Friday, May 1, 2015

New Leica M Monochrom sees the world in sharper black and white

This camera came out three years ago, didn’t it?

Not really. That was simply the first Leica M Monochrom, while this is its replacement. It’s just not called the “Mark II” or anything like that, just to confuse you. Leica dubs it the “Typ 246”, but nobody’s actually going to call it that a
New Leica M Monochrom sees the world in sharper black and white

Send DOS games via Twitter and usher in the workpocalypse

If you want any more proof that we’re living in the future, it turns out you can now embed entire DOS games in tweets.

The games remain fully playable, which will almost certainly break the brains of anyone over the age of 30, who will remember the times when you needed a computer about t
Send DOS games via Twitter and usher in the workpocalypse

Is Google plotting the death of the space bar?

In the war to make computing devices as small as possible there will inevitably be casualties, but a patent filed by Google yesterday suggested an altogether unexpected victim may be on its way out: the spacebar.

Hawk-eyed journalist  Mike Murphy at Quartz  reported this week on a r
Is Google plotting the death of the space bar?

Vivo X5 Pro's eye scanner might be well worth looking at

For the past few weeks, Vivo has been bombarding us with teasers for its next smartphone, the X5 Pro.

Until now it's all been fairly unexciting, but a new image of the phone posted on Weibo, China's answer to Twitter, apparently confirms the X5 Pro will be getting a genuinely cutting-edge
Vivo X5 Pro's eye scanner might be well worth looking at

Tesla is launching a home battery today: here’s what to expect

Tesla is holding a special event later today at its California design studio – and it won’t be launching a new electric car.

Instead, Elon Musk is expected to unveil a brand new type of Tesla product, one that draws on the company’s expertise and may spark something of a minor revol
Tesla is launching a home battery today: here’s what to expect

Samsung Galaxy Note 5 crops up online, codenamed Project Noble

The Galaxy Note range have always been the most powerful, feature-packed devices to leave Samsung's doors every year, which is why we're not exactly surprised to see confirmation of the fifth generation Note appear online.

Spotted on an IMEI database, an unnamed device called the SM-N920F
Samsung Galaxy Note 5 crops up online, codenamed Project Noble

Adidas teams up with Spotify to supercharge your run

Running can be a dangerous business what with all the cracked pavements and speeding traffic but Adidas and Spotify have teamed up to make it just that bit safer. 

Every running enthusiast will have experienced that moment of rhythmic confusion when their pace has changed to match that of
Adidas teams up with Spotify to supercharge your run