Leaked from today's 404 episode:
- Samsung Galaxy S4 keeps calm, carries on with big screen, 8-core chip and, yes, eye tracking.
- The Galaxy S4's software up close.
- Samsung Galaxy S4 display looking good, expert says.
- Samsung Galaxy S4 landing on six U.S. carriers.
- Does Samsung's Galaxy S4 make the iPhone 5 look lame?
- Samsung Galaxy S4 offers optional wireless charging.… Read more
If paddling out to that wave is getting a little too tiring, this electric body board puts you right in the water while pulling you along effortlessly.
Kymera is a lightweight, motorized jet board that can send you crashing through waves to help a struggling swimmer. Mainly intended for lifeguards and search and rescue teams, it's designed to be placed in the water more quickly and easily than personal watercraft.
The focus of a $250,000 Kickstarter campaign, Kymera weighs 48 pounds with the rechargeable lithium polymer battery pack, and 29 pounds without it. … Read more
Leaked from today's 404 episode:
- Google closes the book on Reader, announces July 1 sunset.
- Petitions beg Google to reconsider closure of Reader.
- Google Reader alternatives including Flipboard, Feedly, and more.
- Google to retire more services in new round of spring cleaning.
- Google yanks ad-blocker apps from Google Play.
- Samsung Galaxy S4 event: Join us at 3p.m. PT today (live blog).
- Berkeley creates the first graphene earphones, and (unsurprisingly) they're awesome.
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An anonymous developer who worked on the new SimCity has revealed that the game does not do most of its calculations "in the cloud," directly contradicting what developer Maxis and publisher EA have repeatedly claimed.
In defending the troubled game's always-online requirement, the game's makers have said an offline mode would not be possible, due to "a significant amount of calculations" being done in their servers. Not true, the source told respected PC blog RockPaperShotgun.
"The servers are not handling any of the computation done to simulate the city you are playing," … Read more
Leaked from today's 404 episode:
- Bonobos opens stores that don't sell anything.
- The Smithsonian gets Warner Bros. movie props no one else wants.
- Moving Image art fair sells first ever "Vine art" for $200.… Read more
Demand for the Razer Edge Pro has already managed to exceed supply, forcing its manufacturer to curtail its pre-order program.
Razer CEO Min-Liang Tan broke the news this week via the company's Facebook page:
We've had to stop taking pre-orders for the Razer Edge Pro as the pre-orders have gone beyond our forseeable manufacturing capacity (i.e. all stock is sold out for the months to come). We're doing all we can to get manufacturing lines up and running so please bear with us.
We're doing everything we can to get more units out in the … Read more
You can now preorder the first Steam Box, a PC-based gaming console built around Valve's digital game distribution platform. Prices start at $1,000, though there's a $100 discount if you order now.
Manufacturer Xi3 announced the Piston earlier this year at CES. The "grapefruit-size" Piston uses Steam's Big Picture feature to bring console-style PC games to TV screens.
Xi3 is a modular PC vendor that has received funding from Valve, and its Piston console is among a handful of such console-style PCs expected to arrive in 2013. The Piston console is slated to ship in the holiday season at the end of 2013, which also happens to be the estimated launch period for Sony's next-generation PlayStation 4. … Read more
Leaked from today's 404 episode:
- Baauer of "Harlem Shake" sued over unauthorized samples.
- Surprise hit "Harlem Shake" was a shock for artists heard on it.
- "Sweet Brown" sues Apple and radio stations for unauthorized interview.
- SXSW: Marvel to give away 700 first-issue digital comics.
- Marvel giveaway crashes Comixology's servers.… Read more
AUSTIN, Texas--The annual South by Southwest conference here prides itself on being a place for "disruption," but the only real disruption during a fairly pedestrian conversation between the founder of crowd-funded Ouya and the editor-in-chief of The Verge today were angry tweets followed by empty seats.
Ouya founder Julie Uhrman got on stage with The Verge Editor-in-Chief Joshua Topolsky to discuss her company's enormously successful Kickstarter campaign and the product it funded: an Android-based, open-source gaming console. The torrent of Tweets that followed revealed the audience members to be critical of just about everything except the room … Read more
AUSTIN, Texas--The creator of the forthcoming Leap Motion controller sees his baby as much more than just a Kinect on steroids; he sees it as a tool that will enable us to do things in the real world that so far have been restricted to the realms of imagination and science fiction.
Translation: This thing will finally transform us all into Jedis and strengthen the Force within. Well, sort of.
During an on-stage demonstration of the technology here at South By Southwest Interactive over the weekend, Leap CTO and co-founder David Holz explained how the controller can be used to amplify motions, actions, and reactions, and make some of the old Jedi telekinetics tricks possible in a virtual space -- by using our real-world limbs.… Read more
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