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Ember's a bit of a weird one. The Southern California firm has two distinct — though not wholly unrelated — arms. There's the smart mug side of the business that launched the startup and the more recent cold chain shipping wing, which leverages its temperature control technology to move

CES is about to begin in earnest, but even though the show floor opens tomorrow, we’ve already found lots of interesting tech at the show, ranging from practical to bizarre (yet compelling). Read on for our roundup of the coolest things we’ve seen so far. Image Credits: Icoma Last night

Sony's CES press conference is always a real smorgasbord of the electronics giant's different media offerings. Tonight it kicked things off my bringing “District 9” director, Neill Blomkamp, to offer some insight into the filming of his upcoming “Gran Turismo” adapta

Unless you live in a natural fibers–only household, your laundry is likely exacerbating an environmental crisis with each wash. The terrible microplastics mess we’re making — thanks in great part to the rise of synthetic clothing — apparently inspired Samsung to develop some new washin

I've written a fair bit about exoskeletons on these pages. They're a fascinating subset of the robotics industry designed to improve mobility and assist with manual labor that can be taxing on the body. The FX Stick is a lower tech version, lacking the sorts of battery-powered systems that

Or maybe it's a smart home hub with wireless charging built in. Either way, this is the SmartThings Station, which debuted on stage at CES this afternoon. The hub is a bit of an unsung lynchpin in the smart home ecosystem. It isn’t especially flashy as these things go, but it can be quite

The robots are slowly but surely conquering this year's CES. During today's press preview, Ottonomy debuted a new model being added to the New York firm's army of delivery robots. Yeti stands out from other Ottobot models primarily thanks to the addition of a clever auto dispense mechan

Depending on whether you spend most of your time in hospitals, offices or in the great outdoors, when you hear “Canon,” your mind will likely go to medical scanning equipment, high-end printers or cameras. At CES this year, the 85-year-old company is leaning in a new direction, with an

It would be a massive understatement to suggest that robot toys are a mixed bag. They largely get the looks right, but brains are another thing altogether. Look at the time and money that went into building the first Roomba, for example, and it becomes very clear why the dream of a ubiquitous home

Last year, Amazon and Disney announced a plan to develop a custom voice assistant that combined Alexa’s smarts with Disney’s library of character voices and original recordings. Dubbed “Hey Disney!,” the voice assistant was the first non-Alexa assistant to become available o

3D-printing stalwart Formlabs today showed off a series of new solutions that enables its customers to dramatically increase their 3D-printing output. The result is better large-scale manufacturing options and a significant reduction in cost per part, given that machines don’t have to sit aro

Roku today is expanding its product line to include a range of smart TVs that are the first to be both designed and but by Roku itself. The Roku Select and Roku Plus Series TVs wl be Roku-branded HD and 4K TVs avaable across 11 models, ranging from 24” to 75” in size, and made to work well wi

Your health is all you’ve got, and you can’t change what you can’t measure, so it’s little wonder that health trackers are everywhere. The problem with a lot of them, however, is that in addition to measuring steps and heart rate and what-have-you, they also deliver a deluge

Bird Buddy, the maker of a smart bird feeder that snaps photos of your bird visitors, which are collected in a companion mobile app, is out today with another product for its nature enthusiast and bird-watching community. At the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, the company is showing off a p