For much of the iPhone's life Apple has enjoyed a first-mover advantage. At the launch of the first iPhone, Steve Jobs expected the device and OS would give it a multi-year head start over the competition.

For as long as we’ve known Adobe, its focus has been strictly software. But that’s about to change come next year when the company releases its first set of hardware products that are aiming to make drawing and creating a digital, cloud-connected experience. Last week, Adobe announced that the two tools they revealed at Adobe Max in May would be available in the first half of 2014.

The Galaxy Gear, Samsung's latest foray into the smartwatch category, is now official and it's quite unlike anything you've seen before. Yes, it's a smartphone accessory that can pick up notifications, control music playback, and keep time with a rich variety of watch faces, but Samsung takes it a few steps further by integrating a 1.9-megapixel camera, a speaker, and two microphones — allowing you to shoot short 720p movies and even conduct phone calls with the Galaxy Gear.

Entertainment is not a one-size-fits-all world. We want you to be able to choose the hardware that makes sense for you, so we are working with multiple partners to bring a variety of Steam gaming machines to market during 2014, all of them running SteamOS.

Now that dogs have their very own TV channel, the world's cats and hamsters are turning positively green with envy. Fortunately, there are techie toys for pets of all stripes (and spots, too).

Consumer electronics companies and chipmakers aren't the only players entering the wearable tech space, Nissan is joining the fray too, with what it alleges is the first smart watch to connect the car and driver.

A Samsung executive has confirmed speculation that it will unveil a new smartwatch, the Galaxy Gear, at an event next week.

Did you know that one of the most popular trends in tech right now is fashion? Crazy, huh? More known in Silicon Valley as “Wearable Tech,” the trend has been exemplified by Google Glass but showing up all over the place, is taking the world by storm.

It used to be difficult to find a computer that could play games and still fit underneath your TV. Now, devices like the Alienware X51, Falcon Northwest Tiki, and Digital Storm Bolt can handily fill that role. But what if you want a gaming PC that can fit in your hand?

Sat-nav firm Garmin has made a portable head-up display (HUD) for cars that projects turn-by-turn directions on to a vehicle's windscreen.

Photojojo has introduced an attachable smartphone lens that allows users to spy on others by taking pictures at a 90-degree angle. Simply named the “Smartphone Spy Lens”, this new “periscoping lens” lets you look around corners without being seen and shoot sideways while looking down, so that nobody will know what you actually photographing.

There are tons of gadgets to help golfers develop the perfect swing, but it’s hard to apply the same unobtrusive training tools to other sports. Evo One, though, is the counterpoint — it's a Kickstarter project that puts a tiny coach inside a basketball to help players improve their game.

The Virtuix Omni, a virtual reality "treadmill", is no longer just a one-off prototype made by Jan Goetgelu. After a successful Kickstarter campaign that raised over $1.1 million from its original $150,000 goal, the Omni is now available for a preorder for $499.

Intel's still battling away in the mobile industry, but its smartphone chips haven't proven to be a huge hit just yet, forcing the company to take an alternative path on the road to success. The one it may have chosen takes it to wearable technology.

About a decade ago, manufacturers started to sell what’s now widely known as an HDTV. These advanced televisions boasted resolutions of 1280×720 or even 1920×1080, with picture clarity far beyond what was previously possible. These high-resolution sets also made major progress in color accuracy and contrast. We’ve come a long way in the last ten years.

All signs at this hour suggest Nokia’s rumored 6-inch Lumia phablet is the real deal. Sources familiar with Nokia’s plans have leaked additional information about the device – codenamed Bandit – which is said to include the aforementioned 6-inch, 1080p display and a Qualcomm Snapdragon quad-core processor.

Canon's new DSLR has been tweaked to help it capture all the beautiful stuff out there in space