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It’s winter. If you drive a car that’s parked outside, you know what that means. It’s frigid as hell inside your car and the windshield is totally opaque from all the foggy ass frost. Not cool. How do you get rid of it? Hit the defrost button right? That’s not all. The always inquisitive Mark…
Altec Lansing, a company potentially owned and operated by Satan, has created a new type of DJ headphones with a 1080p camera built in, and wifi to stream video instantly. Yes, this company saw a hole in the market and said: We must, must, must give DJs a way to express themselves through the power…
Seagate’s Backup Plus Slim is one of the best portable drives you can buy because it perfectly balances size, capacity, and price. And now there’s even more reason to opt for Seagate’s portable storage offerings because its new Backup Plus Ultra Slim is 2.5 millimeters thinner. In the grand scheme of things that’s not exactly…
Apple is so massive that even a design flaw on one of its products—like the single USB-C port on the 12-inch MacBook—can spawn hundreds of devices dedicated to solving the problem. Even LaCie’s new Porsche Design Desktop Drive promises to keep your port-challenged MacBook charging while it’s connected. A giant external drive sitting on your…
It wouldn’t be CES without LaCie teaming up with an accomplished industrial designer and rolling out a fancy new desktop drive. This year it’s called the Chromé, and designer Neil Poulton appears to have taken his inspiration from the VHS cassettes that few of us can even play anymore. The Chromé is exclusively available in…
If you donated to the Oculus Rift Kickstarter back in 2012, you’ll get a headset for free. Hey, tech companies being nice to consumers. Cool! The company made the announcement today on a Kickstarter blog: For those who pledged enough for a developer kit, they’ll get a free Rift mailed to them in the coming…
Fitbits are arguably the best fitness trackers around. The best looking? Not so much. Now the company is trying to change that with the Blaze, Fitbit’s fitness tracker for the more fashion-focused. Simply put, a fitness tracker’s entire job is to, well, track your fitness. 24/7. All the time. That’s sleep, steps, workouts, you name…
The HTC Vive is in turnaround. After disappointing some people last year by setting the Vive launch date for well into 2016, the company’s back with a second generation developer model so good, it’ll win back our brains. Developed in partnership with Valve, the HTC Vive wowed us and everyone else who tried it last…
Evolution is a pretty simple to grasp! Traits in a species that are more advantageous for like, survival get passed down to future generations because those traits helped the species survive. Evolution is not always hilarious though. It is in this video from Casually Explained that combines jokes about video games, platypuses, ducks, Donald Trump,…
It was only very recently that we learned that TMNT cartoon classic Krang would be heading to the movie sequel, Out of the Shadows. But now thanks to a series of images from a toy catalogue, we know pretty much what he’ll look like—and it’s surprisingly faithful to the original Krang. The images, from a…
The FLIR Scout TK is a compact night-vision camera, with heat sensors capable of taking thermal images from up to 100 yards away. Unlike other FLIR offerings, you don’t need your smartphone to use this one, it weighs six ounces, it doesn’t need ambient light to operate, and its four-inch length means it’s easy to…
Here’s the idea: A man is going to be attached to a rope and then fall. The rope is totally loose and not attached to anything but there will be a weight rigged to the opposite end of the rope (the other end holds the man, remember). What happens? Does the man fall straight down?…
Ford was rumored to announce a partnership with Google today at CES in Vegas, but the 115-year-old auto manufacturer has other tricks up its sleeve. Namely, curious new partnerships with Amazon and Chinese drone-maker DJI. In an email to press today, Ford first announced that it’s tripling its fleet of self-driving cars, bringing the squad…
The wireless earbuds arms race is heating up with a new “neckband-style” set from JBL. Unlike others, these have active noise-cancelling powers. Pump ‘em up, and tune out the world. The new Bluetooth 4.0 Everest Elite 100s cost $200. For the money they’re pretty loaded. The top feature is adjustable noise cancellation, which is similar…
When HTC announced the Grip last year, we were underwhelmed by the Taiwanese company’s first fitness foray. In fact, we didn’t even know who the damn thing was for. HTC instead pumped the brakes on the Grip’s release and teamed up with Under Armour. It was a wise decision. I’ve been using the UA Band…
When is the ideal time to start your child on the path to a comfortable and mostly satisfying career as a developer? High school? Grade School? Fisher-Price thinks preschoolers should be introduced to the problem solving skills they might one day need to be a great coder. To help parents accept that developing apps for…
Unless you’re an endurance racer who spends 24 hours in their vehicle, there’s not much point to sinking a small fortune into a killer sound system you rarely get to hear. But with Harman’s new Voyager Drive, your car’s stereo easily becomes a portable Bluetooth speaker you can take anywhere. Designed for compact, entry-level vehicles…
Say goodbye to your relaxing drive to and from work every day. Harman is working with Microsoft to put an end to those few minutes of wasted productivity by bringing parts of Microsoft’s Office suite to your car’s infotainment system. Does that mean you’ll have Excel spreadsheets projected across your windshield, letting you crunch through…
Falling asleep at the wheel can have have deadly consequences, but a driver who’s too distracted can be just as dangerous. So Harman has developed an in-car monitoring system that tracks the dilation of the driver’s pupils to determine how overloaded and distracted their brain might be. The system is considerably easier to install in…
Google wasn’t able to make Glass the runaway success it thought it could be, but maybe Sergey and Larry were just targeting the wrong demographic. Garmin is hoping its new Varia Vision, which can attach to any pair of sunglasses, will appeal to gadget-loving cyclists. Weighing in at just shy of 30 grams with an…
