Conan O’Brien took a slightly different approach to E3 coverage this year than we did at BGR. During his trip to E3, Conan took some time to see big titles like Sunset Overdrive, Forza and Entwined, but spent a majority of his visit harassing attendees, losing himself inside a virtual world and corralling everyone at Nintendo’s booth to watch him use his “fire rod” in Hyrule Warriors.
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If you were looking for glasses that are more obnoxious looking than Google Glass, we may have found just what you’re looking for. Spotted by Engadget at CNET Japan’s Live 2014 event, Matilde’s Fun’iki glasses light up the lenses in different colors to send you alerts about new notifications. The glasses can also emit a beep. But that’s not all. If you want to send a message in Morse code (who doesn’t?), you can type in the text into an app and the glasses will then flash accordingly. The glasses also feature different modes which light up for different environments, ranging from “disco” and “party” to “relax.”
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Star Wars fans who can’t wait for the latest movie in the saga to come out can test their own movie and story-telling skills with a new Disney app for iPad that lets users make their own Star Wars movies. Called Star Wars Scene Maker and available as a free download from the App Store, the app lets users create their own scenes, select their favorite characters, and even control the action and the dialogue before recording everything.
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Former FCC Commissioner Michael Copps is not happy with the current state of U.S. broadband service under the watch of former top cable lobbyist and current FCC head Tom Wheeler. The longtime consumer advocate spoke on Wednesday during a meeting of internet industry executives and politicians in Washington D.C. and didn’t mince words when discussing the current state of broadband Internet service in the United States.
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Scanning documents and photos isn’t such a chore anymore, as mobile devices can now be turned into a portable scanners instantly with the help of a simple application. But people who want more from their scanners, and who happen to scan a lot of things on the go, should check out PocketScan, a new Kickstarter project that has already blown past its funding target.
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In case it wasn’t obvious that Apple is working on some sort of wearable device, now we have three newly revealed Apple patents that detail features for a wearable computer like the iWatch. The three patents, first noticed by Apple Insider, were all filed on December 14, 2012, and published on Thursday.
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Apple’s partnership with GT Advanced Technologies isn’t a secret anymore, with the latter expected to provide sapphire crystal to Apple for various purposes related to the company’s iPhone, iPad and iWatch production. And now it looks like GT will have two plants growing sapphire glass for Apple.
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We have to admit that we were surprised a bit by Thursday’s Reuters report claiming that Apple’s iWatch would feature a 2.5-inch display, which seems to be absolutely enormous for a smartwatch. There was at least one person who wasn’t surprised by the news, however: Lewis Dorigo, a frequent poster over at MacRumors’s forum, earlier this year predicted that the iWatch would have a similarly sized display and made up some concepts showing what iOS would look like on such a display.
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It’s hard to imagine Sony would have much to complain about given that the PlayStation 4 is continually toppling its competition from Nintendo and Microsoft month after month, but stock shortages, which were heavily reported around the console’s launch, have apparently endured throughout 2014. Speaking with TrustedReviews, Sony admitted that the PS4 is just now beginning to close in on a full production run.
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We’ve known for a while now that Google has been toying around with becoming a wireless service provider and a new acquisition spotted by GeekWire gives us some more evidence that the company is looking to get into this market in a big way. Apparently, Google recently acquired Alpental, a small startup that was founded by two former Clearwire engineers named Pete Gelbman and Mike Hart. The company was never exactly well known outside of tech circles but GeekWire says that before it got scooped up by Google, it “was developing technologies related to 5G, the next generation wireless network” that “could have applications in connecting fiber to the home and… Google’s municipal wi-fi offerings.”
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