CES 2017

Last year we covered a wickedly simple product called QuietOn: earplugs with built-in active noise cancellation (ANC). This week at CES 2017, we got our first hands-on.

​Retro gaming has been making a comeback of sorts, led by the popularity of the hard-to-find NES Classic​. Innex and Retro-Bit, companies devoted to this niche long before it went mainstream, hope to capitalize on the surge in popularity with the Super Retro Boy.

Panasonic becomes yet another company to show its vision of the car cabin of the future at CES this week. Its concept explores next-gen tech like interactive 4K displays, augmented reality, personal audio zones and facial recognition.

Samsung unveiled a few new laptops at CES 2017: An updated Notebook 9, the Android-supporting Chromebook Plus and Pro, and its first gaming laptop, the Notebook Odyssey. New Atlas braved the company’s swamped booth to get some hands-on time with each.

ZTE is one of several Chinese manufacturers breaking into the US market with affordable smartphones and their share of bells and whistles. At CES, we checked out its Blade V8 Pro, an affordable phablet rocking a dual rear camera with a couple of tricks up its sleeve.

At CES​, you're always sure to see some wearables that go off the beaten path. One of the most original wrist-worn wearables we've seen is Basslet, a watch-like device that acts as a subwoofer for your headphones.

While VR is prevalent at CES 2017, we haven't seen much tech this year that pushes the emerging space forward. One of the few exceptions is KwikVR, an adapters on show that takes wired, PC-based headsets like the HTC Vive​ and Oculus Rift​ and makes them wireless. New Atlas took KwikVR for a spin.

The SmartUV is a ultraviolet-imaging camera that can be plugged into a smartphone, allowing users to see beneath the surface of their skin.​

At CES this week, startup UVify has introduced a high-speed drone optimized for racing straight out of the box, that also undercuts some competitors on price.​​

Pushing us further towards a wire-free world is a new laptop announced at CES by Dell. The Latitude 7285 2-in-1 notebook, out later this year, will be equipped with wireless charging capabilities, making it the first laptop to tout the feature.

GoPro's Karma drone didn't exactly go to plan, with the company quickly recalling thousands of the highly anticipated aircraft due to power failure in a few models. The company is now looking to jump back on the horse, announcing plans to re-release the drone later in the year.

At CES 2016, Bosch created a digitized car cockpit concept like no other, surrounding the driver in an explosion of screens. This year's concept builds on that design with a similar multi-screen array and even more tech.