As drones become more popular, the conversation has turned to safety. With their multiple rotors, exposed blades and ever increasing weights, there is some danger to them flying around near humans. Not so much with Fleye though. The circular drone was revealed at last week's CES show and using an …
Read More »Cooler Master debuts new series of RGB mechanical boards at CES
If there's one feature that could sum up keyboards in 2015, it would be RGB backlighting. Thanks to the development of clear switch housings, every mechanical board can now feature uniform (ish) LED backlighting and many manufacturers have jumped on that. Cooler Master was one of them, but it's not …
Read More »Edward Snowden uses Demolition Man tech to talk at CES
Edward Snowden has made an appearance at this year's Consumer Electronics Show. Not, as you might expect, in person, but on a display with its own locomotion, looking rather like the meeting room in Demolition Man. The technology was really important, Snowden said, because it allowed him to talk at …
Read More »Chinese ‘Hoverboard’ booth raided at CES
Despite the two wheeled ‘hoverboards' being one of the more recent boom and bust industries in the tech world, with bans and warnings of dangerous batteries, companies are still iterating on the idea. Are they allowed to though? One Chinese manufacturer has had its CES booth raided by U.S. marshals …
Read More »Papercraft 3D printing shows up at CES 2016
As much as 3D printers are an awesome invention offering home-brew modellers and enthusiasts a chance to create lots of fun items out of plastic, you do still need resin or some other uncommon building materials to actually construct them with. Not so with Mcor's Arke though, as it uses …
Read More »Forget flying cars, passenger drones could be the future
2015 was in many ways, a disappointing year. For all of its technological breakthroughs and attempts at hoverboards, the hard truth is that the year came and went without a viable flying car. Doc Brown would be sorely disappointed. However perhaps there's hope yet, as despite the failings of the …
Read More »Oculus Rift goes on sale for £530
The Oculus Rift virtual reality headset is now available for pre-order, priced at $600 (£530 inc. shipping the UK). This is vastly more than the originally projected $300-$350 cost for the consumer head mounted display (HMD), but we were warned previously by Palmer Luckey and several others involved in its …
Read More »The DAQRI Augmented Reality headset debuts at CES
Altering reality is perhaps the biggest theme of the Consumer Electronics Show this year, but it's not all about HTC and Oculus, as DAQRI has come up with an AR device of its own, powered by an Intel processor, RealSense 3D camera, and the ability to overlays schematics and blueprints …
Read More »NASA showed up at CES… with VR gear
NASA has been making a splash at this year's CES, but not by showing off technological developments like crew capsules or rocket engines, but with virtual reality. The American space agency brought along a number of VR and AR headsets and is using them to give the public an experience …
Read More »Acer debuts world-first USB Type-C equipped display
USB Type-C is an exciting development for those who have spent years reversing and then re-reversing USB cables and sticks, trying to find the correct way to plug them in. While its reversible nature is exciting of course, USB Type-C's support for USB 3.1's 10Gbps bandwidth is even more so, …
Read More »Samsung will show off new ‘Rink’ VR motion controller at CES
CES is going to have a lot of virtual reality hardware and software on show. HTC/Valve will probably showcase the final version of the Vive headset, Oculus is expected to announce the final price and specifications of the CV1 Rift and Samsung has now announced that it will be showing …
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