Mar 29
Fisher Price Apptivity Case is your baby’s gateway to the iPhone. I want my 2-year-old to be smart and healthy and well-adjusted. I don’t know how smartphones and tablets fit into that. Worse, it seems like there is simply no …
Mar 29
PSA: Oculus Rift development kits now shipping, some may have already arrived
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Oculus Rift is in the mail! Development kits began shipping to customers on Wednesday, and even if you have yet to receive a tracking number of your own, a kit may very well be on its way. The Oculus team has been “tied up at GDC” this week, which explains the delay in sending out tracking info, but folks taking care of logistics have apparently been hard at work, prepping some 10,000 development kits for shipment. Of course, not every set will be on its way to a developer right away — it does take time to get that many kits out the door — but if you’re expecting one at your front porch, it’s likely to arrive very soon. In the meantime, the Developer Center has opened up to devs, with access to the SDK, Unity and Unreal Engine integrations, forums, wiki and other documentation. The team also published a video of its SXSW panel in full for your enjoyment — you can catch it just past the break.
Filed under: Displays, Gaming, HD
Source: Oculus VR
Mar 28
Wired wants to see your artsy photos of a smartphone or tablet with a busted screen. Cracks, chips, complete obliteration — if it’s broken, we’re interested. We’ll gather the best photos and present them here for all to enjoy.
Mar 28
The Engadget Show 42: Expand with OUYA, Google, DJ Spooky, robots, space, hardware startups and more!
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Listen, we’re not going to promise you that watching an hour-long episode is the same as going to Expand. The good news for those of you who were unable to attend due to scheduling or geography, however, is that the ticket price is a bit lower, and many of our favorite moments have been saved for posterity. We’ve done our best to whittle a weekend at San Francisco’s beautiful Fort Mason center into one bite-sized chunk of Engadget Show goodness. We’ll take you behind the scenes at the event and show you what it takes to run your very own consumer-facing electronics show.
We’ve got conversations with Google’s Tamar Yehoshua, OUYA’s Julie Uhrman, Jason Parrish and Corinna Proctor from Lenovo, Chris Anderson, DJ Spooky, Mark Frauenfelder, Veronica Belmont, Ryan Block, plus folks from NASA, 3D Robotics, Oculus, Google Lunar X Prize, TechShop, Lunar and IndieGogo. We’ll go for a spin on ZBoard’s latest electric skateboard and show off the da Vinci surgical robot, the Ekso robotic exoskeleteon and the latest UAV from 3D Robotics — we’ll also be taking you out on the town in a Tesla Model S. And for a little bit of high drama, there’s our first-ever Insert Coin: New Challengers competition, including conversations with the semi-finalists and the big moment of truth. All that plus kids, dogs and your favorite Engadget Editors. Join us after the break for a warm and fuzzy Engadget Show, won’t you?
Filed under: Cellphones, Cameras, Displays, Misc, Gaming, Handhelds, Home Entertainment, Household, Laptops, Meta, Peripherals, Robots, Tablets, Transportation, Wearables, Wireless, Networking, Science, Internet, Software, HD, Mobile, Alt, Samsung, Microsoft, HTC, Google, Sprint, Lenovo, NVIDIA
Mar 27
Slickdeals’ best in tech for March 27th: 32GB Nexus 7 and Vizio CT15-A1 Ultrabook
Posted in: Today's ChiliLooking to save some coin on your tech purchases? Of course you are! In this round-up, we’ll run down a list of the freshest frugal buys, hand-picked with the help of the folks at Slickdeals. You’ll want to act fast, though, as many of these offerings won’t stick around long.
3D HDTVs, laptops, displays and tablets all catch price cuts on today’s list. A 32GB Nexus 7 and Vizio’s 15-inch ultrabook may nab top billing, but there’s plenty to scope out on the other side of the break. Be careful, though, because those pesky rebate forms have crept up once again.
