Technology 
7 wacky sleep-hacking gadgets to help you get some shut-eye
Tech takes on sleep LAS VEGAS—Activity trackers can tell you how much sleep you’re getting, but every insomniac knows just how little rest they get. A new crop of devices that can help you sleep longer and improve the quality … Continue reading
Best of CES 2015: The gadgets and gear that wowed us most
This is what impressed us most at CES 2015 Gadgets, glittering as far as the eye can see in crowded halls and hotel suites throughout Sin City. Wearable gadgets. Computing gadgets. Gadgets for your feet, for your pets, for your ears, for your kitchen, … Continue reading
HomeKit at CES: It’s all about simplicity
LAS VEGAS—“How are your HomeKit appointments going? Have you seen anything cool?” I got this text (paraphrased) from two colleagues as I raced from meeting to meeting, between booths and meeting rooms and hotel suites, talking to a dozen companies … Continue reading
Reversible USB Type-C finally on its way, alongside USB 3.1’s 10Gbit performance
After more than a decade of fighting with USB’s relentlessly superpositioning cables, a new cable standard is finally coming to market.
ET deals: 50% off Dell Inspiron 15 Core i5 touch laptop with 8GB RAM, 1TB HDD
As an all around well spec’d laptop, this 15.6-inch Dell Inspiron has a lot to offer for the price. After 50% is lopped off the usual price, this capable notebook will run you just $550.
GameStop resold temporarily repaired Red Ring of Death Xbox 360s, report says
One of the most widespread hardware failures to plague consumer electronics was the Xbox 360′s Red Ring of Death, an unfixable light pattern — unaccompanied by an error code, unlike other Xbox 360 failures — that represented one or more … Continue reading
The connected home of the future will be voice-activated and Nest-integrated
LAS VEGAS—Robot housekeepers. Talking alarm clocks. Shopping list-generating refrigerators. Humans have been dreaming of ways to automate homes for decades, but those dreams have always been prohibitively expensive. Now all of those products are not only real, as we’ve seen … Continue reading
Lenovo builds robot for selfies
For Lenovo, the craze for selfies knows no bounds—the company has developed a robot that can be remotely adjusted to take pictures from a mobile device. The Fiebot is more like a tiny four-legged tripod for mobile devices. A smartphone … Continue reading
Microsoft open-sources its worldwide telescope project
Microsoft is open-sourcing its WorldWide Telescope software program and opening the collaborative data sets it has been assembling for the past seven years. The goal is to improve academic and research use of the information and put it in the … Continue reading
Android 5.0 Lollipop adoption rate is so low it didn’t appear on Google’s distribution chart
Android 5.0 is a big step for Android, but the rollout seems to be lagging behind last year. In Google’s most recent data, less than 0.1% of phones and tablets are running Lollipop. What’s the hold up?
