Gadgetory

the next time I do a barrel roll I hope I have google glass recorded and Bridget Carey and this is your cnet update google really wants you to love the idea of wearing a computer on your face by that I'm talking about the google glass prototype that has been talked about for a long time now to court you into craving one google keeps making promo videos for it even though it's still not an actual product you can buy and it probably won't be something you could buy until 2014 the latest video gives us a hint at how you might use it you'd say ok glass to turn on the voice commands followed by another command to record video or take a photo the video has a bunch of creative ideas for wearing a camera to show point of view action it's something people do now with a GoPro but this glass is of course much lighter and easier to wear the video also shows that the glass can launch a live video chat hang out but who's to say that it will appear is clear to our eyes as it does in that video this is just a concept and frankly doesn't mean a thing to me until we can see how it works for ourselves it's just more hype google began selling a few prototype models to developers for fifteen hundred dollars and those developers will get them sometime this year but if you want to judge it for yourself google has a writing contest where you can win a chance to wear a prototype if you explain why you should be on the creative testing team but yes still got to pay fifteen hundred dollars and pick it up in person the evolution of Yahoo continues as the site unveiled a new homepage design that borrows on the concept of the social media feed yahoo now shows an endless list of news articles to scroll through and it's customizable based on your interest and what your friends are sharing if you think the new blackberry 10 predictive keyboard features are cool then you should check out the new version of the swiftkey app for android swiftkey learns how a user types it predicts what you're most likely to write next it's all with the goal of making you faster and more efficient at typing and in the swiftkey for upgrade users can now hold their figure on the keyboard and drag it to different letters it's kind of like swype but they call it swiftkey flow and you can mix it with regular touch typing you also don't have to lift your finger to write a whole sentence by including the spacebar swiftkey gets more accurate the longer it's used and if you give it access to your email and social media profiles it can better learn the way you write if you're bilingual like my friends who type in Spanglish it can mix up to three languages in total it supports 60 languages it's in the Google Play Store now on sale for two dollars and it's normally four dollars that's your tech news update you can find more details on all these stories at our blog sina com / update from our studios in New York I'm Bridget Carey