ces 2016
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Kodak’s New 4K Camera Captures Beautiful 360 Video For The Price Of A GoPro
With the mass release of VR devices imminent (you can now pre-order your own Oculus), everyone’s hopping on the 360-degree video boat. Kodak, accordingly, is hustling to get its offerings up to spec with a 4k update to its SP360 Action Cam. For $US500 ($712), it’s pretty good, too.
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An iPhone Charging In Midair Is The Coolest CES Demo I’ve Ever Seen
Like calling those two-wheeled, self-balancing monstrosities hoverboards, the term ‘wireless charging’ has been incorrectly used to describe many technologies that really aren’t. But for the first time ever, yesterday I held an iPhone in my hand that was charging without a single cable connected to it, and I was wowed.
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IBM’s Watson Will Morph Polite Pepper Into An Ultra-Intelligent Evil Genius
Pepper is super cute and remarkably well-mannered… for now. Now that IBM has announced that the talking, emotion-reading robot will interface with Watson, lil Pep could turn into a smiling, evil robotic mastermind; adorable leader of the human-enslaving resistance.
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Being Serenaded By Bono In VR Is Deeply Unsettling
Late last year, Apple Music released a virtual reality video featuring the musical stylings of U2. Directed by “immersive artist” Chris Milk, the clip shows off the potential of VR when money is no object. As I learned at CES, it also turns your headset into a Bono-fueled torture device.