We expected to see minimal keyboards such as Minuum for smart watches with square dsplays, but what about smartwatches like the Moto 360 that has a circular display? Thankfully you guys have not been forgotten as Minuum has just revealed the first keyboard for circular smartwatches.
While we don’t get a full video demo of it in action, they did drop a handy GIF of the how the keyboard will look whenever you use it. There’s one important thing to remember: the keyboard is technically useless right now considering Android Wear does not yet have text input elements built in without the use of voice.
Minuum has likely been testing their keyboard on a custom build. But should Google ever get around to implementing the functionality down the line then Minuum will be ready to deliver the keyboard fit perfectly for your display. If you’re skeptical as to the accuracy of a keyboard on such a small display you can watch some of their earlier demo videos in the YouTube embed below.
[Update]: As you guys have pointed out in the comments, this design does, in fact, forget to take into account the black strip on the bottom that is used to “cover” the smartwatch’s various sensors. We’ll be reaching out to Minuum to see what they plan to do to adapt the keyboard.
While I'd consider my house to be "connected" — I can't say the same for my car. I currently drive a 2004 Mazda 3 that's slowly on its way to the grave, but I'm holding onto it as long as I can (it was my first new car purchase). It doesn't have any sort of connectivity built-in — no Bluetooth, no navigation system, no nothing. I've added some things in over the years like a standalone GPS unit, an XM radio receiver (which I've since stopped using), and even a BlackBerry Music Gateway to get a Bluetooth connection to the stock stereo. Most recently I've added the Automatic Smart Driving Assistant.
This little dongle connects to your car's OBD (on-board diagnostics) port and relays all kinds of fun info back to a companion app on your Android or iPhone device. With Automatic in use, you can track all of your car trips, miles per gallon, distance traveled, and even see where your car is parked. While driving, Automatic can also alert you to rapid acceleration, hard braking and excess speeds as well — which all have an effect on your driving score. Bad habits be gone!
Camping is the perfect time to flex your DIY muscle.
Nature can be brutal. It's wild and untamed, and really difficult to have a good time in it. So when someone drags you on a camping trip, make it a heavenly experience with these 18 helpful tricks.
From relieving yourself to cooking a delicious dish on the roaring campfire, these hacks will make your time in the woods both efficient and tolerable. Read more...
Watch climber and base jumper Steph Davis in this intimate video on her life and “relationship” with a monolith of stone. The video includes narrative to give a peek into Davis’ soul and amazing, beautiful videography from the desert depths of Utah.
The NBA logo will appear on the back of players' jerseys next season, a move that has caused speculation that ads could soon appear on the newly vacated space on the shoulder. NBA commissioner Adam Silver has called ads on jerseys "inevitable."
Previously, the NBA logo only appeared on the shoulder of jerseys
Starting next season, the logo will move to the back, leaving open the space in which the league previously considered putting adsESPN's Uni Watch first noticed the change in the new uniforms released by the Charlotte Hornets Read more...
The sexy mugshot guy is taken. Sorry, ladies with questionable taste in men
Jeremy Meeks, sporting a not-so-sexy orange jumpsuit, spoke about his viral fame with ABC News. The alleged gang member, who became the Internet's most popular jailbird on Friday after his mugshot collected more than 70,000 Likes on the Facebook Page for the police department in Stockton, California, told a hard-hitting reporter that his wife informed him about his newfound online popularity. He was arrested on Tuesday on five weapons charges and one gang charge.
Here's some very cool, never-before-seen (by me) footage of Tony Parker and Boris Diaw balling together at Paris training center INSEP in 1999, when both were just 17 years old.
We thought SEGA and Google’s relationship yesterday would just bring us the goods in the form of limited time content inside Sonic Dash, but it seems a more lucrative result of said relationship has arrived. A huge sale puts five great Sonic games on sale for just $.99 in the Google Play Store. Here’s what you have to choose from:
Two great classics, two great modern reimaginations of great classics, and a pretty decent racing game as a cherry on top. That’s a recipe for draining $5 straight from my wallet. Head to Google Play using the links above if you feel like taking advantage.
Harrison Ford broke his left leg on the set of Star Wars: Episode VII last week, Mashable has confirmed with Ford's publicist, dispelling earlier reports that the 71-year-old actor broke an ankle in the accident.
"His surgery was successful and he will begin rehab shortly," said publicist Ina Treciokas. "He's doing well and looks forward to returning to work."
Ford is reprising his role as Han Solo from the original Star Wars trilogy. This new film's plot will take place three decades after Return of the Jedi, which premiered in 1983. Read more...
A truck meant for muddy paths, big rocks, and steep inclines doesn't necessarily have to look out of place on more civilized pavement — and the 2014 Jeep Wrangler Unlimited...
