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Writing is one of humankind's greatest inventions and it's no surprise that despite the arrival of typewriters, keyboards, mice and voice recognition, most people just write stuff down in notebooks or on bits of paper. That doesn't easily transfer into a digital record but Livescribe reckon that they have a solution to this problem with their digital pens. Todd takes
Todd chats with Tracy from Kanex at CES Digital Experience about their new Multi-Sync Keyboard for Apple devices. Although touch is great way of interacting with tablets and smartphones, it really doesn't replace a keyboard when it comes to large amounts of text entry. In response, many manufacturers have come out with add-on keyboards that typically connect to the tablet
Todd and Don have some fun with Tobias Schoeler from French wireless specialists, BeeWi, and on show at CES are Bluetooth battle robots. Controlled from a smartphone app, the robots can fight against themselves or other BeeWi remote controlled toys including helicopters. Very cool and lots of fun. The robots will be available in the first half of 2014 priced
Todd and Don interview Nortek's Rob Halligan about the new wireless speaker system called Korus, which instead of using wifi or Bluetooth, uses SKAA, a wireless hi-fi audio standard that won CES Innovation awards in 2010 and 2011. The benefit of SKAA is low latency and greater range, but the downside is that it's not built-in to any smartphone, tablet or media
As widely rumoured, the Motorola Moto X is coming to the UK and the rest of Europe. The specs and features seem as per the US version - touchless control for Google Now, Active Display, Connect extension for Chrome and twist to start camera. KitKat will be on the Moto X out of the box and as expected, it looks
The Kwikset Kevo is a deadbolt lock that uses Bluetooth communication as well as a physical key to lock and unlock doors. Currently it only works with Apple iPhones but it looks really cool. You walk up to the door, touch the Kevo lock, the lock checks your eKey on your phone and the door opens. There's a whole host
I've been a user of Plantronics' Bluetooth headsets for many years, starting with the Explorer 320 and more recently the Voyager Pro. I've always liked them because I found them a good fit on my ears but they're trouble-free and easy-to-use with no problems pairing on a wide range of phones. More recently, I've taken receipt of a Voyager Legend