The Gear VR and Lamborghini joint VR video is finally available on Milk. And its great! First seen at the Lamborghini booth at the Geneva Motor Show 2015 in March, Samsung and Lamborghini created a well received 360 video of the Lamborghini driving around. Well I finally got to see it today and its more than just a camera in the car. This video was very well planned out and shots… Read More
Now thieves are use Amps to steal your car. Now you need a Faraday cage for your key fob Sigh. More proof mean people suck. So here is the story. Thieves are using signal power amplifiers to extend your cars reach to your key fob. The way it works normally is when you are a few feet from your car, the car’s remote sensing system detects its your key fob and unlocks itself. Well… Read More
Finally did a hands on with Apple watch. Its good… umm. good. Sound less then excited in my title? That is because I was. I have the original Pebble, the Pebble Steel and the original LG. The Apple watch is nicer then all of these, but only just a bit nicer. The screen is a bit nicer, but not much. I liked the round edges of the… Read More
Apple Watch sells out in the first day. Does that close the Apple Watch market from other watch makers? Short answer mostly no. Long answer, there are still watch to be sold to Apple owners, you just have to sell it the right way. Now even though Apple sold out of their first batch of pre-orders, they did not release any numbers to indicate how many that is. Some analysts have predicted the company… Read More
The coolest thing about self driving cars will be trucks There has been lots of talk about self driving cars and how they will change the world, and they will, but before that happens, a just as big change will come to trucking. Imagine a long line of trucks all super close together getting 2x the gas or electric mileages because of drafting. Drivers would… Read More
Here comes the tax season scams My wife come in and asked me to listen to a voice mail. It was a recording of someone with an english accent saying that he was from the IRS and they have been trying to reach out to her for a 1040 audit. ( WTH is a 1040 audit anyway?) They never used her… Read More
Self driving cars will make electric cars more practicable, and mechanics less populous When it comes to the auto industry the future is coming on at full speed. Although I think its optimistic to think we will have self driving cars in 5 years, because of both technology and legal reasons, but in 10 I think we will see a large percentage of cars that can drive themselves… Read More
Pebble watch working with Microsoft phones? Kinda? Download at the end. I’m sure you have seen the news. Microsoft has a private beta out there for 48, now 24 hours, and then … well we do not know what will happen then. However, the simple beta is mostly about getting bluetooth notification with Pebble to work. Although this sounds pretty simple and not indicative of an… Read More
Cheat codes for Cities: Skyline ok, I need to cross check these cheat codes I got off the web, but I’m going to place them here and then check up on them keep or remove each cheat code as I verify them. BTW, there are not cheats as much as they are steam mods. In the main menu section click… Read More
Top 10 Apps for the Gear VR HMD (Note, I’m posting this now, but its not done. But what I do want is feedback. Good list? Bad list? you have a better top 10? Tell me.) I finally got my Note 4 and start loading apps on the Samsung Gear VR and here is my top ten favorites. Normally I do not include… Read More
VR: Dont call it a comeback … … I’ve been here for years.. Song? Anybody? That’s right! LL Cool J, ah a trip in the way back machine. However, we are not going to talk about ’91 rap, instead we are going to talk about what VR was in ’91 when ‘Mama said knock you out,’ was released, then again in ’98… Read More
The Cloud Office war is finally reaching full pitch as Microsoft finally moves its heavy Armor onto the field This has been building up for sometime. As with the Great Mobile War and Browser War, the Great Office Cloud War has 3 players, Google, Apple and now Microsoft. In the beginning, there was Google Docs. Google docs were pretty simple but had one great advantage. You could start a doc on one machine, go… Read More
Windows 10 is coming, and why there may never be a Windows 11, instead Windows 365 I upgraded from Windows 7 to 8 then 8.1 I have not had any more major issues with it short of the UX/UI that is basically common knowledge at this point. I’ve downloaded Windows 10 and although I have not experimented with it too much, its a better experience then 8, so I feel I’m… Read More
What has Pebble up its sleeve? New hardware? We know new software… but what else? So what does Pebble have up its sleeve.. and targeted for ours.. Based on the announcement it seems pretty clear some new platform upgrades. But that about it. Well, I have my wishlist handy. I have an app for the Pebble called NewsSnacker. Its not complicated but does what I want. Lately I have been… Read More
NBA Video for the Gear VR dropped a few days ago, not the ALL-Star but still.. Not too impressed, but I cannot wait to see an actual game like in the Gear VR. The quality could be a bit better, but still pretty good. The NBA All Star video should be out in a few weeks so we are on standby. REALLY looking forward to it though. There are two videos,… Read More
A Reddit Grill Cheese Melt Down – NSFW So sweet. I had to login to Reddit just to upvote the rant and comment. Instead of reprinting the text, I screenshot it for justice. The basics of this is someone ranting, and rightly so, that a grilled cheese is ONLY bread and cheese. You add anything else and its a melt. Now one may… Read More
Can you catch a Virus from an E-Cigarette? Perhaps you need a USB Condom A computer virus that is, and you can. Seems there is a reported case, on Reddit, of an e-cigarette delivering a payload of malware once plugged into the USB port. A cheap device from China it seems. No shocker there. So what should we learn from this especially given the post I did yesterday on… Read More
Bought a Black Friday cheap tablet? Better step up security on that thing There are tonnes of really cheap android tablets out there you can get on Black Friday. Most of them from manufacturers you have never heard of or at least not making Android tablets. This should be clue number one. In a post on bluebox.com, Andrew Blaich writes that many of the cheap tablets they tested had minor… Read More
SimCity in VR? No, not yet, but that doesnt mean it could not happen With the Oculus Rift, Google Cardboard, and Samsung gear VR there are many options for low cost VR. As a long time SimCity mayor, my first thought was, how cool would it be to explore my city in VR! So I waited. Nothing. Why? As you already know, SimCity is full 3D, you can navigate… Read More
VR sculpting with the Razer Hydra and the Oculus Rift Sculpting in VR is nothing new. Actually, very little in VR is new, instead its what happens when things get lighter, faster, cheaper. Back in the 90’s we could create sculptures and move walls around in VR but it was very cumbersome, lacked the high feedback fidelity required to really make sculpting in VR productive… Read More