Apple’s been keeping busy rolling out small patches of iOS 6. The latest, iOS 6.1.3 beta 2 just hit developers. Importantly, 9To5Mac reports that the update fixes the gaping lock screen bug that allows access even with out a passcode. No word on whether it patches up the recent Evasi0n jailbreak. Unfortunately, it’s only a developer beta, so you won’t get the fix yet. [9To5Mac] More »
One of the new game announcements that impressed us the most during last night’s PlayStation 4 event was Guerrilla Games’ next Killzone title, Killzone: Shadow Fall. We’ve been fans of the Killzone series and the demo live demo last night probably couldn’t be appreciated by most people since we know the live stream probably didn’t offer the best quality possible.
Trust us when we say that in person, the Killzone: Shadow Fall demo looked amazing. As we said in our PlayStation 4 event wrap-up, the amount of detail that was shown in the game was truly jaw dropping. That’s why we thought you should check out the live demo for yourself without the constraints of last night’s Ustream video stream.
When you watch the video above, be sure to watch it as an HD video as you’ll be able to appreciate all of the finer details much better. If this is a glimpse into what next-gen video games will look like, then we’d gladly wait in line with our fists full of cash to partake.
By Ubergizmo. Related articles: New Gears of War: Judgment Video Highlights Multiplayer Modes, Weapons, Rayman Legends Online Challenge Mode Hitting Wii U This April For Free,
We haven’t been hearing much hearsay on the second-generation iPad mini. Of course, we know it’s coming at some point, but today’s leak seems to be the first out of many that we’ll see in the coming months. Unconfirmed photos of what appear to be the rear shell of the second-gen iPad mini have leaked out onto the interwebs.
A member of Chinese site WeiPhone has posted photos of the rear shell in a forum thread, which shows all angles of the piece of aluminum that is said to be a part of the second-gen iPad mini. Of course, the shell looks very similar to the current iPad mini, but it does look a tad bit thicker. That could just be the angles of the photos giving us that effect, but a thicker iPad mini wouldn’t be unheard of.
For instance, the full-size iPad gained a bit of thickness after the iPad 2. Granted, it’s only a bit thicker, but the thinnest iPad that we’ve seen came out over two years ago. Apple may be stuffing a Retina display in the iPad mini, as well as some faster hardware, which would understandably make the device just a tad thicker than before.
The photos also show a bright blue Apple logo, as well as the word “iPad” towards the bottom. We’re guessing this just a part of the manufacturing process, or it could mean that Apple is planning to offer colored logos with this next-gen device, although that seems highly unlikely. Obviously, we don’t know much about this leak, so we’re keeping a good amount of salt nearby until we hear something a bit more official.
[via MacRumors]
iPad mini 2nd-generation rear shell leaks is written by Craig Lloyd & originally posted on SlashGear.
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It’s not the first miniature car chase to leave us desperately missing our RC toys of yesteryear. But this one perfectly captures the feeling of your stereotypical Hollywood blockbuster car chase—complete with tiny sidewalk cafes for the cars to smash through. More »
If you live outside the UK or haven’t got access to the Britain-based Blue Peter television program for whatever reason, you’ll be glad to see that the full chat they’ve had this past week with Jony Ive is now available in full. The Blue Peter program hosts a variety of engineers, inventors, and famous people of all kinds and has done so over its record-holding span of years actively broadcast on television. Apple’s own Jony Ive’s appearance included chats about three different designs created by children who rose to the challenge provided the week before, and showed Ive receiving a special badge in his honor.
The Blue Peter gold badge is a pin, or a button, if you like, that’s given by the program to people of particular influence on the design community. As it was given to Ive, so too did he reciprocate with a custom-made large version of the token back to the program. This extra-large Blue Peter badge was made of pure Aluminum – or Aluminium if you’re from that side of the sea.
