Gadgets, Tech News, Reviews and More!
Square expands their services for small businesses, GeoGuessr gamifies Google Maps, Roku gets a new interface, Google+ gets a major redesign, Google Hangouts and Messaging get rolled together, Google All-Access is the company’s new subscription music service, use one login across all Google Games platforms, and the phrase “Okay, Google” will let you search by voice!
Yet another reason to love Japanese bathroom technology. Video games in the urinals!
Maxis’ Lucy Bradshaw wrote a blog post last night informing SimCity mayors of the world that an email about the promised free game would be arriving today.
Electronic Arts’ launch of SimCity has been marred by unexpected demand. Some fans eager to play the game have been met with down servers and overloaded servers and various bugs that have kept them from getting to play, while others have balked at the always-connected Internet policy that serves to enable multiplayer Region play but [...]
Turn your iPad into a multi-player foosball table with Classic Match Foosball.
Sony confirmed many rumors on the Internet today with the announcement of the Playstation 4. They didn’t spend a whole lot of time going over technical specifications, but they did give us a few interesting numbers and details. AMD processor, x86 Architecture with an “enhanced PC GPU” and 8 gigs of high-speed unified GDDR5 RAM used [...]
Congress starts thinking about tracking asteroids, a boy gets an inexpensive prosthetic hand thanks to 3D printing, Google Takeout adds new services to backup, and an arcade machine that pours the winner a beer!
A concept for a transparent mobile phone, the world’s first bionic eye, more jobs for robots in hospitals, sign-spinners get automated, controlling fighting robots across the web, and a bike that cleans the air its rider breathes.
Play Battleship from your mobile device, Twitter’s Vine lets you embed videos in tweets, Google updates Slides and Image Search, emptying a ketchup packet without waste, and a release date for Microsoft Surface with Windows 8 Pro.
The iOS App Store had another hugely successful year – these are 35 apps that come highly recommended, either from me or from members of the GeekBeat community!
These are the apps that have gotten me through the year. If you use Android, you’ll find a ton of stuff here to help you out with whatever you’re doing.
One more awesome Raspberry Pi project – a tiny arcade game emulator!
