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This Magical Tech Could Make Mobile Keyboards Suck Way Less

It’s pretty much a given that laptops are going to get thinner and thinner. Take Microsoft Surface for example. It’s got that tablet keyboard-cover that’s alllmost but not really usable. The problem with it is that is there’s no haptic feedback. The raised keys help a little, but without any movement, you just can’t get…

Liquid Image Ego LS Action Camera Has 4G for Instant Bragging Rights

Liquid Image has a new action cam coming out in June. It looks very not-unlike a GoPro. It shoots 1080p video at 30fps or 720p at 60fps. Nothing so outstanding there. What’s unique, though, is that it’ll attach to a 4G module. In other words you can instantly stream video from anywhere. That means your…

This Schwinn Mount Shouts Turn-By-Turn Directions From Your Handlebars

Looking at your phone to navigate is not conducive to operating a bike safely. So Schwinn is making CycleNav, a $60 app-operated handle mount tells you turn-by-turn directions. Enter a destination into the app. Each time, you’ll be given three routes—three safe routes that include bike lanes, parks, protected roads, and so forth. You can…

The Sphero 2B Is a Cute Little Robot Toy That Can Run Faster Than You

Here’s the closest thing we have to a real life Wall-E. Or at least, the wheels of Wall-E. The Sphero 2B is a new robot toy from Orbotix that can move as fast as 14 feet a second. That’s supposedly the equivalent of a 6 minute mile and twice as fast as the Sphero 2.0.…

Playing Video Games With Your Eyes: Not As Cool As You’d Hope. Yet.

Kinect might be the big name in full-body motion control, but it’s Tobii that’s got eyes on lock. And while their past (awesome) demos have been interface-centric, now they’re taking on games. It’s not perfect yet but man do I ever want this to be awesome. I just played some Deus Ex: Human Revolution with…

This Trewgrip Backwards Keyboard Gives You an Absurd New Way to Type

The Trewgrip mobile QWERTY keyboard for iOS and Android devices is absurd. It’s a handheld keyboard that puts the keys behind the board but arranges the letter in a weird way that somehow makes sense. So you hold the keyboard like you would a game pad and type by pressing keys on the back. It…

This Smart Crock Pot Makes Using a Slow Cooker Even Lazier

Slow cookers are great because you can throw in your ingredients in the morning and by the time you get home from work dinner is done. But stuff happens, and sometimes you forget about that pot roast simmering away, and next thing you know you burn your meal and your house down. Enter the WeMo…

Parrot’s New Drones Fly the Mini Skies and Bite Your Ankles

Parrot’s AR Drone 2.0 won a place in our hearts for flying high yet being easily controllable from our favorite iOS and Android devices. The company’s just taken that concept and then miniaturized it, with the Parrot MiniDrone and the Jumping Sumo. The MiniDrone is essentially a smaller version of the copter we know and…

Valve announced 12 partners to build third-party Steam Machines today, including Alienware and Origin PC, ahead of tomorrow’s press conference at CES 2014. [Engadget]

Dish App Puts a Hopper DVR Directly Into LG Smart TVs

The DISH hopper is probably the slickest DVR that’s ever been made. It’s so good that big TV corporations like CBS are suing DISH over it. Well now the Hopper is going to be even more convenient for owners of LG Smart TVs because the new Dish App builds a Hopper directly into the TV.…

Belkin’s WeMo Smart LED Bulbs Put the Light Switch On Your Phone

Belkin continues its pursuit of making home automation a simple plug-and-play affair with the introduction of its new Smart LED lightbulbs to its WeMo line. The 60-watt equivalent bulbs produce 800 lumens and cast a warm 3000 Kelvin glow across a room—so they should satisfy even those who’ve stocked up on incandescent bulbs ahead of…

Linksys Revives a Classic Design For Its Newest Wireless Router

Linksys’ WRT54G is considered to be the best selling wireless router of all time. And its iconic black and blue design has become synonymous with such hardware—just look at the image used on this generic wireless router Wikipedia page. So it makes sense that for itsnext generation router, the new Linksys WRT1900AC, the company would…

Seagate’s Got a Batch of Slim New Drives To Back Up Your Phone

Seagate has always offered up big drives that store your stuff reliably, and the newest round of external storage devices—Backup Plus Slim—will now back up content from your phone. The speedy drives are equipped with USB 3.0 for lightning fast file transfers using the new, second-gen version of the Seagate Dashboard software. Backup Plus Slim…

Pure Audio’s Flexible Wireless Music System Now Works With Any App

Pure Audio’s new wireless streaming music system was already the most flexible out there, but now the company’s opening up its platform even more. Rather than being bound to proprietary apps like the offerings from Sonos, Bose, and Samsung, Pure’s multiroom system now works with any app. Until now, Pure Audio’s multiroom wireless music system…

LaCie’s Silver-Plated Steel Sphère Houses 1TB of External Storage

If you prefer everything on your desk to be a stunning example of industrial design, LaCie’s new Sphère is an external hard drive you won’t want to hide behind your monitor. It looks like a giant drop of mercury thanks to its hand-crafted and highly-polished silver-plated steel housing, which helps explain why you’ll be paying…

Lenovo Just Made The X1 Carbon Even Cooler

The first Carbon X1 did the impossible by making business laptops cool. Now, the newest version of the 14-inch ThinkPad is even cooler, thanks to some minor improvements and the addition of an adaptive keyboard. We got a peek at the new Carbon X1 first-hand, and the handy adaptive keyboard is probably the most notable…

Samsung’s Got a Nanny Cam That’ll Survive Outside Your House

When you’re talking about nanny cams—AKA internet connected monitoring cameras—Dropcam is by far the leader. If people have one consistent complaint it’s that the company doesn’t make a camera designed to withstand the elements while it watches over your home outdoors. Samsung to the rescue. Meet the new Samsung SmartCam HD Outdoor surveillance camera ($229)…

This Connected Bluetooth Toothbrush Will Nag You More Than a Dentist

We all know we should be brushing more diligently several times a day, but without our dentists regularly shaming us into better oral hygiene, that rarely happens. So a Paris-based company called Kolibree has created what it claims to be the world’s first app-connected toothbrush that will encourage better brushing habits between dentist visits. The…

LaCie’s Little Big Disk Thunderbolt 2 Is as Fast as External Drives Get

Intel officially unveiled the details of its Thunderbolt 2 specification back in April, and while we’ve already seen the release of hardware like motherboards that support the Thunderbolt successor, LaCie’s new Little Big Disk Thunderbolt 2 is one of the first external drives that will officially support the blazing new connection. Intel claimed that Thunderbolt…

LaCie’s Fuel Tank Is Filled With 1TB of Wireless Storage, Not Gasoline

Even if you’ve splurged on the most capacious smartphone or tablet you can find, at one point you’re still going to run out of storage space. And in lieu of constantly swapping tiny memory cards, LaCie’s new Fuel offers a full terabyte of storage that’s available to your mobile devices via a direct wireless connection.…