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International CES 2013 is coming to an end (thank goodness), and it has been a blur of 4K TVs, phablets, mobile processors and more. As I write this, I’m struggling to think of one standout product from the show, but there are few that got my attention. Here are my faves, not because they’re bound to Continue Reading →

The Internet’s leading technology site removed the Dish Hopper from consideration as one of CNET’s “Best of CES” products, citing litigation involving its corporate parent, CBS Corp. CNET had posted a review of the new Dish Hopper with Sling digital video recorder, unveiled earlier this week at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, under a Continue Reading →

Has television killed the mobile star? At this year’s Consumer Electronics Show, at least, the focus seems to have shifted from the latest smartphones to advances in televisions; while in years past the show-stealers have included the ill-fated Palm Pre and Nokia Lumia 900, this year the biggest crowds — and all of the excited chatter Continue Reading →

Microsoft has revealed IllumiRoom, the latest fruit of its virtual reality research, using Kinect and projection systems to turn your living room into a huge, immersive gaming environment. The proof-of-concept, shown off today at CES, uses projected visualizations rendered in real-time to extend gaming from your TV to your whole environment. “The effects in the video Continue Reading →

Months ago, MakerBot dropped hints to Wired about a newer version of their shiny Replicator 2 3-D printer. Wednesday at CES, CEO Bre Pettis announced the Replicator 2X, an update to the printer that is designed for a more advanced consumer, a more experimental user. Targeting a higher-end market, the 2X features dual heads for printing Continue Reading →

Screens with 33 megapixel resolutions, projectors that blend their output to go as large as you want and screenless displays hint at the future of TV at CES. New TV tech has always been at the heart of the Consumer Electronics Show. The focus of last year’s event was smart TV interfaces, but attention has swung back Continue Reading →

Listen to this. T-Mobile just beat every other U.S. carrier bringing HD Voice to market, delivering a radical improvement in call quality for everyone carrying an HTC One S, Samsung Galaxy S III, or Nokia Astound phone. And wait, it gets better—it might work with iPhones. “It’s a very noticeable enhancement to the voice call,” said Continue Reading →

At the world’s largest technology trade show, gadgets are getting smarter, and not because of the latest computer chips. It’s coming from the things you do and the data you share, which will drive the next phase of innovation, according to experts attending the International Consumer Electronics Show. “The next step is the age of inference,” said Continue Reading →

LG Electronics plans to throw consumers a curve. At the International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, the company unveiled an OLED television with a curved screen.The five-degree curve is supposed to correct for a phenomenon in human perception in which images seem to “drop off,” or degrade, toward the edges of a flat screen. Continue Reading →

For the first time in a long time, Microsoft didn’t kick off the CES electronics show with a keynote address—last year, the software giant announced it would sit out the 2013 edition. With Apple, Microsoft, and Google all absent, it’s been Samsung’s show so far. Here’s what happened on the first day of the industry’s Continue Reading →