Review: Apple watchOS 2

By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

It has been a little bit over a year since we first saw Apple Watch and the wearable, which has reportedly sold over 7 million units, has been available in the market since April. Apple Watch is a unique product category for Apple, it doesn’t seem to follow the same yearly upgrade cycle as iPhones or Macs.

watchOS is the operating system that runs Apple Watch. The first version was quite basic, it served to synch the Watch with iPhones and mostly serve as a satellite device to the iPhone. Apps that supported watch OS could be accessed and controlled from the Apple Watch although it often seemed faster and more straightforward to just use the iPhone instead.

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Keep your laptop out of sight with Under-The-Jack Pack

Scared of having to lug around your laptop with you? Now, you can hide it underneath your coat with Betabrand’s Under-the-Jack Pack. This ultra-slim laptop backpack can carry a 13- or 15-inch laptops. At only 1.5 inches thin, you can put it on before you put your coat on, completely concealing it. It has padded backside and shoulder straps and two zippered compartments. It retails for US$68 but looks to be on sale at $61.20. It’s available for pre-order at the moment.

Source: Betabrand | Via: Laughing Squid

Mophie outs aluminum-clad power banks

Mophie is giving you mobile warriors a more premium-looking set of power banks with different capacities and capabilities. The new powerstations come built with an aluminum shell for a classier look. It comes in five different models including a smaller 1X model (US$40) with 2,000mAh capacity and charging speeds of up to 1.8A. The 2X model ($60) has 4,000mAh capacity with 2.4A charging speed. The 3X ($80) shares the charging speed of the 2X but it has a 6,000mAh capacity and a second USB port. Meanwhile, the powerhouse battery packs are the 5X ($130) and 8X ($150), both include Bluetooth monitoring using the free Power app on Android and iOS. The 5X has 10,000mAh capacity, while the 8X has 15,000mAh power. These two have dual charging capabilities. It’s said t be coming to Apple Store locations so hopefully it makes its way here, too.

Source: 9to5Mac

Hyundai to introduce augmented reality manuals for its cars

While Hyundai might not be the first to do this, they are for the first time introducing augmented reality manuals for their cars. It’s not appealing to be reading thick paperback manuals, especially in this age where there’s so much technology in cars, so this solution might work quiet well. The mobile-based Virtual Guide comes with 82 how-to videos, six 3D overlay images, and over 50 informational guides. With the 3D overlay, all you have to do is scan the area of the vehicle, like the engine bay and the images will appear there. It makes use of 2D and 3D tracking technology to help provide information about different parts of the car, just position over the part you want to learn about and then you’re all set. The Virtual Guide will first be available for the 2015 Sonata model and it works for both Android and iOS users.

Source: Hyundai