Mashable Tech – Spoken Edition

Tinder would perhaps have a difficult time getting in on the VR craze. So it didn't. Instead, it pranked CES. In the thick of the Consumer Entertainment Show on Thursday, the dating app "launched" Tinder VR, a "multiuser VR" experience that is actually just two people wearing a big headset and having a face-to-face conversation. "As a tech company, we felt inspired to create [a VR headset] of our own," reads a blog post on the Tinder website.

LAS VEGAS — At CES 2017, we previewed some of the coolest health tech set to hit the market. From a brand new take on the electric breast pump to a discreet way to check sobriety during a night on the town, trust us, there's a lot of neat stuff on the horizon. The Proof wearable wants to help drinkers keep an eye on their BAC levels. The company behind this wristband claims it can measure alcohol molecules through your skin and send data to its corresponding app on your smartphone.

U.S. astronaut Peggy Whitson is about to break another record. When the 56-year-old took off for the International Space Station in November, she was the oldest woman to ever be in space. On Friday, she'll be the oldest woman to perform a spacewalk.

LAS VEGAS — If there's a single piece of tech at CES 2017 that feels like the future, LG Display has it. And it's not a trendy new category, like an electric car, or an underwater drone, or a fancy VR headset. It's a TV. And it's transparent. Yep, you read that right — LG Display built a TV you can see right through.

It's the train that many thought would never arrive. After almost 100 years of discussion, the 2nd Avenue Subway line in New York City opened on New Year's Day, complete with a corny video and inadequate restrooms. There were no rats in sight as trains started running at 11:30 a.m. Sunday. This is just Phase I of the project and is an extension of the Q-line that includes stops at 72nd, 86th and 96th Streets.

Each year, our phones, social media accounts, laptops, smart assistants, fitness trackers and other tech somehow swallow up even more of our time. For the new year, here are a handful of resolutions that aim to improve our relationship to the technology that rules our lives: 2016 was the year personal cybersecurity came to the forefront. In what was described as the worst hack ever, more than 500 million Yahoo email accounts were leaked.

Every now and then, another gadget comes along that tries to add a human touch to bare, cold metal. The Kissenger is a "kiss messenger" that promises to replicate your kiss to a paired device, that will kiss the recipient for you. The gadget looks like a large phone dock with a silicone pad in front. You kiss the pad, which registers the pressure of your kiss to the app. The recipient can then press his or her gadget to the lips or cheek, while motors under the silicone pad push out your "kiss.

So you just got an Amazon Echo or an Echo Dot — fantastic, because they're sold out almost everywhere! Welcome to the future, where ordering a pizza or controlling your lights is just a voice command away. What's an excited futuristic, cutting-edge person like yourself supposed to do first with your new vocal powers? Here's where to start. Since the Echo is a speaker, the very first thing you'll want to do is connect your music to it.

That's the idea behind one Reddit post that proposed building a citywide scavenger hunt in San Francisco with hundreds of 3D printed toys. The man behind the post is Ben Baltes, a 25-year-old software developer who is a co-founder of a 3D printing toy start-up in Oakland. In a phone call Monday with Mashable, Baltes said he's been thinking about the project for about two years and is framing it as "more of an experiment than a game.

There are three constants in modern life: death, taxes and iPhone leaks. The rumor mill surrounding Apple's flagship device is constantly churning — speculations hit the blogosphere well in advance of any official announcements, with some prognosticators skipping ahead full model cycles to focus on the next next iteration, if their sources are so inclined.