Watch Styler, the Android application that lets you design your own watch faces, has had an update to version 1.0.05. There is no Change log for this version, but through our testing it does seem to offer better compatibility with the Gear S, letting you install previously un-installable clock /...
As a woman with tiny hands, making peace with the iPhone 6 Plus took some effort. It’s the largest iPhone ever, and my mitts skew itty bitty. But I got the hang of it, only to land on the receiving end of some weird reactions—some from women, but mostly from...
When I held an iPhone 6 Plus for the first time, I laughed. It looked comically huge in my little grip. Now I can’t imagine life without that big screen.If you've dismissed large phones due to their unwieldy size, here’s something to consider: Despite tiny hands and normal-size pockets, I’ve...
Google CardboardWhen Google Cardboard, the virtual reality viewer constructed of corrugated paper, came out this summer, people thought it was a joke. But the company was serious—and if there was any doubt about it, you can nix it now that Google just released a software development kit for it.See also:...
Airplanes, brace yourselves: Apple’s giving 23,000 of its mammoth smartphones to flight attendants at United Airlines. Next spring, the United flight crews who satisfy our cravings for snacks or miniature wine bottles will use the iPhone 6 Plus to charge us for those treats. The devices will also keep them connected,...
Tizen DevLab Calling all Application developers, it's time for you to head to London for the Tizen DevLab and portathon that is taking place on the 13 December 2014 at the Rainmaking Loft. This is a great place to learn about the Tizen Operating System, SDK, Web runtime, APIs...
For all the fantastic (and fantastical) things tech companies do these days, they’re still spectacularly bad at one thing: transparency.This week, a lawsuit against Apple revealed that, between 2007 and 2009, the company deleted music off of users’ iPods—specifically songs from non-iTunes sources—without telling them. If there’s one thing we...
Two years after Italian design firm ADR Studio introduced its concept for one of the most adorable cameras ever, with numerous teases popping up since, the Socialmatic point-and-shooter has finally opened for pre-orders. A dead ringer for Instagram's app icon, the chubby, squarish device—which packs its own built-in printer—comes with...
Smartphones aren't like most other gifts, since they're quite possibly the single most personal gadgets in our possession. They're constantly in our hands. We entrust them with our private messages and photos. Increasingly, we're starting to talk to them and even to count on them knowing us well enough to suggest...
The Samsung Galaxy Gear was the Korean companies first Smart watch contender, which originally debuted with the Android Operating System. Now fast forward a mere 12 months and you can see how it has transformed itself, now no longer running on the old cut down Android OS and been...
Earlier this year Samsung launched the Russian Tizen App Challenge that was GEARED (forget the pun) towards the Tizen based Samsung Gear 2 and Gear S Smart Watches. The total prize fund was 7 million Rubels. Below are the names of the Winners and also the amounts that...
Amazon’s already sooo over Black Friday. The online retail giant pushes forward with new offers starting Saturday, ahead of Cyber Monday, with new deals launching every 10 minutes. For the first time, it’s also sending mobile-exclusive lightning deals through its app, so users can snag a sweet discount on the...
This year, wearable devices have branched out, extending all over our bodies. Tech companies have put “smarts” everywhere from our heads to our fingers, offering a slew of new uses that hardly seemed imaginable just a few years ago.Tracking your steps or sleep, answering emails, making calls or immersing ourselves...
The advent of the connected home has made it possible for our everyday appliances to talk to us, and more important, to each other. Thermostat control, energy conservation, and routine maintenance are just a few more things your average smart homeowner no longer has to worry about. So when you...
The Samsung Gear S has a new dimension to it now, a newer model that wasn't expected. We have seen the slow and steady global release of the 3G SIM enabled Smartwatch, but now it is also being sold in Japan by KDDI’s au brand, which is one of...
Offering a shot of one-stop convenience, Starbucks began its roll-out of free Powermat wireless charging last week. The Seattle, Wash.–based coffee purveyor equipped roughly 200 stores in San Francisco with the technology, ahead of a nationwide launch next year.I stopped by a location in Levi Plaza to check out the...
ReadWriteBody is an ongoing series where ReadWrite covers networked fitness and the quantified self.One of the interesting things about writing ReadWriteBody, where I've chosen to focus on digital fitness, is the constant conflation of health and fitness.As I remarked during a panel I moderated on Wednesday evening, it's often treated...
Pretty Geeky is an ongoing series that explores the role of style and design in wearable technology. After months of ramping up, Intel’s partnership with design house Opening Ceremony officially made its bid for women's wrists Monday, filling in a few more details of what its new MICA intelligent bracelet—on sale...
Exciting times are here as the Tizen DevLab series comes to the Silicon Valley, Paris and also to London for an all-day workshop designed to get you up to speed with the Tizen OS, which is the OS of everything. Do have what it takes to create the next Tizen...
Editor's Note: This piece was originally published by our partners at Kill Screen. The Sext Adventure booth at the Boston Festival for Indie Games stood out almost because it had little to distinguish it. While many of the other tables surrounding it had monitors, art, multiple people in matching T-shirts running...
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