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Barisieur: Alarm clock brews your coffee, and it’s delicious
Toyota Features Pokémon Cars at Tokyo Toy Show 2014
Google Buy Twitch For $1B – How Will That Change YouTube?
Blackberry Strong Concept Shows How Passport Would Look as a Slider

Barisieur: Alarm clock brews your coffee, and it’s delicious

Posted: 01 Aug 2014 07:00 AM PDT

You know how quirky scientists in cartoons and sci-fi always have a machine that has coffee ready as soon as they wake up? Well, you’re officially living in the future now.

Meet "The Barisieur", a brilliant creation by industrial designer Josh Renouf. He first showed it to the world at the New Designers 2014 exhibition, where it proved to be a great success. The Barisieur is a standard digital alarm clock with a twist: the top has a series of chemistry lab type tubes capable of blowing hot water out via induction heating, and then use it along ground coffee to prepare the essential drink to start the day. The Barisieur just drops the coffee in a stainless steel filter and then onto a glass mug on the other side. The Barisieur is capable of adding cream and a drawer of sugar, though, so be ready to spice things up to your liking. Users just got to leave everything ready at night, and will wake up to the smell of hot coffee every day.

Via TMS

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Toyota Features Pokémon Cars at Tokyo Toy Show 2014

Posted: 01 Aug 2014 06:00 AM PDT

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Baby you can drive my Poké-car: Toyota rolls out two Pokémon cars at the Tokyo Toy Show 2014 that are totes adorable.

Would driving a Pikachu or Fennekin car in the Pokémon world be the epitome of swag? Would that loser Gary Oak own one and brag about it over other Pokemon trainer’s heads like the jerk store he is? Hmm, all good questions… But what I do know is that these two particular Toyopet Pokémon cars from Toyota are absolutely cute.

Just look at that face… d’awww!

Both Poké-mobiles were one of the main attractions at the Tokyo Toy Show 2014, Japan’s premier toy show where the country's biggest consumer electronic manufacturers display all sorts of playthings. At the show, you can expect to see card games, robots (where else?!), and if it fits the theme – hello, Pokémon – a car with Pikachu's lovable face on it.

Speaking of which, Toyota used a Toyopet for the chassis of both vehicles. What’s a Toyopet? It's a pretty obscure car that’s mostly known in Japan, originating from the 1940′s in fact. Neither of these cars will never see the mass assembly line though; they're just promotional vehicles. So to the Poké-enthusiast they’ll be extremely rare types.

Source: Japan Trends

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Google Buy Twitch For $1B – How Will That Change YouTube?

Posted: 01 Aug 2014 05:00 AM PDT

Having to compete with livestreamers and popular gaming channels, Google have purchased Twitch for $1 billion to increase their video influence.

Gaming isn't just about the playing any more – it's about the thrill of a quick succession of button presses that gets you the winning kill in Call of Duty, or the trickshot that scores a magnificent goal in FIFA or the play that outsmarts your opponent to get to checkmate in an online game of chess if that's really your thing. Hey, no judgement from me. In short, these days gaming is very much about the spectacle which is why folks like PewDiePie rake in $4 million a year from humble beginnings as a YouTuber who just liked to make videos about the games he was playing. And we know a lot about how these YouTubers are making money and how journalism is very much migrating to the service but outside of YouTube, millions are also being made using Twitch, with many gamers preferring to watch the hottest slices of gaming action live rather than videos that are pre-recorded, edited and displayed hours later for a delayed audience to see. YouTube was having to compete in a big way against popular streamers displaying eSports matches (such as games in League of Legends) so if you can't beat 'em, join 'em which is exactly why YouTube's parent company, Google, has just bought Twitch for $1 billion.

That figure might seem like a high price but in actual fact, Google has got itself a bargain deal here as the burgeoning rise of eSports means that more and more people are watching streamed eSports shows and streamed eSports games every single day, with Twitch being included on PS4 and Xbox One which only helps to further drive up the numbers of its 50 million monthly active users. And it's also a great investment from the company as having Twitch in their back pocket now allows them to encourage more gamers to use their site as well as Twitch's efforts will now be supported by Google and YouTube's multi-billion dollar backend rather than a well put together team that was searching for investors as their growing popularity led to growing costs.

For existing YouTube users though, don't expect revolutionary change but rather a much more subtle one. The video site already caters to music lovers in a big way with shows such as the YouTube Music Awards and streamed concerts showing that, so we can just expect eSports tournaments and gaming events to be promoted in a big way too which is fine if you're into that and the banners that usually promote these events are only a clicked 'x' away from making them disappear anyway. Furthermore, YouTube is especially good at recommending things for us based on our individual tastes so if your video history suggests that you hate gaming like it's the worst thing to happen to you since Arrested Development got cancelled, then, I wouldn't expect YouTube to shove gaming streams in your face either.

Source: Variety

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Blackberry Strong Concept Shows How Passport Would Look as a Slider

Posted: 31 Jul 2014 01:35 PM PDT

Slider phones have been out of fashion for quite a few years now, but that didn’t stop a few Blackberry fans to imagine how Passport would look like in this form factor.

Blackberry Passport already looks very peculiar, being nothing alike anything made by this company or its competitors. The square screen is said to display more content, and the 1:1 ratio is meant to improve productivity. With its odd looks, it’s uncertain if businessmen will like it (that’s definitely the public that Blackberry is targeting with Passport). A group of fans of the company took this smartphone to the extreme, by designing it as a slider.

Blackberry Strong, as they named this concept, brings the square display upfront, while the QWERTY keyboard lies hidden in the back. The authors of the concept probably would have wanted the Milan project, a Blackberry 10 slider phone, not to be canceled, as it was.

Sliders had all sorts of problems with the sliding mechanism, fact that determined most smartphone manufacturers to abandon this form factor. Dirt could get in an block it, or if you had really bad luck, the strip that connected the display to the keyboard could malfunction, leaving you with an unusable phone. If anything, it’s better to attach a QWERTY keyboard case to your smartphone, than to have to throw it away entirely. Speaking of cases and protection, attaching a case to a slider phone is a difficult task, and leaving it unprotected is not a desirable thing, either.

As to the reaction people have when seeing this concept, most commenters seem to have mixed feelings. Some don’t like it, but admit that there might be niche market out there for a slider Blackberry Strong, while others say from the start that they like the concept.

When the keyboard is not visible, Blackberry Strong looks like a device you could take notes on. That means that the concept could be even more functional if it had a stylus added to it. The slightly smaller size, at least when compared to Passport, would make Strong more maneuverable, not to mention that it would fit better in pockets and bags. Maybe Blackberry will pick up this concept and turn it into a reality, but I’m not sure who would buy it.

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