While most of us were eagerly readying ourselves for Easter, NASA was hard at work on something completely different. A team from the space agency was in Nanaimo last week, collaborating with robotics firm Seamor Marine on a project which could just change the face of space exploration.
The Panama Canal is not the only water line connecting the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. There’s a place in Wyoming—deep in the Teton Wilderness Area of the Bridger-Teton National Forest—in which a creek splits in two. Like the canal, this creek connects the two oceans dividing North America in two parts.
Here we have another budget-friendly Android 4.2 tablet for you to take home from Aimson, the AM7001. Priced at just $56.70, the tablet packs a 7.0-inch 800 x 480 5-point capacitive multi-touch display, a 1.2GHz ATM7021 Cortex-A9 dual-core processor, a PowerVR SGX540 GPU, a 512MB RAM, a 4GB of internal storage, a microSD card slot (up to 32GB), dual cameras (0.3MP front & 1.9MP rear), 3G external support, WiFi, a mini-HDMI port, a 2500mAh battery and runs on Android 4.2.2 Jelly Bean OS. [Product Page]
And if you like what you see from the newest spooky supernatural flick from Joss Whedon’s brilliant brain, you can watch the entire movie on demand on Vimeo for 5 bucks. A great deal for those of you who want more Whedon in your life. The tagline talks about this being a story about a girl who meets a boy but because this is Whedon, you know all kinds of crazy mysterious things and spectacular maybe sci-fi maybe magical definitely cool things will happen too.
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…
A couple of years ago, former Apple SVP of the iPod, Tony Fadell, launched his own company and a new product called the Nest learning thermostat. The device, for those unfamiliar, will learn your habits at home and will be able to adjust the thermostat automatically and according to what it thinks you like, thus taking home automation to the next level.
It was also earlier this year that Google announced that they would be acquiring the company and we guess it is not surprising to think that Google could soon start selling the device themselves. Thanks to a recent sighting on Google Play, it seems that the device could soon be put up for sale.
The listing was originally spotted by the folks at Droid-Life before it was quickly taken down by Google, presumably because the device wasn’t meant to go up for sale just yet. However like we said earlier, with Google now owning the company, it would not be so far-fetched to think that they wouldn’t sell the device themselves as opposed to sitting back and letting Apple handle its sales.
In any case there’s no telling when the device will go up for sale on Google Play, but with the recent sighting, we can only assume that it will be soon (hopefully).
Nest Thermostat Briefly Spotted On Google Play , original content from Ubergizmo, Filed in Gadgets, Home, Google, nest,
It was about a year ago that the Mailbox app was launched. The app initially debuted on iOS and one of its unique features and selling point was its clean and minimal user interface that made use of gestures, such as swiping, to manage one’s email. The app was later launched on Android as a beta which included several changes not in the iOS version, such as auto-swipe.
Well the good news for iOS users is that Mailbox 2.0 is finally here for iOS and with the update, it will introduce the auto-swipe feature which should make managing your inbox a lot easier than before. For those unfamiliar with the feature, the app will basically learn from your habits and will know which emails you want to archive and will automatically be able to archive it for you, thus saving you precious time from having to do it yourself.
It should be noted that because Mailbox is now owned by Dropbox, the app will now prompt you to sign in with your Dropbox account, although this is entirely optional if you don’t see the need to link up your Dropbox and Mailbox accounts together, although perhaps if you want to backup your emails then it might be worth looking into.
The app itself is free and promotes an empty inbox. This is done by either archiving your emails or setting them to “snooze” which will remind you to attend to it later. If you’d like to check it out, hit up the iTunes App Store or the Google Play Store for the download.
Mailbox 2.0 For iOS Released , original content from Ubergizmo, Filed in Cellphones, Apps, mailbox,
While the console wars is far from over, so far it seems that the Sony PlayStation 4 is currently leading the Microsoft Xbox One in terms of sales, at least to date. However given that both consoles are about half a year old, we reckon that it’s still a bit too early to tell which console will ultimately “win” at the end of the day.
Perhaps both consoles need more game and more exclusives and mature before we can really see the difference, but in the meantime Microsoft’s Phil Spencer admits that there is more that Microsoft needs to do. This was acknowledged by the man himself on Twitter where he responded to a fan by saying, “Definitely in to win. We need to do more, that’s 100% of my focus.”
Given that Phil Spencer has recently taken over the Xbox division, we expect that he is more committed than ever to making Microsoft’s latest console a success. We’re not sure what more can Microsoft do – perhaps a price drop might encourage higher adoption rates (it is about $100 more than a PS4). Perhaps the console needs more exclusive games as well.
Titanfall is currently the latest exclusive for the Xbox platform (and the PC) and while the game did help to boost Xbox One sales in some parts of the world, we guess it wasn’t enough to beat out Sony’s 7 million sales. What do you guys think? What should Microsoft do to help encourage adoption?
Phil Spencer Admits More Needs To Be Done For The Xbox One , original content from Ubergizmo, Filed in Gaming, Microsoft, Xbox One,
Good news, everyone! The Games for Change Festival today announced a partnership with the Tribeca Film Festival. Seen by many as the Sundance of gaming, the festival this year is both narrowing its focus and broadening its context in hopes of showing just how important games culture has become.
By now, you’ve likely heard the insane story of a 16-year-old boy who survived a five-hour flight
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