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CES 2016 - The HARMAN Voyager Drive Speaker system enables you to upgrade a stock-standard car sound system while also allowing you the freedom of a portable Bluetooth speaker, working as a sort of two in one unit.

Designed to be thrown into the back of your car, the Voyager Drive is a multi-speaker system that also has a small detachable Bluetooth audio product located within. This portable Bluetooth speaker is described by Gizmodo as "About the size of a small pizza" and aims to be part of an all-in-one audio upgrade package for your in-car and travel lifestyle.

This portable Bluetooth unit can also be attached to the Voyager Drive+ removable bass box, boasting sound quality much better than entry-level cars can offer. However, HARMAN has given no word on pricing or product specifications just yet, so we're going to have to wait.

Vying to give users peace of mind, OCZ has announced further expansion of its ShieldPlus Warranty to 66 new countries including Australia, Japan, Thailand and more. This expansion brings the total coverage up to 99, marking a major global presence by this technology giant.

Alex Mei, CMO, says that this expansion aligns with OCZ's company agenda, stating that "It has always been important for OCZ to provide high-caliber products and service and our ShieldPlus warranty raised the bar for end-user support." "We are pleased to announce that key regions such as China, Japan, and Australia can now partake in ShieldPlus, furthering our commitment to reduce hassle, minimize downtime, and provide top-notch service to the masses," he continued.

Covering products released after July 2014, ShieldPlus Warranty is extended to drives from the ARC 100 series, the Radeon R7 series, the Vertex 460A series, the Vector 180 series, and the Trion 100 series.

CES 2016 - Spearheading the beginning of 2016 for AOC is its amazing 35-inch 160Hz curved gaming monitor, named the AOC C3583FQ. This gaming beast was released alongside the HDMI 2.0 and 4K UHD capable monitor U2879VF, showing that AOC is looking at an interesting year of display technology.

The curved gaming monitor (C3583FQ) totes Adaptive-Sync technology and comes FreeSync ready, boasting a 160Hz refresh rate for lag-free gaming. The large 35-inch panel further promises protection from screen tearing and ghosting. This monitor will likely brandish a 2560x1080 resolution.

AOC backed this product up with its HDMI 2.0 and DisplayPort 1.2a 28" 4K UHD monitor, the U2879VF, also packing AMD FreeSync compatibility within. This monitor is designed for private and professional use, said to be available sometime in "early January 2016."

CES 2016 - Razer has just unveiled its new ultrabook gaming PC, the Razer Blade Stealth. The new Blade Stealth is something Razer calls "the ultimate Ultrabook", as it features an "incredibly sleek form factor", Intel's latest Core i7 processor, and a 4K display.

Razer has also announced that the Blade Stealth can be sold through its new direct-to-consumer model, that allows consumers to buy the Razer Blade Stealth with premium configurations, at lower price points relative to the competition.

The new ultrabook gaming PC is only 0.52 inches (13.2mm) and weighs only pounds (1.24kg). The Razer Blade Stealth has a 12.5-inch 4K display, but it can also be configured with a 2560x1440 panel, too - with both displays being touch-enabled. Both models can be configured with the new Skylake-based Core i7 processor from Intel, with PCIe-based SSDs taking care of your storage needs.

NASA's aeronautics department has developed and refined green technology through its Environmentally Responsible Aviation (ERA) project the past six years, and the results are excellent. It says what it's done could "cut airline fuel use in half, pollution by 75 percent and noise to nearly one-eighth of today's levels."

For airlines, this means a potential $255 billion in savings between 2025 and 2050. And before you think the savings won't be passed onto you, airline prices have actually dropped by 50 percent the last three decades.

The project cost NASA $400 million, with an additional $250 million put up by industry partners. Its intent was to explore new vehicle concepts and technologies that would reduce the environmental impact of aviation. One example: a "radical new morphing wing technology that allows an aircraft to seamlessly extend its flaps, leaving no drag-inducing, noise-enhancing gaps for air to flow through" (pictured above). While the rest of the developments are yet to be confirmed as on track for commercialization (they will be discussed at the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Sci-Tech Conference in San Diego this week), this one has already been picked up by FlexSys and Aviation Partners of Seattle.

CES 2016 - Huawei has just unveiled its new premium flagship smartphone, the Mate 8, which sports a beefy 4,000mAh battery that taps the company's innovative new quick-charging technology.

