Gadgetory

it's time to worry about how much time you've wasted on Twitter I'm Bridget Carey and this is your cnet update samsung smart watches will cost you a pretty penny samsung announced the prices of its new wearable devices the gear to Smart Watch is $300 the gear 2 neo which is the model without a camera it costs two hundred dollars and that's also the price of the cooler looking gear fit band with a curved screen now all three of these devices hit stores april eleventh which is the same day as the arrival of the galaxy s5 smartphone I wouldn't rush to be the first with a gear SmartWatch I mean the gear devices may be alright but a bunch of android-powered smartwatches with Android wear are coming out this year and the Moto 360 is launching sometime in the summer you just have to see what else is out there before dropping three hundred dollars on a gear in the meantime android owners you'll have a new voice command trick to show off to your friends using the google search app on android say ok Google take a photo or you could say take a video if you don't care to use the magic words ok Google then you can tap the microphone to say take a photo and when you do it'll launch the camera app a prototype controller for valves upcoming steam machine game console is going through an evolution it's keeping its unique touch pads but adding buttons including directional up down left and right buttons this steam machine isn't your typical video game system it's for playing pc games on your TV and pc games are usually programmed for mice and keyboards and when seen it review or eric franklin got to play with the controller this week he said the touch pads were so sensitive that it was hard to get used to it during the short time he tested it and on the topic of game systems PlayStation owners will have exclusive access to original TV shows according to The Wall Street Journal Sony is working on a TV show called powers it's based off a comic book and it will be available on the PlayStation Network twitter has been around for eight years and to have some birthday fun Twitter launched a site where it's easy to look up your very first tweet and reshare it you go to first dash tweets calm and you can look up anyone's first tweet and yes that is mine it's pretty funny searching through the first tweets of many folks as they gripe about how they finally we'll try this twitter thing or that maybe they're just trying to figure out the whole thing you know what it's still pretty confusing today for newcomers and that's the challenge Twitter will have to solve in order to grow that your technique is update but you can find more details at cnet com / update from our studios in New York I'm Bridget Carey