Yes, this smartphone costs $6,000 — and no, neither AT&T nor Verizon will be cutting that price in half with a two-year contract.
Iconic Italian sports car maker Tonino Lamborghini has sparked cries of amazement and disgust at this week’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas with the release of its 88 Tauri.
Stitched in calfskin (nine colors to choose from), the 88 Tauri’s stainless-steel chassis grips a 5-inch display that’s encased in the same shatterproof glass that’s used for Lambo windshields, the company said.
As for the specs, however, some tech geeks tut-tutted over the fact that the 88 Tauri uses the slightly outdated 2.3GHz quad-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 801 processor.
So for tech geeks looking for speed, leave the Tauri and take the Lambo.
Steering away from midlife crisis and toward the aches of old age, one might consider a $250 gadget that stimulates the brain’s natural production of opiates to ease nerve pain.
Just strap the Quell to the back of your calf and let its electrical stimulations work their magic.
The FDA-approved device treats maladies like sciatica, rheumatoid arthritis and various other injuries that crop up as one gets a bit older.
Nevertheless, junkies, take notice: The manufacturer said the kind of opiates Quell stimulates in the body aren’t that kind of opiates — they won’t get you high.
As we obsess over our appearance, we can’t decide whether the Oku Skin Sensor ($299) will soothe our worried mind or stress us out even more.
This little gadget, when held against the skin, tells you whether a pimple is in the works, where it’s going to pop up and when.
This will definitely add a whole new dimension — not to mention time — to prom night preps in the years to come.
In the audio niche, the quest to disguise speakers for the benefit of obsessive minimalists has gone to a whole new level.
The Nom Bluetooth Speaker Table has the sleek look of a nightstand from Ikea. It features mid-range drivers encased in each of the slender legs that face the listener, while the bottom of the table has a downward-firing subwoofer providing the lower end of the music.
The “Internet of Things” is all the rage at CES this week, and two more prosaic examples struck us as potentially useful.
One, the Gridconnect Outlet, allows any appliance plugged into it to be turned on and off by a smartphone.
The other is the Keen Home Smart Vent, which provides the same capability with a heating and air-conditioning vent in a room.
Note that Keen recommends that you don’t put them in more than a third of your house for fear of damaging your HVAC system.
On the creepier end of IoT, check out Sen.se’s Mother and Motion Cookies, a home-networking system that bills itself as “like a mom, only better” — and whose Weeble-Wobble-shaped base unit has a pair of glowing eyes.
If you’re in a fighting mood, check out WowWee’s MiPosaur robots, which can be controlled using human hand gestures.