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2025-01-09

DotLumen’s haptic headset could help blind people navigate

DotLumen founder Cornel Amariei describes his product as a “self driving” system to enable blind and low-vision people a way to get around. It’s essentially the electronic equivalent to a guide dog, helping users avoid obstacles when walking around. The Romanian company turned up to CES 2025 in Las Vegas armed with prototypes of its headset that it hopes will make blind people’s lives a lot easier.


The headset looks like a chunky piece of VR gear, with a front unit sitting on your forehead just above your eyes. There’s a chunky power and processing pack on the rear that keeps the bulky device's weight balan [...]

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2025-01-09

Sony's XYN XR headset is being used in very different ways at CES 2025

At CES last year, Sony teased an AR/VR headset prototype focused on “spatial content creation.” And at the same time, Siemens announced it was working with Sony to use that same hardware, includin [...]

Match Score: 139.26

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2025-01-01

The best VR accessories for 2025

VR headsets have jumped into a whole lot of homes these past few years, primarily due to Meta’s regular releases, Sony’s PSVR 2 and PC-adjacent products from HTC, HP, Vive and others. Many of thes [...]

Match Score: 58.71

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2025-01-08

The WeWalk Smart Cane 2 could be one of AI's few good use cases at CES 2025

WeWalk introduced a new version of its smart cane for people with visual impairments at CES 2025, bringing a redesign that addresses many of the first model’s shortcomings and adds AI features and m [...]

Match Score: 43.57

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2025-01-07

Engadget Podcast: We've survived two days of CES 2025

In this bonus episode, Cherlynn and Devindra discuss the latest innovations in robot vacuums, new AI PC hardware from AMD and Intel, and Dell's decision to nuke its PC brands in favor of Apple-es [...]

Match Score: 42.70

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2024-12-31

Tech’s biggest losers in 2024

The tricky thing about naming the year’s biggest losers in tech is that in 2024, it once again felt like everyone lost. Amid the depressing spiral that is social media, the will-they-or-won’t-they [...]

Match Score: 42.04

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2025-01-09

The best of CES 2025

CES 2025 is coming to a close, and team Engadget is ready to leave Las Vegas. Our reporters and editors have scoured endless carpeted convention halls, braved lines of chain smokers and fielded thousa [...]

Match Score: 40.11

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2025-01-07

The Shokz OpenFit 2 promises better sound and longer battery life

In 2023, Shokz strayed from its bone conduction roots with a pair of “air conduction” open-ear wireless earbuds. While the Shokz OpenFit delivered better audio than bone conduction models, that wa [...]

Match Score: 34.14

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2025-01-10

The Morning After: Introducing the best of CES 2025 winners

As we finish up our live coverage of all things CES, it’s time to pick the best in show. So many of the new things we saw this year had an AI component, with a noticeable uptick in AR glasses, heari [...]

Match Score: 27.57

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2025-01-08

This spinning VR chair at CES 2025 somehow didn't make me feel like throwing up

A spinning VR gaming chair sounds like it would be an at-home vomitron. The virtual reality environment tends to make some people (like me) queasy as it is, so adding synchronized full-body rotation s [...]

Match Score: 24.37