iPhone owners were out of luck — until Wednesday, when a new smart watch by the guy behind InPulse hit funding site Kickstarter. Dubbed the Pebble, it’s the first smart watch that can form a meaningful, long-lasting relationship with your iOS device, as well as Android (via iPhone-Friendly Watch Gets $500,000 Kickstarter Funding in a Day)
The excellent MLB at Bat 2012 app has hit 3M downloads just 8 days into the regular season, clocking a peak of 1M live streams a day yesterday. (via MLB At Bat 2012 Hits 3M Downloads, 1M Live Streams Yesterday)
Break up the bundle. Present stories on an individual basis. Do to the magazine what iTunes did to the album, but do it with a Spotify model. And put it all into one app. In short: build a platform not for magazines, but for magazine stories. (via The Future of Magazines Should Look a Lot Like Spotify | PandoDaily)
The 2012 Major League Baseball season is now under way, and tech-savvy fans have more ways than ever to stream high-quality video and audio at their command, whether it’s pulling out your iPad on the train home, checking your Android phone at the gym, or using your Xbox 360 for more than just late-night Skyrim. (via Batter Up: The best ways to watch baseball on your digital devices | Macworld)
I wasn’t exactly looking for another addiction, but the Skylanders folks have sent one to knock at my door. Skylanders Cloud Patrol has just surpassed Cut the Rope as my favorite smartphone game and promises to be another hit for the makers of the popular Skylanders. (via Skylanders Releases New Cloud Patrol for iOS | GeekDad | Wired.com)
“The folks at Squirrel-monkey have been putting together parody videos showing what popular online games and websites today might have looked like twenty or thirty years ago.” - Mental Floss
E-readers and tablets (including Amazon’s Kindle Fire e-reader, which is a modified Android tablet) were a popular holiday gift item last year. Currently 28% of Americans age 18 and older own at least one tablet or an e-book reader. And that’s not even counting the people who read books on a smartphone or iPod Touch app. (via E-books spur reading among Americans, survey shows - CNN.com)
If you buy an affordable inkjet printer, you’re going to pay a small fortune for the ink to run it (assuming that you use the ink that its manufacturer specially designed for it). Even so, the size of the bill depends to a great extent on which brand of printer you buy. (via The best deals on printer ink Review | Macworld)
“There are five different writing tools, an eraser and nine different colors to choose from. But the other writing tools aside from the fountain pen and eraser cost an additional two dollars. The faster you swipe with the fountain pen, the thicker the line. Don’t like a mark? Simply move two fingers counter-clockwise in a circle and it will undo your last major action, bit by bit.”
(via Paper for iPad Hands-On: So This Is What Microsoft’s Former Courier Employees Were Working On)
A private sharing portal for the types of people who probably share the most information — couples — is an awesomely smart idea. And I’m not just saying that because I’m a female who likes cute things.
I see it as a utility considering that, at the moment, I use too many channels to communicate with my boyfriend. I’ll text, “Did you see my email?” or send an IM telling him to play his turn in Draw Something already. He’ll email to ask if I got the song he sent me in Spotify, drop links onto my Facebook page, or text me photos he also uploaded to Instagram. Sometimes we are conversing via text, playing Words with Friends, and sharing links to stories over email all at the same time. It’s a little much. Putting it all in one place is a great idea. (via Pair, the ‘Path for Couples’ Hit 50k Users in Four Days | PandoDaily)
