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We are a little over a month away from CES 2014, the biggest consumer electronics show that takes place every year in Las Vegas, Nevada. Rumors about what might be unveiled at the show have already started coming in, so far it is believed that new Haswell powered Chromebooks and quadcore 64-bit processors from Qualcomm, Broadcom and Nvidia might make an appearance. Recent reports coming in from Korea suggest that Samsung might unveil a flexible OLED TV at the Consumer Electronics Show 2014, but the Korean manufacturer itself hasn’t said anything about its product displays at the show.

LG is also said to unveil its “remote bendable OLED TV” at the show, so its highly like that Samsung would want to match its rival on that front. It has been speculated that Samsung’s flexible OLED TV might only be part of closed door meetings, meaning that it might only be shown off to select journalists and analysts, and that it might not be unveiled to the consumers just yet. No specifics about the TV’s hardware have emerged, the display size is not known as well. This information, aside from vital details such as pricing and availability, will be made public at CES 2014 next month if Samsung really does plan on unveiling its flexible OLED TV.

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We’ve been covering telepresence robots for years, but those that have materialized aren’t exactly within most people’s budget. However, if all you need is some way to rotate your view on the other end of the line, then you may consider Revolve Robotics’ KUBI. With six days left and just over $27,000 away from the $50,000 goal (the team was able to knock 50 percent off the original goal), this Indiegogo project hopes to offer a relatively affordable and simple telepresence solution for existing tablet users. The KUBI itself is essentially a tablet mount that can do a 300-degree pan plus 90-degree tilt, and the prototypes we saw featured two spring-loaded aluminium arms that elegantly pinches the tablet — we’ve been told that they can even fit Microsoft’s Surface in landscape. The robot is pretty much platform-agnostic as long as the tablet supports Bluetooth 4.0 Low Energy, which is how the robot receives its motion commands.

Continue reading Revolve Robotics’ KUBI spins your tablet around for teleconferences, we go hands-on

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