Smart home technology – specifically thinking here about white goods – has a problem that no one seems to be talking about. Hey Bixby, call the installerSamsung likewise was touting its range of smart kitchen tech that finally can all be controlled from one slick interface in the Family Hub fridge. Often a kitchen is designed with your key white goods in mind, so replacing them would mean your kitchen no longer works from a design point of view. A modern, modular solutionOne solution is to make

But they certainly look high-end, as based on the press images the Alcatel 5 range will have brushed metal bodies, fingerprint scanners and edge-to-edge screens, with small bezels below. Alcatel’s three new smartphone ranges pack in more tech than you might expectCounting downAlongside the Alcatel 5 range, the company has also used CES 2018 to unveil the Alcatel 3 and Alcatel 1 series. These phones are set to be even cheaper but still sport high-end features, with super widescreen 18:9 displays

Fitbit is reportedly eyeing up an entirely new market that it has never experimented in before – smartwatches and trackers for kids. Fitbit has been making fitness trackers – and now smartwatches after last year’s Fitbit Ionic – for over ten years now, but the company has yet to experiment in the world of children’s trackers. Various competitors already have trackers for children that offer games for kids as well as GPS location tracking and even some basic fitness features. Currently you’re sup

After getting started with a camera-equipped doorbell that allowed you to remotely keep tabs on your front door, smart home company Ring is expanding further into home security. New for this year’s CES are a pair of cameras, the Stick Up Cam and the Stick Up Cam Elite. The new version of the Stick Up Cam features a 1080p camera, and two-way audio, while the Stick Up Cam Elite includes a Wi-Fi port for a more reliable connection. Along with the two new cameras the company has also announced a num

And now, two of its premiere brands, Skagen and Kate Spade New York, are entering the arena with some stunners for your wrist in 2018. Kate Spade New York is debuting its first smartwatch, aptly called the Kate Spade New York Scallop Touchscreen Smartwatch – but we’ll just call it the Kate Spade Scallop, for short. Offered in gold and rose gold options, it starts at $295 (£299, about AU$375) for leather strap options, but works up to $325 for a link bracelet if you fancy the rose gold look on bo

Misfit products have always been about combining stylish looks with fitness tracking tech and its latest product is no exception. The Misfit Path is designed for those with smaller wrists who want a watch that looks stylish but also tracks their fitness stats. It’s the smallest hybrid smartwatch from the company yet but it still tracks your step count, calories burned and distance traveled, as well as both sleep duration and quality. Smaller designCompared to other hybrid Misfit products, this i

Rather than use wireless power to charge a battery, Razer’s new wireless gaming mouse uses it to power the mouse directly. Weighing in at 96 grams (0.21 pounds), the Razer Mamba Firefly HyperFlux feels almost like nothing when you pick it up. This lightweight mouse is also packing a serious Razer 5G optical sensor with mouse sensitivity up to 16,000 DPI, mechanical mouse buttons and Razer Chroma lighting. The Nommo Pro is a 2.1 channel THX-certified speaker system that also leverages Dolby Virtu

Similar to Continuum on Windows 10 Phone, Project Linda essentially turns the Razer Phone into a laptop. Still, Project Linda is a very pretty shell for the Razer Phone. Project Linda also intelligently uses the best parts of the Razer Phone to their full potential. This also helped Razer fit an even larger 53.6WHr battery that can recharge the Razer Phone up to three times. For one thing, the Razer Phone was running a Sentio desktop app to make the Android laptop experience work at all.

Something we always see a lot of at the Consumer Electronics Show are robots: robots to clean our floors and help around the home, and maybe even venture into space. This week at CES 2018 has been no different to normal, and these are the best of the droids that we’ve seen rolling out of the Las Vegas show so far. She’s packed with some very smart AI and has been doing the rounds for a while now, with her latest appearance being at CES 2018. Buddy the robotBuddy is another robot that’s been with

It’s hard to think of two more highly-praised and eagerly-anticipated gaming franchises than Grand Theft Auto and Red Dead Redemption from Rockstar. But if you’ve been a long-time Nintendo console diehard, you’ll have missed out on some of these great titles as Nintendo failed to bring them to its machines. A new report, to be taken with huge dollop of salt, from Reddit game leaker DasVergeben, suggests that the last-gen Red Dead Redemption and Grand Theft Auto V could be making the leap to Nint