Huawei's Mate 8 flagship takes a commanding role on the smartphone market thanks to its new unified hardware, which sees a beefy battery running in tandem with highly efficient quick-charging tech and a new high-performance CPU. The Chinese hardware giant boasts that the Mate 8's massive 4,000 mAh battery can last up two days of use thanks to its new advanced heteroatom-powered battery tech. Huawei also claims that 30 minutes of charging will supply the phone for a full day's use.

On the top, the Mate 8 has a sleek and sizable 6-inch 1080p HD display covered with Corning Gorilla Glass 4, and a fingerprint sensor that's 100 times faster than previous models. Under the hood, the flagship packs Huawei's new 2.3GHz octa-core Kirin 950 processor, which speeds up boot up times and adds up to 10 hours of battery life. Other specs include up to 4GB of RAM with the 64GB base model (3GB of RAM with the 32GB flavor), and a 16MP camera with OIS (optical image stabilization).

CES 2016 - Sony plans to launch its own 4K video streaming service this year in the United States, filling out the noted lack of UHD video content.

As of right now, 4K content is pretty limited, but Sony aims to help usher in the new Ultra Definition range with its very own streaming service. The service, called Ultra, will roll out on Sony's premium Bravia UHDTV's, and feature a range of 4K TV shows and movies from Sony Pictures Entertainment's expansive catalog.

Sony's production company has been shooting in 4K for quite some time, which will provide an expansive collection of UHD video. The Japanese tech titan also notes that all UltraHD video streams from the Ultra service will feature HDR (high-dynamic resolution), allowing for more crisp lights and darks.

North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un might have just developed a hydrogen bomb in time for his birthday, if the secretive countries claims are correct. In a developing story, BBC News is reporting that the 5.1 earthquake 5.1 magnitude located near a known test site was triggered by the successful detonation of a hydrogen bomb. State-owned North Korean television has claimed responsibility by proudly proclaiming that "the republic's first hydrogen bomb test has been successfully performed at 10:00 am on January 6, 2016."

North Korean's banned weapon program has previously raised the ire of the international community, including the United States who have brought down crippling sanctions on the state.

CES 2016 - CoolerMaster has begun the new year with both feet on the ground, issuing a press release recently that outlined some massive 2016 plans and releases.

Spearheading its movement this year is the announcement of its MasterCase Maker 5, MasterWatt Maker 1200 and MasterAir Maker 8 products, designed by chosen experts for high-level PC DIY applications. The new MasterCase Maker 5 features CoolerMaster's own FreeForm Modular System, allowing users to swap and customize case components to best suit their needs. The MasterAir Maker 8 comes packed with 3D Vapor Chamber technology, boasting a 19% cooling increase over normal copper-based air coolers and lastly is the MasterWatt Maker 1200 digital PSU, packed with CoolerMaster's connect mobile software and carrying a Titanium 94% efficiency rating.

In addition to these product announcements, CoolerMaster has teamed up with a slew of experts and artists to bring some interesting things to CES Las Vegas this year. This manufacturer has flown in stop motion animator Lindsey Berkebile to showcase her artwork alongside showing off accessories made by Bill Owen from MNPCTech, Brian Farrell from PrimoChill, Irie Ahmad of Mod 'n' Go Design and Ron Lee Christianson, a freelance air-brush artist.

CES 2016 - Samsung is staying ahead of the portable SSD game announcing their new T3 SSD, a portable SSD that arrives in capacities all the way up to 2TB.

The new T3 SSD is a little bigger than its predecessor, but it's smaller than most business cards. It's twice as heavy as the T1, weighing in at 1.8 ounces (51g). The extra weight isn't just there as additional heft, Samsung has included a shock-resistant metal case and internal frame, meaning that the new T3 SSD can take up to 1500Gs of force, and a drop from up to six feet.

Samsung adds that it has included an integrated Thermal Guard feature that stops the T3 from overheating in extreme temperatures. The T3 SSD features vertical 3D-NAND (V-NAND) memory, which is found in Samsung's 850 EVO SSD, with the T3 capable of read/write speeds of up to 450MB/sec.

CES 2016 - Sandisk has shown further commitment to the portable storage realm with its recent announcement of an all-terrain SSD and new flash drives.

The rugged portable SSD is named the Sandisk Extreme 510 and comes packed with a 480GB drive within. Capable of protecting your drive with its rubber bumper and IP55 water and dust resistance rating, this new product transfers files at up to 430 MB/s. Further featuring 128-bit encryption, this product is available for $249.99 with a two-year warranty.

