I adore Bioware. The strides that the studio is making towards interesting, diverse stories is so much more than any other studio is managing right now. In a time when Ubisoft is saying it’s too hard to animate female characters, when huge game companies are refusing to make games with female protagonists because they’re convinced … Read more
When it comes to Go Pro type cameras, there are plenty on the market. We tried the Kaiser Bass X80 last year, and sadly left it at the bottom of the Red Sea. This time, with a lower budget, we thought we’d give the Kitvision Escape a chance. It offers fairly modest specs at 1.3MP … Read more
Now the saying is that a bad workman never blames his tools, but the negative news about drones this week includes that many incidents of near misses, errant drones flying away from operators and deaths attributable to military drones that it’s hard not to wonder. The first article which caught my eye is … Read more
In this week’s roundup of good news about drones, Beckham catches a ball, a question and answer session with an attorney who specialises in cases involving drones, a political statement and LEGO. Yes, LEGO. First up is the news that New York Giants receiver Odell Beckham won the inaugural Drone Drop event in … Read more
Like it or not, we all need wallets. Be it to carry your debit/credit card or loose change, we all need a way or means to carry means of spending in our pockets. Wallets have made it easy for men and women to carry those things around. With new technology come new needs and new … Read more
There are plenty of Bluetooth Trackers out there. They all perform in more or less the same way. Using the phone’s Bluetooth connection, you can check if something is within range. If in range, you can make the tracker utter some beeps and then you can locate it. Similarly if you can’t find your phone, … Read more
Ever wonder what the main purpose of that thing in your pocket is? We call them smartphones, but how often do we actually use them to make phone calls? At least I am guilty of not making much use of the phone function, and mostly sticking to the ‘smart’ part of my smartphone. While part … Read more
The 2nd and 3rd episodes of the OxGadgets Urdu Podcast on Patari are now live. The episodes cover CES 2017. The first episode focusing on TVs, computers and cars, while the second looks at various devices that took our fancy. اوکس گیجٹس کی اردو پاڈکاسٹ، اب پٹاری پر موجود ہے۔ ان دو قسطوں میں ہم … Read more
Situation normal in the world of drones is that for every good or happy story, there is a negative one. This week’s roundup covers fines, penalties, casualties, tightened laws and the consequences of inexperienced flying. The BBC reports on a drone photography company[1] hit with a six-figure dollar fine thanks to flights in … Read more
In this week’s good news about drones, there’s a proposal, examples of drone use in situations where sending a human would be positively dangerous, funding success for a drone startup and a sculpture with a camera-equipped drone on top. The first article to catch my eye this week was from WCVB in Boston[1]. … Read more