Sony Smartwatch unveiled

How cool would it be if some big consumer electronics company that is really great at hardware design sold a smartwatch you could buy for under $100 that was open to any developer’s firmware?

That would be amazing, because as an open platform genius software developers could compete with each other to create the ultimate smartwatch experience, and they wouldn’t need to fuss with designing and manufacturing a physical hardware smartwatch.

Well, it’s happened. Sony this week announced an Open SmartWatch project that invites developers to create and flash their own firmware for the Sony SmartWatch.

This is bigger news than it sounds.

Sony is actually joining the open-source hardware movement. Sony! They’ve even published a SmartWatch hacker guide.

Sony has long offered an SDK for developers to write apps for the existing platform. But this is different — and surprising.

Sony’s Open SmartWatch project is massively good news for the following three reasons, just past the fold...

PS4 hardware (finally) revealed

Well, I guess the PS4 actually does exist! I was starting to think Sony didn't actual male it! Finally, tonight at E3, we got a look at the actual hardware. Look just past the break for a picture...

It looks a lot like the PS2 with a blue line on it. On the left we see the console, middle controller, and right the eye. The PS4 will start at $399, $100 cheaper than the Xbox One.

Next week is WWDC and E3!

As many of you already know, Apple's WWDC starts on Monday, and E3 starts on Tuesday!

Apple has promised that on Monday it will get iOS 7 and the new version of OSX into hands of their developers. iOS is said to be receiving a major make over, with the removal of most skeumorphism. iOS 7 will have flat icons, and once in the app, the app will be white with a different button color for each app. Banners have gone up unveiling the iOS 7 logo and new OSX logo, as well as some that hint at the flat icons. Look past the fold to see some pictures, and snag some iOS 7 wallpapers for any of your iDevices...