The CES show floor officially opens today, but yesterday was Press Day – a day where, if you’re a tech writer who likes surprises, the Consumer Electronics Show cat gets let out of the Consumer Electronics Show complimentary …
Gadgets
Motorola’s Droid Razr MAXX Almost Achieves the 24-Hour Battery
In a smartphone market where companies breathlessly try to outpace one another in screen size, clock speeds and pixel density, kudos to Motorola for focusing on battery life instead.
Motorola’s Droid Razr MAXX for Verizon …
Photos: Day Two of the Consumer Electronics Show
AT&T’s 4G LTE Lineup: Six Android Devices and Two Windows Phones
As AT&T continues to expand its high-speed 4G LTE wireless data network, the company has today announced a slew of devices to take advantage of the increased bandwidth. There are five Android handsets on tap, an 8-inch Android …
Liveblog: Steve Ballmer Delivers Microsoft’s Final CES Keynote
A decades-old industry tradition will come to an end at the Consumer Electronics Show tonight at 6:30pm Pacific/9:30pm Eastern. That’s when Steve Ballmer will give what Microsoft says is the company’s last CES keynote, ending …
‘SpareOne’ Phone Uses Single AA Battery, Holds Charge for 15 Years
With the end of the world right around the corner, owning a cell phone that runs on a single AA battery and can hold a charge for a full 15 years may seem like a bit of overkill, but who’s to say you won’t be leading a Walking …
Survey: Over Half of Future Smartphone Buyers Pick Apple’s iPhone
If a new consumer survey’s right, Apple’s in for a bumper first quarter: ChangeWave Research questioned 4,000 likely smartphone buyers and found that over half said they planned to buy an iPhone in the next three …
Highlights from Day One of the 2012 Consumer Electronics Show
The gargantuan 2012 Consumer Electronics Show officially opens on Tuesday, but there’s a slew of press-only hoopla already underway. We’ll have a bunch of CES-related content this week, so these daily highlights posts will serve …
Toshiba ‘Excite X10’ Claims Thinnest, Lightest 10-inch Tablet Crown
The Toshiba Excite X10 is a sexy slab, my main man. And that’s saying something, because I hate when people use “sexy” to describe gadgets – especially slabs.
But it’s true. I can’t properly convey how weird it is to …
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.
In Tobii’s take on this classic shooter, instead of …
Photos: Day One of the Consumer Electronics Show
Acer Announces ‘World’s Thinnest’ Ultrabook, the Aspire S5
Acer announced its newest model of Ultrabook, the Aspire S5. It’ll eventually replace the Aspire S3, which debuted in September of last year – see our hands-on video of the S3 here.
Acer is calling the S5 the “world’s …