September 27, 2024

This Apple Watch clone straps a retro gaming machine to your wrist

Claudio Ctin1 mins
This Apple Watch clone straps a retro gaming machine to your wrist

The Space Invaders: My Play Watch can be customized with various retro gaming-themed straps. | Image: F84

Taito Corporation, which gave the world Space Invaders over 45 years ago, has collaborated with the designers of Floor 84 Studio to create a watch that pairs retro gaming with basic health tracking capabilities. The Space Invaders: My Play Watch is now available for $60 for the earliest backers of a Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign.

The My Play Watch was teased earlier this month, but we now know more about what its creators say it can do. Its design looks inspired by, or directly lifted from, the Apple Watch, but with a 1.86-inch touchscreen display and a body that’s not as thin as the Series 10 or as thick as the Ultra 2. It comes with two watch straps that match its retro gaming aesthetic, and it’s compatible with standard 22mm…

Continue reading…

Please follow and like us:
fb-share-icon
Tweet
Pin Share

Stiri similare

RMAG news

Zillow is adding climate risk data to all US for-sale listings

Claudio Ctin

As extreme weather events become ever more common, climate risks are playing a role in many people’s long-term decision-making. And few things are more long-term than buying real estate. In response, Zillow has announced a new partnership to bring climate risk information to its for-sale listings. Property listing pages in the US will include data…

Think twice before following financial advice you find on social media

Think twice before following financial advice you find on social media

Claudio Ctin

Finances can be a confusing space to navigate, and often, social media feels like a place that might make it make sense. People talk honestly about their financial woes online, and it can make you feel more open to following their advice — mainly because you don’t have to pay for it, Influencers on TikTok…

RMAG news

X suspends journalist Ken Klippenstein after he published J.D. Vance dossier

Claudio Ctin

X suspended journalist Ken Klippenstein’s account earlier this afternoon. X’s Safety account says they issued the temporary suspension “for violating our rules on posting unredacted private personal information, specifically Sen. [J.D.] Vance’s physical address and the majority of his social security number.” Several news outlets that received the vetting dossier of the Republican vice presidential…

See Hurricane Helene landfall live on these Florida beach cams

See Hurricane Helene landfall live on these Florida beach cams

Claudio Ctin

Helene is, as of this writing on Thursday afternoon, a “dangerous major hurricane,” and conditions are expected to rapidly worsen in the next several hours as landfall approaches. Tweet may have been deleted The west coast of the Florida peninsula saw storm surge and rain all day, but what was visible Thursday may be deceptive,…

Child ‘content creators’ granted protections in California by Gov. Newsom

Child ‘content creators’ granted protections in California by Gov. Newsom

Claudio Ctin

California has taken a huge step in protecting children placed in the online spotlight, passing two new pieces of legislation providing financial safety nets for minors starring in digital content. Gov. Gavin Newsom was joined at the bill signing by singer and former child star Demi Lovato, who recently made headlines for her appearance in…

RMAG news

New California law will force companies to admit you don’t own digital content

Claudio Ctin

California Governor Gavin Newsom has signed AB 2426, a new law that requires digital marketplaces to make clearer to customers when they are only purchasing a license to access media. The law will not apply to cases of permanent offline downloads, only to the all-too-common situation of buying digital copies of video games, music, movies,…

Zillow will now show climate risks for property listings in the US

Zillow will now show climate risks for property listings in the US

Claudio Ctin

Zillow will now display climate risks and make insurance recommendations for listings in the US. | Image: Zillow Zillow has announced that its real estate property listings in the US will soon feature details about climate risks, including the potential for wildfires, flooding, extreme temperatures, high winds, and poor air quality. Buyers will also see…

The Final Fantasy Pixel Remaster series finally arrives on Xbox

The Final Fantasy Pixel Remaster series finally arrives on Xbox

Claudio Ctin

Square Enix’s terrific Final Fantasy Pixel Remaster series has finally made its way to Xbox. The 1980s and ’90s classics, which arrived on PC and mobile starting in 2021 and Switch and PS4 last year, are now available on Xbox Series X/S. The Xbox Store sells the six-game series in a $75 bundle ($60 for…

