Gadgetory

2015 the year that brought us new Apple products at last hacking scandals that rocked the internet and a milestone near to every geeks heart the tech world this year has been dynamic divisive even dangerous here are the 2015 tech moments that blew our minds starting with a transitional phase for gadgets this year is the smartphone boom continued to cool even high-profile handsets like the iphone success moto x force samsung's capacious galaxy s6 edge and the invite only one plus to all played second fiddle to headline-grabbing wearables like the Apple watch which received a positive if not ecstatic reception when it arrived in April other emerging technologies edged closer to commercial reality this year with 4k landing on more TVs and even a smartphone while HTC chose the spring to announce its v vr headset 2015 will be remembered as the year that Apple gave us some more varied tech to play with this year we rocked out with Apple music a streaming service to take on Spotify fiddled with a brand new Apple TV with a gaming capable touchpad remote and cowered in the shadow of the twelve point nine inch iPad pro which appeared to take some design cues from Microsoft Surface pro series of hybrids which in October added a fourth iteration that topped off a strong year for Satya Nadella and chums we were impressed with Microsoft's first laptop and Windows 10 which in the summer corrected the missteps of Windows 8 but not all of 2015's tech was so cheery in fact this year saw technology becoming more fiercely politicized as new questions arose surrounding the future of the internet and our online security 2015 began with concerns that Samsung TVs could be sending our private conversations to third parties then got progressively more unsettling as a series of major hacks challenged our view on how private our online activities really are joining the ranks of Patrian t-mobile and kids technology firm vtec extramarital dating sites Ashley Madison was perhaps the years highest-profile security breach with the data plunderers dumping private user data online a month after the initial hack lesson here is that nothing you do or say online is ever private march in the US or the FCC approved net neutrality rules while hungry tech giants continue to consume each other in May US network verizon snapped up AOL for 4.4 billion dollars then in November the maker of candy crush got gobbled up by Activision Blizzard 46 billion um and indeed nom 2015 also saw the tech world take a much-needed look at gender discrimination both within the industry and online sparked in part by Ellen Pao who stepped down as CEO of Reddit in July having lost a high-profile gender discrimination lawsuit a few months earlier in the gaming world Microsoft's Xbox one and Sony's ps4 continued their deadly deal while third place in Nintendo had a rough a year fan favorite company president Satoru Iwata sadly died in July and the company dropped off a prestigious list of cool brands in October confirmation in March the Nintendo would start making games for smartphones gives us hope for a brighter future and speaking of the future 2015 was marked by a particularly significant date one that's been in the calendars of geeks worldwide since the late 80s the 21st of October 2015 the date that Marty McFly traveled forward to in sci-fi classic back to the future part two celebrities and brands alike lepton this geek culture milestone while the Internet's imploded with one point twenty-one gigawatts of fan further mingled with a general dismay that the real 2015 is lacking in hoverboards well unless you count those self-balancing scooters that suddenly seem to be everywhere this year and if bad to the future day wasn't enough to satisfy your brains nerd Center 2015 had plenty more geeky thrills on offer the Aaron Sorkin scripted Steve Jobs film finally got an airing while geeks reveled in a Hollywood release schedule that featured ant-man the Avengers a Jurassic Park sequel and the Martian oh and did we forget to mention a new star wars film Chewie we're all space of venturing back in the real world went pretty well to this year we found flowing water on Mars Amazon founder Jeff Bezos spaceflight company Blue Origin made history with a rocket that went to space than landed safely back on earth and NASA made our July with our closest ever look at Pluto as the new horizons probe sped just shy of 8,000 miles above the dwarf planet's surface how's that for a bit of perspective eh but we want your perspectives to what did you think of 2015's tech and what do you want to see next year let us know and stay tuned to seen it where's my eggnog latte