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Product reviews and demos from our TechCrunch Gadget team
Your work life will never be the same after gadget reviewer Doug Aamoth shows you how to mirror your Android screen to Windows 10 and record it, all for free and without any special software required. Power. Prestige. Respect. These...
Through their dynamic actuator product, Hebi is trying to make building custom robots a DIY project.
Like most of you, gadget reviewer Doug Aamoth can't get enough of gadget reviewer Doug Aamoth. Thankfully, the Waze app for Android lets him record his own voice so he can tell himself to hang louies and randys, advise himself...
Sphero's new Spider-Man toy shares stories, tells corny jokes and can sort of hold real conversations.
Ryan Lawler sits down with eero's CEO and Co-founder Kevin Weaver to learn about eero's new Beacon wifi router.
It's hard to believe that Microsoft was able to make the latest generation Xbox so compact, and yet still so much more powerful. We had the chance to check out the console ourselves, and we were rather impressed.
Gadget reviewer Doug Aamoth has the ultimate physique - a perfect blend of a world-class body builder mixed with an elite triathlete mixed with an undefeated karate champion. So how does he stay so fit, yet travel so light?
Gadget reviewer Doug Aamoth has a rocky relationship with birds vis-a-vis their daily deposits on his precious patio. Armed with $80 and hell-bent on keeping his patio sparkling, he leverages the Sun Joe SPX1000 pressure washer, a city-friendly unit meant...
DJI's new Spark drone is an impressive feat of engineering and a reminder that drones are a ways from being true mainstream devices. It’s DJI’s smallest and cheapest drone by far, and the company has also tossed in some neat...
Gadget reviewer Doug Aamoth reads selections from his wildly popular Cheers fan fiction podcast, but the background noise of the hissing fan makes the recording sound like amateur hour. He quickly strips out the noise using free software, making Frasier's...
Desktop Metal's new additive manufacturing method uses FDM techniques making metal safer and easier to work with.
This is a car that you can control from your iPhone or Android, based on the Owen Wilson-voiced character from Pixar’s Cars franchise. (Cars 3 is coming out on June 16.) Ultimate Lightning McQueen is available today for a price...
The big news at DJI’s event in New York City is, as expected, pretty small. The world’s largest consumer drone maker cracked the code of portability with last year’s backpack-sized, folding prop Mavic Pro drone and now it’s back on...
Gadget reviewer Doug Aamoth realizes that he's hopelessly addicted to caffeine after a single cup of Black Insomnia Coffee doesn't cause his heart to beat out of his chest. After his second cup, he can see the past and the...
Lucid Motors is making electric cars, and they're chasing Tesla. But they're also trying to do something unique, designing a car from the ground-up made specifically for shared autonomous use.
Announced this week at the Rapid conference in Pittsburgh, Essentium’s technology targets issues with structural integrity.
Gadget reviewer Doug Aamoth loves to watch the Wheel at night but he hates having to balance the volume between spins, Pat, contestant letters, and audience applause so he doesn't wake up his wife. To save his relationship, he pipes...
The system is designed to create 3D printed parts at scale for manufacturing. Each cell is the wall is an individual modular 3D printer connected to a cloud network. The system is currently being tested at universities and handful of...
Nectar aims to take pencil and paper inventory management digital by combining inconspicuous liquor bottle caps with ultrasound technology and a handy smartphone app. Aayush Phumbhra, CEO and co-founder of Nectar, sat down with TechCrunch at a local bar for...
Gadget reviewer Doug Aamoth goes on a six-day trip and manages to stuff all of his clothes into a computer bag that fits under the seat in front of him on the plane. He also stuffs all his feelings into...
An innovative new tablet that uses magnetically configurable bumps may prove to be a powerful tool for translating information like maps and other imagery to a modality more easily accessed by the visually impaired.
Doug isn't the type of guy to loose his cool, except in those not-so-rare moments when he looses his phone. Gadget reviewer Doug Aamoth opens up with a shaky impression of Madeline Kahn's character in the 1985 ensemble masterpiece, Clue,...
In 2012, MakerBot was the darling of the 3D printing community. Half a decade later, the has become something of a cautionary tale for many about the trappings of the tech hype cycle? We caught up with company’s new CEO...
