While the tech world will be watching all the new gadgets debuting at the Consumer Electronics Show this week, regular consumers may not be so excited about it.In fact, according to a new survey by Accenture, charted for us by Statista, consumers are increasingly growing bored with new technology, and less people are planning to buy new devices this year.Of the 28,000 consumers surveyed, only 4...

The young automaker represents its high hopes with an electric supercar concept—but how close is it to reaching its self-touted status as the 'iPhone of cars'?Some of the mystery of startup electric car maker Faraday Future (“FF”) was dispelled at their launch event at CES 2016. The U.S.-based company was founded in 2014 with financial backing from Chinese media company LeTV owner Jia Yuetin...

Next-gen ideas are sure to be the talk of CES. Sensors are sparking trends in wearables, clothing and virtual reality.For tech-savvy marketers and brands, sensors are bound to be big business—once everyone has figured out what to do with them.According to branding and marketing experts, we're still in the early days for sensors, which are devices that detect or measure a physical property and...

Touch screen PCs or Laptops are still pretty expensive, but you can transform your existing PC screens to respond to touch and gesture using AirBar. AirBar sensor comes with zForce Air technology, providing user new touch functionality on new or existing non-touch PCs with Windows or Chrome OS. Designed as a slim module, user can magnetically attached at the bottom of the display, it won’t blo...

Curious just how many carbs and calories are sitting on your dinner plate? A new gadget promises to reveal the nutritional value of your meal by scanning its chemical makeup.French startup DietSensor launched at the 2016 International Consumer Electronics Show a pocket-sized, Bluetooth-connected molecular sensor called SCiO. It uses near-infrared spectroscopy (the analysis of how molecules inte...

Saberr subscription software uses personality analyses algorithms to suggest how well potential recruits will fit a team.Personality tests have existed for decades, but in recent years we’re seeing the data being used to create algorithms to benefit businesses, such as this platform that optimizes communication depending on the recipient’s personality. Now targeting recruitment, Saberr have d...

Nanomaterials are increasingly viewed as important ingredients in artificial muscles meant to power different types of robots. Carbon nanotubes have been proposed as well as graphene. Now researchers at North Carolina State University (NCSU), in Raleigh, have developed a technique for embedding nanoparticles of magnetite—an iron oxide—into a polymer so that when the material comes near a magn...

Luxury label Dolce & Gabbana, known for its signature Sicilian style, is taking its brand in a much more modest direction with the launch of a line of abayas and hijabs.The collection, which debuted on Style.com’s Arabia site, features long, airy abaya cloaks in mostly muted neutrals, such as black, white, and a sandy beige, on a single model, whose hair is covered with a hijab. The garmen...

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