Minecraft players who love the upside down of Stranger Things have a new skin pack to acquire. It's available now in concert with the new season of the hit retro-horror show on Netflix. It looks like the whole cast is represented as a Minecraft chara...
Are you tired of your plain old black PlayStation 4 console? Maybe it’s time you gave it a proper makeover and wrapped it in real wood. Thanks to the folks at Toast, you can upgrade the styling of your PS4 or PS4 Pro with real wood skins.
These precision-cut, matched-grain wood veneers have stick-on backs to adhere to your console, and leave all the proper openings for connectors and ventilation, while looking totally awesome.
If for some strange reason you ever want to go back to basic black, the adhesive is removable and designed to not leave any sort of permanent residue.
The skins come in four different shades and types of wood: walnut, bamboo, ebony, and ash. They sell for just $49(USD) a set, and for an extra $5, they’ll even custom laser engrave your case with a message of your choice.
For Washington state, it's not enough for Valve to distance itself from gun skin gambling in Counter-Strike: Global Offensive -- it wants the company to put an end to the practice. The state's Gambling Commission has ordered Valve to "stop allowing t...
I’m sure you’ve heard of 3D printing… but have you ever heard of 3D Painting?? Skins, by ATO is an experimental textile project that involves a newly developed felt + velcro fabric. Each fabric piece is inspired by brush strokes of eastern traditional paintings. Using an individual piece of Skin as a pixel, one can develop beautiful, minimal yet expressive sculptures or paintings that can be hung, or wall mounted using the velcro stickers.
The Skins project comes in two different shapes, and a variety of colors. My personal favorites are the Olive Green and Salmon Pink!
Designer: ATO
We've highly regarded Liquipel for its clever "watersafe" nanocoating, which has been known to give phones the same protection from liquids and other materials as an IPX7-certified device. That doesn't prevent physical damage from occurring, however, so the company's announcing Skins, its answer to drops, hammers and plenty of other things that cause blunt force trauma. Even better, Liquipel claims that it requires a three-step dry installation process that doesn't involve squeegees, water bottles or bubbles; once you're done, you'll enjoy a "literal shock absorber" for your trouble. Skins for the iPhone 4S and 5 should be available today for under $20 on the company's site, while the Samsung Galaxy S4 will soon follow (it's currently listed as "out of stock") and other models will be ready in the coming months. Check out the video and press release after the break.
Filed under: Cellphones, Wireless, Mobile
HEach week Ross Rubin contributes Switched On, a column about consumer technology.
Facebook's management doesn't see any dichotomy in the phrase, "Go big or go home," at least as far as it might pertain to Facebook Home. After being dogged for years with questions about whether the Land o' Likes would create its own smartphone despite consistent denials, the company explained that its own phone wouldn't give it the reach it would need for its more than 1 billion members. With the exceptions of the iPhone and the Galaxy S series, a successful handset today might sell 20 million units. That's a number that many services would dream of reaching, but it's just one-fiftieth of Facebook's user base.
And yet, Facebook Home will start out factory-installed on only one device: the HTC First, a mid-range Android device available exclusively from AT&T. Home is also available as a download from Google Play for a handful of other popular Android handsets, including the Galaxy S III.
Filed under: Cellphones, Software, Apple, Samsung, HTC, Blackberry, Facebook