Today DJI is officially launching its FPV headset, aptly named Goggles. They will retail for $499 and start shipping after May 20th. Read full article: https://techcrunch.com/2017/04/24/djis-new-fpv-goggles-let-you-control-your-drone-with-head-movements/
As a Minnesotan, gadget reviewer Doug Aamoth's cheapness knows no limitations. In this video, he a) comes dangerously close to burning a $20 bill and b) uses a powerful online tool to figure out which Amazon deals are truly worth...
If we learned anything from the 1984 superhit Ghostbusters, it's that if someone asks you if you're a god, you say YES. Gadget reviewer Doug Aamoth shows you how to enable God Mode on your Windows machine, giving you quick...
Marble is rolling out a new delivery robot in San Francisco's Mission District.
Heartsick about seeing his car's CD player go unused for the better part of an entire decade, gadget reviewer Doug Aamoth decides to put it to good use with the Koomus CD Slot Smartphone Car Mount -- the best $15...
Avegent Founder and CTO Edward Tang breaks down light field technology and shows off the new Avegent AR headset.
Inside Osmo's "Dream Week" hackathon. It's like Santa's Workshop in Silicon Valley.
Sally by Chowbotics can make a fresh customized salad at the touch of a button.
A UK entrepreneur takes flight by attaching miniature jet engines to his limbs.
Gadget reviewer Doug Aamoth is a 73-year-old trapped in a 38-year-old's body who pays far too much for cable and internet service. In this video, he swaps his Comcast TV package for various streaming services, stops paying unnecessary fees, and...
lofree is a typewriter inspired mechanical Bluetooth keyboard.
Owlet, a Utah-based startup monitoring your babies vitals, has a new and improved smart sock out today and we got a chance to catch up with the founders to talk about what they've been up to since appearing on stage...
TechCrunch caught up with Zero Motorcycles' CTO Abe Askenazi to learn what new designs and tech breakthroughs are on the horizon for electric motorcycles.
Gadget reviewer Doug Aamoth is a simple man, both in how he lives and intellectually. As such, he likes to keep his keychain spartan. The $25 Kenu Stance is a keychain-sized phone tripod that works in both portrait and landscape...
Taking a quick look at Acer's inexpensive but respectable ultrabook.
The Massachusetts school has been tasked with prepping the humanoid robot for future missions to Mars.
Traveling with a toothbrush is disgusting, so gadget reviewer Doug Aamoth decides to pit the Ready Brush Prepasted Disposable Toothbrush against the Colgate Wisp Mini-Brush while abroad for nearly a week. Welcome to the 2017 Inaugural Annual Disposable Toothbrush Showdown.
At $79, replacing a standard MacBook charger gets expensive quickly. Gadget reviewer Doug Aamoth tracks down a series of travel-friendly MagSafe chargers from a company called Wakeach that are only slightly larger than standard cell phone chargers and cost less...
In many ways, Roomba represented the culmination of lessons learned from more than a decade’s worth of trying and often failing to develop a viable commercial application for robotics. iRobot CEO Colin Angle, the man behind the Roomba, discusses the...
Pebby is a smartphone-controlled mechanized ball keeps pets active and in good spirits, letting owners remotely draw their companions from one room to the next. Pet owners can use two way audio and an integrated camera to build bonds with...
After realizing that his third-largest monthly expense (after his mortgage and food) is Drano, gadget reviewer Doug Aamoth purposely clogs his sink on purpose by shaving like a selfish a-hole in order to test out the $23 BAAM air-powered drain...
Tired of living life by the defaults - default ringtone, default desktop background, default Twitter avatar - gadget reviewer Doug Aamoth decides to live a little by turning his TechCrunch folder icon into a photo of him posing with a...
The HP Spectre 15 is one of the best Windows machines to debut this year. It sports a 4K display, active stylus, 360 degree hinge and a healthy set of ports -- including an SD card. Price starts at $1499...
TechCrunch's Stefan Etienne goes hands on with the new Alienware 13 R3 VR-ready laptop.
Everyone knows that gadget reviewer Doug Aamoth is all about power: power suit, power tie, power watch, power car, power title. So it should come as no surprise that he drinks only the finest champagne and drinks it extremely powerfully...
Raybaby is a new connected monitor that uses ultra-wideband radar technology to tracks babies sleeping and breathing with 98% accuracy.
The Ozobot follows lines drawn on white paper. Colors drawn in sequence tell the Ozobot what to do. Students can eventually write programs for their Ozobot. Kids can customize their robot with different Marvel toppers. Ozobot starter kits cost $60,...
