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You might say the day is never really done in consumer technology news. Your workday, however, hopefully draws to a close at some point. This is the Daily Roundup on Engadget, a quick peek back at the top headlines for the past 24 hours — all…
Last year, Microsoft said that the next-gen version of Kinect was coming to Windows, but has been relatively quiet since. That changes now, as Redmond has lifted the curtain on the new sensor and it looks… a lot like the Xbox One version. The unit…
The HTC One M8 was launched not too long ago and we have to say that it is one of the more beautiful Android smartphones we’ve seen to date. The use of metal gives the phone a more premium look and feel to it, something which is pretty refreshing in a market where for the most part, phones are typically made from plastic.
In fact HTC’s CEO, Peter Chou, was reportedly pretty involved in the design process of the HTC One M8, constantly making changes and providing feedback to the team where they reportedly created 30-50 prototypes before landing on the final design. This is something HTC should be proud of and it looks like they have no qualms about rubbing it in the face of their competition, Samsung. (more…)
HTC’s Jason Mackenzie Slams The Galaxy S5, Calls It Cheap Plastic original content from Ubergizmo. 
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A few days ago, Facebook announced that they would be acquiring Oculus VR. This is actually pretty big news as it would no doubt help to advance virtual reality technology, not to mention give Oculus VR the resources to compete against the likes of Sony who have recently announced their own VR plans.
However not everyone was too thrilled about Facebook’s acquisition, such as Minecraft’s creator, Markus “Notch” Persson, who publicly announced the cancellation of the game for the Oculus Rift. Notch is not alone in his pleasure and developers Twinbeard has also expressed their disapproval of the acquisition. (more…)
Kickstarter Project Adds Stretch Goal Of Buying Oculus VR From Facebook original content from Ubergizmo. 
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With the release of iOS 7.1, performance monitoring service, Crittercism, found that it was the most stable iOS build to date, with a crash rate of just under 1.6%. This is compared to previous iOS builds who have had a crash rate of over 2%. That’s pretty good, right? Sure, but now that Crittercism has released the numbers for Android, things certainly don’t look so good anymore.
According to the latest figures by Crittercism, they have found that Android in general has been more stable compared to iOS. According to their findings, app crashes on Android 2.3 Gingerbread was at 1.7%, a number which Apple has only recently managed to beat. (more…)
Report Finds Android To Be More Stable Than iOS, Less App Crashes original content from Ubergizmo. 
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Everyday objects like keys and forks and spoons and brooms and umbrellas and so forth are always designed with usability in mind. You use them everyday so they better be easy to use, right? But what if you re-designed them to make them annoying and uncomfortable to use? They’d still technically be useful objects but they’d also be hilariously terrible to actually use.
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EVGA has dropped the 2GB version of its GeForce GTX 750 FTW graphics card. Based on the 28nm GM107 silicon, this Amazon-exclusive graphics card is packed with 512 CUDA Cores, a 128-bit memory interface, a core clock of 1229MHz (1320MHz Boost Clock) and a 2GB of GDDR5 memory set @ 5012MHz. The card also employs EVGA’s ACX cooling solution and has dual-link DVI-I, HDMI and DisplayPort outputs. Price itself is set at $149.99. [Product Page]
Storm System Technology has listed a new workstation desktop PC ‘Storm Atlantis XL XDP-2011 Quadro SP’ on its product page. Adopting Phanteks’ Enthoo Primo Ultimate Chassis, the system is equipped with 2x 1.80GHz Intel Xeon E5-2603V2 processor, an Intel C602 Chipset, an NVIDIA Quadro K2000 graphics card, a 4GB DDR3 RAM, a 500GB hard drive, a 1350W 80PLUS SILVER power supply and runs on either Windows Server 2012, 7 (Ultimate/Professional) or 8.1 Pro operating system. The Storm Atlantis XL XDP-2011 Quadro SP is available now for 350,000 Yen (about $3,438). [Product Page]
TEKWIND is about to release GeChic’s latest 10-point multi-touch mobile LCD monitor ‘On-Lap 1002′. Adopting an IPS panel, this new 10.1-inch LED-backlight monitor provides 1280 x 800 native resolution, 800:1 contrast ratio, 250 cd/m2 brightness, 25ms response time and 170/170 degree viewing angles. In addition, it also comes with a built-in 1.0W speaker and has D-Sub, HDMI and 2x USB 2.0 (1x for power input) connectors. The On-Lap 1002 will become available from early April for around 30,000 Yen (about $294). [Product Page]
Plextor has launched a new line of mSATA SSDs, the M6M. Available in 64GB, 128GB, 256GB and 512GB sizes, these ultra-compact SSDs come with a SATA 6.0 Gbps interface, a Marvell 88SS9188 controller, a MTBF of 1.5 million hours, TRIM support and can deliver read/write speeds of up to 520/160 Mb/s (64GB), 520/340 MB/s (128GB) and 520/440 MB/s (256GB & 512GB), respectively. Prices unannounced yet. [Product Page]
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