Lenovo unveils new Thinkpad products at CES 2015

Lenovo has today announced a series of new Windows 8.1 products for its Thinkpad line at CES 2015 in Las Vegas. The range topper is this, the Thinkpad X1 Carbon which is one of the lightest 14-inch Ultrabooks in the world, built partly to celebrate 100 million Thinkpad products sold in Lenovo's 22 year history with the line.

The X1 Carbon will start at $1249, boasts a new precision keyboard, a Carbon Fiber cover, a FHD or WQHD display option, 256GB and 512GB PCIe SSD drives and 4G LTE options with Intel's 5th generation Core i processors underneath.

Besides the X1, Lenovo is also announcing a bunch of other Thinkpad laptops at different spec and price points. New additions to the L, W and T series will be available – as with the Thinkpad X1 – beginning in February. All will be running the latest 5th Generation Intel Core i processors

The unveils don't end there, either. Lenovo has also introduced the Thinkpad Stack, a series of stackable add-ons that include a 1TB USB 3.0 hard drive, a wireless access point, a Bluetooth speaker and a power bank. All are detachable and with the pogo pin design can transfer data between them, too. Prices start at $49.99 for the power bank rising to $199.99 for the wireless access point and hard drive.

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Nest's thermostat gets smarter with support for more third-party devices

August smart lock, Philips Hue lights, and Automatic's driving assistant now work with Nest

Nest is today announcing a handful of new additions to the company's "Works with Nest" program, a designation given to third-party smart home products and appliances that can communicate with Nest's learning thermostat and smoke detector. And there are some fairly big names — 15 in all — coming on to help keep the temperature in your home at the perfect level. August's Smart Lock can now interact with Nest, for example, and the pairing could be hugely useful if you happen to own both. Lock your doors and Nest will automatically go into away mode (and save energy in the process). Once you unlock the door and head in upon returning, Nest will toggle back into home mode and set things back to a comfortable temperature.

This is the most insane wireless router in the history of mankind

CES is always full of surprises. Sometimes it's a wild television technology. Other times it's a crazy motorized skateboard. And sometimes it's a Wi-Fi router that looks like it wants to take off, join an armada of alien spaceships, and nuke the planet from orbit because that's the only way to be sure.

The router in question is the D-Link AC3200 Ultra Wi-Fi Router, and make no mistake: as these things go it's more than solid. Six antennas, support for the latest 802.11 protocols, and speeds up to 3.2Gbps. And this is just one of D-Link's new Ultra series (it'll be available on Newegg tomorrow for $309.99).

But mostly it just looks bonkers. Think about it. Sitting on the corner of your desk. Plotting. Scheming. Biding its time. Waiting for the perfect moment to strike.

Don't get me wrong. I'm not saying that there really is a wireless router that would want to murder your entire family before diving through a transdimensional wormhole to plot the demise of an entire civilization.

But if there was, this would be it. 

News & Image Courtesy The Verge