Jan 03
Experts say COVID-19 will be with us forever. That means “we’ve got to get people to think about risk tolerance,” said one health scholar.
Jan 03
“While everyone my age lamented the fact they weren’t able to go out to the club, I relished in an abundance of home-cooked meals from my grandmother and sporadic trips to Costco.”
Jan 03
When you think of the smart home, you think of obvious gadgets like lightbulbs, thermostats, and robotic appliances like vacuums. But there are decidedly less cool ways to smarten up your home that could actually help you save money and do some good for the environment.
Jan 03
Some time ago I came to feel, in a very literal way, the speed of semi-recent technological progress. My roommate—a gamer—had gotten it into his head, possibly via some other gamer, that ‘90s video games look best when played on ‘90s televisions. This led him to secure one on Craigslist, which led in turn to my…
Jan 03
I’ve done all the work, put in all the effort, and still, I struggle ― I still, despite my efforts to the contrary, spend more time hating my body than loving it.
Jan 03
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Jan 03
Kohler brings an auto-filling tub and a smart water leak system to CES 2022
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Jan 03
Welcome to the new year. How are those resolutions coming along? (Don’t worry, we can help.)
Contrary to my expectations, CES 2022 is still happening. However, the organizers have announced that the tech show will be cut short by a day, as COVID-19 cases continue to surge. It’s also kind of started early, with some big announcements from Samsung already, including putting NFTs into its TVs, and an upgraded eco TV remote that sips on your WiFi waves for energy.
Expect a week of hardware announcements, even if chances to play with and assess these new devices are a little limited without attendance in person.
-Mat Smith
Alienware’s Concept Nyx is like a Plex server for your PC games
But will it appeal to anyone beyond PC gaming fanatics?
Alienware’s newest concept can be boiled down to a gaming server that runs on your home network. You could conceivably run two games at once on your television, as Engadget saw during a recent demo in NYC. Since all of the rendering and network processing is happening in your home, Nyx would also be a lower latency experience than traditional cloud gaming.
This is a shiatsu hand massager for gamers
A hand warmer setting may help you get good.
Bauhutte
To help soothe their weary mitts, Japanese company Bauhutte has created a hand massager for gamers. The device works on either hand and has a 15-layer airbag for each finger and a shiatsu plate for the palm. There are two main options: a Shiatsu mode for the entire hand, and one that focuses on stretching fingers.
The next AirPods Pro might support lossless audio
You might have an easier time finding your case, too.
Now that the third-generation AirPods offer some of the same features as the AirPods Pro, how will Apple’s higher-end wireless earbuds stand out? Analyst Ming-Chi Kuo claims Apple is launching its second-generation Pro earbuds in the fall with support for Apple Lossless (ALAC) audio. Kuo expects the updated headphones will offer a “new form factor design” and that the new buds will supposedly include a charging case that can make sounds, much like AirTags, to help find it behind your couch cushions.
Samsung’s latest remote turns router radio waves into energy
The 2022 Eco Remote has a white option to match Samsung’s lifestyle TVs.
Samsung
Samsung has revamped the solar-charging remote it debuted at last year’s CES. Along with using light to top up the battery, Samsung says the latest Eco Remote can convert routers’ radio waves into energy to stay fully charged. There’s still a solar panel on the rear of the remote, which is also made with recycled materials.
Twitter bans Marjorie Taylor Greene’s personal account
Due to repeatedly spreading COVID-19 misinformation.
Twitter has banned Georgia Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene’s personal account after a fifth “strike” for spreading COVID-19 misinformation. A fifth strike means it’s a permanent ban.
In the past year, she claimed in July that COVID-19 wasn’t dangerous unless you were over 65 or obese, and in August said vaccines were “failing” against the new coronavirus’ Delta variant. Both statements were untrue. The posts respectively led to 12-hour and one-week suspensions. Her official account is still active as of this writing because it hasn’t run afoul of Twitter’s rules. Beyond that, she may have to wait around for TRUTH Social to finally launch.
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Jan 03
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NFTs have been gaining traction in the past couple of years, although for the most part it mostly dealt with digital art and video content. However, in recent times we’re started to see it applied to video games, where Ubisoft recently tried to introduce NFTs to its games. Now it looks like Square Enix wants to hop on board that trend as well.
In a letter to kick start 2022, the company’s president, Yosuke Matsuda, revealed that Square Enix is interested in NFTs as well. He also states that this will be a future that the company will be pursuing.
According to Matsuda, “The advent of NFTs using blockchain technology significantly increased the liquidity of digital goods, enabling the trading of a variety of such goods at high prices and sparking conversations the world over. I see 2021 not only as ‘Metaverse: Year One,’ but also as ‘NFTs: Year One’ given that it was a year in which NFTs were met with a great deal of enthusiasm by a rapidly expanding user base.”
That being said, Matsuda wasn’t specific on how Square Enix would be implementing NFTs in their games. We can understand the interest in the tech, but we should also point out that Ubisoft’s efforts have so far appeared to be a bit of a bust, so hopefully this is something that Square Enix will be able to learn from.
Square Enix Will Be Next To Put NFTs In Its Games
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Jan 03
NFT seems to be the buzzword of the season. The tech has been gaining popularity over the past few years, and more recently, we’re starting to see mainstream adoption where some game publishers are actually putting it into their games. So much so that while completely unnecessary, we understand where Samsung is coming from.
The company has recently announced a slew of new television sets that feature the use of MicroLED and Neo QLED display technology. However, as stunning as these TVs look, the most interesting thing from their announcement is how these TVs will feature Samsung’s “NFT Aggregation Platform”.
This is a platform that will allow users to browse and buy NFTs directly from their Samsung TVs. It will source NFTs from various marketplaces and if users are interested, they can make a purchase directly from them. It will also be able to show relevant information like who created the NFT and all the related blockchain metadata.
The TVs can also be used to display NFTs that users have bought, and since this new platform will be available on Samsung devices like The Frame, it is actually pretty well-suited for that task. That being said, NFTs don’t exactly come cheap so we have to wonder who this platform is really catered towards, but hey, if you do trade in NFTs, maybe this could be worth checking out.
You Can Soon Buy And Manage Your NFTs Through Samsung’s TVs
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