Hasta La Gadget!

It’s hardly show-stopping news out of Cupertino today, but gadget fiends hoping to wrap their holiday tech shopping without leaving home now have one more option in their tablet-friendly arsenal. It’s the Apple Store app for iPad, and it’s coming soon to a slate near you. The application, designed specifically to take advantage of the iPad’s added screen real estate, is a big step up from its iPhone equivalent. There’s a bounty of high-res product images with full pinch-to-zoom support, intuitive category links and detailed product info, including explanations for certain device add-ons, like increased storage or wireless connectivity. Curiously, this version lacks the in-store options available with the Apple Store app for iPhone, such as the EasyPay checkout feature that launched way back in 2011. Fire up your iPad and hit up the source link to check it out.

Filed under: Household, Tablets, Software, Apple

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Via: TechCrunch

Source: Apple (iTunes)

It’s almost time for the PlayStation 4 to arrive. With just a few minutes left before consoles go on sale on the east coast, you should definitely check out our in-depth review if you haven’t already. Once you’re through with that, take a peek after the break for a nine minute video dive into the system’s UI as Sony VP Eric Lempel shows off the system’s menus, store, live game broadcasting features, social feeds and much more. Sure it’s cutting the timing kind of close, but whether you’re still on the fence, waiting for a delivery or sticking it out in line outside a local retailer, this will give a good idea of what the system can offer. Once you’re done comparing it to Microsoft’s demonstration from last week (and downloading the day one patch and apps), check out the Sony launch event — the live stream starts at 11PM ET. The Ustream feed is embedded after the break, but you can also watch it on the PS3’s Live Events app, DirecTV, or Spike TV.

Filed under: Gaming, HD, Sony

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Source: PS4 UI Revealed, Live Launch Event

Kaleidescape arrived at this year’s CEDIA event with a couple of fresh news items to accompany its mainstream-adjacent $3,995 Cinema One player. Its online Kaleidescape Store is getting a boost by adding the ability for customers to add digital copies for their existing Blu-ray discs. At launch it only supported DVDs, but now customers can get high quality, discless access to movies they already own HD editions of, just by putting a disc in the player. The price for Ultraviolet access across devices and an excuse to stop getting up from the couch to put the disc in (although, if you’d like to buy an expensive disc changer instead we’re sure Kaleidescape won’t argue) is $1.99, so choose wisely. Finally, the company is expanding access to the store, which has opened its virtual doors in Canada for the first time, in addition to the US and the UK, where it launched back in May.

Filed under: Home Entertainment, HD

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Source: Kaleidescape

Just as it did earlier this year here in the States, Amazon has now quietly announced that it’s brought some HTML5 tweaks to its UK-based MP3 store in order to make it more friendly with iDevices. Thanks to these under-the-hood enhancements, iPhone, iPad and iPod touch users in the United Kingdom can now have access to more options within the web version of Amazon’s music shop — you know, things like downloading and streaming songs. Naturally, once you’ve purchased some tunes, they’ll automatically be added to the Cloud Player, where they can then be played from any other compatible device (e.g. Sonos systems or an Android tablet / smartphone). You can check out the optimized Amazon MP3 hub over at the source below.

Filed under: Portable Audio/Video, Internet, Apple, Amazon

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Via: Trusted Reviews

Source: Amazon UK

The notion of a physical store dedicated to 3D printing is still new to us, and Solidoodle’s Asia-focused plans didn’t give much reassurance that we’d see more shops in English-speaking countries all that soon. iMakr may have just come to our rescue by opening what it claims is the world’s largest 3D printing store in London’s Farringdon area, occupying 2,500 square feet across two floors. The showroom has both workshops as well as printers to buy on the spot, including the Solidoodle 3; we’ve reached out to get the full selection, although iMakr’s online channel already sells MakerBot’s Replicator 2 and a few less immediately recognizable brands. We’re still far from having a 3D printing store on every corner, but the London store gives the retail concept some legitimacy.

Filed under: Peripherals

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Source: iMakr