At the Uncarrier 5.0 event, John Legere threw everyone for a loop after jumping on a pair of turntables and announcing Uncarrier 6.0: Music Freedom. With T-Mobile’s Music Freedom, T-Mobile will allow customers to stream unlimited music using the top “streaming services” — composing of 85% of music streaming on their network — all for free.
While the top services are included, many of you will notice that Google Play Music was left out. Don’t freak out. T-Mobile mentions they’ll be expanding Music Freedom to include more services in the future, even allowing customers to vote for their favorite to jump to the top of the list. Music Freedom goes live on June 19th and you can learn more about it by going here.
Watch as Lily, a fit and seemingly unstoppable terrier, runs her legs off to keep up with her master on a mountain bike. The dog is loving life the whole time.
Above is the cover of this week's issue of Sports Illustrated, showing Kawhi Leonard skying through the air, his arm cocked back and ready to spike a dunk on poor Chris Andersen's head. There's a slight problem with this image, though.
After over 1300 Face-Off contest submissions, Motorola has chosen its 10 favorites Moto 360 face designs to go on to final voting. You can cast your vote(s) now for the design you want to see as an option on the Moto 360 when it comes out later this year. The images run the gamut from clean and simple, to rather complex for a smart watch.
There are a few I'd definitely be down with having on my wrist, but I have to wonder why Moto would pick some of them.
One huge problem with smart watches? You can’t type on them. Well, you’re not supposed to anyway — a 1.8-inch or smaller display makes that task quite hard. Fleksy is looking to eradicate that, though, with their latest app for the Samsung Gear 2.
Fleksy Messenger allows you to reply to text messages you receive using nothing but the smart watch (whereas before you were only able to view text messages). Fleksy’s impressive text prediction algorithm is put to work here, translating literal gibberish into clean English. The app makes keen use of gestures for the purpose of typing symbols and inserting spaces, leaving room for nothing but the bare QWERTY layout to take advantage of as much screen real estate as possible.
I honestly wouldn’t forego the ease of just whipping out my smartphone and comfortably typing the text out. Thirty seconds to type out a 5 word message seems pretty long. Still, should you find yourself in a situation where getting to your phone is impossible then this should be a very nice app to have handy. Find it demoed in the video above. You should be able to find the app in the Samsung Apps Store later today.
No matter how you want to pronounce it (it’s s hard “G,” by the way), I think we can all agree that GIFs general make our social networks a little more fun. We’re not sure what took so long, but in a back-end update to Twitter on both the web and its mobile apps, the microblogging network now officially supports GIFs.
This means you can upload these moving pictures using the native Twitter client and watch as they animate in the app. To be clear, GIFs wont load while in the timeline view (in an effort to not eat up all your data), only when clicking on a tweet to view it’s media will you be presented with the moving GIF. And move, they shall.
Actress Lena Headey had a Cersei face-off on Jimmy Kimmel Live on Monday, proving she can be a badass boss pretty much anywhere. Careful, Jimmy, or you'll be on trial next
Headey also discussed how the GoT actors bid farewell to their fallen cast mates and her spoiler-heavy Instagrams, which she says she isn't sorry about. Because a Lannister is never sorry Read more...
All the latest Apple rumors point toward a larger iPhone 6, possibly making its debut this fall, and now there are more photos to back them up.
New images of what is purported to be the iPhone 6 cropped up on Japanese tech site ASCII this week, offering close-up views of what could be Apple's first phablet-style device
Those earlier images emerged from Taiwan, but these new images cropping up in another Asian country offer more hints that this is indeed the next version of the iPhone Read more...
We weren’t expecting Unicode Standard 7.0 until next month, but it looks like it’s arrived a bit early. Available starting today, the update, which introduces 2,834 new characters, is bringing something far better than historic scripts or extended support for written languages across the globe (who needs all that junk, right?). Say hello to a whopping 250 all new emoji. Because sometimes there’s nothing that quite gets your point across like flipping someone the bird in pictograph form.
Everything from various hand signals, to new smileys is being added. Just keep in mind that platforms like Android and iOS will need to be updated to support the new standard, so don’t expect to find many of these new emoji until later updates. If you’re curious to see which new emojis made the cut, the folks at Emojipedia have provided us with the full list. Check it out below.
