Jasmine France
Jasmine France is a travel-addicted, food-obsessed Bay Area writer with more than a decade of experience covering consumer electronics, digital music, mobile apps and cloud computing.
Body-heat harvesters, flexible screens, and more wearable-tech revolutions
At the Wearable Technologies Conference, companies as big as Google bumped elbows with new start ups, sharing ideas and vision for the wearable industry. The future, they say, will see improvements to optics and photonics, miniaturization of designs, and vastly increased computing power.
How we test washing machines
Tech is changing everything, even the ordinary washer. Here's how we test individual units, to to let you know if a model is worth the money.