Titanfall collector’s edition is titan-sized, sadly doesn’t include jump jets (video)
For half the price of an Xbox One, you can have your very own titan mech! Well, an 18-inch “Atlas Titan statue,” care of the folks behind Titanfall. And yes, that means it doesn’t move. And no, there aren’t any jump jets in the massive “Collector’s Edition” box, which holds the aforementioned statue, your copy of Titanfall, a big fancy art book and a poster. Dammit! Again, to be clear,...
iPad Helps Broadway Director Stay in Step
Whiting decided to develop an app called Stage Write to digitize the process of staging a production. Available exclusively on iPad, the app lets a director draw images and create icons representing the stage, scenery, and actors — and drag icons around to track movements. Because dimensions are kept in proportion, the director can get a visual sense of how things fit on stage. Arrows can be drawn to indicate movement, and a table can...
IBM’s Rometty makes developers an offer: the Watson mobile app challenge
IBM CEO Ginni Rometty took to the Mobile World Congress stage Wednesday to announce a global competition to encourage developers to create mobile consumer and business apps powered by its Watson supercomputer platform. Excerpt from: IBM’s Rometty makes developers an offer: the Watson mobile app challenge
Boeing’s extra-secure smartphone finally reaches the FCC
Boeing said way back in 2012 that it was working on a high-security Android smartphone. Almost two years later, it appears that the company is finally close to a launch — the hardware, identified as Black, has just passed through the FCC. It’s built for AT&T’s LTE and HSPA networks, and will be rare among American phones in carrying dual SIM slots. We’re not expecting it to be a media powerhouse when the...
Wacom lets people share handwritten notes across devices and platforms
Wacom has been pushing into the world of mobile for a while, and its efforts have just culminated in a pretty bold move: A single, cross-platform standard for sharing handwritten notes and sketches between users, regardless of whether they’re using a stylus or a finger, an iPhone or a PC, an app or a browser. The tool is called “WILL” — “Wacom Ink Layer Language” — and it captures a pen...
