A strange thing happened during the announcement of Apple’s new iPad on Wednesday: for a moment, CEO Tim Cook stopped talking about his company’s products and started dissing Google’s Android operating system. Cook displayed a …
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How to Make Your Facebook Photo Feed Look Like a Pinterest Board
What if you could combine the addictive photo-grazing of Pinterest with the addictive voyeurism of Facebook? Then you’d have Friendsheet, the new app from developer Zach Allia that lets you turn the photos from your news feed …
A Netflix Cable Channel? Right for Netflix, Possibly Right for Us
Two Minute Video: Five New and Noteworthy iPad Features
Apple’s third-generation iPad sports four features worth checking out if you’re in the market for a tablet — and one feature worth checking out no matter what.
Quick note: I say “four times the resolution” in the above video, …
Military Buys Tiny ‘FirstLook’ Droppable, Flipping Robots in Bulk
The term “military robot” brings to mind the dystopian battlefields of the Terminator movies, filled with shiny humanoids blasting each other to smithereens. The latest robot acquired by the U.S. military, however, has its roots …
With an App Store, WIMM’s Android Watch Gets a Little More Practical
Style considerations aside, owning a dedicated wristwatch is harder to justify when the smartphone in your pocket provides the same information and then some.
So now we have companies like WIMM, whose Android-powered WIMM One …
Lytro’s Light-Field Camera: Photography, Reimagined
In the world of technology, there are three kinds of change. There’s the subtle, never-ending process of refinement we call evolution. There’s revolution, which is like evolution in fast-forward mode. And then, every once in a …
5 New XCOM: Enemy Unknown Screens Explained
I recently spoke with XCOM: Enemy Unknown developer Firaxis about their upcoming hybrid turn-based, real-time strategy game’s tactical options, how to thwart at least one new alien bad guy and the ramifications of ticking off …
DARPA-Backed ‘Cheetah’ Is the World’s Fastest-Running Robot
There are a few humans alive who can outrun the new DARPA-funded Cheetah robot; if your name isn’t Usain Bolt, however, chances are you’re not one of them. This robot can reach speeds of up to 18 mph, breaking the old record of …
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Ben Bajarin is the director of consumer technology analysis and research at Creative Strategies Inc., a technology industry analysis and market intelligence firm in Silicon Valley.
10 Totally Weird iPhone and Android Games
A look at the most funny, pointless and just plain bizarre games out there for the iPhone and Android devices.
Can You Hear the Difference Between Lossless and Lossy Audio?
Can your ears tell the difference between a lossless and lossy song? I’m talking about the difference between audio that’s been compressed in a way that preserves the original audio data perfectly when it’s decompressed and …