Adding to the portable storage realm is Sandisk's new highest capacity flash drive, the Connect Wireless Stick and its sibling, the Ultra Dual USB Drive 3.0. Storing a massive 200GB, Sandisk's new Connect Wireless stick is compatible with Apple and Windows desktop or mobile devices, allowing users to stream content or transfer files around. The Ultra Dual USB Drive 3.0 is marketed towards those looking at smaller solutions, allowing users to manage their Android device storage via the Sandisk Memory one app, making full use of this products' 128GB storage. The Connect Wireless Stick is available for $119.99 with the Ultra Dual USB Drive 3.0 being now on the shelves for $59.99.

CES 2016 - On the showfloor at Las Vegas, Sandisk today announced the "world's thinnest" 1TB solid state drive in the SATA M.2 form factor.

M.2 SSD's are traditionally quite slim and lithe, but Sandisk's new X400 SSD's push the limits of M.2 storage by packing a full 1TB of capacity into an ultra-thin NAND drive. The X400 super thin at 1.5mm, and Sandisk notes that it's the first single-sided 1TB SATA M.2 with such a minimal size.

Like other Sandisk storage modules, the X400 comes with the company's nCache 2.0 and DataGuard baked-in for quick responsiveness and high reliability. The new X400 SSD line is also built on the company's X3 Technology to use 90% less power than traditional HDD's.

As one of the founders of the Blu-ray format, there was no way that Sony was going to sit out the infancy of the 4K UltraHD Blu-ray format, and have today presented their first player to the world.

Hitting shelves in the next few months the UHP-H1 will come equipped with a range of features to differentiate their first player, including CD, DVD-Audio and SACD audio playback to single and multiple rooms, Bluetooth audio streaming, PlayStation Now streaming (you can connect up to two Dual Shock 4 controllers) and will also upscale your collection of 1080p Blu-rays to 4K.

Sony have yet to announce a price for their player, but expect it to come in at the several hundred dollar range, similar to competitors.

CES 2016 - Vuzix aims to cover the full world of next-generation entertainment with its AR and VR hardware, presenting the latest configurations of its headset trio at CES 2016.

While Microsoft's HoloLens, the Oculus Rift, and HTC's Vive usually steal The Next Big Thing limelight, companies like Vuzix are stepping in to the new market with a range of video eyewear and smart glasses to cover the full range of mobile VR, PC VR, and AR solutions.

Vuzix currently has a trio of hardware aimed at revolutionizing how we see and connect to the virtual and real-world, including Android-powered VR headsets, a Google Glass-like contender, and video-powered sunglasses. Check below for a quick synopsis of Vizux's line of video glasses and headsets

CES 2016 - Origin PC has just announced its latest gaming PC, an all-in-one gaming machine called the Omni. The Omni features a considerable amount of customization, with the company calling the Omni the "world's most powerful and customizable" PC of its kind.

The Origin PC Omni features a 34-inch UltraWide display with a native resolution of 3440x1440 - my favorite resolution, with enough room for an Intel Core i7-5960X, 12GB of RAM, and an NVIDIA GeForce GTX Titan X. Bloody impressive for an all-in-one gaming PC, don't you think?

The Omni has support for up to 32GB of DDR4 RAM, with Origin somehow building a liquid cooling system inside of the AIO PC. You can even customize your Omni to feature a translucent back if you want to show off your impressive PC - this is the icing on the cake for me!

CES 2016 - GIGABYTE has decided to show off its X170 (C236) and X150 chipset (C232) chipset motherboards. These motherboards carry unique IO shield covers, and in the case of the X170-Gaming 7 WS, an audio cover shield.

If you want to use an LGA1151 Xeon processor with the latest Skylake microarchitecture you must use an X series chipset, and the new chipset doesn't offer support for an iGPU. The X series motherboards also support select i3 and i5 Skylake CPUs, but the i7s and "K" SKUs are not supported. The X170 chipset supports a maximum of eight SATA ports, which is 2 more than the Z170 chipset. If you want support for Intel vPro technology the motherboard must also have an Intel i21X-LM series NIC, which these boards do carry. Some of the motherboards also have discrete clock generators, hinting to the fact that GIGABYTE might provide a method for overclocking non-K series processors, but GIGABYTE did not confirm or deny.