2014 Emoji Additions
Thermometer
Black Droplet
White Sun
White Sun With Small Cloud
White Sun Behind Cloud
White Sun Behind Cloud With Rain
Cloud With Rain
Cloud With Snow
Cloud With Lightning
Cloud With Tornado
Fog
Wind Blowing Face
Hot Pepper
Fork And Knife With Plate
Heart With Tip On The Left
Bouquet Of Flowers
Military Medal
Reminder Ribbon
Musical Keyboard With Jacks
Studio Microphone
Level Slider
Control Knobs
Beamed Ascending Musical Notes
Beamed Descending Musical Notes
Film Frames
Admission Tickets
Sports Medal
Weight Lifter
Golfer
Racing Motorcycle
Racing Car
Snow Capped Mountain
Camping
Beach With Umbrella
Building Construction
House Buildings
Cityscape
Derelict House Building
Classical Building
Desert
Desert Island
National Park
Stadium
White Pennant
Black Pennant
Waving White Flag
Waving Black Flag
Rosette
Black Rosette
Label
Chipmunk
Eye
Camera With Flash
Film Projector
Portable Stereo
Lower Right Shadowed White Circle
Upper Right Shadowed White Circle
Notched Right Semicircle With Three Dots
Symbol For Marks Chapter
White Latin Cross
Heavy Latin Cross
Celtic Cross
Om Symbol
Dove Of Peace
Right Speaker
Right Speaker With One Sound Wave
Right Speaker With Three Sound Waves
Bullhorn
Bullhorn With Sound Waves
Ringing Bell
Book
Candle
Mantelpiece Clock
Black Skull And Crossbones
No Piracy
Hole
Man In Business Suit Levitating
Sleuth Or Spy
Dark Sunglasses
Spider
Spider Web
Joystick
Left Hand Telephone Receiver
Telephone Receiver With Page
Right Hand Telephone Receiver
White Touchtone Telephone
Black Touchtone Telephone
Telephone On Top Of Modem
Clamshell Mobile Phone
Back Of Envelope
Stamped Envelope
Envelope With Lightning
Flying Envelope
Pen Over Stamped Envelope
Linked Paperclips
Black Pushpin
Lower Left Pencil
Lower Left Ballpoint Pen
Lower Left Fountain Pen
Lower Left Paintbrush
Lower Left Crayon
Left Writing Hand
Turned Ok Hand Sign
Raised Hand With Fingers Splayed
Reversed Raised Hand With Fingers Splayed
Reversed Thumbs Up Sign
Reversed Thumbs Down Sign
Reversed Victory Hand
Reversed Hand With Middle Finger Extended
Raised Hand With Part Between Middle And Ring Fingers
White Down Pointing Left Hand Index
Sideways White Left Pointing Index
Sideways White Right Pointing Index
Sideways Black Left Pointing Index
Sideways Black Right Pointing Index
Black Left Pointing Backhand Index
Black Right Pointing Backhand Index
Sideways White Up Pointing Index
Sideways White Down Pointing Index
Sideways Black Up Pointing Index
Sideways Black Down Pointing Index
Black Up Pointing Backhand Index
Black Down Pointing Backhand Index
Desktop Computer
Keyboard And Mouse
Three Networked Computers
Printer
Pocket Calculator
Black Hard Shell Floppy Disk
White Hard Shell Floppy Disk
Soft Shell Floppy Disk
Tape Cartridge
Wired Keyboard
One Button Mouse
Two Button Mouse
Three Button Mouse
Trackball
Old Personal Computer
Hard Disk
Screen
Printer Icon
Fax Icon
Optical Disc Icon
Document With Text
Document With Text And Picture
Document With Picture
Frame With Picture
Frame With Tiles
Frame With An X
Black Folder
Folder
Open Folder
Card Index Dividers
Card File Box
File Cabinet
Empty Note
Empty Note Page
Empty Note Pad
Note
Note Page
Note Pad
Empty Document
Empty Page
Empty Pages
Document
Page
Pages
Wastebasket
Spiral Note Pad
Spiral Calendar Pad
Desktop Window
Minimize
Maximize
Overlap
Clockwise Right And Left Semicircle Arrows
Cancellation X
Increase Font Size Symbol
Decrease Font Size Symbol
Compression
Old Key
Rolled-Up Newspaper
Page With Circled Text
Stock Chart
Dagger Knife
Lips
Speaking Head In Silhouette
Three Rays Above
Three Rays Below
Three Rays Left
Three Rays Right
Left Speech Bubble
Right Speech Bubble
Two Speech Bubbles
Three Speech Bubbles
Left Thought Bubble
Right Thought Bubble
Left Anger Bubble
Right Anger Bubble
Mood Bubble
Lightning Mood Bubble
Lightning Mood
Ballot Box With Ballot
Ballot Script X
Ballot Box With Script X
Ballot Bold Script X
Ballot Box With Bold Script X
Light Check Mark
Ballot Box With Bold Check
World Map
Slightly Frowning Face
Slightly Smiling Face
North West Pointing Leaf
South West Pointing Leaf
North East Pointing Leaf
South East Pointing Leaf
Turned North West Pointing Leaf
Turned South West Pointing Leaf
Turned North East Pointing Leaf
Turned South East Pointing Leaf
North West Pointing Vine Leaf
South West Pointing Vine Leaf
North East Pointing Vine Leaf
South East Pointing Vine Leaf
Heavy North West Pointing Vine Leaf
Heavy South West Pointing Vine Leaf
Heavy North East Pointing Vine Leaf
