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Fun with numbers: For the first time ever, the Super Bowl was legally streamed online here in the U.S. and, according to NBC, over 2.1 million people fired up their web browsers to watch it. Overall web traffic, however, apparently fell by up to 20% during the game.
Apple is just now looking into display capabilities for an Apple television, according to the latest scuttlebutt, which means a product launch may not happen until the end of this year or early 2013.
Want to earn stuff by watching TV? A free app for that debuted Wednesday. When you tap the screen, Viggle’s software for iPhones and iPads listens to what’s on, recognizes what you’re watching and gives you credit at roughly two points per minute. It even works for shows you’ve saved on a digital video recorder.
Another CES has come and gone, so in case you missed all the hullabaloo, here’s a look at seven of the coolest gaming ideas from the show.
If 3D TV isn’t as popular as TV manufacturers presumably hope it might be, it’s in part because of the hassle of dealing with 3D glasses. And part of the hassle has been their proprietary nature: Major TV makers have sold specs that worked only with their own sets, which meant that you had to [...]
With just a small wireless headset and a lot of concentration, Haier’s BrainWave TV lets users play mind-controlled video games.
It’s a Wi-Fi-enabled scale from Fitbit, weirdly dubbed “Aria” — that’s Italian for “air,” as well as “a long, accompanied song for a solo voice.” I sometimes sing in the shower, it’s true, but can’t say I’d ever belt out a tune (or have cause to sing one) standing on a scale.
Samsung Electronics Co. and LG Electronics Inc. are showing off 55-inch TV sets that use organic light-emitting diodes, or OLEDs, instead of plasma or liquid crystals. The TVs were unveiled this week at the International Consumer Electronics Show, an annual showcase in Las Vegas for the latest smartphones, tablet computers and other consumer-electronic devices.
LG, meet Google TV, and the rest of us, meet LG’s Google Android-powered high-definition television a couple days before the company rolls it out in full regalia at CES 2012. That’s a shot of it up top, and yes, I think the interface looks a little unwieldy, too.
Jumbo-screen TV lovers, hide your checkbooks — it sounds like LG will be the first electronics manufacturer to sell a monster-sized 3D organic light-emitting diode (OLED) TV later this year.
Onward, tablets, smartphones and post-PC (yet still just as much “personal computing”) devices — call them whatever you like, 2012 will see a glut of me-too mobiles designed to untether us from stodgy office desktops and augment our everyday, ordinary activities by slipping into our everyday, ordinary surroundings.
