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A taste of Demon Hunter gameplay. Just don’t equip any Templars with shields until Blizzard gives the green light. (Credit: Blizzard/Activision) The epic Diablo III role-playing game experienced several hiccups on launch day today as players reported numerous errors preventing gameplay.
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Diablo III woes plague launch day players
(Credit: Jacqueline Seng/CNET Asia,Screenshot by Burpple) Do you upload mouthwatering pictures on Instagram, where they then get lost in millions of similar photos tagged “#foodporn”? Here’s some food for thought: You may be better off “Burppling.” The Singapore-based creators of the iOS app Burpple intend it to be a social food journal — an Instagram of sorts, only for food.
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It’s not rude to Burpple during meals
The CitySlicker starts at $129 and its flap comes in four different color options.
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WaterField’s CitySlicker is slick, but the handle costs extra
The CitySlicker starts at $129 and its flap comes in four different color options. (Credit: WaterField Designs) WaterField Designs makes some swanky cases for laptops, tablets, e-readers, and even the PS Vita .
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WaterField’s CitySlicker MacBook Air case is slick, but the handle costs extra
The new Canvio 3.0 portable drive from Toshiba. (Credit: Toshiba) Toshiba announced today that its Canvio 3.0 and Canvio Basics 3.0 portable hard drives now offer up to 1.5TB of storage space, the second largest capacity on the market for portable external hard drives
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Toshiba Canvio portable drive now offers 1.5TB, adds NTFS support to Macs
(Credit: http://www.quickmeme.com/ ) This Friday, 25 bars and restaurants around the San Francisco Bay Area will adopt Scenetap , a social analytics app that uses facial recognition technology to gather real-time data on customer relations and crowd sizes. Don’t worry, the cameras only analyze facial features to determine approximate age and gender of clients entering the bars, and the restaurants swear that they won’t upload videos of patrons stumbling out and doing whatever people do outside of bars at 4 a.m
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The 404 1,054: Where we’re gonna need to see some ID (podcast)
(Credit: Scott Kildall and Nathaniel Stern) I have so much to say to aliens, I really doubt I could keep it to 140 characters. But if I’m going to go the “Tweets in Space” route to speak to potential life forms on GJ667Cc, I’ll need to keep it short. The experimental art project will beam real-time tweets toward the exoplanet 22 light-years away during performance events at the 2012 International Symposium on Electronic Art (ISEA) in New Mexico
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Finally, a chance to tweet to aliens
The Kyocera Urbano Progresso in three different colors (Credit: Kyocera) At this year’s CTIA in New Orleans, which just wrapped up last week, Kyocera debuted its Tissue-Conduction Audio Technology for mobile devices.
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Kyocera’s Smart Sonic Receiver arrives in Japan today
The personal mobility Uni-Cub lets people rove around indoor environments, keeping their hands free. (Credit: Honda) Like the Segway before it, Honda’s new Uni-Cub solves a problem that does not exist; it’s a means for able-bodied people to rove around when they could just as well walk.
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Honda Uni-Cub promotes our fat, lazy future
(Credit: Parker Maimbourg) A resourceful videographer, Parker Maimbourg, has managed to build a continuous ring light for just $20. The setup consists of a cheap, circular LED lamp ($10), an AA battery holder ($1.99), and an unused hotshoe salvaged from an old flash unit
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Build a ring light for less than $20
Hot off the heels of the One X and EVO 4G LTE spending some prolonged time at customs , now another member of HTC’s sensational family appears to be feeling the rigorous effects of the ITC.
Accuracy is generally an important consideration in computer chips, but a team of researchers led by Rice University are touting a new “inexact” chip (dubbed PCMOS) that they say could lead to as much as a fifteen-fold increase in efficiency. Their latest work, which won a best paper award at a recent ACM conference, builds on years of research in the field from the university, and is already moving far beyond the lab — some inexact hardware is being used in the “i-slate” educational tablet developed by the Rice-NTU Institute for Sustainable and Applied Infodynamics, 50,000 of which are expected to wind up in India’s Mahabubnagar school district over the next three years.
While the main thing that would make Raspberry Pi’s diminutive $25 / $35 Linux setups better would be if we could get our hands on them faster , the team behind it is already working on improvements like this prototype camera seen above.
If you found yourself longing for the minor tweaks Samsung made to the Galaxy Tab 10.1 in Germany earlier this year, you may be in luck: Apple’s filed for a preliminary injunction against the slate stateside.
Let’s face it, whether you’re down at the laundromat or feeding the meter on a busy street, you can never find enough quarters when you need’em. Know what effectively sidesteps that lack of foresight? NFC , that’s what
We here at Engadget tend to spend a lot of way too much time poring over the latest FCC filings, be it on the net or directly on the ol’ Federal Communications Commission’s site. Since we couldn’t possibly (want to) cover all the stuff that goes down there individually, we’ve gathered up an exhaustive listing of every phone and / or tablet getting the stamp of approval over the last week. Enjoy! Continue reading FCC Fridays: May 18, 2012 FCC Fridays: May 18, 2012 originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 18 May 2012 23:52:00 EDT
Ready for your latest tour through the dense and meandering wording of patent applications ? Well, dig in, because it’s Microsoft’s turn to confuse lawyers the world over with this latest USPTO doc, submitted in November of 2010. The filing describes a computer-based program that would, essentially, analyze a primary device’s installed applications, cross-reference it with a different device and then either migrate that software batch or suggest similar apps to download on a secondary unit
Having spent a little time with it, we’re impressed with how much capability the engineers managed to pack into the Canon SX150 , at such an affordable price. As you’d expect given the bargain-basement ~$179 street, it’s not without its limitations, but considering what you get, it’s pretty amazing: A capable, well-built 14-megapixel digital camera with an optically stabilized 12x zoom lens and a good assortment of features
There’s been hints of it coming as early as February , but we now have a smoking gun at the FCC: the Galaxy S III is coming to T-Mobile. A Samsung SGH-T999 has popped up at the agency sporting newly added 1,700MHz AWS support that’s the telltale sign of a T-Mobile device, along with the T999 name itself (the T989 is the network’s Galaxy S II ). It also totes 850MHz and 1,900MHz WCDMA bands being used for HSPA+ data rather than just voice, a clue that the phone is ready for refarmed GSM spectrum
Sony must stay on top of Android updates for its tablets to remain relevant to consumers. (Credit: Sony) One must wonder why Sony cannot get out of the habit of playing a fragmented and behind-the-curve Android release schedule for its devices.