Heavy South East Pointing Vine Leaf
North West Pointing Bud
South West Pointing Bud
North East Pointing Bud
South East Pointing Bud
Heavy North West Pointing Bud
Heavy South West Pointing Bud
Heavy North East Pointing Bud
Heavy South East Pointing Bud
Hollow Quilt Square Ornament
Hollow Quilt Square Ornament In Black Square
Solid Quilt Square Ornament
Solid Quilt Square Ornament In Black Square
Leftwards Rocket
Upwards Rocket
Rightwards Rocket
Downwards Rocket
Very Heavy Solidus
Very Heavy Reverse Solidus
Checker Board
Reverse Checker Board
Triangle With Rounded Corners
Prohibited Sign
Circled Information Source
Boys Symbol
Girls Symbol
Couch And Lamp
Sleeping Accommodation
Shopping Bags
Bellhop Bell
Bed
Hammer And Wrench
Shield
Oil Drum
Motorway
Railways Track
Motor Boat
Up-Pointing Military Airplane
Up-Pointing Airplane
Up-Pointing Small Airplane
Small Airplane
Northeast-Pointing Airplane
Airplane Departure
Airplane Arriving
Satellite
Oncoming Fire Engine
Diesel Locomotive
Passenger Ship
After Facebook’s new photo sharing app, Slingshot, leaked out a bit prematurely last week, it seems the social network is finally ready to make things official. The app has just gone live on Google Play, along with the official Facebook page and new promo video announcing availability of Slingshot for both Android and iOS. You can check out the video here.
For those unaware, Slingshot is Facebook’s latest attempt to mimic the success of Snapchat. While Messenger is aimed towards direct messaging with friends and family, Slingshot’s focus is more on the social aspects of photo sharing. Like Snapchat and Instagram before it, the whole point of Slingshot is to share pics (and having friends who actually want to receive your pics). But unlike rival services, before your friends can ever view your pic, they’ll first need to send one back. It’s an interesting take on photo sharing, and one that could help increase engagement (or kill it completely).
Like most new social services, Slingshot’s success relies heavily on your circles using it. Given it’s ties to Facebook, it sounds like finding friends on the service wont be too difficult. Worst comes to worst, you can always share selfies with grandma. You can download Slingshot free for Android via the link below.
The whole world is racking their brains trying to figure out exactly what T-Mobile could announce during tomorrow’s Uncarrier 5.0 event. Like previous events, T-Mobile is setting out to eliminate customer pain points associated with the wireless industry today, but how? Well, after rumors suggested T-Mobile would simplify billing, the folks at TmoNews are here with a few leaked screenshots for extra confirmation.
First on the chopping block are prorated charges. Because no one like’s surprises on their bills, T-Mobile will eliminate their current prorated system which can sometimes leave customers with “bill shock” after seeing that first monthly bill (you know, before things drop down to normal later down the road). This means whatever the customer signs up for in the store like, say, a $70 month plan — that’s exactly what they’ll find on their first and subsequent month’s bills.
To help speed up the process of waiting around for that first EIP (equipment installment plan) payment, the first payment will be included on the very first bill, from the moment you signed up. Once again, taking out a lot of the guess work or shock that comes with seeing your low monthly payments suddenly skyrocket.
While previous rumors suggested that T-Mobile’s new simplified billing initiative would offer an “all in” what-you-see-is-what-you-get pricing (for instance, a $70 a month plan after fees and taxes would be just that — $70), that wasn’t mentioned in the leaked documentation. Of course, we’ll have to see how much of this will be confirmed during T-Mobile’s Uncarrier 5.0 event scheduled for tomorrow. Something tells us they may have a few more surprises in store.
A truck meant for muddy paths, big rocks, and steep inclines doesn't necessarily have to look out of place on more civilized pavement — and the 2014 Jeep Wrangler Unlimited...
After over 1300 Face-Off contest submissions, Motorola has chosen its 10 favorites Moto 360 face designs to go on to final voting. You can cast your vote(s) now for the design you want to see as an option on the Moto 360 when it comes out later this year. The images run the gamut from clean and simple, to rather complex for a smart watch. 