Filed under: Displays, Home Entertainment, Laptops, Tablets
Source: Slickdeals
Mar 26
Google selects Glass Explorers, will send invites to winners over the next few days
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What would you do if you had Glass? Google asked you to share your plans last month, offering up 8,000 coveted reservations in the search giant’s “Explorers” program. Now, the company has finally selected the winners, and plans to send out order invitations “over the next few days.” Sadly, invite recipients will still need to hand over $1,500 (plus tax) for their very own set, and the program is currently limited to folks in the US, but this was still the best opportunity to get an early look at Glass, making it a very appealing program, despite the cost. Google received many creative applications, including a proposal from JetBlue, but only individual users will have an opportunity to make a purchase this time around — the company says that it’s “working on connecting with businesses in other ways.” Congratulations to the lucky winners — feel free to send us a tip when word finally hits your Google+ or Twitter inbox.
Filed under: Displays, Wearables, Google
Source: Project Glass (Google+)
Mar 26
How do you boost screen real estate on a smartphone without increasing the device’s footprint significantly? You could add a pair of slide-out panels mounted behind the main display. But you wouldn’t. We’d hope. Such a concept made its way out of LG HQ and into the hands of the United States Patent and Trademark Office, however, and three years after its submission date, the proposed device has returned to haunt the South Korean manufacturer, in the form of an issued patent. The concept in question is quite simple: a primary LCD would be visible at all times, and when the occasion called for another panel or two, they’d simply slide into view, ready to serve as a number pad, or settings control, predictive text display, or even a full-fledged split keyboard.
Now, considering that there’s been plenty of time since this filing to bring such a smartphone to market, we’re going to guess that LG’s abandoned plans for its tri-screen device, opting instead to boost the primary display size in smartphones like its Optimus G Pro, or the poorly received 5-inch Optimus Vu. That’s not to say that multi-screen handsets won’t continue to make an appearance, however — NEC’s Medias W has already hit NTT DoCoMo in Japan, and it’s possible that BlackBerry may be considering a split device of its own. This LG concept, however, is probably destined for a dusty filing cabinet at the patent office, where it’s unlikely to surface again.
Filed under: Cellphones, Displays, Mobile, LG
Source: USPTO
Mar 25
Looking to save some coin on your tech purchases? Of course you are! In this round-up, we’ll run down a list of the freshest frugal buys, hand-picked with the help of the folks at Slickdeals. You’ll want to act fast, though, as many of these offerings won’t stick around long.
Mondays serve as a cruel reminder that the weekend is over, but a few gadget deals could ease the transition a bit. Nest’s first-gen Learning Thermostat hits the list today alongside a 42-inch LG 3D HDTV and much more. A quick jaunt past the break will reveal all of the selections and the requisite purchase info.
Filed under: Displays, Misc, Home Entertainment, Household
Source: Slickdeals
Mar 25
Back in December last year there were rumors floating around that the Samsung Galaxy S4 will come with an “unbreakable display”. Well the S4 was announced a fortnight ago and it has been confirmed that Samsung’s latest flagship Android smartphone does *not* have such a display. Nevermind, now there’s a rumor that the upcoming Galaxy Note 3 may have an unbreakable display, and it will be one of the most important feature of the device. It’s quite a bold claim, but while in theory OLED displays can be made to be much more resistant than their LCD counterpart (they can even be flexible), there is still a need for a glass surface for the touch sensor. Solutions exists, and Samsung has demonstrated such a flexible display at CES. Will that become a product?
The Samsung Galaxy Note 3 is also rumored to have an Exynos 5 Octa core processor coupled with 2GB of RAM, more on board storage, a bigger battery and a back camera of at least 8 megapixels. At this point in time it is not known what the design of Note 3 will actually be, though it is largely believed to be along the same lines of the Note II’s design. In the software department, it is expected to run Android 4.2 Jelly Bean at the very least. Previous rumors suggest that the Samsung Galaxy Note 3 may be released at IFA 2013 in Berlin, which takes place in September.
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Mar 22
Mainstream gaming is all about 1080p. Monitors may be getting cheaper, making higher resolutions and multi-display setups ever more feasible, but Full HD is still sufficient for the average buyer. AMD knows it, and that’s why this morning’s announcement of the Radeon HD 7790 came with a straightforward promise: the ability to play the latest games at 1080p with high detail settings for a maximum outlay of $149. Such claims can’t be waved around without being tested, and indeed The Tech Report, HotHardware, Bit.tech and other sites have just returned their verdicts. Read on for our review roundup.
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