Sony’s Horizon Zero Dawn remaster may cost $20 more than we thought

Sony’s Horizon Zero Dawn remaster may cost $20 more than we thought

Claudio Ctin

Horizon Zero Dawn Remastered. | Image: Sony If you thought you’d buy a new copy of Horizon Zero Dawn on Sony’s digital storefront for a smooth $20 and just pay an extra $10 for the new remastered version when it arrives on October 31st, think again. Sony has quietly doubled the price of Horizon Zero…

Google’s NotebookLM can help you dive deeper into YouTube videos

Google’s NotebookLM can help you dive deeper into YouTube videos

Claudio Ctin

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge NotebookLM, Google’s AI note-taking app, can now summarize and help you dig deeper into YouTube videos. The new capability works by analyzing the text in a YouTube video’s transcript, including autogenerated ones. Once you add a YouTube link to NotebookLM, it will use AI to provide a brief…

X blocks links to hacked JD Vance dossier

X blocks links to hacked JD Vance dossier

Claudio Ctin

Illustration by Kristen Radtke / The Verge; Getty Images X is preventing users from posting links to a newsletter containing a hacked document that’s alleged to be the Trump campaign’s research into vice presidential candidate JD Vance. The journalist who wrote the newsletter, Ken Klippenstein, has been suspended from the platform. Searches for posts containing…

Ford’s BlueCruise 1.4 update lets you keep your hands off the wheel much longer

Ford’s BlueCruise 1.4 update lets you keep your hands off the wheel much longer

Claudio Ctin

BlueCruise asking the driver to put their hands on the wheel as rain falls. | Image: Umar Shakir / The Verge Ford is releasing a new version of its hands-free driving BlueCruise software, version 1.4, which it claims will let you keep your hands off the wheel twice as long. In fact, the company tells…

RMAG news

FCC fines political consultant $6 million for deepfake robocalls

Claudio Ctin

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has officially issued its full recommended fine against political consultant Steve Kramer for a series of illegal robocalls using deepfake AI technology and caller ID spoofing during the New Hampshire primaries. Kramer must pay $6 million in fines in the next 30 days or the Department of Justice will handle…

Nvidia’s RTX 5090 will reportedly include 32GB of VRAM and hefty power requirements

Nvidia’s RTX 5090 will reportedly include 32GB of VRAM and hefty power requirements

Claudio Ctin

Photo by Tom Warren / The Verge Nvidia is reportedly planning to ship its upcoming GeForce RTX 5090 graphics card with 32GB of GDDR7 memory. Hardware leaker Kopite7kimi has published rumored specifications for the RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 today, and both cards will reportedly be more power-hungry as Nvidia looks to debut more capable…

Twitch’s BibleThump will soon go to emote heaven

Twitch’s BibleThump will soon go to emote heaven

Claudio Ctin

Image: Edmund McMillen; The Verge Pretty soon, Twitch users will no longer be able to express their sadness with the BibleThump emote. According to Twitch, on September 30th, its rights to display the popular crying pink blob will expire after over a decade of being one of the foundational Twitch emotes along with Kappa, FrankerZ,…

An out-of-warranty battery almost left this paralyzed man’s exoskeleton useless

An out-of-warranty battery almost left this paralyzed man’s exoskeleton useless

Claudio Ctin

Image: Michael Straight via Facebook Michael Straight, a former jockey paralyzed from the waist down, was left unable to walk for two months after the company behind his $100,000 exoskeleton refused to fix a battery issue, as reported earlier by the Paulick Report and 404 Media. “I called [the company] thinking it was no big…

A deepfake caller pretending to be a Ukrainian official almost tricked a US senator

A deepfake caller pretending to be a Ukrainian official almost tricked a US senator

Claudio Ctin

Cath Virginia / The Verge | Photos from Getty Images The head of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee took a Zoom call with someone using deepfake technology to pose as a top Ukrainian official, The New York Times reports. Sen. Ben Cardin (D-MD) received an email last Thursday that appeared to be from Dmytro Kuleba,…

