open Air III looks like the pod from “2001: A Space Odyssey”. But as you get closer to it, you realize it’s full of cat litter. And here’s the cool part: The Litter Robot cleans up your cat’s doo-doo so you don’t have to. Without conducting an official poll, it can be said that …
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