What It's Like To Control Your Home From Your Car

What It's Like To Control Your Home From Your Car

I just got into a Mercedes-Benz SLK, set the navigation to home, and it turned on the heater in my house. This is the first step on the path to the future we were promised in all those GM Motoramas so many years ago.

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NASA Will Send Your Messages To Aliens Into Outer Space

NASA Will Send Your Messages To Aliens Into Outer Space

Last year, when Voyager I left our solar system for the lonely pastures of interstellar space, it carried a message for extraterrestrial life: A golden record containing images and words selected by Carl Sagan and others. But that was almost 40 years ago. Now, NASA is making a whole new message from the Earthlings of 2014. And it wants your messages.

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Samsung Gear Live Hands-On: Turns Out Smartwatches Could Be Great

Samsung Gear Live Hands-On: Turns Out Smartwatches Could Be Great

We got a surprise announcement at I/O today with Samsung unveiling its first Android Wear watch in the Gear Live. We just slapped it onto our wrist and got to play with it for a few minutes, and while it was in its demo mode so we couldn’t dive in too deeply, we were impressed.

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What Material Design Means For the Future of Android

What Material Design Means For the Future of Android

Today at Google I/O, we were introduced to a new design language called Material Design. It’s Google’s first design manifesto, and within it lies a message about how the company sees its users interacting with everything from watches to cars. Here’s how to decode it.

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We just got to see (and touch) Samsung's new Gear Live smartwatch

Here at Google’s yearly developer conference we just learned a whole lot more about Android Wear, the company’s OS tailored to wearables. With that info came word that Samsung’s rolling out the newest member of the Gear family, the Live, and I just…

Samsung's latest flagship tablets launching July 4th for £319 and up

Samsung has such a fondness for tablets it’s sometimes hard to keep up. The recently announced Galaxy Tab S, 8.4- and 10.5-inch Android slates stand out from the crowd as Samsung’s newest flagship line, and the company said today they’ll arrive in…

You can now relive the Google I/O 2014 opening keynote

Did you nod off a few times during the last half hour of Google’s opening keynote of I/O 2014 earlier today? No worries! The full video has been archived for your post-event viewing pleasure on YouTube. Hop down past the break to take a good long…

Meet the G Watch, LG's first Android Wear smartwatch

LG believes it’s hip to be square, and it created a smartwatch to prove it. The G Watch was announced alongside Android Wear, Google’s new wearables platform, and the circular Moto 360 this March. After three months, LG and Google are finally ready…

Samsung Gear Live and LG G Watch priced and put on pre-order

Screen Shot 2014-06-25 at 2.54.19 PMAt Google I/O 2014 Android Wear came out with a bang, appearing with three smart watches ready for release later this summer. Starting today both the LG G Watch and the Samsung Gear Live – newly announced today – will both be made available for pre-order. LG G Watch The LG G Watch will be released with a 1.2GHz Qualcomm … Continue reading

Hunger Games: Mockingjay trailer brings 4K warning to public

Screen Shot 2014-06-25 at 3.08.08 PMThe team responsible for promoting the Hunger Games films do not hold back when it comes to viral fantasticism. Today they’ve released a President Snow Address, speaking “Together as One”, in an ominous talk sent out to the Districts of Panem. Deceptively clean, this video should serve to show the evil living under the leadership of this false nation. You … Continue reading