The more we learn about the Apple Watch, the less it seems like a revolutionary departure from the existing wearable market. In particular, it has a lot of overlap with Android Wear, Google’s own wearable platform. That much became clear last week, when Apple released its design guidelines for third-party apps. Parsing the guidelines alongside those[…]
Fill your daypack—and fuel your adventure—with these mobile must-haves One reason smartphones are great is because with all the tools that their apps pack, the handheld devices have whittled down the gear you have to lug around on adventures. So now — instead of courier bags, carry-on luggage, and backpacks — the “go-bag” is the[…]
From GoPro to Jawbone UP3, these are the best gadgets of the year 10. The Ring Video Doorbell Imagine the perfect front door. Like a human security guard, it would tell you who was outside and allow you to talk with them before you let them in. The $200 Ring[…]
Releases this week are: LEGO Batman 3: Beyond Gotham for PS3,PS4, X360, Xbox One, 3DS, WiiU, Vita, Halo: The Master Chief Collection for Xbox One, Pro Evolution Soccer 2015 for PS3, PS4, X360, Xbox One, Assassin’s Creed Unity for PS4, Xbox One, How to Train Your Dragon 2 for DVD/Blu-Ray, Dumb and Dumber To for[…]
Toy story After months and months of teases, amiibo figures are finally in our hot little hands. The first dozen are all based on the cast of Super Smash Bros. for Wii U/3DS, which makes for an eclectic group of Nintendo mascots in toy form. You can read all about how the toys use NFC to communicate[…]
Have a look at our essential video game checklist for new 3DS owners Nintendo’s 3DS currently prevails over the dedicated games handheld market, as have all Nintendo’s handheld since the original Game Boy in 1989. Smartphones may dominate mobile in general, but they lack a handheld’s deterministic nuance (read: buttons, triggers, and thumbsticks), to say[…]
Nope, that’s not a Surface Pro up there. But it’s close. Dell just refreshed its 10.8-inch Venue 11 Pro tablet, and, much like Microsoft’s slate, it’s gone on a bit of a diet. Whereas the original Venue 11 Pro ran on a traditional, laptop-grade Core i5 processor, this one uses one of Intel’s new Core M chips, which allows it[…]
Coming soon to a forehead near you Oculus Rift, the virtual reality headset, will be coming to consumers’ foreheads in the very foreseeable future,the company’s CEO Brendan Iribe said at Web Summit 2014 in Ireland on Tuesday. “We’re all hungry for it to happen,” Iribe said, The Next Web reports. “We’re getting very close. It’s months, not[…]
Releases this week are: Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare for PS3,PS4, X360, Xbox One, Disney Planes: Fire & Rescue for 3DS, Wii, WiiU, The Wolf Among US for PS3, PS4, X360, Xbox One, Vita, MotoGP 14 for PS3, PS4, Maleficent for DVD/Blu-Ray, Big Hero 6 for Theaters. Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare[…]
With over 13 million units sold of the Playstation 4 system and several impressive looking exclusives doing the early part of 2015, it may be easy to think that Sony is well poised to continue their enviable position as the top-selling of the next-generation consoles. Microsoft however is being more aggressive as the holiday shopping[…]
If Microsoft wanted to grab a slice of the impending Apple Watch audience, it couldn’t have crafted a better plan than with its just-released Microsoft Band. The company’s first wearable piggybacks off of the style and functions we’re already familiar with in today’s activity trackers. But with nifty features, a more affordable price tag, and[…]
Nintendo’s first entry into the “quality of life” business, which it plans to release by early 2016, is a device that tracks a user’s level of fatigue by monitoring sleep. Nintendo president Satoru Iwata detailed the device at a meeting for investors in Tokyo on Thursday, following the release of the company’s second-quarter financial report. “There is[…]
Wii U sales more than doubled between April and September 2014, bolstered by sales of Mario Kart 8. Surprise, Nintendo just made a pile of unexpected money: 14.3 billion yen in net income, or about $132 million, for the six month fiscal period that ended in September. For the same period last year, the company[…]
Have a look at our essential video game checklist for new Xbox One owners So you just picked up an Xbox One, and you’re wondering what to buy. That’s something we can say now—the “after you bought it” thing—because with consoles like the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One, every game is available through the console’s[…]
Releases this week are: NBA Live 15 for PS4, Xbox One, WWE 2K15 for PS3, X360, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Danger of the Ooze for PS3, X360, Sunset Overdrive for Xbox One, Nightcrawler for theatres. NBA Live 15 Release Date: October 28, 2014 | Electronic Arts | ESRB: E for Everyone |[…]
You know that song “It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year” by Andy Williams? As far as I’m concerned, it’s not about Christmas! It’s Halloween bitches! HELL YEAH! Sorry, that kind of builds up all year and just LURKS out of me at inopportune moments the closer I get to this much anticipated night of fright. Halloween is absolutely, unequivocally my[…]