Valve’s foray into your living room seems to have stalled out a bit since last year’s Steam Machine launch—but what about your The language
Mophie Powerstation XL lists for $129.95 but is currently discounted 42%, meaning you can pick this up for just $75 ( At 2.8 x 0.9 x 4.5 inches, this item should be small enough for any traveller's accessory case. Powerstation XL is currently rated 4.5 out of 5 stars on Amazon.com (
Fossil is clearly just getting started with the world of Android Wear. The company announced two new smartwatches as follow-ups to the The newest additions to the Q line continue Fossil’s goal with smartwatches: build wearables that have the traditional look and feel of a watch but the technology of Android Wear. The Q Wander has an interchangeable leather strap and a multi-finish case with sculpted wire lugs. The Q Marshal has a more rugged case and can be paired with a navy blue plated case leather straps or with a stainless steel band.
Gatorade isn’t the first company that comes to mind when you think of tech, but the sports drink brand is working on a few gadgets designed to boost your athletic prowess. We got a chance to see some prototypes at The company is working on a smart cap for a personalized bottle with LED lighting that reminds you when you need to hydrate and shows how close you are to meeting your water intake goals for the day. The cap is also customized with your name and a pattern of your choosing. Gatorade is developing blends of its drinks that are tailored to your specific needs, from calories to electrolytes to sodium, and will ship those designer fuel pods directly to your door. Just add some water to your bottle, plug a pod into the top of the cap, and shake to mix. I designed my own bottle at the South by Southwest Fuel Lab, but only got to pick my flavor.
Windows games have mostly been defined by DirectX 12 tools, but a competitive API is coming to PCs running on Intel chips. Intel is releasing graphics drivers that support the Vulkan 1.0 API for chips running Windows 7, 8 and 10 PCs. The drivers, specifically, add "new beta support for the Vulkan 1.0 API for 6th Generation Intel Core and related processors," the Intel Most games for Windows are written using Microsoft's DirectX 12 programming tools. The Vulkan 1.0 API, however, provides an alternative set of game development tools.
A group of former Googlers are looking to turn the Apple Watch into an FDA-approved medical device for people with heart conditions. AliveCor’s Kardia Band is an Apple Watch wrist strap with an ECG sensor attached. Tapping on the sensor triggers a reading, and allows users to dictate symptoms and other relevant information. The results then go straight to a doctor over email,
Digital rights group Fight for the Future is hoping to give voice to ordinary people concerned with the FBI's attempt to force Apple to help it unlock the iPhone used by a mass shooter. Fight for the Future's new "We're actually trying to give a voice to people all over the world who are extremely concerned about this," said Evan Greer, campaign director for the group. Fight for the Future is trying to "bring those voices into the conversation so that it's not just a fight between a giant company and the government," Greer added.
Early adopters of the Oculus Rift will have a healthy variety of games to choose from when the VR headset launches on March 28. The Game makers aren’t clumping around any particular genre, either. Among the first wave of Oculus games is the solitary space adventure
Comcast’s march towards For $70 a month, subscribers selected for the pilot program get unlimited gigabit service with no activation or installation fees. That gets you a connection with up to 1 gigabit-per-second download speeds, but only 35 megabits-per-second uploads, as first reported by
There’s really only one virtual reality game I wanted to see this week though, and I saw it:
Google Drive is one of those services that works best when you’re all in. The search and productivity capabilities of Drive and its connected apps make Google’s cloud storage solution an ideal place to save everything. There’s no need to wonder if you saved an image to your Downloads folder or another cloud service. You know it’s in Drive, and Google’s search powers make it easy to find. But there’s a big sticking point to Google Drive: It can be tricky to save articles and other random bits from around the Web (which services like OneNote and Evernote excel at). Sure, there’s
At the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, virtual reality is all the rage. After attendees overflowed, the discussions on VR were actually moved to larger conference rooms in an effort to help everyone see the talks they wanted to — and even then they filled up to capacity. The reason was clear: everyone expects great things out of VR in the coming years, as headsets that allow everyday consumers to transport themselves to other places become more available. “This will forever be the GDC before VR dropped,” Kimberly Voll, a game developer and cognitive scientist, said in her presentation. Jesse Schell, CEO of Schell Games and author of “The Art of Game Design,” said that he expects companies to sell 8 million high-performance headsets designed for use by gamers, like the Oculus Rift, HTC Vive and Playstation VR, by the end of 2017. On top of that, he said that mobile VR headsets like Google Cardboard and the Samsung Gear VR will outnumber gamer-focused devices four to one.
Major websites including the BBC, Newsweek, The New York Times and MSN ran malicious online advertisements on Sunday that attacked users’ computers, a campaign that one expert said was the largest seen in two years. The websites weren’t at fault. Instead, they are unwitting victims of malvertising, a scheme where cyberattackers upload harmful ads to online advertising companies, which are then distributed to top-tier publishers. Tens of thousands of computers could have been exposed to the harmful advertisements on Sunday, which means some running vulnerable software may have been infected with malware or file-encrypting ransomware. Some bad ads were still appearing on some websites including the BBC on Monday, said Jerome Segura, a senior security researcher with Malwarebytes, in a phone interview Tuesday.
Wireless does not mean wire free. That’s the unspoken truth about the current crop of But while price point and the idea of not being shackled to a power source are attractive, they come at the cost of many common features that are hard to overlook. Blink rejects the curvilinear forms we’ve come to expect from IP cameras in favor of right angles. The camera itself is a 2.75-by-2.75-by-0.5 inch square that can fit in the palm of your hand. It also comes with a sync module, another 2-by-2-ish square, that facilitates Blink’s setup and moderates its power usage. Both the camera and the sync module are made from lightweight plastic. The Blink system also includes an optional alarm, which we did not test.