NVIDIA streamed a long event last night as part of their Game Developers Conference (GDC) 2015 announcements. NVIDIA announced an expansion to their SHIELD line of gaming hardware and the commercial availability of their GRID service. NVIDIA has had their SHIELD portable and SHIELD tablet out for a couple of years now and with last night's announcement, they are adding an … [Read more...]
HTC One (M9), Samsung Galaxy S6 and other announcements from MWC 2015
With Mobile World Congress 2015, this week is already filled with announcements in the mobile realm. The Samsung Galaxy S 6 is the latest flagship device for the company. It was also introduced with a sibling device, the Galaxy S 6 Edge. The two phones have very similar internal specs and the Edge expands upon the S 5 Edge by having two rounded screen edges, which could … [Read more...]
Mattel updates View-Master with Google Cardboard
At the Toy Industry Association's Toy Fair in New York, Mattel introduced an update to the classic View-Master. The toy, which has been around for 75 years, has been brought to the 21st century in collaboration with Google. Using Google Cardboard, the literally cardboard box to hold your phone to your face, a 3D immersive environment can be viewed using your compatible … [Read more...]
Logitech peripherals now compatible with Chromebooks
Keyboard, mouse, and other PC accessory-maker Logitech recently introduced the Logitech Unifying app for Chromebook. The app, which is available in the Chrome Web Store, allows you to view which devices are connecting to your computer and pair/un-pair them. This allows your Chromebook or Chromebox to work with multiple wireless mice and keyboards from Logitech that use the … [Read more...]
Windows 10 will be free for Raspberry Pi 2
Retail availability of the Raspberry Pi 2 was announced this week. The updated, self-contained board is available for $35 and includes: A 900MHz quad-core ARM Cortex-A7 CPU (~6x performance) 1GB LPDDR2 SDRAM (2x memory) Complete compatibility with Raspberry Pi 1 With the new processor, the Raspberry Pi 2 will be able to run ARM GNU/Linux distros and even Windows 10. For … [Read more...]