In 1993, Sega made a Power Rangers-esque VR headset that the company hoped would bring VR to the masses. “It takes us into the future,” said MTV’s Alan Hunter on stage at that summer’s Consumer Electronics Show. “The future, of course, being virtual reality.” On a highlight reel behind him, a guy wearing a Sega […]
On a recent Brooklyn morning, Andrew Okun, 22, and his dad Damien staked out their local Micro Center at 6 am, in the rain, to purchase a two-month-old, $700 graphics card for Andrew’s PC. It was their third attempt at getting a Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080. This time, they’d be first in line. Since its […]
Weren’t we all here just a couple weeks ago? Hanging around on the internet waiting for Apple to show off some new hardware? Indeed, we were. Apple has already staged two hardware release events this fall: one for the Apple Watch and iPads and one for the four new iPhones. Now the company is inviting […]
The music world was still dealing with the rise of downloads and the loss of digging through tangible, physical albums, and I think these insane 3D interfaces were a coping mechanism. Google’s UI flourishes were only answering the gauntlet thrown down by iTunes’ equally swoopy “Coverflow” UI. Out of Beta: A Music Store and a […]
[embedded content] Every fall, like clockwork, a new iPhone is birthed unto the world. Apple invites us all to join its executives at the company’s campus in Cupertino, California, for the big reveal. The new custom silicon. The “better-than-ever” camera. The shiny, shiny chamfers. If it feels like you just watched a socially distanced presentation […]
A boy and his mother today filed a class action lawsuit against Nintendo for not doing enough to fix a hardware problem common among Nintendo Switch controllers. It is one of several legal efforts related to the issue of “Joy-Con drift”—a phenomenon where the Switch Joy-Con controllers make in-game characters “drift” even when nobody is […]
The camera systems are a match, too. A 12-megapixel main camera is paired with a 16-megapixel ultrawide, as well as an 8-megapixel selfie shooter. What’s distinct from last year’s Pixel 4 is the lack of a 2x zoom lens; the ultrawide lens has replaced it, but Google says you can still get high-quality close-ups thanks […]
Sony’s PlayStation 5 launch is coming up fast, and there’s been a steady stream of news about the next-gen console for several months. We already know what it looks like (it’s very curvy), and while you’ll have a hard time snagging it right now, preorders have opened up. More importantly, we now have a better […]
Tech product launches in the year of 2020 involve a kind of perspective whiplash that makes it more difficult than usual to decide whether or not you really need the thing. There’s the consideration of whether the gadget fits into your life right now, at a time when our needs have changed considerably. There’s also […]
The products Apple announced in its short, one-hour presentation Tuesday morning were in line with the rumors and speculation that preceded the event. We’ve known the company’s September product showcase was going to focus on wrist-worn wearables ever since Apple invited us to watch the streaming presentation with a graphic titled “Time Flies.” So, we […]