Google isn’t done trying to improve exposure for tablet-optimized Android apps. As of November 21st, Google Play will default to showing “Designed for tablets” apps when owners of those bigger devices browse top lists. Customers can still find phone-sized software if they like, but those titles will …
Despite the government being shut down, this week brought us a bevy of new gizmos to play with. I’ll leave it up to you to determine whether that’s some kind of evidence that the mere existence of government hinders the rollout of electronic devices — for now, we talk about gadgets!
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Starbucks could charge you a third more for a cup of coffee and, not only would you pay it, but you’d think it justified, one study of brain waves suggests, opening the door to market testing product pricing using neuroscience. The research, by neurobiologist and former marketing consultant Kai-Markus Müller, took Starbucks coffee as its […]
Maybe you thought that self-driving vehicles were a little bit further away, but check out this prototype machine gun, that will dispatch enemies from afar, without needing anyone to drive it.
The HDT Robotics Self-Driving Machine Gun uses a M240 machine gun and it can fire at a target at almost 500 feet away. Such a robot could help clear the way for soldiers to safely enter a battlefield, assuming it’s able to tackle the terrain us puny humans can. The prototype was demonstrated for the US Army, and you’ll notice that they have it chained up “for safety purposes.” Perhaps they learned a lesson from ED-209.
It can be a scary thought, having unmanned vehicle firing at enemies. So long as they remain firmly under human control, I guess it can’t be all bad.
[via Computerworld]
It would appear that Apple’s supply of the iPhone 5s has been safely restored to near-normal as the “October” shipping time has been reduced to 2-3 weeks. Now that we’re inside October, it certainly wouldn’t make a whole lot of sense to stick with the October shipping time note, but up on Apple.com you’ll now […]
(Credit: Hylian Heroics)
There are fan films by the hundreds out there, but our favorites are those that do something different — that show a new side to our favorite characters and worlds, that tell new stories (without, preferably, trampling on the canon too hard while they do so).
A group of Australian fans teamed up a couple of years ago to make “Hylian Heroics,” a short film made partially so creator Ken Abbott could muck about with some blood effects and partially because who wouldn’t want to dress up like a Hylian and swing some weapons around?
Now the second video in the series has been released, made by Abbott and his troupe of acrobatic martial artist/circus performer friends, and it’s sort of amazing.
Starring Jelena Butina, it casts Link as a somewhat belligerent young lady who prefers to answer her problems with her sword, which isn’t always the best way to go about it when you’re facing a Skull Kid (played by Emma Cartledge) in the Lost Woods.
Perh… [Read more]
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When you think of iconic graphic design, you might think of magazine ads or highway signs or even design-centric companies like American Airlines. You almost certainly don’t think of burglar alarms. But maybe you should.
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News that the Google TV platform will get an update to Android Jelly Bean came at the I/O event back in May, but there’s been little in the way of information since then. GTV Hacker team member CJ Heres points out a zip file containing the open sourced code for LG’s Google TV devices, and even has a …
Sunny summer days have all but disappeared to make way for the crisper autumn afternoons here in the northern hemisphere; give it another six or seven months, however, and we’ll all spending lovely lazy afternoons in bikinis and boardshorts, not a care in the world—except the fact that our damn towels aren’t drying fast enough. For that, Vertty is here to help.
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Despite being one of the greatest musicians of all time, David Byrne is a really awful futurist.
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