Eliane Fiolet is the co-founder and editor ofUbergizmo.com where she writes in English about consumer technology, cool prototypes and innovations. Launched in Silicon Valley in 2005, and distributed in six languages (en/fr/de/es/it/jp), Ubergizmo is one of the top consumer tech news websites in the world. Ubergizmo launched in Japan in August 2018.
Eliane is also an Advisor to the Board for Kolibree, the world’s first connected electric toothbrush and French success story featured on U.S national media. Kolibree won two CES awardsin 2017 and 2018. Since 2017, she is an Advisor to the Board and cofounder at CareOS, an award-winning IoT platform dedicated to beauty and health in the bathroom.
Ubergizmo is a Webby Award Honoree and has been featured in major media such as The Wall Street Journal, German national TV 3Sat, Stern magazine, Japanese newspaper NIKKEI, BBC online, and USA Today.
Eliane became an American citizen in 2014. In 2015, she has been knighted in the National Order of Merit, by the Frenchgovernment.
She is a pioneer in the Fashion and Tech movement, that became later a hot trend in Silicon Valley with the rise of wearable technology. Her highly successful 2009 “fashion and tech” Digital Summer tech event was the first of its kind.
Originally a Math/Physics major, she chose to earn a visual communication Master’s Degree before working in visual identity with prestigious firms such as Minale Tattersfield Design Strategy. Technically savvy, Eliane also designed UX for an award-winning adventure video game.
06/18/2019, We published about G-RO when the company launched its first very successful crowdfunding campaign in 2015 ($3.3M), to support the development of their intelligent luggage G-RO, a well-designed carry-on equipped with strong wheels, a 20,000 mAh battery and...
04/27/2019, #IFAGPC19 – There was a lot of cooking related devices showcased at IFA GPC 19 and Safera Sense was one of the most interesting ones. Safera is a Finnish company that specializes in the prevention of cooking fires, it manufactures stove guards since...
01/08/2019, Huawei is extending its PC Laptop market reach with the new Huawei Matebook 13, a premium laptop priced just below the current Matebook X Pro we previously reviewed. The goal is to bring the same look and feel as the X Pro but make it slightly more...
01/08/2019, Lenovo and Amazon have partnered to launch a couple of new Lenovo Smart Tab tablets named M10 (~$199) and P10 (~$249) that are powered by Amazon’s voice assistant, Alexa.
01/08/2019, CES if the traditional time for Dell to update its Dell XPS 13 design (Model 9380 this time), and we got eyes on it. At first glance, it looks very much like the XPS 13 we’re all familiar with by now.
01/08/2019, Laptops designed to be desktop replacements can be really interesting to look at, and the new Alienware Area 51m is certainly the most interesting design we’ve seen at CES for now.
01/06/2019, Although the Alienware M15 was launched in October 2018, Dell/Alienware is already announcing an updated version with more powerful components, most notably with a faster graphics processor (GPU).
01/06/2019, HP has been pushing for large Gaming Monitors for some time, and we admit that it got our interest before, but the new Omen x 65 Emporium with Soundbar reaches a new level.
01/06/2019, The HP Spectre 15 x360 already gets a significant update at CES in the form of an AMOLED display option. If you just got one recently, you might kick yourself right now, but this is a very exciting option, and hopefully just a new beginning of AMOLED on...
01/04/2019, At CES 2019, Dell is launching an update to the Dell Latitude 7000 (model 7400), with a significant update of the industrial design, which leads to a much more compact and potentially more powerful offering for SMBs and professionals.
12/17/2018, Lenovo is updating its ThinkPad L-Series with two L390 laptops, one being the ThinkPad L390 and the other the ThinkPad L390 Yoga. Both laptops are designed to pass some Mil-Specs (military specifications) tests and are aimed at business users, including...
12/04/2018, Razer is praised for its high performance/size ratio elegant gaming laptops, and with its Blade Stealth series introduced in 2016, tries to address the ultra-light and high-performance market segment.
11/14/2018, Google Assistant launched at Google I/O 2016 as the software for Google Home, the nemesis of Amazon Echo and its voice operated software Alexa. Since that day, countless new Google Assistant features and new compatible devices have been released. Today,...
11/08/2018, HTC has announced the HTC VIVE Focus VR headset for Enterprise in San Francisco. We’re still at the event looking at VR demos, but we can talk about the hardware right now.
11/07/2018, At the Samsung Developer Conference (SDC) in San Francisco, we had our first glimpse of the Samsung foldable phone, which is going to be the first major folding phone whose technology is pretty much production-ready. This was widely anticipated since...
10/29/2018, Today, we were invited at the Google Cloud HQ in Sunnyvale to hear more about the new AI for Social Good Program launched by Google and presented by Jeff Dean, Google Senior Fellow, SVP, Google AI.
08/30/2018, When Lenovo introduced the original Yoga Book, it was, and remains, a uniquely innovative design that made possible having an ultra-thin form-factor for Android and Windows tablet. One of the first request people had was for a programmable virtual...
08/28/2018, Dell has launched its new Inspiron 7000 Series that features three different screen sizes and five base models that are configurable to fit a vast range of user requirements.
08/28/2018, At IFA, Dell is launching a few Chromebooks, and while most are designed to maximum affordability, The Inspiron Chromebook 14 has a higher quality than one might imagine, for a Chromebook.
06/06/2018, We’re attending a Sonos special event in San Francisco at which the new Sonos Beam smart soundbar speaker. The smart speaker will be powered by Amazon’s Alexa voice control for now (you need an Alexa Fire TV box), but it can/will gain support...
