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You love your Roku but you hate your smart TV? All your dreams might soon come true, because Roku is putting its technology inside of an actual television set, available this fall. The TVs themselves will be manufactured by TCL and Hisense, but inside they’ll be all Roku Player. Meaning, these TVs will offer up…
Nvidia’s kicking off this year’s CES madness with the Tegra K1, the first Nvidia chip with freaking 192 CUDA cores. Does that sound like a desktop thing, not mobile? It sort of is. According to Nvidia this bridges the gap between Kepler-based desktop cards and the mobile-based Tegra chips. Not just Tegra 5 but like…
For those about to not rock but instead watch other people do so, we salute you!
You can brag to your friends about the amazing weekend you had at the track all you want, but without a witness, you might as well be boasting about that monstrous fish that got away. So for the 2015 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray, GM is including what it calls its Performance Data Recorder which overlays telemetry,…
Did you catch last night’s episode of MythBusters, where they tested a bunch of Star Wars stunts to see if they actually work? Doesn’t matter. What you really wanna watch tonight is Spaceballs, perhaps the best and funniest spoof movie that ever existed. And it’s finally available on Netflix. The great thing about Spaceballs is…
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 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…
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…
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.…
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…
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…
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 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]
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’ 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 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 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…
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…
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…
