Jul 26
You can get comprehensive lists of everything coming to streaming services anywhere. But half of those titles you don’t care about, and the other half are terrible. Where’s the good stuff? io9 is here to help.
Jul 26
Until the Super Soaker came along in 1990, water guns hadn’t changed much in over a century. But the Super Soaker was 28 years ago, and a group of German engineers and designers think it’s finally time for water guns to evolve again. They’ve created the self-filling Spyra One that fires quick bursts of water instead…
Jul 26
Despite Amazon having a two-year head start versus Google in the smart speaker wars, earlier this year, sales of Google Home devices surpassed all of Amazon’s Echoes for the first time ever. And while Amazon still holds the overall lead in market share, it’s not hard to see why Google is catching up fast. Compared to…
Jul 26
This Hypnotic Machine Perfectly Juggles a Ping-Pong Ball By Listening to the Bounce
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Bouncing a ping-pong ball on a paddle isn’t terribly challenging for someone with even a modicum of hand-eye coordination, but what if you were blindfolded and had to only rely on your ears? That makes the challenge almost impossible, but unexpectedly it turned out to be an effective approach for this ball-juggling contraption
Jul 26
There’s a lot to say about Mercedes-Benz’s US-bound A-Class. It’s a car of many firsts: The first A-Class model to appear in the US when it hits dealerships later this year; the first A-Class sedan, well, ever (earlier Euro-spec models were glorious…
Jul 26
Lenovo will start shipping the first Google Assistant smart display this weekend, marking the birth of a new range of products that could eventually include some of Echo Show’s staunchest rivals. Similar to what Echo Show does, Google’s smart display…
Jul 26
Amazon may have pioneered the smart-speaker movement, but Google isn’t far behind. A year after Amazon debuted the first Echo, Google followed in its footsteps with the Home. The company copied Amazon yet again with the Home Mini, which is its ve…
Jul 26
The ACLU put Amazon’s Rekognition facial scanning software to the test and the results were more than a little troubling. Comparing “every current member of the House and Senate” against a database of 25,000 publicly available mugshots, Amazon’s soft…
Jul 26
With Samsung’s Galaxy Note 9 reveal event just around the corner, there have been a lot of rumors about the device. One of the more enduring rumors is that the Galaxy Note 9 will have a big 4,000mAh battery, extending life significantly over its predecessors. Though Samsung won’t confirm specifications until the day of the reveal event, a teaser it … Continue reading
Jul 26
This morning the folks at Samsung Display announced the certification of their new “Unbreakable Panel” by Underwriters Laboratories. “The fortified plastic window is especially suitable for portable electronic devices not only because of its unbreakable characteristics,” said Hojung Kim, general manager of the Communication Team, Samsung Display Company, “but also because of its lightweight, transmissivity and hardness, which are all … Continue reading
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