I don’t have much to say about Portal 2 for two reasons. First, posting spoilers for the game just feels like a bad idea. Letting you in on some of the gags or the overall trajectory of the plot would be criminal, so much so that even the requisite spoiler warning doesn’t feel like enough protection.
Read MoreOn April 7th Motorola announced that the XOOM Android 3.0 tablet was available in Canada. Future Shop had jumped the gun a bit and started selling them the day before so instead of waiting for a review unit to be sent, I rushed out to buy it right away. I had hoped that I would be able to get some hands-on videos posted soon after. Sadly, due to Real Life™ this was not to be.
Read MoreHanna. An original thriller by Seth Lochhead, and directed by Joe Wright. Not exactly household names; this is Lochhead’s first film, and whilst Wright has a substantial number of titles under his belt, he’s hardly known for action movies. His biggest previous success? Pride & Prejudice. Yeah.
Read MoreAfter a long wait, RIM is finally launching its BlackBerry PlayBook across Canada tomorrow, and can be found at all the usual suspects, as well as less tech oriented retailers such as Sears. The latter went so far as to put out a press release suggesting that they would be the best way to buy RIMs 7 inch tablet running the new QNX based OS, offering a “15 day no hassle” return policy.
Read MoreWhat do the two pictures above have in common? They’re both wearing a bicycle helmet.
Read MoreIt’s been a busy month for Adobe so far. Hot on the heels of the recent preview of Photoshop on the iPad, Adobe has today released the official Photoshop Touch SDK for tablet devices. The fact that Adobe has decided to release an SDK is exciting, since it strongly indicates that not only are we a step closer to a full-featured Photopshop app for tablets, but also full Photoshop integration into the core builds of third-party applications. From the press release: The Photoshop Touch SDK and a new scripting engine…
Read MoreUPDATE: Congratulations to Jen W. and Aruj, who should have received their invites. Remember to check your email! Are you an Android fan who’s been wanting a little more out of their mobile gaming experience? If so, then you probably already know this, but Sony Ericsson and Rogers have gone official with the Xperia Play, the first Android phone to feature PlayStation certification, as well as a slide out gaming controller. Along with the Play is the Arc, which features the same specs but lacks a physical controller in favour of…
Read MoreSaturday Morning Science is going on a brief hiatus until May 7 (yours truly must deal with moving and taxes). In the meantime, I will be working on the background research for some of the following articles. Two or Three Things We Know About It- A revised hitch-hiker’s guide to the Galaxy. What is our current map of the second biggest thing that we can’t see? Neanderthals- What is the current state of knowledge about our distant cousins? Is it time to retire the Turing Test? – Likewise, if you…
Read MoreMan I love Valve. I mean besides creating one of the best online ecosystems available to gamers in Steam, offering up arguably the best value for gaming maybe ever in Orange Box, and gracing the world with one of, if not the, most unique, entertaining, and challenging puzzle games ever in Portal, they just seem like really, really fun dudes. Take a look at last year’s promo material for the launch of Steam on OSX, particularly the Half Life 2 release. It’s that kind of tongue-in-cheek satirical slant Valve seems…
Read MoreToshiba has now joined the Intel Sandy Bridge processor bandwagon, after it fell by the wayside for a while due to Intel’s little chipset boo-boo earlier this year. The new R800 series is an update to both the ultra-portable Portege series, and the thin and light Tecra series business class notebooks. While business class machines are usually only available direct, or through business to business resellers, and tend to cost a little more, you do get much better machines. The build quality is designed to take a few more knocks,…
Read MoreGoogle has added a new Location History feature to its Google Maps 5.3 for Android. The Location History feature is an opt-in decision, and once you do you’ll be treated to a personal dashboard that will give you all kinds of stats like Distance Traveled, Hours At Work, Hours At Home, and weekly averages. With its ability to rate locations using the Google Places feature, it also appears to be laying the groundwork to compete with FourSquare, Facebook Places and other location based services such as Yelp.
Read MoreToday Nikon announced the newest addition to their line of DSLR cameras. Fitting in nicely between the entry level D3100 and high-end prosumer D7000, the D5100 replaces the D5000. Now Nikon has a complete range of 1080p video capable DSLRs to combat Canon in every price point. The D5100 is a substantial upgrade from its predecessor, and features many of the same spec’s as its bigger brother, the D7000. It has a 16.2 MP sensor, 3 inch 920,000 dot flip-out display, 11 AF points, and an IS0 range of 100-6400….
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