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we've got the best stuff from Aoife 2015 and yes 4th friday i'm jay pag are filling in for Bridget Carey this is your cnet update as you may or may not know today is force friday actually of course you know about it because this Star Wars marketing campaign is everywhere the movie might not be out for another few months but the merchandising machine is in full effect that said this bb-8 rolling droid is pretty adorable check out some of this footage oh my god what did i do we've got to look at all the Star Wars march hitting the internet today so head over to cnet.com for the latest the ephah consumer electronics show going on right now in Germany has debuted a handful of eye-popping new products there's a Wi-Fi robot vacuum from neato a sleep monitor you slip under your bed from Samsung the new gear s2 and moto 360 smartwatches and a bunch more we've got a full team on the ground in Berlin so be sure to head over to cnet com / IFA for the very latest as that show comes to a close so there's a new personal safety app that allows a user's friend to virtually walk them home at night it's called appropriately enough the companion app and it was created by five students from the University of Michigan an app user can request a friend or family member to keep them company during a walk and the app will send the companion a link they don't need to have the app installed that link lets them track the user via GPS and they'll get notified if the user Falls if they start running or even if their headphones get yanked out some really smart stuff there it's free and it's available now on iOS and Android and finally you didn't think I'd finish up the week without one last tiny tidbit of information ahead of next week's Apple event did you you're silly yes according to 9to5 mac apple is planning to release a new version of the 21.5 inch imac in october with a bumped up for okay display and that's up from 1080p the 5k 27-inch imac saw a price jump when this happened so expect a similar bump in price for the 21 and a half inch model as well alright that does it for this tech news update you can always get more by going over to cnet.com / update from our Studios here in New York I'm Jeff Beck alone