Mario Aguilar

This Is Supposedly Amazon’s Next Kindle Fire HD

BGR claims it has images of what it says is the forthcoming update to the Kindle Fire HD. If this is the real deal, the new models will feature a design overhaul addressing some of the last model’s shortcomings. The images BGR obtained are supposedly the 7-inch model of the HD, but the design changes…

Holy hell. The Apple Store website has unlocked pricing for the plastic, “affordable” iPhone 5C at $550 and $650 for 16GB and 32GB models, respectively. What?

The New iPhone Camera Has Dual-Flash, Slow-Mo Video, and “DSLR” Autofocus

Today, we got a look at the the future of the iPhone camera. Apple’s doubling down on its imaging tech in the hopes that it can catch the eye of the people who really care about the quality of their images. Here’s what you need to know about the future of your memory maker. True…

Apple’s New A7 Processor Has Crazy Graphics, Also a Motion Sensing Chip

During today’s iPhone keynote, Apple announced the new A7 chip, featuring supercharged graphics powers and a new motion-sensing “M7” chip that enables all of iOS 7’s powerful new features. Let’s take a look under the glass at the speedy monster that makes the magic happen—and will open the door to all sorts of new apps…

Sonos Play:1 FCC Filing Hints At Bookshelf Speaker

Sonos is primed to expand the lineup of speakers for its wireless audio system. As usual, the company’s FCC filing has surfaced in advance of the actual product launch. The forthcoming Play:1 looks like it’ll be a simpler speaker than its counterparts, and that Sonos intends it to be used in a stereo pairing. Is…

Olympus OM-D E-M1 Hands-On: So Hot You Won’t Believe It’s Mirrorless

The interchangeable-lens OM-D E-M1 is so much camera you won’t believe it’s mirroress. The E-M1 is the successor to 2010’s E-5, the last Olympus camera with a mirror box and an optical viewfinder. I just shot with one of the first units in the world at the Oly launch event in New York, and I’m…

Paranoid MGMT Album Trailer Was Penned the Day After Snowden Reveal

The trailer for MGMT’s forthcoming self-titled record isn’t the first piece of culture that’s inspired by this summer’s NSA revelations, but the nearly 7-minute video is probably the most ambitious yet. The concept is simple: A band rehearses while a the NSA monitors their every move. It’s absolutely silly, and sadly, it’s absolutely relevant, too.…

You Can Now Buy a Google Nexus 7 With LTE

Which Colleges Have the Most BitTorrent Traffic?

It’s a new school year, which means it’s time for the bright-eyed youth of our fine country to move into their dorm rooms, fire up their laptops, and take advantage of the blazing-fast, weapons-grade campus Internet to torrent the movies and music they missed over the summer. Which colleges and universities have the biggest BitTorrent…

Xbox Music Gets a Huge Design Overhaul Plus New iOS and Android Apps

When it launched last year, Xbox Music was trapped in a Microsoft-only bubble. Starting today, Xbox Music will expand its reach to hundreds of millions of mobile users with Android and iOS apps. And that’s just a piece of the update it’s getting leading up to the new app for Xbox One. Here’s what you…

Following Facebook’s lead, Yahoo just released its first ever transparency report, disclosing how it dealt with government requests for user data. Yahoo says that the report includes an accounting of “national security requests”. In the last six months, Yahoo gave up data following 92-percent of the 12,444 queries from US authorities.

What Is High-Resolution Audio?

This week, Sony unleashed a battery of expensive audio gear that claims to support “high-resolution audio” which, like “ultra high-definition” in the video world, sounds pretty snazzy. But what does high-resolution audio mean? And will HRA really make the music sound better? High-resolution audio is a new industry marketing term… On Tuesday, the Consumer Electronic…

How Casey Neistat Shot an Amazing Car Commercial With Zero Planning

Filmmaker Casey Neistat and Mercedez-Benz don’t pair easily in people’s minds. One’s a YouTube renegade, the other is the manufacturer of cars you can’t afford. And yet! They teamed up and made an ad. The result is as surprising and weird as you’d expect it to be. Yes, this is definitely a car commercial, but…

Ricoh’s Weird 360 Camera Takes Mind-Bending Photos, But It’s Expensive

Ricoh’s new Theta is a genuinely new kind of consumer gadget. The wand-shaped device has two opposite facing images, which can capture fully-spherical, 360-degree images. The resulting images are really cool looking and the Theta is a lot of fun to use but for $400, it’s a bit pricey. The 3.30-ounce device is simple enough…

Harman Kardon SoHo Headphones: Same Great Sound, New Portable Package

Last year’s Harman Kardon CL headphones were absolute knockouts: A beautiful minimal design plus nearly perfectly clear sound, all for the totally reasonable list price of $200. With the new SoHo headphones, HK hopes to revise that success in a more portable package, while retaining the sound that made them a smash value to begin…

Nikon’s Tiny LED Light Keeps Darkness Out of Your Camera’s Way

Nikon’s LD-1000 LED movie light is an inexpensive, portable lighting solution that could make shooting video with company’s Nikon 1 mirrorless cameras a lot easier. The always-on light mounts to your camera and keeps the scene in front of you continuously illuminated with what Nikon promises is a natural-looking, diffuse white glow. The LD-1000 attaches…

If you own Photoshop CS3 or higher—the time might be rip for an upgrade to the Creative Cloud version of the application. If you sign up for a Adobe Photoshop CC subscription by the end of the year, you’ll only pay $10 per month--forever. Usually a membership costs $20/$30 per month depending on whether you…

Sony Action Cam Redux: Let’s Try Again, This Time With Built-In GPS

Exactly a year ago, Sony dove into the GoPro-like adventure camera market only to leave us wanting a little more from its tiny Action Cam. The new AS30V comes with a few new features, including GPS connectivity and higher-resolution 12-megapixel stills. Is that enough to finally make Sony’s Action Cam a real competitor? GPS is…

Sony QX100: A Fancy, Freaky Lens-Camera That Feeds Off Your Smartphone

Sony has been doing wonderful things with imaging in recent years, but despite redefining what we can expect from a compact point-and-shoot camera, the company has yet to make a definitive statement in the mobile imaging you do with your smartphone. The QX100 appears to be that statement—and boy is it weird looking. So here’s…

Sony’s New Music Video Recorder Is Way Cooler Than It Sounds

Sony’s Music Video Recorder sounds like some horribly out-of-touch YouTube generation nonsense, but the goofy gimmick is actually a slick little package that pairs high-quality audio powers with video. We’re intrigued. In part, what we’re looking at with the HDR-MV1 is a high-quality audio recorder of the type that has been on the market for…