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Razer’s N95: Voice boost, active ventilators, LED lights in mask prototype

[credit: Razer ] The annual deluge of CES gadgets and gizmos usually tries to predict what consumer-grade tech will look like in living rooms of the near future. But after a year like 2020, bendable TVs and surround-sound systems seem less interesting than a more pressing category: tech to help people go outside during an […]

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Remember Sony’s electric car from CES? Now it’s being road-tested

Remember the Sony Vision-S from CES in 2020? It’s back for 2021, and there’s more than one. [credit: Sony ] Perhaps the highlight of last year’s CES was Sony’s surprise battery electric concept car, the Vision-S. At the time, we thought that the Vision-S—which looked like a cross between a Porsche Taycan and a Lucid […]

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A quick Intel CES roundup: New gaming laptop CPUs and a glimpse at Alder Lake

Some initial specs for the new Core i9-11900K. [credit: Intel ] The Consumer Electronics Show this week was never going to be where Intel would venture into extreme detail on major new 12th-generation CPUs, but nonetheless, the company hosted a press conference this morning that laid out a few new evolutions of the 11th-gen CPUs […]

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FedEx will be the first customer for GM’s new electric delivery van

FedEx Express is slated to be the first customer of the BrightDrop EV600 and will begin receiving its vehicles later this year. [credit: General Motors ] On Tuesday morning, General Motors Chairwoman and CEO Mary Barra announced a new business for the company during her keynote speech at this year’s all-virtual CES. It’s called BrightDrop, […]

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BMW made this really weird short film to celebrate 20 years of iDrive

In 2001, BMW put a digital display in the dash of its newest 7 Series, heralding the advent of the iDrive infotainment system. [credit: BMW ] With the coronavirus pandemic causing CES to be held virtually this year, some exhibitors have been looking for different ways to capture our attention. Take BMW for example. In […]

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LG 2021 plans include brighter HDR in TVs, its first OLED PC monitor, and more

LG’s 2021 OLED lineup. [credit: LG ] Today is the first day of the annual Consumer Electronics Show, and while 2021 is obviously an irregular year, that hasn’t stopped the routine unveiling of new product refreshes from Big Tech companies. That includes LG, which is at this point may be best known for the OLED […]

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What to expect from the first-ever virtual CES

Enlarge (credit: Subject/Object Manifest | Getty Images) Last year’s CES in Las Vegas, Nevada, marked the last time for a long time many of us would be chatting face-to-face, exchanging invisible respiratory droplets, handling the same germy gadgets, and enjoying food and drinks in windowless restaurants. This year, due to the ongoing pandemic, the annual […]