Magnified Self Do your martinis turn into martinopes and your gin fizzes into gin fizzers? You might need a little help in the bar department — and the B4RM4N, as annoying as its name is to type, might just be the gadget to do it. Related articles Robotic barman mixes a perfect cocktail Toss one …

Adobe Adobe has made a post on its website clarifying its position in the Gamergate debate after ambiguous actions last week. The company had requested gossip website Gawker remove the Adobe logo, which indicated that the company was a Gawker advertiser, from its website. As Adobe explained in a Tweet at the time, it was not a Gawker advertiser — …

The Pokémon Company Pokemon, on the surface, seem fun and colourful and a bit of light fun. Once you start reading the Pokedex in any great detail, though, things can get a little sinister. Take, for instance, Cubone — an adorable-looking ground-type Pokemon with a skull helmet and a bone club. Except the skull is the skull of its dead …

Dictionary image by Caleb Roenigk, CC BY 2.0 One dictionary, one would think, is much like any other dictionary: a useful resource, to be sure, but with little variance in general functionality. But Dictionary.com is working hard to prove that not all dictionary apps are created equal. The service, which originally launched in 1995, is celebrating Dictionary Day this year …

jasonahoule When you notice something out of the ordinary with your body, what’s the first thing you do? Do you go to a doctor? Or do you jump on the internet to look up your symptoms on Google? If it’s the latter — and let’s be honest, it probably is — it seems as though the search giant wants to …

ContentGuard Popular photo sharing app Snapchat may notify you when the recipient of your image takes a screenshot — but it doesn’t actually make it harder to grab that screenshot in the first place. New iOS app Yovo is looking to make a change in that direction. Created by privacy software company ContentGuard, it uses a novel solution to protect …

Imaginactive If you need a bit of a boost to get up and at them, your imagination can be a powerful tool. Developer Six to Start has collected quite a following with its apps that encourage you to work out — by offering you scenarios for make-believe: a zombie outbreak (jogging) and superhero training (strength workout). Apocalypse Survival Training is …

Screenshot by Michelle Starr/CNET Some people are passionate about coffee. Others about books, movies or games. There are, to paraphrase a certain timeless tale, as many passions as there are people. Dieter Michael Krone’s passion is paper aeroplanes. The Düsseldorf-based mechanical engineer is one of the world’s leading authorities on the art of folding paper to make it glide. He …

Screenshot by Michelle Starr/CNET Google Glass is fitted with a microphone and installed with speech-recognition software, which allows the wearer to talk to the device to give it instructions. This software has been refined to a point where it is now reasonable to expect very few errors — but what Google Glass is not so good at is picking up …

The Pokémon Company If ever there was a hugely popular franchise that would work perfectly for mobile, it’s Pokémon. The top-down perspective would work beautifully with a virtual D-Pad and the turn-based combat system would easily adapt to touch controls. In fact, we’ve seen several clones already that work really well, such as Kairosoft’s Beastie Bay and MinoMonsters — but …