Every so often, a product comes along and takes the best of almost everything that came before it and packages those things into a beautiful and functional device that's hard not to admire. The HTC One M8 is such a product.Almost every smartphone comes with its fair share of warts, and...
One particularly shitty evening two months ago, a freedom-inclined opportunist busted out the back window of my parked car and liberated a professional gadget lover’s gear bag—my gear bag—that was stuffed to the gills.At the end of the short trail of shattered glass, I took one look beyond the passenger-side window’s...
You know when a photo has that fuzzy background thing going on and the subject is sharp while the rest looks all dreamy? That technique, usually achieved by setting a camera’s controls to a wide aperture—the smaller the f-stop number, the bigger the aperture—remains one of the easiest shortcuts to...
I’m a music junkie. Like many of you, my life is often accompanied by a soundtrack. I’ve got playlists for working out, and just plain working. Music for when I’m feeling on top of the world, and music for when I'm down in the gutter. Songs that make me think,...
There’s a problem with gadgets today, and Pebble CEO Eric Migicovsky thinks he knows exactly what it is: “Technology shouldn’t change your own personal habits. It should mesh into the lifestyle you already live.” It sounds like common sense, but in a world where inventors too often expect people to adapt...
By all accounts, the world’s largest video network for gamers—and the lucrative arena of competitive gaming that it powers—is on a path to colossal growth.Twitch, a social platform where users can watch, play, record and livecast gameplay, has historically been more associated with PC gaming due to the relatively closed...
The race to build the modern smartwatch started in earnest thanks to two major events in the past two years: Pebble's über-successful run on Kickstarter in early 2012, and a steady drumbeat of reports in 2013 about Apple's alleged plans to build its own iWatch (or whatever the company decides to call...
Microsoft wants gamers build their own worlds—playable game worlds, in fact. Microsoft’s Project Spark, in open beta now for Windows 8 and the Xbox One, splices together a Minecraft-like sandbox with actual developer tools, enabling budding game makers to actually build a playable game from scratch with no technical know-how...
Facebook is going virtual in about the biggest way possible. The social network will acquire virtual reality-hardware maker Oculus, creator of the acclaimed Oculus Rift headset, for roughly $2 billion. The deal apparently represents Mark Zuckerberg's gamble on a technology he believes may one day supplant today's mobile devices.Last month, Facebook...
2014 is the year that the rest of the world gets connected. Cheap computers and pervasive networks are reshaping the world, and the smartphone—specifically, the inexpensive smartphone—is emerging as the key to the Internet.In the U.S. and other “mature” markets, smartphones are as ubiquitous as televisions and personal computers, and...
Editor's note: This post was originally published by our partners at PopSugar Tech.As 3D printers move from futuristic toy to a viable industry in themselves, most of us are still wondering exactly what sort of everyday function the technology will bring. Maybe, though, the future of 3D printing doesn't have to...
At this year's Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, virtual reality wunderkind Oculus unveiled the second-generation of its much-buzzed-about hardware, the Oculus Rift. The second edition of the Oculus Rift VR headset, known as the DK2, is still very much a development kit and not yet ready for a wide consumer...
Nothing can inspire such a volatile cocktail of dread and excitement in an otherwise technology-loving human quite like South By Southwest.South By Southwest Interactive—“SXSWi" to acronym-loving geeks—is tech’s premier celebration of itself. It takes place annually in a very much transformed Austin, Texas. Like our other not-quite-sane-enough-to-skip-itpeers, we’ll be making...
It took five months for Google to approve 17 apps that could work with its Chromecast streaming gadget. But it only took a couple of weeks for those numbers to practically double, once Google opened up Chromecast to all comers.See also: How 6 Months With Chromecast Changed MePreviously, only an exclusive...
This post is presented by CIBC. From today’s vantage point, it looks like nothing will slow the momentum of the Visual Web.See also: The Triumph Of The Visual WebSelfies, pins, memes, and other picture formats are now dominating our once text-based Web. Sites like Pinterest, Tumblr, and Instagram don’t just rule...
I feel bad for anyone who actually bought a Galaxy Gear, the smartwatch Samsung just made obsolete with two new models of its second-generation Gear smartwatches. Obsolescence may be an indelible part of technology, but even here, five months is a whiplash-worthy product cycle. Fast as their introductions may be, the...
Shortly before he died in 2011, Steve Jobs uttered four exciting words to his biographer, regarding Apple’s plans to revolutionize the television experience: "I finally cracked it."Since his death, everyone’s been guessing what exactly “it” was—or is. Year after year, analysts continue to believe Apple will build a physical television set,...
Windows Phone may not be the blockbuster mobile operating system that its designers in Redmond (or Espoo, Finland) hoped it would be. But that doesn't mean Microsoft and its new CEO Satya Nadella would be better off doing something drastic like scrapping the project and building a new mobile OS...
The Pebble smartwatch is growing up. A year after it started shipping to Kickstarter backers, the startup officially cut the ribbon on Pebble's very own app store last week. With this, Pebblers get a single resource covering the latest watchfaces, tools and time-wasters for their favorite arm gear.The Pebble Appstore,...
If and when Apple ever comes out with a wearable computer, the term “watch” may not necessarily apply.According to reports, Apple is going whole hog into health and fitness for its long-rumored wearable device. This morning, a new job listing on Apple’s website called for a “User Studies Exercise Physiologist”...
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