Apple’s Chief Designer spoke up about how influential the Blue Peter program was on him as a child as well. He made it clear that he was particularly struck by the way the program took everyday objects and turned them into new, more useful inventions each time they appeared. Re-using objects otherwise seen as throwaway was also mentioned as being especially memorable by Ive.
You’ll also notice in the video that the host and Ive are using two iPad minis to work through the segment. It’s with these that they watch video presentations of the designs the children have made and make a point to tap through throughout the program. The whole Ive segment, too, takes place inside Apple’s own campus in Cupertino – fun stuff!
BONUS – extended edition!
Jony Ive Blue Peter video up now: chatting on gold and aluminium is written by Chris Burns & originally posted on SlashGear.
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[MWC 2013] Today, Metaio announced an agreement with ST-Ericsson, in which the semi conductor manufacturer agrees to integrate Metaio’s Augmented Reality hardware IP, also known as “AREngine”, into its upcoming mobile platforms via the “first application processor accelerating Augmented Reality performance on mobile devices”, according to Metaio.
We know Metaio from its Augmented Reality mobile browser, and its multiple innovations in the field.
We do not know much about this new hardware from the information we got from Metaio, we need to ask for more details. According to the company, the new chipset “will improve nearly all aspects of an Augmented Reality experience, yielding performance increases in speed, precision and power consumption, with up to 60 times faster initialization, more than an AR app running on existing platforms – the highest to date in the mobile industry”. In addition, Metaio claims that its AREngine “drastically reduces power consumption making all-day AR experiences possible”.
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How many times have you lifted that little cardboard cup to your mouth, only to recoil in pain once the hot coffee touches your lips and scalds your tongue? If it’s a number higher than one, then I’d say that’s one time too many.
Designers Yang Dongyun, Wu Yichen, Sang Xinxin, Gu Zhiyu, and Lin Xia must agree, since they designed the Nohot interactive cup to put an end to coffee burns once and for all.
It looks just like a regular coffee-to-go cup, except that it’s got a lid that’s made from heat-sensitive materials. When the drink is still too hot to drink, a circular lump in the middle of the lip expands, so that the person can’t drink the coffee without bumping his or her nose that lump on the lid.
As the coffee reaches a safe drinking temperature, the lump on the cover slowly flattens, so that it’ll look like the regular lids that you see so often on your own daily cup of coffee.
Pretty nifty, isn’t it?
The Nohot cup is a red dot award: design concept winner.
[via Yanko Design]
Yesterday, we announced your picks for the 2012 Engadget Awards, and today it’s our turn. The Editors’ Choice selections below cover the same 15 categories you voted on earlier this month, but the results weren’t limited to reader-selected finalists. (In other words, it’s a favorite gadget free-for-all for this bunch of geeks.) Without further ado, we present our top products of 2012 — click past the break for the full list.
Supposedly a picture is worth a thousand words, but this crazy 320-gigapixel panorama of London has got to be worth a little more than that. This record-shattering shot is actually some 48,640 stitched together into one ludicrous goliath. You wish your camera was even one one-hundredth as cool. More »
Qualcomm has announced RF360, a solution that solves one of the biggest hurdles for LTE handset makers and customers: the need to build multiple versions of the same handset to address one of the many (40+) LTE bands worldwide. Interestingly, Qualcomm did a good job of keeping this a secret, since the company hinted before that a solution to it may take a long time to appear. For instance, the iPhone 5 comes in 3 versions (Model A1428, A1429 GSM, A1429 CDMA) and the Galaxy S3 has multiple versions as well (including a Qualcomm-powered one). For the traveler, this meant that LTE will not be available outside of their home market, because each carrier uses different frequencies, and even within a local market (US: Sprint, Verizon, AT&T), LTE roaming may not be available. You may care even if you do not travel because the different hardware flavors delay smartphones availability in smaller markets or for smaller carriers. It also fragments the smartphone support (different hardware) and finally, it makes building those phones more expensive to build, design and update. Qualcomm RF360 at offering a technical solution that would allow handset makers to build a single hardware design to address every (or most) LTE markets. (more…)
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