The X170-Gaming 7 WS is pretty much identical to the Z170X-Gaming 7, in terms of features and even VRM components and features such as OC buttons (hinting at possible non-K OC) and POST code display. There is also a version of the motherboard that supports ECC memory, it's called the X170-Extreme ECC, and is identical to the X170-Gaming 7 WS except for memory support. The motherboards all have one Intel NIC and one Killer NIC, and have the Core3Di audio chipset.

If you've been hanging out to see Sylvester Stallone reprise his role as John Rambo in a fifth 'Rambo' feature film, give up. The 69 year old actor has admitted that he can't return to the grueling role in future.

Speaking to Variety, Stallone confirms he would have liked another go around, but just isn't up to it. "The heart's willing, but the body says, 'Stay home! It's like fighters that go back for one last round and get clobbered. Leave it to someone else." The last time Stallone played Rambo was in the 2008 film of the same name and the actor is satisfied having that as his swan song legacy, saying "You know when you realize there's nothing more to pull out? As an action film, I was very satisfied that it dealt with the Burmese situation. It had one foot in a current event, the longest civil war in history, 65 years at that time. It was so brutal, which civil war is, I was shocked they even gave me an R-rating. I didn't want to compromise. I said, 'This is probably going to be the last decent film of this genre that I'm going to do as a solo act.' When that was accomplished, I never felt the same willingness to do it again."

Stallone will reprise his role as Barney Ross in the ensemble 'The Expendables', which begins filming it's fourth entry later this year for a 2017 release.

CES 2016 - HTC has been getting all of the headlines lately for its VR headset, including the announcement of the new Vive Pre which features front-facing cameras, but the Taiwanese giant just teamed up with Under Amour for a slew of fitness-focused devices.

Under Armour teamed with HTC to help design its hardware, with Under Armour launching an entire ecosystem of apps and gadgets - and releasing them at once - go hard or go home, right?

First up, we have the UA Band which is a "simple activity tracker" reports Engadget. HTC's design can be seen here, with an outward facing part of the band featuring a "lightly textured soft black plastic". The UA Band counts your steps, tracks your sleep, has a heart rate monitor, and tracks multiple kinds of exercise.

CES 2016 - Velocity Micro unveils its new Raptor One all-in-one PC that sports some pretty beefy specs, bringing desktop-grade performance to the AIO realm.

Velocity Micro proudly touts its new Raptor One as the "world's most powerful AIO", and for good reason: it rocks some amazing specs for an AIO, including a full-sized NVIDIA GTX Titan X GPU, a brilliant 34" curved 3,440 x 1,440p WQHD display with a 21:9 aspect ratio, and configurations that include Intel's latest sixth-gen Core i7 Skylake CPUs.

The Raptor One can be tailor-made and customized to a tee similar to Maingear's new powerful AIO, and even supports liquid cooling options for maximum heat transfer as well as Intel Xeon CPU support for workstation transformations.

Last month, dozens of highly anticipated unreleased films such as Quentin Tarantino's 'The Hateful Eight', Disney Pixar's 'The Good Dinosaur', 'Joy' and 'The Revenant' hit torrent trackers, alongside recent releases such as 'Creed', 'The Peanuts Movie', 'Straight Outta Compton' and 'Spectre'. The releases, which came from watermarked DVD copies of films sent to members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts for 2016 Oscar voting consideration were leaked by hacker syndicate Hive-CM8 and quickly became seeded across the world. Now the hacker group has issued a bizarre apology for their efforts.

According to BusinessInsider, a spokesman for the group has issued a statement in somewhat broken English, saying they "wanted to share this movies with the people who are not rich enough or not able to watch all nominated movies in the cinema. Of course this files are not representing how they can be enjoyed in the cinema. As said in our nfo, pleaase support the producers and watch all movies in the cinema on a big screen, like you should anyhow. The Producers need the money from ticket sales to get back the production costs." But the apology to 'Hateful Eight' director Quentin Tarantino is perhaps the most interesting section. "We feel sorry for the trouble we caused by releasing that great movie before cinedate even has begun. we never intended to hurt anyone by doing that, we didnt know it would get that popular that quickly. The Hateful Eight is an excellent,thrilling and entertaining Western that combines terrific direction,a fantastic cast, a wonderful script, beautiful photography and a memorable score. All of those elements make The Hateful Eight an unforgettable film that is Quentin Tarantino at his best."

Hive haven't explained their change of heart, but it certainly didn't stop them releasing further titles. Their latest leak; 'The Big Short' was apparently delayed "till 1 week after cinema premiere to give the movie a fighting chance to play in the budget, we learned from our mistake."