TechCrunch attended the 2018 Geneva Motor Show, which is a showcase for ambitious, wild, fast and fantastic cars from basically all the world's automakers. Here's what caught our eye this year.
Sphero spinoff Misty Robotics launches a robot for programmers. The startup also plans to release its first robot for the home later this year
Oblend is a device that lets you create your own blend of essential oils, tinctures, massage oils, extracts and even use for inhalation in a vape cartridge.
Brilliant replaces an existing light switch and adds smart home capabilities including voice control, camera and integration with smart products like Nest and Sonos.
An outgrowth of the Qualcomm Tricorder XPRIZE, Vitaliti is designed to work on patients recently released from the hospital, so their attending physician can continue to monitor them remotely.
Heal the company that offers doctor house calls has launched Wellbe a platform that connects to all your health tracking devices, collects the data and sends it back to your physician for timely, actionable preventative care.
The Yesojo is a portable projector with a built-in battery pack that gives you a bright, 720p display anywhere you want one. It powers the Switch for up to four hours of gameplay, and has a built-in speaker, too.
Brian Heater checks out the ElliQ, a companion robot for older adults.
MirraViz wants to bring an end to gamers screen peeking. The startup's display technology lets different people watch different things on the same projector screen depending on where they're sitting.
Wonder Workshop is launching Cue, their newest robot that lets kids learn Javascript or block programming using their friendly robots.
Sony President & COO Mike Fasulo sits down with TechCrunch's Ingrid Lunden to talk about their newest robot dog and his favorite products coming out of CES 2018.
Debussy headphones have a built in LED touchscreen display and can use streaming services directly using built in 4g. The headphones come in a variety of styles and prices ranging up to $5000.
Wine is pretty great, but who hasn't let half a bottle go bad by accident or refrained from opening one because they only wanted a glass? Coravin is a gadget that pierces the cork and lets you pour any amount of wine, then seals the hole behind it when you're done. No more wasted vino! But get ready to shell out for the gas cartridges that it runs on.
Uvify’s OORI packs the guts of a racing drone into a package that fits in your hand. It can fly up to 50 MPH out of the box (or up to 60 MPH, with some modifications). It has a built in camera which sends a first person view back to a display built into the controller. At $389, it’s a good middle ground between purely toy drones and the considerably more expensive full-size racing drones.
ForwardX is making a smart suitcase that uses a self-driving algorithm and AI to follow you around using gestures and voice commands.
RightEye creates eye-tracking tests and games that provide insights to improve everyday vision, reading vision, sports vision as well as health conditions such as brain injury and concussion.
Miraxess Mirabook is a device that lets you connect your smartphone into a lightweight laptop and use its power to run applications.
Aptiv and Lyft are showing off their deepening partnership with a self-driving ride-hailing service that anyone at CES this year can potentially use, for up to 20 destinations in Las Vegas.
GM President Dan Ammann and Cruise CEO Kyle Vogt explain what it takes from a software and hardware engineering perspective to make self-driving cars a reality – and how they're speeding us towards an autonomous future.