The recently debuted Jukusui-kun, which translates to “Deep Sleep,” knows when you are sleeping—and when to gently tickle you to keep you from snoring.
Prices of many tablets and e-readers have shrunk in recent months, and sales are expected to come with bonuses and/or further price deductions during the upcoming holiday shopping frenzy—on Black Friday especially. Here are a few of the gadgets that are intriguing, if only because they’re newly easier to afford.
Sandy Bridge, make way for Sandy Bridge-E, Intel’s ramp-up of its LGA 2011 socket CPU platform designed to woo enthusiasts with deep pockets. SBE is Intel’s platform for a trio of just-announced powerhouse CPUs, each packing over two billion transistors and weighing in at just 32 nanometers.
Toshiba’s Portege Z835 is part of the first wave of Ultrabooks, and tries to get an edge with a relatively low price tag of $899. I’ve been using a Portege Z835 review unit for a week, and I think Toshiba’s pulled off a good first effort, but the lower price doesn’t come without sacrifice.
At the SysCan conference in Taiwan this week, security researcher Charlie Miller will describe a flaw he discovered in the iPhone’s web browser that allows a malicious app installed on the phone to download executable code from a remote server. Miller is well-known for finding security flaws in Apple software, and this latest instance could be the most serious flaw he’s uncovered yet.
Android, meet your not-so-shockingly exposed dance partner, Google Music, and Google, meet another Google Music store rumor roundup, this one bolstered by screens that may indeed depict the upcoming Google-powered online music boutique.
Happy Monday. We’re all in this together, so let’s just push through this and Tuesday will be here soon enough. Until then, here’s what’s going on in tech…
Despite the urge to always have the most advanced gadget around, sometimes there’s a point where it might all be too much for your own good. As manufacturers feel the urge to put out bigger and better gadgets, screen sizes are skyrocketing — and not necessarily for the better.
Amazon is good at making things simple. Amazon has taste. Amazon has stores for movies, music, books, magazines, and apps, all of which are already hooked up to our credit cards and shipping addresses. Most important, Amazon has already done a lot of the heavy lifting required to build a phone. It could simply repurpose much of the effort it’s poured into the Kindle Fire tablet, and then add phone-specific features.
When TV was first invented, it transformed an audio-only experience into a visual one. For TV to be reinvented we need to transform the audio and visual experience into a more social, personal, interactive and deeply engaging experience.
I’m only at the 25-hour mark, which in most games would be sufficient, but in Skyrim is barely enough to time to get to the meat of the main plot while indulging in the game’s many side quests. But over the last week, I’ve played enough to learn a thing or two about this epic fantasy RPG. Here’s what wisdom I’ve come up with so far:
