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Forget 4K, an Intelligent Self-Adjusting Pillow Is What Real Innovation Looks Like

The folks behind the robotic Pleo dinosaur are on the brink of completely revolutionizing the way we all sleep at night. When it’s available sometime later this year for $350 to $400, the intelliPillow will automatically adjust and change its shape whenever you roll over, saving you from having to wake up and fluff your…

NVIDIA Project Shield Hands On: A Little Less Weird Than It Looks

Nvidia’s Project Shield is a curious little device, attempting to toss its hat into a bunch of rings at once. It’s taking shots at handheld gaming, console gaming, tablets, and phones. For the most part, it’s holding under the strain, but it’s hard to imagine going out of your way to use it versus any…

Razer Edge Tablet Hands On: This Gaming Rig Might Actually Be the Best Windows 8 Tablet

The Razer Edge is a gaming tablet. That much you know. But here’s the thing: It’s so well made—and has such a complete notion of what it is and what it wants to do—that it might not just be “the gaming tablet,” but the single best Windows 8 convertible we’ve seen. https://gizmodo.com/razer-edge-tablet-an-entire-gaming-pc-in-a-tablet-5974062 The first thing…

Intel Perceptual Computing Hands-On: I Got Subtracted From the World By the Future of Kinect

Intel’s Perceptual Computing SDK is so smart that it can pick you out from the world around you and put you on any background as if the whole world was a green screen. Think Kinect only way way smarter. I tried out a few different applications built for Intel’s Perceptual Computing Beta. The input source…

How Will This Sad, Sad Singing Frog Find the Will To Perform For Four Straight Days?

By day three CES usually becomes a sea of sad and tired faces wandering the floor, but the show has only just opened and this singing frog already looks like it’s ready to put an end to its miserable gig. Part of the Interactive Plush Pals family from Viatek, it’s a sound activated moving speaker…

A Hefty Battery Makes Tylt’s Energi Charging Backpack Worth Lugging Around

Wouldn’t it be nice to travel with a reliable and portable power outlet for all of your mobile electronics? That’s the dream that Tylt has possibly made a reality with its new Energi Backpack that houses a hefty 10,050 mAh battery that’s accessible via three USB ports, allowing even the iPad and other tablets to…

This Roku Is Your Almost-As-Good-As-a-Cable Box Deal of the Day

The Roku 2 XS is the top-of-the-line Roku and it can pipe Netflix, Amazon Prime Streaming, Hulu Plus, and Plex (oh, sweet Plex) to your TV with exceeding ease, in addition to hundreds of other weird channels you definitely can’t get on an Apple TV. A new Roku XS usually costs $90, and back in…

These Discs Embedded into the Wall Are Bang and Olufsen’s New BeoLab 15/16 Speakers

Bang and Olufsen, the audio systems for wealthy ears, has a new sound system that is meant to be built inside the wall. Made with the BeoLab 15, the BeoLab 16 and Amplifier 1, the system can literally create a wall of sound. The sound system has four pieces. The BeoLab 15 is a pair…

Panasonic 4k Tablet Hands-On: Unbelievable Tiny Details Make Windows 8 Lag Like Hell

The pixels on Panasonic’s new 20-inch 4K tablet are so itty bitty that I couldn’t even see them when I pressed my eye almost to the tablet’s touchscreen. Even when viewing the tablet at wide angles it looked excellent. But Panasonic is going to have to up the power of this baby’s guts if you…

The Most Depressing Thing We’ve Seen at CES 2013 (So Far)

Joseph Ward Simmons is at CES this year hawking headphones. So are a lot of people. But Simmons is better known as Rev Run, founding member of one of the most influential groups in all musical history, Run D.M.C. He deserves better. We spotted Rev Run at this year’s Pepcom—a sort of CES sideshow, with…

How To Fly A U-2 Spy Plane

Got your eye on a sweet used ’59 U-2 spy plane you saw on Craigslist? Would you go ahead and take the plunge if you just, you know, knew how to fly it? Then boy, are you in luck. That’s because a couple days ago an entire flight manual for the U-2 from 1959 was…

Netflix now streams some 3-D titles and higher-quality Super HD! Well, assuming your ISP is down to use Netflix’s CDN.

Hulu’s Adding More Original and Exclusive Content Beginning in January

Hulu’s continuing its trend of producing its own original content with three new shows: an animated superhero comedy with Seth Meyers, “The Awesomes”; U.K. comedy thriller “The Wrong Mans”; and docu-series “Behind the Mask.” https://gizmodo.com/hulus-summer-shows-might-actually-be-worth-watching-5911941 The streaming service will also be promoting its run of the Hulu Exclusive Series as it continues fighting to stay…

Razer Edge Tablet: An Entire Gaming PC in a Tablet

When we saw it last year, then named Project Fiona, Razer’s gaming tablet already felt refined and finished in a way that other tablets have taken another year to catch up to. Now though? It’s something totally new. The Razer Edge is a total desktop/gaming computer, shoved into a 10-inch tablet. https://gizmodo.com/i-just-held-the-future-of-pc-gaming-in-my-hands-and-its-5874989 Unlike some other…

Scientists Confirm That Blocking Pirate Sites Does Absolutely Nothing

A team of scientists have finally bothered to do a study, crunch the numbers, and come to the same conclusion as everyone else – blocking pirate sites does nothing to stop piracy. Researchers from Boston Northeastern University carried out a study to determine how effective various anti-piracy strategies were, including blockades and censorship. By monitoring…

Panasonic Has a Comically Large 4K Tablet

We’ve seen like a hundred (not really but it seems like it) 4K TVs at CES so far, but there are ultra high-def tablets, too. Panasonic just whipped one of these pixel-packed device at its keynote. And it’s enormous. The screen looks beautiful because, duh, double pixels. It looks super thin, runs Windows 8, and…

Nectar Fuel Cell Charger Confirms the Sad Truth: Batteries Are Still Cheaper

One day fuel cells may very well be a cheap source of power for all of our electronics. But that day isn’t here yet, and from the looks of things, isn’t arriving anytime soon. A company called Lilliputian Systems has hooked up with Brookstone to create another fuel cell charger called the Nectar that promises…

The Best Heart Rate Monitor May Go in Your Ear

Chest strap heart rate monitors are uncomfortable and annoying. HRM watches, like the MIO Alpha, have a lot of potential, but they still lose contact frequently. Valencell is going in a different direction, building a heart rate sensor into something most of us are already wearing: our headphones. The sensor technology is called PerformTek Precision…

An Apple job ad seeks expertise of 802.ac Wi-Fi which bodes well for those rumors of super-fast Wi-Fi hitting Macs soon.

Fisher-Price’s Iconic Farm Set Gains an iPad Dock and Loses Imagination Requirements

If you grew up in the 1980s playing with Fisher-Price’s now iconic Little People Barnyard Playset (remember the mooing sound effect when you opened the barn door?) prepare to be just a little saddened at the company’s modernized version of it. Tiny fields of imaginary wheat have been replaced with an iPad dock and the…