Tuesday 10 January 2017

The Morning After: The official Best of CES awards, 10 years of the iPhone

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It's Tuesday, January 10, 2017.

Hey, good morning! 

CES has wrapped up and Engadget is back to the relative normality of another week in tech. That said, we have all our Best Of CES winners, Razer says its prototype hardware was stolen at the show, and the iPhone celebrates its 10th birthday.
 

Simply the best.
 

Presenting the Best of CES 2017 winners!
 

Presenting the Best of CES 2017 winners!<br />   

We debated. We argued. One of us even yelled. After a long night of going through our list of finalists, our editors have finally settled on our winners for the official Best of CES awards. Winners include LG, Dell, Razer, Honda and, perhaps surprisingly, Fisher-Price.
 

Industrial espionage or desperate fans?
 

Razer's prototype laptops were stolen from its CES booth
 

Razer's prototype laptops were stolen from its CES booth<br />   

Razer’s CEO Min-Liang Tan confirmed that two of its concept products were stolen from its booth on the last day of the show. "I've just been informed that two of our prototypes were stolen from our booth at CES today," said Tan on his Facebook page. "We have filed the necessary reports and are currently working with the show management as well as law enforcement to address this issue." In a later statement, the company said it was two of its three-screened laptops, currently titled Project Valerie, that were stolen at the show.
 

A world before smartphone apps.

The iPhone's legacy, 10 years later
 

The iPhone's legacy, 10 years later<br />   

On January 9th, 2007, Steve Jobs gave the world its first glimpse of the iPhone. A decade later, and it's difficult to overstate the impact it's had. Associate Editor Jon Fingas looks at all the things that Apple has got right and wrong with its most popular product over the years.
 

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One accidental dollhouse order led to lots of accidental dollhouse orders
 

Amazon's Echo attempted a TV-fueled shopping spree
 

Amazon's Echo attempted a TV-fueled shopping spree<br />   

Voice-activated devices can screw up -- just ask anyone watching a Microsoft gaming event with a Kinect-equipped Xbox One nearby. However, Amazon's Echo speaker caused more of that chaos than usual when a 6-year-old girl inadvertently ordered cookies and a dollhouse from Amazon by saying what she wanted. It was a costly goof ($170), but nothing too special by itself. Well, until San Diego's CW6 discussed the snafu on a morning TV show and one of the hosts made the mistake of saying that he liked when the girl said "Alexa ordered me a dollhouse." The channel then received multiple reports from viewers whose Echo devices tried to order dollhouses when their Echo device heard those magical dollhouse-ordering words from the TV.
 

But wait, there's more...

1. OLED TVs will finally take off in 2017

2. MIT's 3D graphene is ten times stronger than steel

3. Of course I took these eerily detailed 3D selfies at CES

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