Casetify Debuts Design-Your-Own Apple Watch Bands [iOS Blog]
Casetify, a site that specializes in custom designed iPhone and iPad cases, recently debuted its first Apple Watch accessory — watch bands that can be personalized with photos or images for a range of custom looks.
Using the site’s design feature, or the company’s mobile app, users can add photos from their computers, Instagram, or Facebook to create a watch band design.
Bands are available in both 38mm and 42mm, to fit both of the Apple Watch casing sizes, and they are constructed from polycarbonate silicone. There are three different layouts to choose from when creating a design, and images added to the band can be enhanced with one of nine filters. Casetify is also offering pre-designed watch bands with a variety of designs.
Casetify is accepting pre-orders for custom designed Apple Watch bands, which are priced at $50. Watch bands will begin shipping out to customers in early June.
A render of a mysterious new Sony device has surfaced; Possible Z4 design?
For the past year or two, I’ve always felt Sony’s Xperia Z line has been the most underrated Android flagships. Thus, I’ve been eagerly waiting to see what they have in mind for their Xperia Z4 device – which brings us to the image above. As you can see, a new Sony render has surfaced and could possibly be our first look at the upcoming Xperia Z4 that’s slated to be unveiled this April with a Summer release date. If this indeed is an early look at the Z4, you can see that Sony isn’t straying too far away from the current look of the Z4 with it’s sharp edgy look. The lack of bezel looks great and what interestingly looks like a home button appears at the bottom. Personally, I think it could be a sensor or maybe even a notification light.
What do you guys think of the render? Are you at all looking forward to the Z4, or has HTC and Samsung’s newly unveiled devices already have your money?
source: IAPPS
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Apple’s medical research kit gets thousands of sign-ups (and concerns)
Apple built its ResearchKit platform in part to get many more people signing up for medical studies, and it appears to be delivering on that promise in spades. The early partners tell Bloomberg that they got thousands of volunteers within a day of launch, including 11,000 for a Stanford University cardiovascular trial — for context, Stanford says that it would normally take a national year-long effort to get that kind of scale. The flood of data will theoretically improve the quality of the findings, especially since the automatic, phone-based tracking should prevent people from fibbing about their activity levels.
The kit may not be as much of a windfall as institutions would like, though. A large test sample only matters if there are enough quality results — many of those sign-ups might not be ideal candidates. Apps might not account for every question that a doctor would want to ask, either, and poorly-built apps may not completely respect your privacy. Still, the surge is promising. So long as the adoption rate doesn’t slow down dramatically, hospitals and schools could have a much easier time recruiting people for future trials.
Filed under: Cellphones, Science, Mobile, Apple
Source: Bloomberg
theScore eSports brings competitive gaming coverage to your iPhone
There’s no doubt that eSports are blowing up in a big way, and now you have a way to keep up with the action on your iPhone.
TheScore has just launched a dedicated eSports app for iOS lets you keep up with the events and competitions around your favorite games with breaking news, live score coverage, and more.
TheScore eSports currently provides live, up-to-the-minute score coverage of League of Legends tournaments, along with breaking news for the following games:
- Dota 2
- Counter-Strike: GO
- Call of Duty
- Starcraft II
- Hearthstone
Additionally, theScore eSports can also keep you in the loop with push notifications for breaking news, along with alerts for the beginning and end of games and matches, though the latter is only supported for League of Legends tournaments at the moment. And if you’d prefer to watch the action yourself, the app includes video clips and access to streams of various gaming competitions across the eSports scene.
If you’re unfamiliar with theScore, the company has offered a pretty popular tracking app for traditional sports for a while now, and this new app represents their first foray into eSports coverage.
Sound like something you’d be interested in? Feel free to hit up the store link below to check the app out for yourself.
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Dungeon Hunter 5 arrives in the Google Play Store
Gameloft has finally brought its next iteration in the Dungeon Hunter series to the Play Store. Dungeon Hunter 5, which is free to download, takes place after stopping the massive demon invasion in the Kingdom of Valenthia that we saw in Dungeon Hunter 4. Like the fourth iteration, Dungeon Hunter 5 provides a great single-player campaign mode as well as co-op and multiplayer modes. The controls are easy to use, just like they’ve always been in the series.
For those new to the series, Dungeon Hunter is an intense hack ‘n’ slash game, based in a fantasy world, that basically revolves around you defeating as many monsters as possible. You’ll get your hands on armor, swords, axes and many other weapons along your journey. All of the weapons and armor you collect are categorized in a certain element type – Water, Fire, Light, Nature and Dark – which will allow you to choose between certain weapons based on the monster you’re currently fighting.
Here are all of the features the new game brings to the table:
- Single-Player Campaign – With your guild, embark on a journey of vengeance as a spirit-imbued hero, sword in hand. You’ll travel through five monster-filled realms and become the most notorious warrior and hunter of them all.
- Cooperative Gameplay – Hire your friends or other players as hired swords to help you on your fantasy adventure full of vile demons, brave warriors, and fearsome dragons.
- Asynchronous Multiplayer – Customize your Guild Stronghold with a large variety of monster minions, manage and defend it, and slash your way through opponent Strongholds to ravage their loot.
- Craft your own gear with no restrictions – Fuse and evolve up to 46 pieces of armor and 150 swords, axes, and more, to become the ultimate Bounty Hunter, slay the mightiest dragon, and bring honor to your guild!
- Five Elements to master – Strategically equip weapons, spells and armor from 5 elemental types – Water, Fire, Light, Nature and Dark – for a powerful advantage against any monster, demon or dragon.
