Now playing: Watch this: Mood glasses for your psyche: diving into PSiO 0:47 CE Week in New York is often about finding the oddball bits of CES all from the comfort of your Manhattan midtown event space. Winning the Oddball Award for me this year was the PSiO AVS MP3 Color System, a wearable “audiovisual …
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iOS 7: What about the iPad?
Livestream There was a missing device at Apple’s 2013 WWDC keynote, and it’s one of the company’s most popular product lines. iPad, where were you? iOS 7, a product of Jony Ive, Apple’s design mastermind, took the stage at WWDC — but the iPhone 5 was the featured runway model. Apple’s Web site shows app after app on the iPhone …
Read More »Game change: iOS 7 welcoming game controllers is a big deal
With one small feature, iOS 7 might introduce the biggest change in iOS gaming since the App Store. There’s something I’ve wished for on both the iPhone and iPad for years: a true, universal, dedicated game controller. iOS 7 has granted my wish: indeed, one of the small but very significant additions to the next mobile OS announced at WWDC …
Read More »How Xbox One opens the door for the next Apple TV
Imagine this. It’s 2014. Apple has gathered everyone together for a special event. As Tim Cook presents, he says, “Today we’re introducing three revolutionary new products. The first one is a cable box. The second one is a revolutionary streaming-media device. The third is a new way to play games on your TV. So, three things: a cable box, a …
Read More »Glasses with Google Glass: Prescription versions appear at Google I/O
SAN FRANCISCO–Google Glass currently comes in five colors and has a pop-in sunglass visor, but no version of the Explorer Edition comes with prescription lenses. For glasses-wearers like me, that means getting contacts or jamming them over my frames. Next year, that may change. Google Glass testing prescription prototypes (pictures) +1 more See all photos You had to look closely …
Read More »Google Glass apps: Striving for the familiar (hands
Scott Stein/CNET To hear the news today, yes indeed, Google Glass has a number of new apps available for it: Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr, CNN, Evernote, and even Elle Magazine join The New York Times, Path, Google+, Gmail, and Google Now, starting today. But, what does that mean? For those who haven’t worn Glass (and that’s most people), hearing “apps” suggests …
Read More »The killer Google device I want: Chrome and Android, together
SAN FRANCISCO — At this year’s Google I/O developer’s conference, a promise was made: Chrome on Android will start feeling more like Chrome on the desktop. This is as it should be. I’ve never understood why Chrome and Android function as separate environments. They’re two sides of the same coin; Chrome handles superior cloud-computing and Web use, and Android handles …
Read More »The 11 Google Glass improvements we hope Google I/O delivers
Last year, Google I/O — Google’s annual event for the developer community — treated us to skydiving, arena-cycling Google Glass wearers, and a whole crazy landscape of wearable tech. This year, Glass is finally in the hands of thousands of developers, tech journalists, and other early adopters, but as we head back to another Google I/O, there’s a lot about …
Read More »RunKeeper for Pebble (hands
When the Pebble watch unveiled its first Kickstarter videos, it seemed like a magic device. Some features, like health-tracking apps, played a major role in that perception. They haven’t been available, however, until today, when RunKeeper finally updated its iOS and Android apps to support the little wearable device. It’s a small moment for RunKeeper, but a big moment for …
Read More »Glasses and Glass: How Google Glass changed my face
I had two transformative yet very minor optical experiences last week, both kicking off in the space of 2 hours: I got contact lenses, and I began experimenting with Google Glass. The two are interlinked, because I couldn’t use Google’s bleeding-edge wearable tech with my comfy Ray-Ban eyeglasses. If I was going to use Glass, I’d need contacts. Sarah Tew/CNET …
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