The Roku Streaming Stick is getting more support thanks to TV manufacturer Westinghouse, who today announced a new lineup of LED TVs that will come with the Roku Stick included. These new sets will be introduced at CES next week, and add more support to Roku's tiny, USB flash drive-esque...
A new 'Roku Ready' TV manufacturer
Google and Volvo aren't the only companies interested in autonomous, self-driving cars. Toyota is promising to show off the Lexus AASRV (Advanced Active Safety Research Vehicle) at the show. The car is part of a larger program, based in North...
Google gets some company
2012 was supposed to be a big year for Google TV, and while that didn't quite pan out, Google is planning to start 2013 on the right foot at CES. The search company has revealed that new Google TV products from Asus, Hisense, and TCL will be shown off at the convention. The most promising of those three is undoubtedly Asus, which was already rumored to launch its Qube Google TV set-top box at...
It's been a long time coming, but CES 2013 looks destined to be the biggest showcase yet for iOS speaker docks and other accessories that support Apple's Lightning connector. Take Harman for example, which today announced another two JBL speakers to complement those it introduced in November. The...
Gorilla Glass has found its way onto spec sheets of many devices over the years thanks to its promises of keeping your screens scratch- and crack-free, and now the third generation is upon us. Corning has announced that it will be showing off Gorilla Glass 3 at CES next week, and it's offered a...
The MSI Slider S20 was one of the more bizarre Windows 8 designs we saw back at Computex this past summer, and it wasn't clear whether it would ever make it to market. The predicted third-quarter release windows came and went, but now MSI claims it is ready to release the Slider S20 in Q1 of this year — though the company didn't offer any more specificity. We do know how much the Windows 8 slider will cost, however: $1,199.99 will get you an 11.6-inch, 1080p touch-sensitive display, an Intel Core i5 processor, 8GB of RAM, and a 128GB SSD. The 2.2-pound device also includes a 720p webcam, ethernet, and two USB 3.0 ports. MSI will be...
There's still no exact launch date for this oddity
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Pebble, the massively successful smartwatch Kickstarter project, will make an announcement at CES. The invitation, seen above, tells backers that "it's time" and invites them to watch a livestream of the event on Pebble's site at 12pm ET on...
"It's time." Pebble
With just over a week to go until the annual Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Samsung has started to tease its TV plans for 2013. In a somewhat vague post on the company's Samsung Tomorrow blog, an image appears to hint at a translucent...
"A true innovation of TV design is coming up with a unprecedented new TV shape and timeless design." Samsung
It's looking increasingly likely that Sony will unveil a new 1080p, 5-inch smartphone at CES 2013 to compete with the Galaxy Note II and Droid DNA. We saw some pictures of the rumored Sony Yuga a few weeks ago, but now Chinese site ePrice has...
Last month, Google announced that Android phones and tablets could push YouTube video straight to Google TV devices, letting the smartphone act as a remote — and now, the company is announcing a major expansion of that functionality. TVs from manufacturers like Bang & Olufsen, LG, Panasonic and...
When we first saw the 5-inch 1080p display on HTC’s J-Butterfly, the implication was clear — this would be the new high-spec standard, replacing 2012's ubiquitous 4.7-inch 720p screen. The latest company to throw its hat into the ring is ZTE, whose upcoming Grand S looks to one-up competing...
Arnold Goetzke has a simple idea. And if you pause long enough to talk to him, he'll tell you about it. The idea is this: an extension cord you can control from your phone. Simple as that. Maybe you're sitting in your chair and you want to impress...
A product like the mRobo Ultra Bass dancing audio player is pretty marginal by any standard, so it was somewhat odd to head over to Tosy’s booth at the 2012 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) only to find hundreds of people massed, mostly being...
This big blue beast was parked just outside The Verge trailer at CES 2012, and is part of the three-truck Doppler on Wheels mobile radar network operated by The Center for Severe Weather Research. Each truck has (obviously) a rear-mounted radar...
One of the many, many tablets announced at CES this year is available today, the Pantech Element. It's an 8-inch Android tablet running on AT&T's LTE network that normally wouldn't be anything to write home about — especially since it's only...
