Sunday
Dec252016

Apple brings new hidden wallpapers to macOS and tvOS in latest update

Looking to spruce up your new MacBook or Apple TV? Apple included some new gorgeous cityscape and landscape wallpapers for you. There are new flyover images from Los Angeles, Dubai, Greenland, and China. To check out and download these new visuals all you need to do on Apple TV is head to Settings > General > Screensaver. If you’re updating your macOS background, make sure to update your operating system and then right click on a blank part of your desktop and then choose one of the new wallpapers.

Source: Business Insider

Sunday
Dec252016

Canadian Reviewer Weekly Roundup 12/18-12/24

Sunday
Dec252016

‘Alien: Covenant’ gets a creepy first trailer

The follow-up to Ridley Scott’s 2012 film Prometheus is set to hit theaters in 2017 and so the first trailer for Alien: Covenant is out and it’s properly scary. The trailer shows what the crew of the Covenant is up against as they stumble upon a new planet. But things aren’t as they seem as someone gets infected by a deadly xenomorph and things just go extremely wrong from there. 

The big names attached to the 20th Century Fox film include Michael Fassbender, who plays the artificially intelligent David and is the survivor of the Prometheus expedition, James Franco, Katherine Waterston, and Guy Pearce. Alien: Covenant will be hitting the big screen on May 19, 2017.

Sunday
Dec252016

Hyundai wants to make exoskeletons more affordable for industrial workers and the handicapped

When you think exoskeletons, car manufacturers aren’t exactly the first ones you think of making these wearable mobile machines. But Hyundai is one such company hoping to make exoskeletons more affordable to a larger number of people. The South Korean manufacturer recently demoed two new exosuit prototypes—the H-Wex, which is meant for industrial lifting, and H-Mex, which is designed for helping disabled people walk. The H-Wex makes it easier to carry heavy loads for a lot of backbreaking work. Meanwhile, the H-Mex will help senior citizens or the handicapped walk. It comes with controls for helping move each leg forward, sitting down, standing up, and even walking up and down stairs.

Hyundai is currently working on getting medical certifications in both South Korean and the United States for the H-Mex by 2018. It plans to deploy demo units by 2019 and 2020 to see how industrial workers and patients react to these exoskeletons.

Source: Engadget