To say that the Samsung Stratosphere was unpopular here at Techcitement would be putting it lightly. However, that was before Samsung became the new reigning champion of Android. Now that there is well over a year’s worth of water under the bridge, surely there is a vast improvement with the Stratosphere II, yes? In a word? […]
A little under a year ago, Techcitement published a list of murderous robots, partially because the Powers That Be here wanted to protect the future of humanity from the mechanical hordes. People mostly laughed at the aforementioned list. Robotic research think tank Boston Dynamics, who we previously described as a “nightmare factory”, have upgraded its […]
I was recently impressed by LG’s Optimus G handset and was equally looking forward to the LG Mach. Currently one of the only two 4G phones on Sprint with a keyboard, the Mach has the potential to make a real dent in the physical input-only market. But do expectations match up with reality? First Impressions The LG Mach […]
Hackintoshing: The art of getting a non-Apple product to run Mac OS. It’s something of a pastime of mine. I used to have a Dell Mini 10v loaded with Mac OS 10.6 as my daily driver, and I squealed with joy when I got an ASUS Seashell netbook that wasn’t supposed to work to run. While I […]
Tom Servo and Crow T. Robot from Mystery Science Theater 3000. K-9 from Doctor Who. Marvin the Paranoid Android from Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. Fiction is full of robots that charm us, whether it’s from their unique designs or their witty dialogue or their programmed personalities. For myriad and often debated reasons, robots hold […]
Every day, it seems like we’re flinging ourselves faster into a future world previously inhabited by science fiction dreams. Now comes along the MYO by Thalmic Labs, which allows you to have unprecedented gesture control over everything from media applications to remote-controlled vehicles. This device won’t quite let you stand next to the technologically-advanced Captain […]
I’ve tried my best to be optimistic about the Firefox mobile operating system. Linux-based, open source, and from a group I respect. Mozilla, the parent company, has been making the rounds at Mobile World Congress to promote the fledgling OS. ZTE has announced the Open, the first Firefox OS phone, and it’s a good-looking bit […]
In a move no one suspected, LG has reportedly acquired webOS. Made official this morning, LG plans to leverage the promising-but-shelved operating system as the basis for new smartTVs. There was talk of LG licensing webOS for that purpose back in October 2012, but it appears it was simpler to buy it outright. I had a chance […]
I’ve always rather admired HP’s Slate tablets. Traditionally aimed at the enterprise market, these were full Windows tablets. Despite being saddled with an operating system that wasn’t touch-intuitive, HP lavished the industrial design on the Slate line that the lamented TouchPad lacked. While consumer tablet production halted a year and a half ago, HP made […]
Mobile World Congress kicked off only hours ago, and Samsung has already garnered a heck of a lot of buzz for the Galaxy Note 8. While you may think an 8″ device sporting Android 4.1 with TouchWiz is a tablet, Samsung has thrown phone functionality into the Note 8. We live in a world where […]
