Gadgetory

it's time to get some digital tattoos and adopt a family robot I'm Bridget Carey and this is your CNET update during this time of year tech news tends to slow down a bit but when the news is dry it gives us the opportunity to cover some of the more bizarre gadgets out there take for instance Motorola's digital tattoo there are many ways to unlock a smartphone there are pin codes passwords patterns you can use a thumbprint to even use face detection but Motorola thinks you may want to use a sticker on your skin it's called a digital tattoo but it's just a sticker with circuitry it's about the size of a nickel designed to work with the Moto X smartphone when you tap the phone to the sticker the phone is unlocked now this isn't new technology it's using NFC the sticker could save you time but people may also think you have some sort of skin disease a pack of 10 costs $10 and it'll stay on when you shower swim or workout Sony's latest walkman is getting buzzed the first cassette tape playing Walkman came out 35 years ago but this new nwz x1 model plays ultra high-definition digital audio files that means the music isn't compressed like a typical mp3 along with hi-def Aria comes a high price tag it's $700 it's a bit bulky carved from a block of expensive aluminum it has 128 gigs of storage and 32 hours of battery life but it's hid in Japan where consumers are starting to get into high def audio and buy high def I mean you can hear every minut detail like the artist breathing it'll probably take some time before that becomes a thing in the US but for less than the cost of that new Walkman you can buy a robot for your family say hello to the G Bo a robot that's connected to the Internet and it can be programmed to do various things like take your picture remind you of appointments and deliver messages it has the ability to identify specific people in your family so we can deliver a message just for a certain person it talks to you and you can talk back it's still in development and the company is raising money now on IndieGoGo to mass-produce this rotating countertop buddy the promotional video shows that it can sense touch and it can be programmed with various apps it can read a bedtime story or be used for video chat the Creator has spent her career researching ways to make robots more responsive to humans and maybe Gebo is a step closer to those helpful robots that we grew up with on TV and in the movies you can pre-order an Evo now for five hundred dollars and it's expected to ship in September of next year that's your tech news update for more details head to cnet.com from our studios in New York I'm Bridget Carey