Knox Labs Many are claiming that Virtual Reality (VR) headsets are going to be the next big thing. Here’s how to get a taste of that technology for only $10. And the great thing is that this will work with pretty much any smartphone, Android or iPhone! All you need is a Google Cardboard Viewer […]
Last week we didn’t see Apple’s thinnest products ever, but its thinnest event ever. From a company obsessed with reductivism, we saw an event with little actual news and zero unexpected surprises — just simple linear iterations of devices we’ve seen countless time before. And for a company that defined conventional marketing, we saw a lot of tricks […]
A lot of professional photographers have a growing frustration about losing jobs to part-time “photographers” doing horrible work for $30, or having clients tell them that another “photographer” will do the same job for $25. So, I got to thinking: what if other professions were treated like photography? Here’s a sweet camera deal that’s currently […]
The Rift is here! The Rift is here! After years of build up and pre-release developer kits, the first deliveries of the consumer version of the Oculus Rift virtual reality headset started arriving this morning. Lucas and I got to spend time with the Rift over the past few days (read Lucas’ full review here) […]
Desktop-level graphics performance has been something of a Holy Grail for laptop buyers and makers alike, with many, many solutions cluttering the dustbin of notebook history. Trendsetter Razer believes it’s finally found the right combination that can alternatively offer maximum portability or beefy graphics. At the recently completed CES, the gaming device company showed off […]
Amazon’s Kindle, and its less popular e-reader brethren, are great for fiction, but trying to consume content that isn’t meant to be enjoyed from cover to cover is an exercise in annoyance, frustration and misery. That’s a shame, because it doesn’t have to be that way. Take travel books for example. When trekking across the globe, lugging around four-and-a-half pounds worth of […]
“Where am I? And how did I get here?” Even after months of repeatedly leaping in and out of disparate worlds filled with jaw-dropping (see above) visuals, every time I’ve whipped off one of the various iterations of Oculus’s Rift virtual reality headset, for a brief moment I’ve always had to wonder where exactly the device has […]
June, a countertop “smart” oven designed by former Google, Apple and GoPro employees has closed a Series A round of financing for $22.5 million today, led by early stage combination hardware and software investor Eclipse. Previous investors also participated in this round, including Foundry Group, First Round Capital, and Lerer Hippeau Ventures. June is sort of like an […]
Popular OS X and Linux BitTorrent client Transmission is coming to Windows. It’s not quite ready for prime time — gHacks spotted the first Windows build on the official repository — but it’s already better than any other Windows BitTorrent client out there. This isn’t the first build for Windows, as there was an unofficial […]
Twitter, which turned 10 this week, has apparently made Live its entire organizing principle. At an all-hands meeting last month, Mark Zuckerberg declared live video a top priority for Facebook. Clearly, Zuck’s directing his fight toward Twitter’s Periscope, a mobile live streaming app which itself competed fiercely with Meerkat. Amazon is expanding its recently acquired […]