The animated film, Epic, will be coming to theaters tomorrow, and Epic: The Official Game is available in the Google Play Store. Gameloft, Fox Digital Entertainment and Blue Sky Studios, the production company behind the film, collaborated on the game. Users team up with the Leafmen, a band of samurai style warriors, to try to
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One thing noticeably missing from Google I/O 2013 was any hardware news. Many people had anticipated that we’d see a new Nexus 7 tablet unveiled at this year’s event, especially when you consider that the original Nexus 7 was unveiled at Google I/O 2012. Sadly, however, Google kept quiet on its budget tablet offerings at
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It’s surely not the first contraption to bring an iDevice to a weapon, but the Inteliscope does appear to be one of the first to take itself seriously. It’s designed to secure an iPhone 4 / 4S / 5 or iPod touch to any firearm with a Picatinny (Mil-STD-1913) or Weaver tactical rail, enabling shooters to peek around corners with no head exposure. Naturally, the mount itself wouldn’t be all that attractive without an accompanying app.
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In addition to LG showing off their 5-inch OLED display at SID this week, Qualcomm is also demoing their 25601440 Mirasol display. It’s a previously announced 1.5-inch panel embedded on the top of an “always-on” smartphone and on the face of a smartwatch. A rep did take care to emphasize that these are just mockups
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Some good news coming out of HTC this morning as the company’s North American president, Jack Tong, says that production capacity will double this month. In fact, production will not only double this month by continue increasing in June to meet the “strong demand” for the HTC One. “Our capacity is expected to rise significantly starting from mid-May. We… Read more
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Pocket Clothier is the latest creation from the Kairosoft developers who are already known for their simulation games dedicated for younger users. In today's app, it creates and manages your own fashion shop. To find out whether Pocket Clothier is good enough to attract you with its graphics and fun wardrobe changes will be reviewed by us today.(This is a preview – click here to read the entire entry.)
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Thursday, May 16th marks the US premiere of the 12th Star Trek flick: Star Trek Into Darkness. Like the 2009 film simply titled Star Trek, the new Into Darkness is directed by JJ Abrams and follows the adventures of the crew of the [new] original Enterprise under the command of a reimagined Captain Kirk played by Chris Pine. While the action-oriented direction of the last film, cockier Kirk, aggressive lens flares, and design of the new old U.S.S. Enterprise might have ruffled a few feathers, the 2009 entry kicked up the production quality of Star Trek films by an order of magnitude or two
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We test the strength of Corning’s Gorilla Glass 3 at CES 2013 On the surface, smartphones screens made of sapphire sound superb — they’re naturally strong, extremely scratch resistant, can withstand flexing, and transmit light very well. That’s the widely accepted story, at least. Disputing this view is Corning, makers of the Gorilla Glass material that covers a majority of smartphone screens. Related stories: This sapphire smartphone screen is strong, strong, strong A look at the tougher Gorilla Glass 3 Corning, whose aeronautics branch has worked with lab-grown sapphire since the 1970s, says it tested the strength of sapphire claims — a potential cover glass alternative — in-house
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Back in 2006, the BBC took 250 engineers and locked them into several rooms in a mansion. But this wasn’t the scene for an epic horror movie: instead, it set the stage for researchers to group together and focus on a number of projects. The BBC had a stack of ideas, but it “didn’t really know what to do with them,” explains Alia Sheikh, director of BBC R&D Production Labs. “We did the math and we worked out that if we split everyone up into teams of five and took an idea off the stack, and then locked those five people into a room for a week, they could work on an idea — we pretty much had enough ideas to do a whole year.” So Sheikh and her team kept the managers away and shipped in pizza to ensure the researchers were focused on… Continue reading…
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It’s been awhile since I’ve had the chance to write a letter to our audience, keeping you posted on things and throwing whatever is not in and of itself newsworthy into a post. So today I figured I’d share a few tidbits on the site, some Windows Phone news and other happenings. Returning to normal Just what am I doing? #TM13 Last week, some of you may have noticed I was absent for most of the news cycle
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Bloomberg reports that Nokia Growth Partners, the venture capital and investment arm, has made an investment in Pelican Imaging, a company which is developing array camera technology solutions for smartphones. This technology, which recently came to wider public attention through the Lytro camera, uses a microlens array to create a light-field camera, also called a ‘plenoptic’ camera, that can capture 4D light field information about a scene. This light field information effectively records extra data about the light hitting the camera and allows for additional processing techniques to be applied. For example, depth information can be obtained for every pixel, allowing the focus of an image to be changed after it has been captured (i.e.
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There’s more than what’s usually visible in the Windows Phone universe. When we talk about Windows Phones these days, we always talk about Samsung, HTC, Nokia, and sometimes Huawei. But if you remember, there was another name briefly manifested in our sight, only to disappear quietly later: Alcatel. Back in last December we reported a low cost Windows Phone called Alcatel One
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Though the Snapdragon 600 is one of the most widely used mobile chips in the world, being the heart of the LG Optimus G Pro, HTC One, and most versions of the Samsung Galaxy S 4, it will be one upped very soon by its own creator. The Snapdragon 800 will enter mass production in late May, basically dooming every flagship currently released to… Read more
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Production of a next-generation iPhone — commonly labeled the iPhone 5S — may be delayed, Reuters says. Japanese and Taiwanese supplier sources tell the news agency that 5S production was originally expected to start in June, but that Apple may be encountering manufacturing issues. In particular, one source says that Apple is building a fingerprint sensor into the phone, but having trouble finding a coating material that doesn’t interfere. The company is known to be working on fingerprint technology, and some past reports have hinted that the 5S could mark its debut.
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You might say the day is never really done in consumer technology news. Your workday, however, hopefully draws to a close at some point. This is the Daily Roundup on Engadget, a quick peek back at the top headlines for the past 24 hours — all handpicked by the editors here at the site.
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Yet another iPad 5 case has leaked and, again, several photos of it suggest that the next generation iPad from Apple will be thinner than the current model. The cases pictured above were obtained by Engadget, which spotted them at the Hong Kong Electronics Fair. It’s hard for us to judge from the photos alone, but Engadget said
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All those lucky Google Glass Explorers. Looks like your Google Glass are shipping, starting today. According to a few people including Brian Klug (@nerdtalker on Twitter). He posted an image of the email he received today
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Earlier in the month, Wall Street Journal reported that Apple plans to start production of the next iPhone, dubbed iPhone 5S this quarter, indicating that it may be gearing up for a possible summer launch. As a follow up to that report, WSJ now claims that Foxconn, Apple’s manufacturing partner in China, is going on a hiring spree after the post-holiday freeze to ramp up production for Apple’s new iPhone. Continue reading →
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Bloomberg says the hiring began in mid-March at a Zhengzhou factory for work on a new Apple device as well as older model iPhones. The Journal says Foxconn has been hiring 10,000 new workers every week since then.
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Hon Hai Precision Industry aka Foxconn, which assembles iPhones and iPads for Apple, but also consumer electronics on behalf of other vendors, has started hiring assembly-line workers in the tens of thousands in preparation for Apple’s next iPhone, both Bloomberg and the credulous Wall Street Journal reported Monday. People familiar with the matter tell the publications that
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