For fans of the Oculus Rift, waiting has been very much the name of the game. And tomorrow, with the release of Oculus’s Touch Controllers, the final bit of waiting is over at last. First unveiled to the world in a now-famous 2012 Kickstarter and launched earlier this year, the Rift instantly became the standard-bearer for the promise of what a new generation of consumer virtual reality could deliver. Over the years, through a series of developer versions, a lot of people—though not the masses, who didn’t have access—were introduced to VR for the first time.

Among the latest crop of sometimes peculiar and futuristic patent applications from Nike, all in the name of getting you pumped for a workout: an "energy harvesting device," an augmented-reality workout buddy, and motivational music streaming. Unlike Under Armour (UA) and its dive into fitness trackers this year, Nike's been rather quiet on the wearables front, instead opting to team up with Apple on a Nike-edition Apple Watch. But its 60-plus patent-application dump, which the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office published Thursday, indicates that the Swoosh is still steadfastly working on wearable technology, particularly items designed to be integrated into workout clothes and footwear — i.e., stuff that …

Expedia customers can now use Amazon’s Alexa to ask for flight updates and rent a car, the company announced today. The skill can also be used to ask questions about hotel bookings, flights, loyalty points balance, and rental car reservations. The ability to buy millions of items from the Amazon marketplace has been available since July. While Amazon has made ground ahead of other platforms when it comes to conversational commerce, Alexa cannot currently be used to buy a plane ticket.

A new Denver Broncos augmented reality experience is now engaging fans taking part in the “Come to Life” campaign. This AR experience is a component of the team’s relationship with leading brands such as Coca-Cola, Bud Light and Conoco. To use the Denver Broncos augmented reality experience, fans use the app to scan one of the six different souvenir cups. This opens up a 3D display on the device screen, launches animations and creates a series of calls to action.

Food delivery giant Just Eat is laying claim to a significant milestone today —  the world’s first takeaway meal delivered by a robot. We first revealed back in July that Just Eat was partnering with Starship Technologies, the Estonia-based robotics startup created by Skype’s founders, to trial drone deliveries using a little six-wheeled sidewalk bot. Starship Technologies has been testing the robots across U.S. and European cities since late 2015, and it was already known that retailers from other industries would be testing robot deliveries commercially in London. This mirrors moves by companies such as Amazon, which had also previously revealed that it’s bringing drone-powered deliveries to …

The suspects had no idea that the bottle of cough syrup perched on a shelf at a Tustin pharmacy contained something more than cough relief. It wasn’t until the nondescript package was removed from the small Newport Avenue business by burglars that its secret ingredients went to work. Concealed inside the bottle of cough syrup was a GPS device that began tracking the medicine thieves’ every move, according to police investigators. After days of tracking, undercover surveillance and evidence gathering, investigators arrested Willie James Clark, 21, of Rowland Heights and Brian Vega Salinas, 20, of La Puente on suspicion of committing the Nov. 10 …

Scientists have developed conductive cotton fabrics using graphene-based inksthat could lead to smart textiles and interactive clothes with applications ranging from healthcare to the Internet of Things.  Wearable textiles-based electronics present new possibilities for flexible circuits, healthcare and environment monitoring, energy conversion and many others. Cotton fabric is among the most widespread for use in clothing and textiles, as it is breathable and comfortable to wear, as well as being durable to washing. These properties also make it an excellent choice for textile electronics. Researchers at the University of Cambridge in the UK and Jiangnan University in China, have devised low-cost, sustainable and environmentally-friendly …

Tom Jobim International Airpot, managed by airport concessionaire RIOgaleão and formed by Odebrecht TransPort, Changi Airports International and Infraero, has adopted Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) technology to offer Internet of Things services to its passengers and visitors. The solution, created by Aruba, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise(HPE) company, involved the installation of 3,000 beacons and the development of a smartphone app by Accenture. The technology is based on Aruba's Meridian Mobile App Platform, with three language options—Portuguese, English and Spanish—and provides a variety of information to make the airport passenger experience easier and more enjoyable. "It is the first airport in Latin America to launch the application with indoor navigation," …

For robots, the ideal environment is one that’s orderly and predictable. Unfortunately for robots, the world is anything but. That means robots of all sorts, from autonomous cars to little Roombas, need a way to navigate dynamic landscapes — without crashing into everything. A new system, developed by PAL Robotics in Spain, offers another possible solution to this problem. Its StockBot, a robot designed to take on the tedious task of retail inventory, can find its way around thanks to radio beacons set up around the room. Those beacons communicate with the robot, and the robot uses the distance between it and the …

Two men were arrested Monday morning after a business burglary - and a short chase - by a drone. An eyewitness saw the break-in happening. That eyewitness was talking to a drone pilot outside The Vault, where the break-in happened, so when the suspects took off, the drone did too. David Bell flies his drone downtown often, mainly just to get beauty shots. "Pretty amazing little thing," Bell said.  Before today, he's never needed to chase down burglars.