Month: April 2017

Amazon announces the “Echo Look”

Dan Uff April 26, 2017 0

Early Wednesday, Amazon.com announced the availability of a new add-on device for their Amazon Echo called The Amazon Echo Look.

The company expanded its Alexa family of devices with the Echo Look —a voice recognition device with a camera tailored to snapping a shot of your outfit, rating it, and giving you alternate choices in conjunction with an iOS app.

Telling Alexa to "take a picture" commands the device to use a depth-sensing camera and built-in lighting to snap a shot of a worn outfit, and make a "lookbook" of often-worn ensembles.

The judgement is performed by the new "Style Check" feature which utilizes machine learning and human "fashion specialists" to judge an outfit in comparison with others. Amazon claims that the Style Check feature will get better as it is used.

Otherwise, Echo Look functions the same as the Amazon Echo. Amazon Echo's feature list includes more than a few similarities with Apple's Siri, Microsoft's Cortana and Google Now, including support for online queries, voice-activated ask-and-answer functions and extensibility into mobile apps.

The Echo Look is available by invitiation for $199.99 from Amazon. The Echo Look app to use the wardrobe judgement features with the free-standing device will be free.

Apple updates Pages, Numbers, and more for iOS and MacOS

Dan Uff April 25, 2017 0

On Tuesday, Apple updated its Pages, Numbers, and Keynote applications for iOS and macOS, with the biggest addition being a numeric keypad for Numbers users on the iPad.

The updates are available now.

Star Wars IX Gets Official Release Date

Dan Uff April 25, 2017 0

The Walt Disney Company and Lucasfilm announced today two major upcoming release dates.

Star Wars: Episode IX is now set for release on May 24, 2019. Directed by Colin Trevorrow, the film will close out the third Star Wars trilogy.

In addition, the fifth chapter of the Indiana Jones series is now confirmed for a July 10, 2020 release. Both Steven Spielberg, director of every Indiana Jonesfilm, and star Harrison Ford will return.

Source: StarWars.com

The Apple Watch Cerebrates 2nd Birthday

Dan Uff April 24, 2017 0

Today, Apple Watch turns two!

“April 24, 2015: It’s time for the official release of the Apple Watch, the wearable device Tim Cook describes as the ‘next chapter in Apple history,'” Luke Dormehl writes for Cult of Mac. “Fans, having endured a seven-month wait since the device’s unveiling at a keynote the previous September, can finally strap an Apple Watch onto their wrists. Behind the scenes, however, this moment been a lot longer in the making.”

“According to the generally accepted account of the sequence of events, the Apple Watch was not just the first new Apple product since the iPad, but the first new product created—from beginning to end—under Tim Cook’s watch,” Philip Elmer-DeWitt reported back in December 2015 for Fortune. “Not so, says Creative Strategies’ Tim Bajarin, whose on-and-off relationship with Jobs dates back nearly 35 years. ‘Steve was aware of the Watch,’ Bajarin told an audience of analysts, developers, and venture capitalists Thursday at Glance, an Apple Watch conference in San Francisco. ‘He didn’t nix it as a product.'”

Read more in the full article here.