Jaybird's latest Freedom wireless Bluetooth buds merge fashion and sports

Leading premium bluetooth headset maker Jaybird has announced their latest generation of Freedom earbus which merge sports functionality and fashion.

Combining sophisticated style, incredible sound and increased comfort into the smallest, most advanced wireless earbuds ever designed, the buds are both functional and refined, packing premium features into a bite-sized package. Jaybird’s passion for great product doesn’t stop at great buds. Through the MySound app, you can customize and save your own personal sound to Freedom from your favorite music service or the Bluetooth-enabled music device you use. Below are some features of the latest Freedom buds.

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‘Resident Evil 5’ comes to the NVIDIA SHIELD

Resident Evil 5 might be a seven-year-old game but if it appeals to you to play a classic game on the NVIDIA SHIELD, you should get downloading now. RE5 was one of the more graphically-intensive games to come out back in 2009 with full 3D rendering and over-the-shoulder shooting gameplay. It wouldn’t pose a problem for the 256-core Maxwell GPU of the NVIDIA SHIELD, though. The game is a hefty download at 5.5GB. You shouldn’t have a problem with it if you got the 250GB model but the 16GB model might cause some issues and some storage gymnastics. You can get the game for a discounted price of US$9.99 (around CA$13) but it should come up to its suggested retail price of US$15 (around CA$19) in the future. It also won’t work yet on other Android devices aside from the NVIDIA SHIELD.

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New ‘Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows’ trailer intros Krang

We’ll be honest, we don’t have high expectations for Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows. With Michael Bay as the producer, we’re not thinking it’ll be anything but a hyped up movie. But we still want to think it’ll be entertaining in its own silly way. Its new trailer gives us a closer look of Krang, the film’s menacing pink bubblegum monster with fangs, and he somehow still looks scary in CG. If this is something you’d want to catch, the movie comes out on June 3^rd.

Wearable acts like a breathalyzer, measures alcohol levels using your skin

A new wearable from startup BACTrack is designed to monitor the alcohol levels in your body. Called BACTrack Skyn, this wearable makes use of fuel cell technology to measure the amount of alcohol in you. It makes use of similar technology law enforcement uses. But this doesn’t give a real-time readout since it takes around 45 minutes for alcohol consumed to be transmitted to your skin. But what it can detect is the recent drinking history of someone, which could be used by medical practitioners as well as researchers and even help people who are being treated for alcohol abuse. The Skyn connects to a smartphone app via Bluetooth, so it could also warn you if you’ve drank too much to drive or to send messages to family and friends if you’ve been trying to remain sober and alcohol is found in your system.

The Skyn won first place at a National Institutes of Health competition and won a US$200,000 grand prize. It hasn’t been tested or approved by the FDA yet but the company is already offering pre-orders for a limited release this fall.

Source: SlashGear