Just because Dr. Dre had a hit on his hands with his line of “Beats” headphones doesn’t mean other celebrity-endorsed audio gear will fare as well. Here’s a look at some of the new contenders and the celebrities that have endorsed them.
CES 2012
Video: Brains-On with Haier’s Mind-Controlled TV
With just a small wireless headset and a lot of concentration, Haier’s BrainWave TV lets users play mind-controlled video games.
The BrainWave’s headset hangs over the head and has one extension that presses up against your …
Aha’s Webified Radio Service: Coming Soon to a Lot More Cars
What’s the best way to bring stuff from the web into the car? A bevy of companies are working on answers to that question. Aha, a startup that is now part of stereo giant Harman, has one of the most intriguing answers: Treat it …
How Fat Are You, Really? New Scale Lets You Tell the World
Okay, maybe I should’ve led with “how thin are you,” so as not to offend, but isn’t that just sidestepping the latest (unsettling) CDC statistics, which claim one-third of U.S. adults (33.8%, or 1 in 3) are obese, along with …
Highlights from Day Three of the 2012 Consumer Electronics Show
After two days of press-only hoopla, the Consumer Electronics Show’s main exhibits finally opened. Order and structure was replaced by chaos and insanity. These people are animals.
Some of us are running on fumes. Jared said …
Photos: Day Three of the Consumer Electronics Show
AMD’s Answer to Ultrabooks: Make ‘Em Cheap
The Intel-led legion of thin, light and beautiful computers may look like the future of laptops, but at the moment, their prices could give you a heart attack. Many of the ones on display at CES float around $1,000, and some are …
Why Motorola’s Plan to Scale Back on Smartphones in 2012 Is a Wise Move
In a private meeting with a handful of reporters during the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Motorola Mobility Chairman and CEO Sanjay Jha (pictured above) revealed his company’s strategy to produce fewer smartphone models …
Intel’s Big Double Push for 2012: Ultrabooks and Smartphones
This could be a big, busy year for Intel. While the processor giant has reportedly earmarked more advertising dollars for its ultrabook initiative than it’s spent promoting any other project since 2003 – remember Centrino? – …
Cord-Cutting 101: ‘PlayLater’ Records Online TV Shows to Your Computer
PlayLater is not new – it was announced back in September. But me getting a video demo of it in action while at the 2012 Consumer Electronics Show is new, so it seems we’re at an impasse.
The concept of PlayLater is simple …
Social Networking Meets Television with MySpace TV
Web TV has a new face today, and it’s not Google, Apple or any of the other brands we’ve been hearing might launch a television service. No, the new future of Web TV apparently belongs to MySpace. (Really!)
Launching this …
How Nokia’s Lumia 900 Windows Phone Won CES Before It Even Started
The 2012 Consumer Electronics Show didn’t technically kick off until Tuesday morning, but already, Nokia’s Lumia 900 has become one of the most buzzed-about products.
What’s the big deal? The Lumia 900 is Nokia’s first …