Tobii

Destroying Asteroids with Your Eyes Is as Close to Being Superman as It Gets

Plenty of video games try to make you feel like a superhero, but Tobii's eye-controlled version of Asteroids pulls it off in ways that joysticks and buttons never could.

Technologizer

At CES, Everyone’s a Keynoter

CES keynoters

One thing that people seem to have missed in all the hubbub over Microsoft saying that it’ll stop doing keynotes at the Consumer Electronics Show after 2012: Doing a CES keynote isn’t exactly a singular honor.

Technologizer

It’s Not Going to Be Easy to Make Interesting Tablets

My new TIME.com Technologizer column–now a Thursday feature at the site rather than a Tuesday one–is a recap of the state of the tablet wars as of last week’s International Consumer Electronics Show. There were dozens of upcoming models at the show–new Android models, RIM’s still-a-work-in-progress BlackBerry PlayBook, dark horses like the Notion Ink Adam.

Smart Packaging Brings Light-Up Cereal, Self-Heating Soup Cans

Your grocery shopping experience could soon be riddled with special effects. At last week’s Consumer Electronics Show, intelligent power companies Fulton Innovations and eCoupled debuted a new smart packaging technology, an amazing use of induction power that actually illuminates products as they rest on shelves. (Trust me, I’ve seen the future of your cereal box [...]

5 E-Readers For 2011

At last week’s Consumer Electronics Show, e-readers were still a venerable showcase, and manufactures were out in full force to show off upcoming devices. Though big names like Kindle and Nook still rule the e-reader market, convergence devices (i.e. tablets) featuring snazzy e-reader apps are biting at the industry’s heels. While big brands battle it [...]

Consumer Electronics Show: 11 Tech Trends for 2011

The 2011 Consumer Electronics Show has officially drawn to a close. The biggest tech show around, CES covers over 3 million square feet of floor space and draws over 100,000 industry insiders to Las Vegas in early January every year to set the tone for what we can expect to see from the world of [...]

The Price Is Right For CBS To Sign On To Boxee

It appears that CBS boss Les Moonves wasn’t joking when he said that CBS was willing to talk to streaming VoD companies, as long as the price was right: relatively minor VoD company Boxee has announced that it will start selling individual episodes of CBS shows later this year.

High-Tech Goggles Coming Soon: Next-Gen GPS Technology, Bluetooth, Android

Who needs Oakleys when you can have smart goggles? Recon Instruments announced its next generation technology for its goggles this morning at CES, and their capabilities are cutting-edge. The company plans to add even more features to its groundbreaking Transcend goggles, which were released in October (photo above).

Next Gen Laptops: HP’s 11 Hour Battery, Lenovo’s 10 Second Boot Time

New technology from processor makers Intel and AMD has paved the way for some nice advancements as far as laptop features are concerned. While laptops have generally gotten powerful enough to replace desktop computers for most people, that power has come at the expense of weight, heat and battery life in many instances.

Technologizer

Return With Us Now to the 1971 Consumer Electronics Show

For this week’s Technologizer column on TIME.com, I wrote about the International Consumer Electronics Show (CES), which will take over Las Vegas this week. I’m going to hop on a plane in a few hours and go there myself–and even though the show is massive, crowded, frenetic, and tiring, I’m looking forward to the experience. [...]

The Best of CES 2010

FULL LIST: The Best of CES 2010