Hasta La Gadget!

It was reported earlier this week that Sony will no longer be making physical PlayStation Vita games. The announcement didn’t come as a surprise considering that the handheld console is quite old now and the company doesn’t really have any plans to launch a successor. So while the company is not going to ship physical Vita GameCards globally by the end of fiscal year 2018, Sony Japan will continue making and selling them in its home country.

Sony is no longer going to make physical PlayStation Vita game cards which means that those who own this console in markets across North America and Europe will now be out of luck. That much the company had officially confirmed earlier this week.

An important distinction to be made here is that the company is only discontinuing the production of game cards and not the console. Even though it might only seem like a matter of time before the PlayStation Vita is discontinued completely, the handheld console lives on for now.

Sony Japan has now said that it will continue to support PS Vita in the country. This means that it’s going to continue manufacturing game cards for the handheld console in Japan. It didn’t confirm or deny anything about a possible discontinuation of the PS Vita, though.

Sony Will Continue Making Physical PS Vita Games For Japan , original content from Ubergizmo. Read our Copyrights and terms of use.

Does anyone even know who Dick Tracy was anymore? Probably not, but they know his watch. Nick Mathis and his brother want to make that watch a reality. So they’re looking for 5,000 people interested in an officially licensed, Bluetooth enabled replica of Dick Tracy’s watch that can make and receive calls. Oh, and it will also tell the time with an analog timepiece.

I like the retro style. It’s a watch on top and a speaker on the bottom. It’s like my grandparents are designing modern gadgets. In a good way. Obviously, it will pair with any Bluetooth-enabled smartphone and it goes with anything, a suit, jeans and a t-shirt, and even a trench coat. If the pieces that backers get really look this good, they should have no problems. It looks just like the comic book version.

If you want to do your part, you can join their Indiegogo mailing list here and get 40% off when the campaign launches. Or you can just buy yourself a smartwatch and forget you ever heard of Dick Tracy. Because you probably never even read any of his comic strips and only know him from that terrible movie with Madonna and Warren Beatty.

[via Geekologie]

Google’s Duo app has become one of the most popular video calling app on Android since its debut in 2016, and now it’s introducing a rare feature for mobile platforms: screen sharing. The latest version of Duo is rolling out with the ability to share what’s displayed on a phone’s screen while on a call, allowing the other person to … Continue reading

U.S. companies like SpaceX have galloped ahead in the commercial space race but China doesn’t want to be left out as well. The country has kicked off its very own commercial space race as the first rocket was launched by a private Chinese company earlier this week. Beijing-based OneSpace Technologies became the first private company in China to launch a rocket.

China already has a significant presence in space. Almost all of the work done so far has been by the government’s China National Space Administration which has dispatched satellites, sent rovers to the moon, and has even sent astronauts to space.

According to local reports, OneSpace Technologies’ OS-X rocket was launched from an undisclosed location in China on a suborbital trajectory this Wednesday. The rocket reportedly reached an altitude of 25 miles and covered a distance of about 170 miles before it fell back to Earth.

The launch was meant to demonstrate the company’s potential and how it intends to use that in order to develop a scalable business that sends small satellites to space. It’s a relatively recent development in the country that allows private companies to send rockets up in space.

The government allowed private companies to start working on launching satellites just four years ago so while OneSpace Technologies might be the first one, it’s going to be far from the only Chinese private company that makes spaceflights in the years to come.

China Joins Commercial Space Race With First Private Rocket Launch , original content from Ubergizmo. Read our Copyrights and terms of use.

LG unveiled its new flagship smartphone for the year earlier this month and it confirmed the global release of the LG G7 ThinQ a couple of days ago. It’s going to start selling the handset in its home market of South Korea first before gradually making the device available in more countries across the globe. According to a new report from South Korea, the LG G7 ThinQ pre-orders are actually performing better than the LG G6 pre-orders did last year.

The report claims that more than 70,000 people in South Korea have pre-ordered the LG G7 ThinQ compared to the some 40,000 people who pre-ordered the LG G6 in the four days after the company opened pre-orders for the handset in its home market. The numbers are for the LG G7 ThinQ and LG G7 ThinQ Plus combined that have been available for pre-order in South Korea since May 11th.

The LG G7 ThinQ is the first flagship smartphone that the company has released after it shook up its smartphone release strategy considerably. It’s an attempt on the company’s part to turn things around at its mobile division that has been bleeding resources over the past few quarters.

Despite the solid pre-order performance in South Korea, it’s far too soon to be certain about the success of this device. It depends on how the LG G7 ThinQ performs in other markets and that’s yet to be witnessed.

LG G7 ThinQ Pre-Orders Reportedly Performing Better Than G6 , original content from Ubergizmo. Read our Copyrights and terms of use.