Gadgetory

it's thursday april fifth 2012 I'm Bridget Carey on cnet com and it's time to get loaded google has revealed more about its project glass it's an experiment to deliver smart glasses that would pop up data in your field of vision to get input on the idea google made a video about what the technology has the potential to do it shows a user's seen an incoming message from a friend pop-up or if there's a problem on your commute then directions for an alternate route are displayed the glasses could check the user into a location and share it on a social network it might even take photos and share ones point of view with a video chat of course what the video didn't show are the other uses companies would like for glasses like this like having pop-up ads or coupons when you pass by a location every year the consumerist runs an online voting competition for the worst company in America and they do it in the style of a march madness basketball bracket and this year Electronic Arts won the golden poo for getting the most votes as the worst company in 2012 beating out bank of america in the final round in a year where people were occupying Wall Street how did a video game maker beat out a bank for the title well that's because the gaming world is feeling nickel and dimed the frequent accusation is EA will deliberately hold back game content and sell an inferior game at the high price of sixty dollars and later charged more fees for players to download additional content that makes the game better the next generation of the HTC EVO has arrived Sprint has unveiled the HTC evo 4g LTE it's a slightly redesigned model of the HTC One X and will come out in the second quarter for two hundred dollars pre-orders start may seventh the first HTC evo 4g came out two years ago but back then it ran on a 4g wimax network it also is one of the first phones to have a larger screen and high-end processor now this new evo will be able to tap into sprint faster LTE 4g network but there's been no word on exactly when that will go live and this phone will be able to pick up high definition voice quality sound but that feature won't be available until the end of the year rocker Neil Young is working on creating his own audio format something that would be a higher quality than an mp3 file Young has been vocal about his dissatisfaction with the compressed quality of mp3s and Rolling Stone has discovered young filed a series of trademark names for a new high-definition audio format some of those names include earth storage storage shed and SQS which is studio quality sound Young's publicist said the musician isn't ready though to talk publicly about the project those are your headlines for today I'm Bridget Carey for cnet.com and you just been loaded