Hardware

“Usually the best way to figure out if your crazy idea is any good is simply to try it. So that's what we did,” Marc Randolph, Netflix’s co-founder and original CEO. That crazy idea was to send a CD through the mail to learn whether the concept of a mail-order DVD subscription servic

Today, 14 years after the company introduced its first smart scale, health gadget startup Withings is introducing the Body Smart scale. The $100 scale is the baby brother in the company’s smart scale line, which also includes the $200 Body Comp and the $400 Body Scan scales. The scale include

Consumer hardware isn't always a foregone conclusion for I/O. In fact, after the last few pandemic events, nothing much feels like a foregone conclusion these days. After what felt like a universally off year for consumer electronics, however, we've got big hopes for developer shows like I/

Apple's surprise January resurrection of the original HomePod arrived with a handful of new software features. One of the more intriguing of the bunch was sound recognition for smoke and carbon monoxide detectors. When the smart speaker hears the alarm, it will send a notification to your iPhon

At a certain point, the market will, indeed, stabilize. It has to. Demand for new smartphones has been consistently down for some time now, but the phones themselves are, obviously, here to stay. This is how we arrive at surveys that suggest people would give up shampooing or lose a finger rather t

The world is loud. If delivery drones and air taxis — also known as electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft — gain the level of market saturation investors are hoping for, cities and neighborhoods are only going to get noisier. That's the assumption, anyway. But Whis

Apple chief executive Tim Cook opened the first Apple store in India on Tuesday in a significant milestone for the iPhone maker roughly 25 years after entering the South Asian market. During his India trip, his first in years, Cook has planned meetings with prominent business leaders, including Rel

The Apple Watch’s software is due to get its biggest update since its release, according to a new report by Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman. Though details on the watchOS 10’s updated design were sparse to non-existent, the report teases Apple’s plans to introduce a revamped interfa

Apple now supports more than 1 million developer jobs in India, and App Store payouts to them in India have more than tripled since 2018, the company said as it gears up major expansion in the South Asian market. The iPhone-maker this week will open its first two retail stores in India. Apple chief

While discussing humanoid robots not long ago, someone told me their main issue with the form factor is that — from an evolutionary standpoint — we're not built particularly well. That's not to say that our bodies haven't served us well, of course. They’ve done the tri

Let's start with an obvious truth: Hardware is hard. We've all heard the cliché — and implicitly understand it to be truth. The good news is such difficulties give us a lot to talk about — and as it happens, for the first time, hardware is getting its own stage at Disrupt 2023.

About 10 months ago, Solana's co-founder and CEO, Anatoly Yakovenko, announced the launch of Saga, a web3-focused Android smartphone. The phone is now being rolled out, and we got to test one ahead of its launch. Solana says Saga was launched to make crypto products and service

The early days of the pandemic proved a massive boon for the home fitness crowd. Gyms closed indefinitely, and even when they began reopening, many members seriously questioned whether the model would continue to suit their life, moving forward. Peloton, for one, was in a perfect place to capitaliz

Former cop and self-declared “geek” Eric Adams held a press conference in Times Square today to let the city know how much he loves police robots. New York City's mayor presided over a press conference alongside police officials to discuss a pair of pilots designed to increase the city'