Eric Limer

This Hazmat Suit Peels Off Like a Big, Yellow, Ebola-Covered Glove

Hazmat suits are great for keeping you safe from pesky things like ebola, but there’s one difficult part that you just can’t avoid: You have to take that suit off at some point. Infecting yourself (or others) with the very suit that’s been protecting you is a real danger, which is why Johns Hopkins developed…

Pebble Smartwatches Are Getting the Power of Android Wear 

Pebble’s smartwatches are some of the best wearables out there, and they’re about to get even better. The newest (beta) version of the Pebble app gives Pebbles all the power of Android Wear notifications. This is great news. https://gizmodo.com/the-best-smartwatch-for-every-wrist-1671271995 If you’re a Pebble user, this means that you’ll soon be able to act on notifications…

Microsoft “Arcadia” Could Stream All Kinds of Games and Apps to Windows

Microsoft boss Satya Nadella loves cloud computing, and a new, rumored Microsoft service could be putting all that computing power to better use than ever. A project codenamed “Arcadia” (yes, another Halo reference) could soon stream games and apps to Windows devices, phones and tablets and computers alike. The report comes in from ZDNet’s quite…

Amazon Echo Teardown: A Dark Tower of Voice Control

Amazon’s Echo speaker promises to make your life better by being a Siri for your kitchen, an always-listening assistant you can ask for help when your hands are covered in batter. The folks at iFixit got one, and naturally started ripping it apart. Once you dive in, it looks like spare parts for the Death…

Samsung Gear VR Review: Hell Yes I Will Strap This Phone to My Face

The Oculus Rift is an awesome virtual reality headset. Google Cardboard is an awesome one too. But what if you could have the best of both? Simple and high-tech all at once. That’s Samsung’s Gear VR. You can probably do the math for how cool that is. (It’s awesome.) What Is It? An official Oculus-branded…

Snapdragon 810: Your Next Phone’s Brains Are Way More Than Just Fast

A new year means a new flagship smartphone brain, and Qualcomm has detailed some of the most fun features of its upcoming Snapdragon 810 chip, which will start popping up in Android and Windows phones next year. It’s faster, and it supports better graphics sure, but it also has other tricks up its sleeve. Here’s…

Google’s Cardboard VR Headset Is About to Be Better than Ever

Remember that fun little cardboard VR headset Google trotted out at Google I/O? Remember how it wound up being one of the coolest things there? Google does, and that’s probably why the search giant is upping its cheap VR game. In a post on its developer blog, Google notes that it shipped over half a…

​HP Stream 11 Review: $200 and Worth Every Penny

I just got finished rounding up the best Chromebooks out there, but there’s more to the world of dirt-cheap computing than Google’s browser-machines. The HP Stream is a $200 full-Windows laptop, and it’s surprisingly good. What Is It? A $200 laptop from HP that runs full Windows 8. A pokey little guy with a colorful…

7 Famous Fictional Places You Can Explore With the Oculus Rift

Ever since I first played Goldeneye 64, I’ve been fascinated by exploring 3D cyber-versions of my favorite fictional places. The Oculus Rift makes that pursuit cooler than it’s ever been. It’s one thing to see static shots of Jerry Seinfeld’s apartment from the same never-changing angles. It’s another to be in there, as if it…

Amazon’s Selling Its Own Diapers and Baby Wipes for Prime Members Only

Amazon started wading into selling its own electronics with its line of Amazon Basics cables and adapters, but now it’s branching out.Amazon Elements is a new line of Amazon-branded “everyday essentials” available exclusively to Prime subscribers, and it’s starting with diapers and baby wipes. Amazon’s selling point for the new line of products isn’t price—Amazon…

Gangnam Style Broke YouTube’s View Counter

Gangnam Style fell out of the public eye a while ago (thank god) but people haven’t stopped watching it. It’s been seen so many times that it actually broke YouTube’s view counter, in the nerdiest possible way by busting the code behind the scenes. As the YouTube Google+ page explains, the video stalled out at…

Stephen Hawking’s New Speech System Has SwiftKey Suggestions

Stephen Hawking’s famous computer-generated speech system just got a whole lot better. Intel redesigned the software he’s been using to pick out his words for almost 20 years, and the new version comes complete with SwiftKey predictions. Previously, Hawking’s speech system was able to predict some characters here and there, but now with SwiftKey’s algorithms…

T-Mobile’s Knocking $100 Off the 64GB iPhone 6 Today

Managing your space on a 16GB iPhone is a nightmare, especially when you’re trying to upgrade to the next version of iOS. So avoid it all together; T-Mobile is offering $100 off the 64GB iPhone when you start a new plan this Cyber Monday. That means 64GB for for the price of 16GB. The Uncarrier…

How to Explain Net Neutrality to Your Relatives: A Thanksgiving Guide

Thanksgiving is almost here, and that means turkey, mashed potatoes, and getting peppered with questions about tech-related news stories because hey, you read a bunch of blogs and you even know what a yik-yak is! It’s only a matter of time before they ask you “So what’s up with that thing on the internets?” Lucky…

You Can Get Android Lollipop’s Best Feature on Older Android Phones

My favorite part of Android Lollipop is having a secure PIN code on my phone but never having to type it in, thanks to the new Trusted Devices and Trusted Places options that bypass the lock screen when I don’t need it. If you’ve got an older Android phone, there’s good news: An app can…

Nexus 6 Teardown: A Big Beast Full of Beautiful Guts 

The Nexus 6 is Google’s new (and wonderful) behemoth flagship, so of course the folks at iFixit took the first opportunity to vivisect it for your pleasure. Inside that big, beautiful body is plenty of room for the requisite guts: A big battery, badass brains, and even a secret LED. https://gizmodo.com/nexus-6-review-its-time-to-go-big-1657839547 The Nexus 6 is…

Everything Amazon Is Supposedly Working On

You can always expect that Amazon will push out new Kindles and Fires year by year, but the Everything Store has so much more in the works. From travel sites to retail stores, there’s a whole bunch of rumored stuff Bezos & Co. might be getting ready to roll out. Here’s a breakdown. An ad-supported…

YouTube Music Key Hands On: Streaming Music Has Never Been Easier

Last week, YouTube announced its new streaming music service, which is finally rolling out in beta form. It comes complete with out-of-app background listening, cacheable videos, ad-free music, and a 6 month free trial. It turns YouTube into a great little music player. I just tried it out and so far, so good. To see…

A year after the console’s release, the Xbox One finally has its HBO Go app. We knew it was coming—just not when—and today it arrived. The PS4, on the other hand, is still out in the cold beyond The Wall.

It’s Finally Safe to Watch Porn on Your Kindle Fire

Kindle Fires can be great tablets, but Fire OS has always lagged a little behind the Android framework it’s based on. Now, Amazon’s built-in Silk browser is finally getting a private-mode update that will make it way easier and safer to watch porn. Chrome and Safari have had their private browsing modes for ages, but…