Board 8 > Google topic. Skydiving demo of glass, nexus everything, jelly bean android.

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Google showed off a lot while we couldn't post. One is the nexus q, a media ball basically. At 300 it is pricey as hell, but sleek, and made in the USA. No seriously, that's part of the price reason, not made in China.

http://m.engadget.com/2012/06/27/google-nexus-q-media-streaming-device/?icid=eng_latest_art

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2012/06/google-reveals-nexus-q-streaming-media-player/

The Galaxy nexus dropped in price officially too. Now it is 350 new from Google. For a 7 month phone, that is amazingly good, especially as it will run jelly bean soon, the latest Android edition.

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2012/06/android-4-1-jelly-bean-faster-smoother-more-delightful/

It's smoother, faster, has better voice search, picture management, and Google now, a new feature, is your one stop app for realizing how much Google knows about everything around us. No seriously, it can tell you how long it takes you to go to the gym, whether your plane is delayed, where to eat, what they serve, and what they are known for. It's crazy yet creepy.

There's the new tablet, the nexus 7. 200 bucks, quad core, bluetooth, 7", and a gig of ram. The bad? No micro sd slot and it's only 8gb internal at that price. 250 is for 16gb. Made by Asus and is basically the intended memot300 they had months ago. Looks good and already some hands on exist. Runs jelly bean. No back camera either but that's awkward with a tablet anyway. Oh yeah, the gpu in it is monstrous.

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2012/06/google-officially-reveals-7-quad-core-nexus7-tablet-with-android-4-1/

http://m.engadget.com/2012/06/27/nexus-7-tablet-hands-on/?icid=eng_latest_art

Google+ is also looking better and better, now with pictures being able to be simultaneously shared in events. Cool feature. Android is out of beta too for Android and will be part of what's in jelly bean by default. Missing anything? Oh yeah.

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2012/06/googlers-skydive-wearing-google-glasses-broadcast-jump-live-to-google/

http://m.engadget.com/2012/06/27/googles-project-glass-gets-some-more-details/

project glass. They are smart glasses. Talk, take video, pictures, all while wearing it on your face. Play pool, no word on when trajectory can be implanted yet. Or tennis. Or do as Google does for a tech demo: have a guy jump out a blimp to demo it. Yes, they at random showed this product for the first time by having someone skydive with them on live. So, so badass. It's entirely new tech, not for consumers yet. But wow. We are one step closer to watch dog being a realistic viewpoint.

http://m.engadget.com/2012/06/27/google-glass-details-voice-command-connectivity-options/?icid=eng_latest_art

conference vid here:
http://m.engadget.com/2012/06/27/googles-i-o-2012-keynote-is-up-in-video-form-in-case-you-misse/?icid=eng_latest_art

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The King Wang.
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So Google Now is basically Siri? Sounds good to me.

I've been working closely with the Galaxy Nexus for the past month (building a custom ROM in the background right now) so this is pretty cool news.

For developers, the Jelly Bean SDK will include a new profiling tool, systrace, that provides a clear visualization of their applications' use of the CPU, GPU, and other system components, so that bottlenecks can be more readily identified and resolved.

Oh hell yes. The ICS CPU meter thing for the Nexus is pretty useful already, but this sounds way better for what I need to do.

Also can't wait for those glasses.

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Damn apparently the skydiving video is gone for now

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nexus 7 seems like a pretty nice tablet to compete with the kindle fire, good price point

nexus q just seems terribly conceived. $300 is way too much for something that performs most of the same services as other boxes for a fraction of the price. I don't think people are going to pay that much money for a sphere

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Well, there's a lot of things the q does which are unique, but yeah, it is very expensive. It's cool, but painfully priced. Dunno what to expect though as it does look nice.

The biggest thing jelly bean has that I didn't mention is how developer focused it is. If you do apps you will love it as it is a real attempt to focus creations with their creators.

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The King Wang.
Listen up Urinal Cake. I already have something that tells me if I'm too drunk when I pee on it: My friends. - Colbert.

Love your overlords b8.

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The King Wang.
Listen up Urinal Cake. I already have something that tells me if I'm too drunk when I pee on it: My friends. - Colbert.

Controlling Glass will eventually rely on a mixture of inputs: it'll recognize voice commands, while also taking cues from the right sidebar. There's a touch-sensitive pad on there that'll understand gestures.

Glass will be able to record locally, but the idea is to have 'most everything' streamed live to the web; it's the "live, right now!" nature of Glass that Google intends to push as one of its differentiating factors.

it is those features that make me realize this is gonna be something amazing once they start.

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Glass, as it was shown.
this was all live.

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Google Now sounds terrible, because they'll end up integrating that into actual Search. Google's Search is getting worse and worse, with more and more bias. Bleh. That being said, Jelly Bean looks like a nice incremental improvement and that tablet is much better looking than expected.