Google’s new Nest Learning Thermostat is discounted for the first time

Google’s new Nest Learning Thermostat is discounted for the first time

Claudio Ctin

Photo by Owen Grove / The Verge The recently launched Google Nest Learning Thermostat has its first notable discount, as Wellbots is offering it in all three color options for $259.99 ($20 off) with checkout code NLT4VERGE. Google took nearly nine years to replace the last model with this sleeker, Pixel Watch-looking design, but you…

Google Maps is cracking down on fake business reviews

Google Maps is cracking down on fake business reviews

Claudio Ctin

Businesses are trying to game Google Maps with fake reviews and Google has had enough. Google has started restricting profiles of businesses that are found to have hosted fake reviews. On its support website, Google laid out what exactly can happen to such businesses. Some of the possible punishments include, but are apparently not limited…

Volvo’s head of sustainability on why the brand tweaked its ‘EV or bust’ strategy

Volvo’s head of sustainability on why the brand tweaked its ‘EV or bust’ strategy

Claudio Ctin

Image: Volvo Earlier this month, Volvo became the latest automaker to announce that it was delaying its plans to sell only electric vehicles. The decision was a reflection of the stark reality of the market: the demand was just not there. “We reduced the ambitions we had set to go 100 percent electric by 2030,”…

John Wick: Ballerina passes the torch to a tiny dancer in first trailer

John Wick: Ballerina passes the torch to a tiny dancer in first trailer

Claudio Ctin

Courtesy of Lionsgate The first trailer for director Len Wiseman’s awkwardly named ​​From the World of John Wick: Ballerina spinoff film is here, and while it doesn’t feature a premiere date, it does have an unhinged spin on Elton John’s “Tiny Dancer” that honestly kinda works. Set some time between John Wick: Chapter 3 –…

RMAG news

Advanced AI chatbots are less likely to admit they don’t have all the answers

Claudio Ctin

Researchers have spotted an apparent downside of smarter chatbots. Although AI models predictably become more accurate as they advance, they’re also more likely to (wrongly) answer questions beyond their capabilities rather than saying, “I don’t know.” And the humans prompting them are more likely to take their confident hallucinations at face value, creating a trickle-down…

Galaxy Tab S10 Ultra hands-on: AI arrives on Samsung’s premium Android tablet

Galaxy Tab S10 Ultra hands-on: AI arrives on Samsung’s premium Android tablet

Claudio Ctin

In a surprise 30-minute event today that could have been an email, Samsung unveiled new additions to its portfolio of devices this year, including the Galaxy S24 FE and the Galaxy Watch FE LTE. The highlight of today’s news has to be the new Galaxy Tab S10 tablets, though, since they’ve long been regarded as…

RMAG news

StarCraft: Remastered and StarCraft II are coming to PC Game Pass

Claudio Ctin

StarCraft: Remastered and StarCraft II: Campaign Collection are coming to PC Game Pass, as announced by Xbox at Tokyo Game Show. Both titles will be available on November 5 to anyone with a PC Game Pass or Game Pass Ultimate subscription. The multiplayer components of both games are already free-to-play on PCs, but this will…

Grab early October Prime Day unlocked phone deals from Samsung, Motorola, and Google

Grab early October Prime Day unlocked phone deals from Samsung, Motorola, and Google

Claudio Ctin

Grab the best unlocked phone deals ahead of Prime Big Deal Days: The best early October Prime Day unlocked phone deals at a glance: BEST SAMSUNG GALAXY DEAL Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 6 AI (256 GB) $1,499.99 at Amazon (save $400) Get Deal BEST MOTOROLA DEAL Motorola razr+ 2023 (256GB) $599.99 at Amazon (save $400)…

Disney+ password-sharing crackdown is here: How much it will cost you?

Disney+ password-sharing crackdown is here: How much it will cost you?

Claudio Ctin

You might have to shell out more for your Star Wars, Disney, or Marvel fix. Disney+ began its password-sharing crackdown this week. Following in Netflix’s frustrating footsteps, Disney+ has limited subscription access to just one household. It detailed the new rules in a blog post in which it actually had the gall to tout the…