Electronics

It’s that time of year, where everyone wishes they could escape holiday gatherings and just hide in a corner and read. Wait, is that not you? At any rate, if you’re buying a gift for a space enthusiast, here are some of the best books to buy in both fiction …

Making paper airplanes is a time-honored hobby. I’ve been doing it since I was a kid, but I didn’t imagine a time would come when it’d be possible to see what it was like to be on board. With the FPV paper-airplane drone from Powerup Toys, now you can. Once …

PITTSBURGH – Delphi and Mobileye are creating a self-driving car that relies more on cameras, less on radar and lidar. In a demonstration drive here, the heavily modified Audi Q5 had no trouble following the road, recognizing traffic lights and stop signs, and interacting safely with cars and pedestrians on …

We’ve written extensively about a variety of new mesh-based Wi-Fi solutions that are designed to replace both your router and access points, while providing whole home access to the internet. Most of them are clearly easier-to-use than existing solutions, but they’ve tended to be premium priced if you didn’t grab …

Formula racing has long been a laboratory for performance car companies to push their RD to the limit, on the way to introducing it into their street-legal car models. That’s one reason that cutting-edge Formula 1 has moved to hybrid engines from the more fan-popular V-8s; hybrids are where the …

Pebble was one of the early Kickstarter success stories after raising more than $10 million. It even came through, releasing what many consider to be the first viable modern smartwatch. However, that success was short-lived. Pebble confirmed today that the company is being acquired by Fitbit and is ending production …

For those of you jealous of all the cool tech in the new cars my colleague Bill Howard gets to write about, there are lots of alternatives for adding technology to your current car. In most cases, add-ons aren’t as slick, or as powerful, as the versions you can get if …

Google’s Daydream VR platform launched without support for Netflix, leaving Play Movies and TV as the only native video streaming source. Hulu was added a few weeks back, but Netflix is what everyone really wants. That app has just been added to the Daydream Play Store, but it isn’t quite …