Mario Aguilar

Google Play Movies & TV app for iOS, which was announced back in January, now supports offline playback. So you can watch your videos from Google Play on your iPad on a plane. Nifty.

Apple Now Warns You If Your iCloud Is Accessed from the Web

Following last week’s celeb-photo-hacking-scandal, Apple has started sending email notifications that warn people that their iCloud accounts have been accessed from web. This is the first step to what we’ve been toldwill be a more secure iCloud future. Now when you login to your account from a web browser—or when somebody else does—you’ll get an…

AARP Made a Tablet for Old People Who Think Tech Is “Scary”

AARP is getting into the gadget game with the RealPad, a tablet expressly made to help seniors who want to stay connected, but don’t want to spend a lot of time learning the technology. The intent of the RealPad, a 7.9-inch tablet with a simplified Android 4.4 UI, is perfectly summarized in AARP’s marketing: Think…

Sennheiser Takes a Crack at Beats With Beefy “Urbanite” Headphones

Storied headphone brand Sennheiser has spent the last few years trying to evolve its design to capitalize on the huge market created by the Beats By Dre juggernaut. The company’s new Urbanite headphones are its most direct shot yet. The new big plastic folding headphones definitely take a cue from Dre in their colors and…

Roam Ropes Are Necklace Headphones You Won’t Lose

Beats By Dre co-founder Steven Lamar is launching a new brand of lifestyle-oriented headphones today called Roam. Its first product will be Ropes, a set of earbuds that you wear around like necklace when they’re not in use. Well, that’s one solution to the earbuds you’re always losing. The around the neck design isn’t exactly…

Sphero Ollie: A Devilishly Speedy Toy Controlled By Your Phone

Ollie is the latest phone-controlled toy from the developers behind the Sphero robotic ball. For Ollie, the team actually reduced the toy’s functionality so that it’s basically just a super fast cylinder. It races around on two wheels, spinning, jumping, and crashing into stuff like a drunk speed skater. Ollie is now available for pre-orderfor…

Bose’s Classic Noise-Canceling Cans Just Got a Colorful Redesign

Bose’s noise-canceling headphones are an iconic staple worn by balding dudes in business classes everywhere. Finally, the company is updating its classic QuietComfort 15 headphones and ditching that stale grey design for something a little more attractive. According to Bose, the $300 QuietComfort 25 headphones cancel more sound than before, and have improved active EQ…

Sony’s Rad Short Throw 4K Projector Is Coming to the US (Update: $50K)

Back at CES we got a first look at a prototype for a short throw projector that lets you light up a wall even if you don’t have a lot of space to beam the image across a room. Today, we learned that it’s coming to the United States this month. Heck yeah! Additionally, Sony…

​Sony QX1: A Weird Interchageable-Lens Camera You Strap to Your Phone

The Sony QX1 lens-style camera follows from the smartphone-friendly concept the company introduced last year with the QX10 and QX100. This time, the camera comes with a larger image sensor and an interchangeable lens mount, both inherited from Sony’s awesome mirrorless shooters. Interchangeable lenses on a smartphone is just as crazy as it sounds. As…

Sony Walkman A17: A Hot, Tiny Music Player For High-Resolution Audio

Today, Sony is expanding its high-resolution audio push with a no-frills Walkman. The slight little music player weighs just 2.3 ounces, making Neil Young’s chunky Pono playerlook like a brick. High-resolution audio might be a little suspect, but there’s no doubt this petite music player is a beauty. Yes, the new NWZ-A17 Walkman (cool name,…

Report: HBO’s Going to Ruin The Wire With the Wrong Aspect Ratio

Kottke reports HBO is embarking on a rebroadcast marathon of The Wire. We should be pumped that The Wire is getting remastered in HD, right? Not so fast. HBO is about to ruin a classic. The original video promo posted by HBO Watch bills the rebroadcast marathon as “The Wire Remastered,” with the claim that…

​Sonos Just Fixed Its Most Annoying Feature

Completely wireless music in your house is the future, and Sonos did it right first. We’ve been fond of the company for years because the system is painless to setup, easy to use, and reliable (not to mention the sound). Today, Sonos gets even simpler by killing the final wire between you and your music.…

Watch Old People Freak Out Trying Oculus Rift For the First Time

Oculus Rift’s virtual reality is so awesome that it’ll leave any generation slack-jawed. But it’s especially satisfying to see old people get their minds blown. “So this is how far they’ve come,” says one man. You have no idea dude. And in total fairness, that’s exactly how all of us felt when we used it…

Project Wing: Google’s Secret Delivery Drone Program (Update: Video)

The Atlantic reports that Google’s skunkworks Google X team has spent the last two years working on a secret program. More than a loosely sketched concept like the teaser Amazon pushed out earlier this year, Google appears to be serious about delivery in the air—getting products from the warehouse to their destination in about two…

Leap Motion Wants to Bring Your Hands Into Virtual Reality

Virtual reality via headsets like Oculus Rift is getting really good, but the experiences are lacking a critical facet for the most part: Your hands. Leap Motion wants to use its 3D motion sensor technology to bring your hands into the game. Until now, Leap Motion is known primarily for its effort to create a…

Olympus E-PL7: Great Imaging Guts, Now With a Slick Selfie Redesign

Olympus interchangeable-lens cameras are some of the best out there, and that doesn’t change with the new Pen E-PL7. As with the E-PL5, you get amazing imaging tech crammed inside a very small body. What’s surprising is that the redesigned selfie-friendly LCD screen—usually an eye-roller feature—is so well-conceived that it’s the distinguishing new feature of…

Cloud Storage Showdown: Google Drive, Dropbox, iCloud and More Compared

Cloud storage bigwig Dropbox just slashed the price of its plans, offering 1TB of storage for $10 per month. And it’s not alone. Over the last year, most of the major players have been cutting prices and upping sizes. So what’s the best option today? The price of storage has gotten so cheap that most…

Cheap Airplane Seats Shouldn’t Recline at All

Yesterday, we shared the amusing case of the cross-country trip that was diverted when two passengers got in a battle over a reclining seat. But the real villain here isn’t our travel-addled selves. It’s that we still let airplane seats recline at all. Yes, the story of two middle-aged adults grounding a plane because they…

DJ Matthew Dear Sampled Thousands of GE Machines to Make This Banger

DJ Matthew Dear teamed up with General Electric acoustics engineer Andrew Gorton to sample the tones created by the churn of “thousands” of different GE machines, from turbines to medical equipment. The sounds were then chopped up and reassembled into “Drop Science,” a frantic, meticulous music experiment. Matthew Dear’s career in weirdo music has taken…

​Blue Mo-Fi Review: Great-Sounding Headphones That Aren’t Quite Great

Blue Microphones is best known for, uh, microphones. And not just any mics; they specialize in the expensive studio kind, well-regarded for sound and design, not the beaters you used in your high school garage band. But while Blue’s headphones pop, they’re not much for getting around. Blue has been teasing its $350 Mo-Fi headphones…