Nov 15
The Nimbus personal dashboard is made up of four gauges that would look at home on the dash of a 1970’s muscle car. But instead of reporting on the oil pressure, alternator output, and current temperature of your cooling system, …
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Oct 24
Looks like mobile OS allegiance will soon become part of the car buying decision: Hyundai and Kia will use Android to power in-car entertainment and navigation systems in all new models, starting with the new Kia Soul and Hyundai Genesis coming at the end of the year.
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Sep 08
In a move that reminds us of the kid that leaked the first in the wild shots of the Xbox 360, YouTuber Jackson Carter has posted a two minute video claiming to show a working Xbox One. After flashing the console itself and a controller as proof, he focuses mostly on the UI, displaying its Windows 8-style tile layout. You can check out our detailed impressions of the console’s UI right here, but this will be the first opportunity most have had to see the system’s default menu — multitasking, Ryse beta, Kinect 2.0 and all — in motion. There’s no info on exactly where this console came from, but our friendly narrator mentions he can’t access other beta games just yet. While conspiracy theorists debate if this legitimate and/or intentional, everyone else can just take a peek at it embedded after the break.
Update: The original video has been pulled from YouTube, we’ve embedded a working version after the break.
Filed under: Gaming, HD, Microsoft
Via: NeoGAF, Wario64 (Twitter)
Source: Jackson Carter (YouTube)
Aug 22
Just in case you missed it during Sony’s Gamescom 2013 presentation (and our live coverage), the company kicked things off in a fresh way, letting the PlayStation 4 experience do all of the talking. No words were necessary as Mr. @yosp himself, SCE prez Shuhei Yoshida, casually sat in a chair flipping through the new UI and loading up a quick game of Killzone Shadow Fall. Whether you have loved or loved to hate the PS3’s XMB, this nearly three minute-long demo should fill in many blanks about what life will be like if you pick up one of Sony’s $399 boxes on or about November 15th. Check out the video embedded after the break plus a list of launch window games while you weigh the pros and cons of pre-ordering.
Filed under: Gaming, Home Entertainment, Sony
Source: Shuhei Yoshida (Twitter)
Aug 21
Xbox One dashboard: what to expect
Posted in: Today's Chili
So, you want an Xbox One? Do you really want one though… like, really? How do you know? Maybe the interface is terrible. That’s something you’ll just have to ponder until you play one. Well, that’s only partly true, we sat down with Microsoft today at Gamescom for a bit of a tour. The bad news? Microsoft wasn’t quite confident enough to let us show you the interface with photos or video, due to its pre-release nature. The good news? We’re going to paint you a word picture instead! The results await after the break.
Jun 26
Mornings are rough. And depending how many special adult beverages you imbibed the night before, mornings can be very, very rough. Which is exactly why we love Morning for iPad. It gives you a bright, friendly look at all the info you need to start your day, so you can be prepared even when you feel like crap.
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May 21
Microsoft shows off new Xbox One dashboard, Trending tab for popular content
Posted in: Today's Chili
So, we’ve just seen our first glimpse of the Xbox One, and after watching the console boot by voice command, we’ve had a peek at the new dashboard, too. It’s not a massive departure from the current one, but as you can see, the theme is a little bit plainer and cleaner than the Xbox 360 dash, while keeping the tile-like appearance also common to the Windows UI. You’ll recognize most of the tabs running along the top, but “Trending” is new — this tab shows what’s popular amongst your friends, as well as what’s hot within the entire Xbox Live community. Also, “My Pins” now gets its own dedicated tab, rather than being a tile on the Home screen. How you use and navigate the dash is where the real differences lie, like the next-gen Kinect voice control and Snap Mode multitasking.
May 01
Google’s big shake-up of Android version metrics has already given us a better understanding of where the platform’s active users truly stand. Now that we’re a month into the new methodology, we have a good sense of where those users are going — and they’re moving to Jelly Bean in droves. Android 4.1 and 4.2 combined grew to represent 28.4 percent of regular usage, or enough to finally overtake Ice Cream Sandwich at 27.5 percent. Not surprisingly, the transition to the newer OS involved a balanced mix of users either upgrading from ICS (down by 1.8 percent) or transitioning from devices running Gingerbread or earlier (down 1.7 percent). It will be a long while before Jelly Bean becomes the dominant platform, if it ever does, but we’re not expecting a slowdown in adoption when flagships like the Galaxy S 4 and One are luring many of us into an upgrade.
Filed under: Cellphones, Tablets, Mobile, Google
Source: Android Dashboard
Jan 29
Here’s a screenshot of the Kanzi UI Editor in action
It is fair to say that car Dashboard Instruments have not evolved remarkably over the past couple of decades. Somehow, we felt like something was going to change, but nothing did, at least in a big way. When the Nissan GTR Skyline came out, it did create a lot of buzz because it had an all LCD-display Dashboard with a user interface (UI) made by the Gran Turismo team at Polyphony (a Sony game studio). That’s awesome, but this was a one-time thing, and this is not going to scale beyond the GTR.
That’s where Rightware’s Kanzi user interface come into play. Kanzi is not just a user interface, it’s a user interface Creative Suite and multi-platform Runtime (a “player” in layman terms). Ask around, and you may find that most developers like to write code that perform some kick-butt computing tasks, but I’ve known only a few who actually *love* coding user interfaces. It’s hard, it’s not your run-the-mill computing and it’s really hard to debug. But somehow, Rightware has managed to hire a group of ex-videogame folks who live and breathe for fast user interfaces, and their mission is to help the rest of the community getting on a fast, beautiful, hardware-accelerated user interface. Easier said than done. (more…)
By Ubergizmo. Related articles: Dell Latitude 10 Offers Sub-$600 Windows 8 Tablet Experience, Microsoft Integrating Skype Into Voice, Video Communications Across All Products, 
Jan 03
The last time we checked out Google’s Android Device Dashboard, penetration of the latest version had reached 1.8 percent of active hardware. A couple of months later and Android 4.1 / 4.2 Jelly Bean is accounting for more than 10 percent of devices that accessed Google Play in the last 14 days. The share of Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich devices also grew to represent 29.1 percent of active hardware, and while 2.3 Gingerbread still has the largest slice, it slid below half to 47.6 percent. That means developers can more confidently taking advantage of the latest APIs, but while the environment is much improved over when the dashboard launched in 2009, those fragments still mean some hard choices on exactly what to target with apps. Hit the source link for a larger look at the current numbers.
Filed under: Cellphones, Tablets, Mobile, Google
Source: Android Developers
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