- Daily and Weekly Events – The Daily Dungeon rewards your demon hunter skills with unique materials to evolve and fuse your gear. Or become the top warrior on the Weekly Wanted Challenge leaderboard for the ultimate rewards.
- Unrivaled Hack ‘n’ Slash Action – Discover the revamped controls and animation, bringing your warrior skills to life so you can see even more satisfying monster and demon kills at the end of your sword.
- Superior Graphics – Highly detailed, AAA graphics provide the most stunning fantasy gameplay experience possible on a mobile game.
The game is free to download, but just like other games in the series, there are some in-app purchases ranging from $.99 to $99.99. That has the tendency to scare users away, though we’re confident you can get a great gameplay experience out of this game without purchasing any additional content. If you’re interested in checking out Dungeon Hunter 5, follow the Play Store link below.
Sony sunsets PlayStation Mobile; store front to close in July
Sony this week announced it will close the doors on its PlayStation Mobile service and distribution store later this summer. Designed to provide Android smartphones with access to older PlayStation titles, things apparently never took off the way Sony intended. According to Sony, distribution of content will end on July 15, 2015; in-app purchases and downloading of purchased content ends on September 10, 2015.
…Consumers will still be able to access and play the PSM content they have purchased, after September 10, 2015, by activating their devices..
- For PlayStation Certified device users: You will need to open up the PSM app and launch any purchased PSM content between April 10, 2015 and September 10, 2015*3 to complete the content authentication process.
- Please ensure that you have downloaded all of the games that you want to keep. After September 10, 2015, you will not be able to re-download your purchased content.
Sony says that devices that aren’t authenticated prior to the cutoff date will be unable to access previously purchased PlayStation Mobile content.
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NCAA March Madness Live app updated for 2015
As conference tournaments play out this week for NCAA men’s basketball, you may be getting ready for the NCAA men’s basketball tournament, commonly known as March Madness. Turner has updated the NCAA March Madness Live app for the 2015 event so you can be ready when things get underway next week.
The update for 2015 brings with it a refreshed look and feel for the app that appears to be consistent with Material Design standards. Some new features for 2015 include team pages with more in-depth information about teams, a “Featured” section that helps highlight storylines from the tournament, and improvements to the bracket picking process on smartphones. This last feature introduces a new list view in addition to the traditional bracket view.
As in past years, you can watch live streaming of all 67 games played in the tournament, although games normally broadcast on certain channels like TBS or TNT will require users to verify they have a paid TV subscription. Unfortunately, it does not look like support for Chromecast was included in the update.
You can grab this free app using one of the download links below.
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Apple Seeds Third OS X 10.10.3 Yosemite Beta to Developers
Apple today seeded the third beta of OS X Yosemite to developers, almost a month after seeding the first OS X 10.10.3 beta and a week after releasing OS X 10.10.3 to public beta testers.
The new beta, build 14D98g, is available for registered developers through the Software Update mechanism in the Mac App Store and through the Mac Dev Center.
OS X 10.10.3 brings several new features to Yosemite, including the new Photos for OS X app. Designed to integrate with iCloud Photo Library, Photos for OS X is a replacement for both iPhoto and Aperture and is on track to see an early 2015 public launch. Reviews have suggested that while Photos is a suitable replacement for iPhoto, with more advanced tools and performance optimizations, it may leave professional users disappointed.
Along with the new Photos for OS X app, the first two OS X 10.10.3 betas introduced a redesigned emoji picker that consolidates emoji into a single page with clear labels, new diversified emoji and emoji skin tone modifiers, new flag emoji and updated emoji for the iPhone, iMac, and Apple Watch, and support for Google 2-step verification when setting up accounts in System Preferences.
JXE Streams: ‘Grand Theft Auto Online,’ heists and you
The best laid plans of crooks and thugs lead us to nothing but loot and hugs! At least that’s what we’re hoping happens when we play the newly released heists in Grand Theft Auto Online on JXE Streams. Nearly 18 months after Rockstar released Grand Theft Auto V, the game’s online multiplayer mode finally has heists, new missions in which you and a crew of other players try to execute multi-tiered virtual crimes. Think Ocean’s Eleven but with markedly less George Clooney and markedly more video game violence. We’ll be playing through the very first of the heists to give an overview of how they work on today’s show.
Tune in to this post, Engadget.com/gaming or Twitch.tv/Joystiq to watch the two-hour stream of Grand Theft Auto Online starting at 3PM ET. Ben Gilbert will lead the operation while Anthony John Agnello lends him both his excellent driving skills and moral support.
Enjoying the streams? Check out the upcoming schedule on Engadget.com/gaming and follow us on Twitch to know when we go live!
[We’re playing a digital copy of Grand Theft Auto Online on an Xbox One streamed through an Elgato Capture HD via OBS at 720p.]
Latest Waze update helps estimate how long you’ll be stuck in traffic
A week after the announcement that Waze is officially a Google Mobile Services app, Waze has now received an update to version 3.9.4, bringing with it smoother navigation, quicker route selection and an improved experience that it says is 85% faster than before. In addition to a much needed injection of speediness, the app update also brings an unspecified number of general bug fixes, and a few other new tricks like a traffic bar that estimates how long before a traffic jam (hopefully) ends.
Here’s the full changelog, for those interested:
- Experience an overall faster Waze: smoother navigation, quicker route selection, and improved re-routing.
- New traffic bar! Know how long you’ll be in a jam, tracking progress as you go.
- Learn which route Waze is taking with ‘Let’s go via’ voice instruction.
- Get a confirmation when sending your ETA: those receiving can instantly reply ‘Got it, thanks’.
- Improved support for U-turns
- General bug fixes
To grab the latest version of Waze, you’ll want to head on over to Google Play.
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