The ‘old’ desktop-based Lightroom CC gets a name change and carries on as Lightroom Classic. Using keywordsBoth Lightroom Classic and Lightroom CC let you add keywords to your photos, but they take a very different approach. Adobe says it’s working on full feature parity between Lightroom CC and Lightroom Classic, but for now the Classic version has things that CC doesn’t. Initially, for example, Lightroom CC didn’t have the Tone Curve or Split Tone panels found in Lightroom Classic. Lightroom C

It’s pretty safe to say that virtual reality technology is now here. Well, this is a mobile-powered VR headset (so far so standard) but interestingly it comes with eye-tracking cameras and EEG sensors built in. But then for medical institutions that use VR headsets in therapeutic treatments, this kind of information could be invaluable. What is certain is that this is a jump for mobile-powered VR headsets and what we expect from them. High-powered consumer VR headsets such as HTC Vive may be at

Samsung is bringing SmartThings – the platform the brand bought to control smart home devices, which is already available on Android and iOS devices – to both the Gear S3 and Gear Sport watch. Samsung keeps going on about how great its virtual assistant Bixby is, and I want it to be the thing I can control my home from my wrist. So why isn’t Bixby ready to control my smart home from my wrist? Samsung Bixby on the Galaxy S8Samsung has announced Bixby 2.0, which it plans to bring to more smart hom

A new camera kit, which was announced at this year’s Consumer Electronics Show, will arrive in 2019 and allows imaginative types to create and build a five-megapixel camera via a step-by-step storybook. Better still, every kit comes with a Tripwire sensor that remotely activates the camera, opening up a world of security and remote shutter possibilities. Before they know it, budding Steve Jobs types have just built their first piece of technology, which then receives instruction using simple and

The notifications come down your screen so fast and hard you believe in a moment of befuddlement that you’ve turned on some kind of hardcore Tetris. Well, pretty soon that won’t be a problem with the new ‘do not disturb’ feature that’s coming to Xbox One. Quiet, pleaseTurning this feature on will allow people to use their Xbox and stay signed in online without having to worry about being annoyed by messages, party invites and other notifications that they just don’t care about. The feature is co

Can you ever have enough digital storage space? It’s squeezed 1TB of storage space onto a thumb stick – making it the smallest flash drive with that much space available. Prototype patienceHowever, as a prototype demonstration, there’s no word yet on a release date or pricing information for the new drive. If you’re looking for capacious, compact storage, Sandisk is also launching the Ultra Fit USB 3.1 flash drive at CES. It too is currently lacking a release date or price, but is coming to mark

Will 2018 be the year Samsung finally launches its first foldable phone? According to the latest rumors it might, but you’ll be waiting until almost the end of the year. According to industry sources speaking to ETNews, Samsung will develop foldable displays by March, manufacture panels in September and start manufacturing the phone itself (currently known as the Samsung Galaxy X) in November, with the phone then likely launching in December or early 2019. The sources add that the Galaxy X will

Not only do robots and AI have very little to do with each other, but AI is at a very early stage. Together they’re becoming the arbiters of AI know-how, so it’s AI techniques developed by Google et al. Google AI and the University of Texas recently used AI on a labeled data-set of signals from the Kepler space telescope to discover two exoplanets when astronomers had failed to find anything. Unsupervised machine learning (also called ‘true AI’ by some) is really what AI researchers want to achi

Give the responsibility to a smart agent and you’ll be better able to focus on what really matters to your business. And if you don’t have the developers or technical knowledge to produce your own customer service chatbot or data analytics tools, that may not matter as much as you think. All you have to do is cc: the x.ai service (via its Andrew or Amy agents) when you ask your contact for a meeting. Helpdesk chatbotsThere are an increasing number of services which help you create custom AI cust

The fact that advanced technologies get smaller over time shouldn’t surprise us, and yet we’re still impressed by the ability of modern in-ear headphones to pack in active noise cancellation without adding extra bulk. The Libratone Track+ wireless in-ear headphones continue this trend. Four levels of cancellationLike the Libratone products that have proceeded it, the Track+ features four levels of noise cancellation, allowing you to let in varying levels of outside noise such as traffic and trai