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Peloton ended 2020 on top. Its own supply chain issues had presented a hurdle — but if anything, these were side effects of the company's own stratospheric successes. It simply couldn't keep up with demand, one of the better problems to have as a business on the rise. Always leave the

Intel this week highlighted plans to build two chip manufacturing facilities outside of Columbus, Ohio. The announcement is still early stages, involving the eventual allotment of $20 billion to construct the factories designed to tackle the ongoing global chip shortage — or at least address

Ahead of the company's upcoming earnings, Peloton CEO John Foley took a break from a “quiet period” to address a number of reports related to poor device sales. The executive issued a denial that the company is halting production across its entire bicycle and treadmill line as demand for th

To say the last few years have been a roller coaster for Peloton barely scratches the surface. Once flying high on exploding pandemic demand, the company has been confronted with what it has deemed a “significant reduction” in its connected fitness products, including a series of treadmills and

Frankly, it would be a bigger surprise at this point if Google wasn't baking up its own AR headset. Per a new report from The Verge, the company is said to be targeting a 2024 ship date for its its latest hardware dive into augmented realty, in a bid to compete with Meta and Apple, the latter o

Jibo may have breathed its last robotic breaths back in 2019, but researchers at MIT believe the social robot may have been onto something. Sure, the world wasn't ready for a pricey social robot a few years back, but that doesn't mean there aren't some positives to take away from the ex

Against a backdrop of a pandemic that has shredded supply chains and gym memberships alike, it was mdly surreal to see professional-grade gym machine company SportsArt launch a rowing machine that can pump energy back into the grid. Like a wind turbine or a solar panel, except powered by pecs, delt

Leica’s a strange one. It only puts out a handful of cameras every year, and most of them are remixes or minor iterations on previous models. Since 2017 its flagship has been the solid but still somewhat archaic M10, but now the company has revealed its successor: the even more solid and also

Perhaps 2022 will be the year consumer health tracking moves beyond the wrist. We've seen Oura's rise over the past few years and a CES that brought with it a couple of ring fitness trackers. Following Google's addition to vital and sleep tracking on the Nest Home, Sengled is adding the

Some say the metaverse is nothing but marketing hype, while others insist it will transform society. I fall into the latter camp, but I'm not talking about cartoon worlds filled with avatars like many are pitching. Instead, I believe the true metaverse – the one that will change society ̵

It would be easy to think PC sales dropped worldwide last year amid chip shortages, but that conventional thinking would be wrong. As it turns out, Canalys reports that PC shipments grew 15% year over year in 2021 and were up 27% over 2019, with a whopping 341 million units sold. While the fourth-q

Long gone are the days when CES actually stood for “Consumer Electronics Show” — the CTA has seen to that in its various small print. I recommend you check out our recent best of CES 2012 story for a look back on the days when things like smartphones took center stage at the event. Mobile

Even though we didn't make it to CES 2022 in person this year, we certainly heard about the “eMobility Experience,” a test track for demo rides of all the e-scooters, e-bikes and whatever other micromobility vehicles came to play in Las Vegas.  A lot of products were shown, many of which w

U.S. medical device maker Abbott is moving into making general-purpose consumer biosensing wearables. The company has been making continuous glucose monitor (CGM) hardware for diabetes management for years (since 2014) — but in a healthtech keynote at CES yesterday, Abbott’s chairman an