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well, regarding search it's one of those things that google is working on again. google now is an extensio of this as it does use stuff you've searched before - the example they used was a sports team... it wouldn't require any input because you've googled them so it knows you want their information.

http://www.pcworld.com/article/258450/google_now_and_search_revamp_the_most_exciting_updates_in_android_jelly_bean.html

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1035_3-57461946-94/android-4.1-gets-faster-better-notifications-google-now/

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"Maybe it's a tentacle, molesting the planet itself. - Aschen Brodel.

I think it will be useful in the mobile space - its target demo - but it will eventually make search less and less neutral and more and more about paid advertisements. This is just another way for Google to subtly get more paid ads.

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oh, and if you think it's familiar:

yes, 'swipe it away' webos style.

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"Maybe it's a tentacle, molesting the planet itself. - Aschen Brodel.

being less neutral is definitely true. knowledge graph basically is what they're using to specifically take words and give it context based on the popularity that word has and what it's corrolated to.

also, after the first video ends in that cnet the search one starts. so just skip to the next video in the player.

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Still awesome.
Also am really tempted to just get the damn phone, but am holding back well.

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The King Wang.
Listen up Urinal Cake. I already have something that tells me if I'm too drunk when I pee on it: My friends. - Colbert.

I'm thinking I'll finally upgrade to the Nexus. I've been using a Samsung Exhibit II with a 4.0 (CM9) ROM on it and it's just now starting to get irksome. I wanted a Nexus some time ago but $700 is just too much for a phone. Google dropping it to $350 is awesome.

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That is basically the situation I got too, though a g2x. It's loaded with a top notch custom rom and all, but 350 is damn good for what is still a top 10 phone.

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The King Wang.
Listen up Urinal Cake. I already have something that tells me if I'm too drunk when I pee on it: My friends. - Colbert.

Eh, I don't really like how flat and wide the Nexus is to hold. Maybe it's because my hands are small.

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From: foolm0ron | #019
Eh, I don't really like how flat and wide the Nexus is to hold. Maybe it's because my hands are small.

I have unusually small hands for someone as tall as I am, but I do enjoy holding the Nexus. Still, it's indisputable that $350 is the absolute best deal you can get off contract for a top-end phone right now though. It's really tough to hold back.

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White boards are remarkable.

Day 2 today. About chrome.

https://developers.google.com/events/io/

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The King Wang.
Listen up Urinal Cake. I already have something that tells me if I'm too drunk when I pee on it: My friends. - Colbert.

Impressive numbers on the enterprise end of things.

For users though? Chrome for iphone and ipad. Best browser.

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The King Wang.
Listen up Urinal Cake. I already have something that tells me if I'm too drunk when I pee on it: My friends. - Colbert.

And Drive.

Basically, everyone goes Google.

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The King Wang.
Listen up Urinal Cake. I already have something that tells me if I'm too drunk when I pee on it: My friends. - Colbert.

Drive is really good. I just wish the speeds were just a little bit better and I hope the interface does evolve to make it a better mass-storage option. It's also a bit buggy (mostly with shared items). But I'm really happy with it so far. And Chrome is awesome as always.

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Digi
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Google maps: offline too.
Google docs: offline too.

Chrome books look more useful now. As in actually useful.

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The King Wang.
Listen up Urinal Cake. I already have something that tells me if I'm too drunk when I pee on it: My friends. - Colbert.

So they are also now selling virtual machines, infrastructure, in their business. Google literally selling server functionality.

This google compute engine is cool though.

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The King Wang.
Listen up Urinal Cake. I already have something that tells me if I'm too drunk when I pee on it: My friends. - Colbert.

How does a browser look so good.
Bastion on a browser. Offline too. I am really getting interested in a chrome book like this.

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The King Wang.
Listen up Urinal Cake. I already have something that tells me if I'm too drunk when I pee on it: My friends. - Colbert.

I love my Chromebook.

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The stuff they are showing is unreal to imagine a browser doing. And if this isn't just desktop chrome but on android too...

Wait.
More stunts.

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The King Wang.
Listen up Urinal Cake. I already have something that tells me if I'm too drunk when I pee on it: My friends. - Colbert.

Oh god, this man.
And lol those who hated the look of glass. Looks damn fine on the shades.

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The King Wang.
Listen up Urinal Cake. I already have something that tells me if I'm too drunk when I pee on it: My friends. - Colbert.

Jump again?
WHY NOT. WHAT CAN GO WRONG.

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The King Wang.
Listen up Urinal Cake. I already have something that tells me if I'm too drunk when I pee on it: My friends. - Colbert.

I'm literally j1zzing at all this new android development stuff. The layout editor is sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo much better now.

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Good to hear!
Meanwhile, it is officially out and mine now on the iphone from work. Delicious chrome.

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The King Wang.
Listen up Urinal Cake. I already have something that tells me if I'm too drunk when I pee on it: My friends. - Colbert.

That Nexus 7 is pretty damn tempting.

