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CES 2014: The Parrot MiniDrone Is A Drone Spiderman [Video]

All this week, we're showing off the coolest, most futuristic, and strangest gadgets from the Consumer Electronics Show. Here we have The Parrot MiniDrone a personal drone that can climb freakin'...

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CES 2014: Audi's New Headlights Are Laser-Powered [Video]

All this week, we're showing off the coolest, most futuristic, and strangest gadgets from the Consumer Electronics Show. Audi's latest concept car uses laser high beams to keep drivers safe on the...

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CES 2014: This Ball Trains You To Have A Perfect Free Throw [Video]

All this week, we're showing off the coolest, most futuristic, and strangest gadgets from the Consumer Electronics Show. This robot basketball uses sensors to detect how well you're shooting and...

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CES 2014: This Smart Mattress Tracks Your Zzzs [Video]

The problem with wearables is that you have to always wear them, even to bed. SleepNumber, this year at the Consumer Electronics Show, introduced a way around that. The x12 bed uses pressure sensors...

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CES 2014: This Tiny Robot Has Flawless Balance [Video]

All this week, we're showing off the coolest, most futuristic, and strangest gadgets from the Consumer Electronics Show. The WowWee MiP is a charming, two-wheeled Segway 'bot that has some impressive...

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The 12 Best Products From CES 2014

LG G-Flex LG We've been spending all week in Las Vegas at the Consumer Electronics Show, the world's largest gadget and high-tech product showcase, sifting through thousands of gizmos to pick out the...

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CES 2014: Your Next Laptop Keyboard May Double as a Touchpad

Synaptics ThinTouch keyboard Matt Safford Synaptics makes touchpads for the likes of Lenovo, Dell, and HP, and their touch technology lives inside smartphones made by Samsung and Nokia. So they know a...

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Video: This Game Makes Surreal Puzzles With Forced Perspective

  There was a great article from The Onion recently called "Study: People Far Away From You Not Actually Smaller."... But what if they were???A new game, created by a team of students from Carnegie...

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CES 2014: The First Self-Balancing Electric Skateboard

Onewheel Onewheel Over in the startup section of CES, we found Onewheel, the world’s first self-balancing electric skateboard. All you need to do is step on the board and it will adjust itself...

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CES 2014: Does Smart Jewelry Take Wearable Tech Too Far?

Smart jewelry From Razer's Nabu smartband to the Pebble Steel smartwatch, there are wrist-worn devices aplenty debuting at the Consumer Electronics Show this year. But UK-based CSR is betting on a...

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Fish Fluorescence Widespread: 180 Species Found To Glow

Glowing fish A triplefin blennie under white light (top) and blue light (bottom). J. Sparks and D. Gruber When ichthyologist John Sparks set out to the Caribbean island of Little Cayman in 2011 with...

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IBM Backs Watson With $1 Billion And A New Business Division

Watson IBM Watson, IBM's Ken Jennings-smirk-obliterating robot riddle-solver, is getting $1 billion and some new digs in the hopes that it can be brought to the masses.The company announced that...

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Planning For A Future Of Robot Ships

The container ship, reimagined Nick Kaloterakis When it comes to shipping, humans crews are inconvenient. They need places to sleep and to take care care of bodily functions, they probably require...

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How It Works: Inside A Canon Lens

Ever wondered how a lens focuses? Our friends over at Popular Photography, on the ground now at the Consumer Electronics Show, grabbed a video showing how Canon cameras use an electromagnetic mechanism...

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As Lower Levels Melt, Penguins Climb Ice Cliffs To Breed

Emperor penguin chick Antarctica: Some emperor penguin colonies are finding their way up towering coastal glaciers to hatch chicks, apparently because warmer temperatures are delaying sea ice...

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CES 2014: Riding the World's First Driverless Shuttle [Video]

All this week, we'll be showing off the coolest, most futuristic, and strangest gadgets from the Consumer Electronics Show. Here's a closer look at Induct Technology's Navia driverless shuttle. Check...

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CES 2014: Scanadu's Real-Life Tricorder [Video]

All this week, we'll be showing off the coolest, most futuristic, and strangest gadgets from the Consumer Electronics Show. Here we have the Scanadu Scout. Check it out in this video to see how it is...

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CES 2014: Up Close With Intel's Depth-Detecting Camera [Video]

All this week, we're showing off the coolest, most futuristic, and strangest gadgets from the Consumer Electronics Show. This is Intel's RealSense 3-D Camera, a tiny cam that could improve everything...

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The Most WTF Things We Saw At CES 2014

Breakdancing Squirrels Amber Williams The Consumer Electronics Show is home to the technology of the future, the stuff we'll be using tomorrow, here today. But with so many companies all vying for...

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Starfish Can See!

Blue, eyed-one A blue sea star in Japan. Anders Garm, University of Copenhagen The phrase "seeing stars" has a whole new connotation: Research suggests that sea stars, a type of five-legged starfish...

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