After Google’s Nexus 7 announcement today, we had the opportunity to put the new device through its paces and it did not disappoint. The new unit is noticeably lighter than its predecessor and its narrower form factor makes it easier to fit in a back pocket without busting seams.
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Google’s relationship with television is spotty, at best. Google TV, whether as a set-top box or as a built-in product, has been an ongoing punchline. It didn’t even sell television shows in the Play Store until a year ago. But Chromecast
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As a full reboot of the original 7-inch ASUS-made slate, Google has opted to keep the same name, same manufacturer, and same attitude toward the Android world, aiming to continue to scoop up the market here with a 2013 edition of the Nexus 7. This device looks and feels exceedingly similar to the original, working with the same physical size display, a bit thinner yet taller tablet body, and a back-facing camera. Inside it’s got a whole different set of processor bits and pieces, on the other hand.
With the Nexus 7 2, or the Nexus 7 2013, whatever you’d like to call it, you once again get a rather simple combination of obviously high-end parts, starting with this machine’s display. Instead of a 1280 x 800 pixel display, this next-generation machine has a big more staggering 1920 x 1200 pixels to its name – that’s 323 PPI and well over the rest of the tablet world, especially this device’s biggest competitors.
This machine works with an untextured soft plastic back featuring the NEXUS brand in its center, aimed horizontal rather than the previous generation’s vertical. Here you’ve got two speakers as well – both back-facing though they are, they remain exceedingly loud as the reverberate in the palms of the users’ hands. We’ll compare this to the HTC One’s BoomSound and NVIDIA SHIELD’s dual speaker system soon enough.
On this tablets’ back is a new 5 megapixel camera without flash, and around this device’s edges are a full-sized headphone jack, microUSB port (slimport, mind you), power button, and volume rocker. Up along the top – the same place the power button and volume sit – you’ll find two mic holes – double the fun for ambient noise correction.
Sit right as we roll forward with a full review and the top-to-bottom analyzation of this tablet as it hits our test bench soon!
Nexus 7 (2013) Hands-on is written by Chris Burns & originally posted on SlashGear.
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Do you love fish? I mean really love fish? To the point where you have to watch them swimming as you pee? If the answer is yes, then don’t flounder and check out this fishbowl toilet today.
Or if you want to send a gangster style message, give it as a gift with a note attached saying that “Luca Brasi pees with the fishes.” Just replace Luca Brasi’s name with your friend’s name. And yes, they will be peeing with the fishes.
Poor fish. That’s just how they wanted to live their life, watching other life-forms excavate their bowels and bladders.
[via Thisiswhyimbroke]
We should’ve known this was coming after Google and Netflix informed us back at CES they were working on their AirPlay competitor, the DIAL wireless streaming protocol. Today, with the revelation of the new Chromecast HDMI dongle to leverage DIAL and expand upon it, you’ll be able to stream more content more easily to your home’s biggest screen — all for just 35 bucks. We got to check out the Chromecast at today’s Google event, so join us, won’t you, for our full impressions.
Gallery: Google Chromecast hands-on
Filed under: Home Entertainment, Tablets, HD, Google
Google unveiled the latest in its flagship tablet lineup, the new Nexus 7, at a low-key media event Wednesday morning.
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The Mercedes-Benz Vision Golf Cart offers a joystick for easy driving regardless of the seat you're in.
(Credit: Screenshot by Christopher MacManus/CNET)
CNET’s Crave blog has delved deeply into the world of luxury tech recently, but not many of the lavish items we covered deliver a punch quite like the Mercedes-Benz Vision Golf Cart.
As part of a recent international competition, hundreds of golf and car enthusiasts submitted ideas to Mercedes-Benz. There wasn’t a single winner, as the company combined the best and brightest ideas into one single concept. The result? One of the most sensational rides ever conceived for the fairway.
The decadent vehicle would come equipped with features — including futuristic aesthetics, a solar-panel roof, and a refrigerator — that rival the highest-end luxury cars on the road today. Of course, the cart concept also packs features fit for the fairway, such as a Fore button that will help you avoid any unexpected damage-related lawsuits.
Explore more of this exciting concept in our gallery below.
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When there’s news of yet another frightening drone strike on the news almost everyday, it’s hard to forget that those crazy flying machines can be used for more than war. In recent years we’ve seen drones used by hobbyists as expensive big boy toys, by journalists as eyes in the sky
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