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April 25, 2013

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3:00 PM | The Most Immersive Virtual-Reality System Yet

Oculus Rift (developers) Sam KaplanIn your face! Palmer Luckey built his first virtual-reality (VR) headset for a simple reason: Every attempt he'd seen, including his own collection of 46 pairs of goggles, failed in one way or another-too heavy, too slow, too limited a field of view. So he set out to invent the perfect pair himself. Three years after the first mockup, the company Luckey founded, Oculus, is launching a developer version of the Rift, the first consumer VR system to create a […]

January 21, 2013

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4:00 PM | Meet Amiigo, The Most Accurate Fitness Tracker

Physical Education Sam KaplanAmiigo recognizes more than 100 different exercises, and tabulates burned calories with uncanny accuracy. Every January, millions of people resolve to get more exercise. Health-club memberships spike as does interest in fitness trackers, which use accelerometers to record activity. The trouble with those devices, though, is that they rely on binary tracking algorithms-moving or not-so they generally can't tell the difference between a steady jog and vacuuming the […]

January 11, 2013

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7:38 PM | CES 2013: Perpetua Demos Watches Powered by Body Heat

Perpetua's body heat-powered watch Benny MigliorinoLet's get this on the market like yesterday. In the startup zone at CES, known as Eureka Park, prototype devices were in no short supply. One we wish would hurry on to the market is a miniature, wearable thermoelectric generator. The company responsible, Perpetua Power, gave us a closer look at the dime-sized TEG and a couple prototype devices.

January 10, 2013

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8:44 PM | CES 2013: Smartphone-Powered Robot Is The Soundtrack Of Your Life

A buddy that makes playlists for you. Rather than build a robot from scratch, startup TovBot built the Shimi to leverage the brainpower of an Android device or iPhone 5. The one-foot robot can create custom playlists based on your habits, requests, even your mood. Unfortunately, the early version we saw could only rock out to Coldplay.

January 08, 2013

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3:00 AM | CES 2013: Lego Mindstorms EV3 Robots Add App Control, Speed, Sensors

Lego Mindstorms EV3 LegoThe better, stronger, faster, 15th-anniversary edition robotics kit Fifteen CESes ago, Lego unveiled the Robotics Invention Kit, the system that would become Mindstorms. Since then, DIyers have machined 'bots to do everything from flush the toilet to solve a Rubik's cube -- faster than a human being, no less. Today, the Danish company announced a near-gut refresh of the line, the Mindstorms EV3. The 594-piece kit will be the first Mindstorms system with app support, as […]

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