[ad_1] Oculus wants to one day let you fingerpaint, act like a super hero, and even type in virtual reality. Oculus already has its Touch controllers that are great for wielding virtual guns or picking up digital objects, but today Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg revealed a new prototype for VR ...
Read More »Google Fiber 2.0 targets the city where it will stage its comeback, as AT&T Fiber prepares to go nuclear
[ad_1] Image: Google Fiber This article was originally published on TechRepublic. While Google Fiber is still reeling from its big pivot last fall, there are signs that Google Fiber 2.0 is emerging from the ashes of Google’s most ambitious moonshot. In early February, the “new cities” section of the Google ...
Read More »A Nike HyperAdapt teardown might hint at what’s to come for the self-lacing shoes
[ad_1] Surely everyone who picked up a pair of Nike’s limited-edition HyperAdapt self-lacing shoes had at least some small desire to rip them open to find out how they worked. But at $700 a pop, it’s an easy enough urge to suppress. The nice thing about the internet, however, is ...
Read More »Mobile app approved as an alternative contraceptive
[ad_1] The app costs £6.99 per month, has around 100,000 UK users and works on a fairly simple principal. During ovulation, higher progesterone levels increase a woman’s body temperature nearly a half degree Celcius (0.8 Fahrenheit). Users measure their temperature daily using the included electronic thermometer, and the app compares ...
Read More »Apple could be working on ‘exceedingly flexible’ phone screen, patent suggests
[ad_1] Why it matters to you Rumors of foldable phones and wearables have been all the rage as of late, and Apple’s patent for a bendable screen could indicate it wants to be part of this new trend. The future looks flexible from Apple’s perspective. Literally. According to a patent ...
Read More »Apple patent points to potential iPhone 8 camera capabilities – CNET
[ad_1] For Panasonic’s post-focus feature, the iteratively focused photos are saved as a video. This is an example of what the capture looks like in action. Lori Grunin/CNET While several media outlets focused on the TV-related patents from the gaggle Apple was granted this week, there was one that I ...
Read More »Horror Game Stories Untold Channels Stranger Things In Debut Trailer
[ad_1] A new horror game from publisher Devolver Digital and developer No Code tasks players with playing an old-school text adventure game while sitting in an abandoned house. You can check out the game’s mysterious trailer below, which openly channels Stranger Things. The game is a compilation of four episodes ...
Read More »Facebook puts a weather section in its mobile apps
[ad_1] To check it out, tap the hamburger menu in the app, click “See More…” or “See All” and find the Weather option somewhere underneath Friends, Events, Groups, Nearby, Shops and the like. That’s where you’ll also find a few experimental Facebook features like the public WiFi finder. In addition, ...
Read More »Nokia to buy Comptel for $370M as it pushes deeper into carrier software
[ad_1] Nokia, once the world’s biggest handset maker, really wants the world to know that it’s a software company now. And today it made a big acquisition to that end: it is buying Comptel, a company that specialises in building software-based mobile data communications solutions for carriers. Nokia’s offer is to pay ...
Read More »Where is the IoT being used?
[ad_1] Smart Homes On the consumer side, the IoT has slowly worked its way into our personal lives. There has been a surge in the popularity of smart home assistants with the Amazon Echo leading the way, which has already begun to change the way we interact with technology. It ...
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