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Despite the short comings of no micro sd slot and either 8 or 16gb, I agree. It still is a damn tegra 3 machine with a sexy screen and very portable. Powerful as hell with that gpu that I still don't get, 16 cores is what, but easy to play with and use. Ive got my touchpad so I can deal, but my friend instantly pre ordered so I'll see!

No back camera is whatever to me, it is really weird on a tablet.

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The King Wang.
Listen up Urinal Cake. I already have something that tells me if I'm too drunk when I pee on it: My friends. - Colbert.

reviews time!

Nexus 7 review: the best $200 tablet you can buy
http://www.engadget.com/2012/06/28/nexus-7-review/

It measures 10.45mm (0.41 inches) thick, which is just half a millimeter thinner than the Kindle Fire -- itself no slender belle. But, crucially, it weighs much less: 340g (12 ounces) versus 413g (14.6 ounces) for the Fire. That's a very noticeable difference and it makes the Nexus 7 much nicer to carry around. Its curved edges, too, make it far more comfortable.

On the inside is an NVIDIA Tegra 3 quad-core processor running at 1.2GHz (though it can step up to 1.3GHz when it wants to) and paired with 1GB of RAM with either eight or 16 gigs of flash storage (doubling the capacity will cost you a $50 premium). As there's no microSD expansion here, you'll probably want to pay the extra cash. WiFi (802.11b/g/n) is your only option for data connectivity, though there's naturally Bluetooth and NFC, not to mention GPS, an accelerometer, a digital compass and a gyroscope, too.

and:

And of course a tablet is only good for as long as you can use the thing, and we were quite impressed by the longevity here. We came within spitting distance of 10 hours on a charge using out standard rundown test, which has the tablet connected on WiFi and looping a video endlessly. That's very, very good for a budget 7-incher and bests many bigger, more expensive slates.

http://www.engadget.com/2012/06/28/nexus-7-early-benchmarks/
If we compare the Nexus 7 to a top-end Tegra 3 device like the 1.7GHz, 1920 x 1200 Transformer Pad Infinity (set to its 'Performance' mode) the pre-production Nexus 7 more than keeps up -- thanks in some part to its lower (1280 x 800) resolution. The SunSpider score for web-browsing speed is especially healthy and hammers home the point that this is in a different league to the Kindle Fire -- which scores a poor 2,440ms in this test. Meanwhile, only the GLBenchmark for GPU performance shows that the Nexus 7 may be slightly held back compared to Tegra 3 supremos.

Next, we can throw the Nexus 7 into the ring with a Galaxy Tab 7.7, which represents the family of Samsung devices powered by the last-gen dual-core Exynos processor (also including the Galaxy Note, for example). In this tussle, the Google slate wins by just the type of wide margin that we'd hope for given its quad-core 40nm silicon. In other words, when it comes to raw speed, the Nexus 7 looks like a proper 2012 Android device that can currently only be beaten by expensive flagships running off an Exynos Quad or a Snapdragon S4.

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The King Wang.
Listen up Urinal Cake. I already have something that tells me if I'm too drunk when I pee on it: My friends. - Colbert.

Keynote Day 2 on youtube:


if you work with 3D at all you MUST see this.

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The King Wang.
Listen up Urinal Cake. I already have something that tells me if I'm too drunk when I pee on it: My friends. - Colbert.

That's from a year ago >__>

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....dammit. so it is. i just saw the link on phone and went THIS ONE. so here's more links instead while we wait.

Jelly Bean:
http://www.engadget.com/2012/06/28/android-4-1-jelly-bean-review-a-look-at-whats-changed-in-googl/

On their virtual machine:
http://www.engadget.com/2012/06/28/google-compute-engine-brings-linux-virtual-machines-at-google-s/

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The King Wang.
Listen up Urinal Cake. I already have something that tells me if I'm too drunk when I pee on it: My friends. - Colbert.

The Verge >>>> Engadget just sayin

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Digi
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fair enough. that said they don't tend to have as much content from what i've seen.

still, did find this:
http://www.theverge.com/2012/6/28/3122716/nexus-7-international-price

to address the fact that it's 160 euros for europe.

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The King Wang.
Listen up Urinal Cake. I already have something that tells me if I'm too drunk when I pee on it: My friends. - Colbert.

They generally have as much content. Whenever there's a big event a lot of it gets lost though, so make sure you find the Story Stream where it's all compiled

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Digi
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Not the vid I want but


chrome and its future.

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The King Wang.
Listen up Urinal Cake. I already have something that tells me if I'm too drunk when I pee on it: My friends. - Colbert.

Today is day 3.

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The King Wang.
Listen up Urinal Cake. I already have something that tells me if I'm too drunk when I pee on it: My friends. - Colbert.

alright so coverage should be over as the conference is. whoo. time to get vids.

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okay. NOW if you have not moved to Chrome, this is it.


is the game portion of Chrome. to show how hard the browser is pushed. how far?

well the first game shown is Bulletstorm.

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More to love!

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The King Wang.
Listen up Urinal Cake. I already have something that tells me if I'm too drunk when I pee on it: My friends. - Colbert.