Gadgetory

on today's show pebble launches its pebble steel SmartWatch google glass prescription frames Nintendo's potential mobile plans titanfall split screen announcement and google keeps on marching towards becoming Skynet its buffalo bulls in time hello internet and welcome to the Buffalo bulletin where we recap stories from our site technobuffalo calm every tuesday and friday if you're interested in reading more about any story on the show check the description below for links or click on the graphics if you have annotations available and toggled on i'm ashley scuba hair your top stories pebble kicked off this morning with a couple of big updates not only did their shiny new pebble steel SmartWatch start shipping today a beta version of the pebble appstore also made its way into journalists hands new watch faces apps from companies like Yelp and ESPN and even games that utilize pebbles accelerometer are all part of the app store launch we've got a hands-on video walking you through the software and while it's a little bit laggy here and there it still looks pretty solid you can look for the official launch of the pebble appstore very very soon Google making the news today is well announcing Google glass titanium a collection of prescription frames and sunglasses it's a lot more subtle than the original design of Google glass but the frames themselves will set you back 225 bucks well that's in addition to the 1500 you're spending on glass itself plus the cost of prescription lenses for those frames if you need them so for those of you who already have Google glass you can use these new frames with your current glass device which is cool but for anybody who wants glass that also needs prescription lenses it's a pretty pricey ordeal over in gaming Nintendo got all our hopes up and then smashed all our dreams with rumors yesterday they would announce plans to move forward with developing first party mini games for mobile to promote its brand this morning though nintendo released a statement confirming there are no plans to offer many games on smartphone devices that's kind of a bummer but considering their 3ds is the only game in town making them money at the moment it kind of makes sense so now speculation is focused more on companion apps like a mobile pokedex or posting to the miiverse from your phone or tablet gamers looking forward to playing highly anticipated Xbox one exclusive titanfall with their friends got a little bit of tough news this morning titanfall developer respawn entertainment replied to a fan on Twitter who asked if they could comment on whether or not the game would feature split-screen multiplayer and the response was pretty Frank quote no it's not a feature in titanfall end quote so that means if you want to play titanfall with your roommates or your significant other you'll need separate xbox one consoles and separate titles Big Time Out's respawn the wild-card story for today comes from google apparently they're not done totally weirding us out with their recent company purchases yes they've bought robotics company Boston Dynamics then they bought nest now they've confirmed the purchase of artificial intelligence firm deepmind aside from the fact that the company name itself sounds like a total supervillain it's obvious Google will not only be applying deep mines worked robotics but to pretty much everything else on their plates like Android and home automation I welcome our terrifying robot overlords that's the Buffalo bulletin for today if you enjoy the show give us a thumbs up that would be super awesome of you and if you want more great TechnoBuffalo video content you can subscribe to our youtube channel by clicking this giant subscribe button see you guys next time