Last week at CES, RIM unveiled new features and functionality in PlayBook OS 2.0, which is due for a public release in February. Although much more polished than the initial release, we found that it still lacks certain features — including core...
CES 2012 was about televisions, computers, tablets and phones, the technology within and between, but many of the awesome things we saw actually plug into those devices, or connect to them wirelessly. Here are the headphones, speakers, docks,...
To say that Mad Catz brought a slew of fresh gaming peripherals to CES would be putting it lightly. In addition to its MLG Pro Circuit modular controller we told you about last week, the company also had a pair of headsets on display: the Cyborg...
We've covered a few waterproof phones in the past few weeks, but they've been single models that look like they'll see limited release. According to Pocket-lint, however, some major brands might be putting the technology in upcoming devices. HzO...
We haven't gotten to the bottom of this yet, but we thought you might like to know: apparently, the Ion Audio Guitar Apprentice we showed you at CES last week is embroiled in a patent infringement debate right now. FutureMusic reports that...
Conversations between newborn parents meeting serendipitously on the city sidewalk tend to splinter along two threads: mothers commiserating over the tribulations of day-to-day care; fathers quietly judging one another's stroller selection. R...
The Etymotic GunSport Pro GSP-1s are earplugs designed to let quiet sounds like human speech pass through, while suppressing loud sounds — specifically gunshots. They also have a switch that turns on "enhanced hearing," where the quietest sounds...
Whether you're a desktop, console, or mobile gamer, the halls of CES had something to offer. We saw new gaming mice, laptops, handhelds, a next-generation board game — and that's just scratching the surface. All of the news and our hands-on impressions are collected in the StoryStream below,...
Tablets may be seeing widespread adoption, but laptops aren't exactly on their way out. CES 2012 showed some nice machines from Samsung, HP, Dell, Lenovo, and even some beautiful debut entries from Vizio. Whether it's to find your next laptop or just for fun, you can peruse all of last week's...
AMD's Trinity-based laptop was the most impressive demo at the company's CES 2012 booth, but we couldn't pass up the chance to play Battlefield 3 across three nearly bezel-free screens on a pair of Radeon HD 7970s — especially when flanked by an additional pair of screens doing multipoint video...
Microsoft's Kinect for Windows wasn't the only gesture control system to tout "near mode" this CES. SoftKinetic offers an alternate solution with an eye towards OEMs, and this week it released a public alpha of new firmware for its DepthSense 311 that it claims will detect finger movement from as...
While we'd be hard pressed to recommend it as a primary phone, the SpareOne makes a compelling case as something to toss in your car's glovebox or keep in the house in case of an emergency. In fact, that's one of the main selling points of the Xpal-distributed GSM device, which is powered by just one AA battery that will give you up to 10 hours of talk time should you need it. As for looks, the candybar-style handset lacks an LCD of any sort. Instead we find a unique design that embraces its battery (constantly visible through a layer of plastic) yet comes off as fairly plasticky and cheap feeling — though we weren't expecting a metal...
At CES 2012, Sprint's David Owens has revealed that his company doesn't plan on releasing any further WiMAX smartphones. Sprint was the only major US carrier to fully invest itself into WiMAX as its 4G mobile broadband strategy, but it has...
TP-Link was showing off a couple of interesting new wireless routers at CES this week. The Wireless N Nano Router is the world’s smallest at 2.5 x 2.5 x 0.75 inches, it weighs practically nothing, and it draws power over Micro USB. Also, even...
The road warrior's best friends coming in Q2
Texas Instruments is conducting CES 2012 in its signature understated manner. Meetings with hardware partners and silicon innovation demoes are being held behind closed doors, with the company leaving communication with the end consumer to the device vendors. That's a shame, in our estimation,...
ePawn's seeking to shake up the tabletop gaming space, and we have to say, we're almost convinced it can: the startup's 26-inch Arena screen, which lies flat on a surface, sounds like the perfect tool for an aspiring Dungeon Master. The display uses a custom magnetic system to track the position,...
