Eric Limer

The Xbox One Is Turning Your Phone Into the Only Remote You Need

If you have cable, the Xbox One’s TV-controlling powers are a great feature; having a list of just the channels you watch is how all cable-surfing should be. But if you have cable, you probably also have a DVR, and the Xbox One has been useless at controlling it. Until now. With updates rolling out…

Microsoft Office Finally Comes to the iPad Today, And It’s Free(mium)

It’s coming up on a year since the original release of Microsoft Office for iOS, but in all that time there’s been no iPad-specific version to be found. And now it’s here (for free, to try) as of two o’clock this afternoon, as a gift from Microsoft’s new cloud-guru CEO Satya Nadella. https://gizmodo.com/microsoft-office-for-ios-complete-video-walkthrough-an-513400475 Just like…

Real-Life Laser-Shooting Goggles Turn You Into Cyclops

Who’s your favorite X-Person? If it’s Cyclops, a) that’s lame, but also b) you’re in luck! Spice up your lonely bathroom-mirror cosplay with a pair of real-life laser goggles that can set paper on fire and pop black balloons! Creator AnselmoFanZero really sums it up when he describes his project as “insanely stupid and dangerous”…

Facebook Is Buying Oculus VR, The Incredible Future of Virtual Reality

Completely out of the blue, Facebook has announced that it is buying Oculus VR—the future of virtual reality awesomeness—for $2 billion. What?! https://gizmodo.com/i-wore-the-new-oculus-rift-and-i-never-want-to-look-at-1496569598 Facebook’s plans for the totally rad VR headset aren’t immediately apparent, and the social media giant’s announcement of the acquisition does little to clear it up, citing the possibility of using the…

Nvidia’s Got a New Next-Gen GPU and $3,000 Graphics Card

Nvidia is only just starting to put out cards that run on its new Maxwell architiecture, but its eyes are already on the future. Today at its annual GPU Technology Conference, Nvidia announced its next, far-future architecture: Pascal. Not due to hit until 2016, Pascal is faaaaar from making its way into anything you hope…

You Can Use This Plastic Tape Measure Straight Out of the 3D-Printer

Maybe the most practical dream of a 3D-printing future is on-demand widgets. Missing Ikea pieces, just a button-press away. But what about instant tools, completely assembled and usable straight from the printer? That future’s almost here. You can’t print a whole toolbox yet, but tinkerer AngryMonk has developed two plans—one for a tape-measure, one for…

Is This HTC’s New Flagship Phone?

HTC made One of the most beautiful (and best) Android phones ever last year. Now it’s about time for the follow-up, and this could be it. https://gizmodo.com/htc-one-review-the-beauty-is-a-beast-updated-5990716 This 15 minute video from VidxHD shows the new HTC One (AKA the M8, but apparently not the HTC Two) in all its glory, featuring a more curved…

How To Piss People Off in a Group Text Message

Below, except the opposite. Image by oliveromg/Shutterstock https://gizmodo.com/how-not-to-piss-people-off-in-a-group-text-message-1548840694

The Android Wear Smartwatch Apps We Want the Most

The main concept of Android Wear is simple; it’s a Google Now watch, which is awesome. But the right suite of compatible apps could make it even better, so long as they don’t get in the way of the simple Google Now-ness we all want and deserve. https://gizmodo.com/android-wear-is-just-a-google-now-watch-and-thats-grea-1546476502 Of course Android Wear won’t have its…

What Bitcoin Would Have Been Like If It Existed in the 90s

Bitcoin! It’s wild! It’s crazy! It’s all the rage! But what if instead of bubbling up to the surface and making waves here in the twenty-teens it had gotten popular way back in the 90s? Well, it would have looked a little something like this. This mock-up by the ever-talented SquirrelMonkeyCom who has talked similar…

Mt. Gox Found Over $100 Million In Bitcoin In a Random Wallet

Bitcoin is big money. When Mt. Gox went belly up, hundreds of millions in bitcoin up and disappeared. Now, the troubled exchange just happens to have stumbled into 200,000 ‘coin it thought was lost, or roughly 116 million dollars. https://gizmodo.com/the-bitcoin-exchange-mt-gox-has-disappeared-1530395202 According to documents from Mt. Gox Chief Executive Officer Mark Karpeles and cited by the…

Netflix CEO Reed Hastings has come out with an open letter extolling the virtues of net neutrality because, well duh. Also mentioned is how much Netflix really didn’t want to sign a deal with the devil Comcast, but if everyone’s favorite merger in process goes through, there might not be much of a choice going…

Samsung’s Gear Fit Is Coming in April for $200

Samsung’s Gear Fit—a pretty lookin’ smartwatch-fitness tracker hybrid—has finally gotten its price. It’ll be available for a cool $200 and will be showing up sometime in April. https://gizmodo.com/samsungs-galaxy-fit-is-a-smartwatch-and-a-fitness-trac-1529854495 Its bigger more traditional smartwatch brother the Gear 2, will be one hundred dollars pricier at $300—the same launch price as its lackluster predecessor, the Galaxy Gear.…

25+ Famous People’s First Tweets That’ll Make You Feel Better About Yours

Today is Twitter’s 8th birthday and it got you a gift. With Twitter’s new First Tweet tool you can look back at your (or anyone else’s) first tweet without hours upon hours of scrolling. We took the liberty to round-up a few of the best and worst from some noteworthy tweeters. And we’ll let current…

You Can Buy the Amazing New Oculus Rift Dev Kit for $350

When we saw the Oculus Rift Crystal Cove headset at CES we were blown away. It was incredible. And now there’s good news: you can pre-order your own for $350 today. It’s not the final product but it’s still fantastic. https://gizmodo.com/i-wore-the-new-oculus-rift-and-i-never-want-to-look-at-1496569598 Just like the version we saw at CES, the Oculus Rift Dev Kit 2…

Android Wear Video Walkthrough: It’s Got the Basics Down

Until Android Wear actually comes out on some real hardware, it’s not much more than a bunch of promises, some of which are a little lofty. But if you look at the developer preview, there’s some good news: Android Wear gets the basics right. https://gizmodo.com/android-wear-heres-the-future-of-android-smartwatchwe-1546388688 Macmixing took a spin through the preview of Android Wear,…

Android Wear Is Just a Google Now Watch (And That’s Great)

Google just announced its first real foray into the frenzied fray of the smartwatch world: Android Wear. That’s an accurate name for a wearable, Android-powered device, sure, but it’s also a little misleading. This is a Google Now watch. And that’s excellent news. https://gizmodo.com/android-wear-heres-the-future-of-android-smartwatchwe-1546388688 Google Now While the name says Android, Google’s more-than-a-little-optimistic teaser trailer…

Why Google Killing Google Voice Would Be Fantastic

Brace yourself Google Voice fanboys, your treasured service is probably not long for this world. But don’t you worry; the sooner it’s dead the better we’ll all be. Reports are coming in from 9to5Google that everyone’s favorite search engine is about to bring the axe down on its long-neglected phone service. That should come as…

Watch This Phone Screen-Protector Handle a Drill and Knives with Ease

There’s nothing quite as frustrating as a deep gouge on your new phone’s screen. Still, it can be hard to bring yourself to put on some stupid-looking screen protector. Unless it’s as tough as this one that we attacked with a hammer. And a drill. Sir Lancelot’s Armor’s “The Holy Grail” is a lot impressive…

Microsoft’s Surface 2 now comes in an LTE flavor. The 64GB, data-ready tablet runs on AT&T’s network (for now) and is available at your local or not-so-local Microsoft store or Best Buy today, for $680.