Sean Hollister

The Tempescope Puts the Weather in a Box on Your Desk

Sure, you could just download a weather app to see what conditions are like outside your front door, but where’s the fun in that? Ken Kawamoto’s Tempescope actually creates rain, clouds, and simulated lightning right inside your house. It’s the ultimate push notification. Basically, it’s just an acrylic box with a water pump, mist diffuser,…

Lenovo Yoga 3 Pro: Yes, The Hinge is a Giant Watchband

The backflipping Lenovo Yogasinglehandedly made laptops cool again. The Yoga 2 Proadded a backlit keyboard and a brilliant 3200 x 1800 QHD screen. Now, Lenovo’s going for broke with the third generation of its transforming touchscreen machine. Not only is the new $1,349 Yoga 3 Pro thinner and lighter, it has a freaking watch band…

Ashton Kutcher Must Be Stopped (Before He Corrupts Our Laptops)

It’s a little-known fact that celebrity Ashton Kutcher moonlights as a Lenovo engineer. At first, it was tolerable: a kickstand here, a bigger battery there. But now, the chisel-cheeked entrepreneur has twisted Lenovo’s latest tablets to his own foul aims: the new Yoga Tablet 2 Pro has a built-in projector. And a subwoofer. And a…

Nvidia GeForce GTX 980M: A Graphical Leap For Gaming Laptops

The dirty little secret of GPU marketing is that laptop graphics chips are never as powerful as you’d think. Think you’re going to run a game maxed out at 2K resolution with the GeForce GTX 880M in your laptop? Think again—even if it’s no trouble for a desktop-grade GTX 780. But this year, Nvidia may…

Finally, Foolproof Teleconferencing (I Hope)

How much do you hate Polycom? GoToMeeting? Vidyo? Skype? Or whatever the hell else you use to hold meetings with distant colleagues? Well, I’m here to tell you that somebody may have finally figured out a foolproof way to make teleconferencing actually work. “May” because I only spent ten minutes with the so-called solution, but…

Don’t Call It Sony: This Is VAIO’s New Prototype Tablet PC

Remember when Sony decided to sell off its entire PC businessin one fell swoop? It looks like that wasn’t the end of the company’s iconic VAIO designs. Today at Adobe’s MAX design conference, the new VAIO Corporation showed off a brand new tablet computer aimed directly at pros. It’s a beefy machine with a 12.3-inch…

Nerf Rhino-Fire Review: The Most Badass Foam Blaster Ever Built

Remember when you had to pull back a Nerf gun’s plunger and load a new dart for every single shot? That was a loooong time ago. The new Nerf Rhino-Fire rains down 50 rounds of fully-automatic flying foam from its dual drum magazines and twin oscillating barrels. This beast goes on sale for $89.97 on…

Did you miss our real-time coverage of Microsoft’s Windows 10 reveal? You can now watch all 40 minutes of the presentation yourself in this video. [YouTube via The Verge]

Windows 10 Hands-On: Well Hello There, Start Menu!

It’s finally official: Windows 10 is on the way. It’s the Windows to rule all Windows, a single operating system for PCs, phones, and tablet, and it’s coming in 2015. But you don’t care about any of that. You just want to know about the goddamn Start Menu already. So here it is! Yep, that’s…

Windows 10: One Operating System To Rule PCs, Phones, Tablets

Microsoft just announced the newest version of Windows. It’s called Windows 10. Yes, there’s no Windows 9 — Microsoft has decided to skip a digit in search of the perfect name. More importantly, Windows 10 will be a single operating system that finally spans all of Microsoft’s Windows powered devices, from desktops and laptops all…

The Pebble Smartwatch Now Doubles as a $100 Fitness Tracker

The days of dedicated fitness trackers may be numbered. The evidence is piling up: the Apple Watch will be your personal trainer, the new Basis Peak is adding smartwatch-like notifications… and now the Pebble smartwatch is becoming a fitness tracker too. https://gizmodo.com/the-apple-watch-wants-to-be-your-full-fledged-personal-1632563970 With a new firmware update to version 2.6, the Pebble will become capable…

Nvidia Shield Tablet LTE: Stream Games Anywhere (If You’ve Got the Cash)

I just stepped into the future of gaming. Well, that’s not quite correct. I sampled one possible future: the one where you can take the power of your entire gaming PC absolutely anywhere. I walked into a Starbucks, grabbed a mocha, and sat down with my brand spanking new Nvidia Shield Tablet with LTE. Then,…

Basis Peak: A Powerful Fitness Tracker With Smartwatch Envy

From the very beginning, the Basis Band wanted to do more than the Fitbit and Nike competition. With high-tech sensors designed to monitor your heart rate and sweat levels — not just your flailing arms — it was one of the first, best activity trackers on the market. It was also an ugly little cretin,…

Consumer Reports Bend Test Pits iPhone 6 Plus Against the Competition

Sure, Apple’s only received nine reports of bent iPhones and we highly doubt you’ll have any reason to worry about your own, but do Apple’s new iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus handle the pressure any better than competing models? Consumer Reports put that to the test, pitting the new iPhones against other giant handsets…

Do you play Ingress, the Google augmented reality game where factions compete for control of hidden portals around the world? Soon, you’ll be able to build your own missions—while taking fellow players on a tour of your neighborhood. [Ingress]

​iPhone 6 Plus Review: The Best Tablet I’ve Ever Used

Six years ago, I sat on my girlfriend’s couch, casually flipping her new iPhone 3G end over end. I was pondering why anyone would buy an iPhone over my clearly superior T-Mobile G1 handset. Yes, I was an Android nut, a former Sidekick owner who believed that smartphones should have physical keyboards and be held…

Your Next Laptop Could Have the Holy Grail of USB Ports

In just a couple years, your MacBook Air or Surface Pro could look obsolete. Denizens of the future won’t understand why you have so many gaping holes in your machine. Why would you need a full-size USB socket, a magnetic charging port, and a video output when you can cram them all into a single…

Oculus Doesn’t Know How To Build a VR Game Controller Yet

Some of the biggest brains behind the Oculus Rift virtual reality headset are on stage right now chatting about the future of VR, and they’ve got some bittersweet news. They just don’t yet see any way to build a proper controller to go with their incredible headset. https://gizmodo.com/watch-the-oculus-keynote-live-right-here-right-now-1637183320 Oculus founder Palmer Luckey and famed video…

I Tried The New Oculus Rift, And It Blew Me Away All Over Again

I’ve tried practically every version of the Oculus Rift VR headset, from some of the original duct-taped prototypes through to the latest DK2 developer kit and the Samsung Gear VR. Nothing I’ve seen prepared me for the new Crescent Bay demo. I just tried one of the best games I’ve never played. I want more.…

This Is The New Oculus Rift Prototype: Crescent Bay

No, you still can’t buy a consumer version of the amazing Oculus Rift virtual reality headset, but it’s getting really, really close! Oculus just announced a brand-new prototype at the company’s Oculus Connect conference in Los Angeles, and they claim it’s a GIANT leap forward. While we don’t have full tech specs yet, it’s higher…