When Apple announced their fourth iPad just mere months after the iPad 3 was pushed to stores, the Internet was flooded with polarizing sentiments towards this rather bizarre move. An iPad replacement in less than a year? Why would Apple do that?
Fanboys had every right to complain.
It’s no secret that ever since Apple removed the native Maps app powered by Google with the previous version of iOS, users went clamoring back for it. Apple’s Maps replacement for iOS 6 wasn’t so great — in fact it even led to people getting lost in the wilderness in Australia by providing bad directions.
Well, that nightmare is over now as Google has released an official Google Maps app for iOS 6. Thing is, it is only available in the US store as of late so if you have a PH account, the app won’t show up in the store.
The year 2012 in review, based on what people searched for using Google. *sniff*
Holy— I thought this was a joke, but apparently it’s not. Suidobashi Heavy Industry is a Japanese manufacturing company that aims to speed up the public adoption of piloted mechs. You can own one starting at USD $1.3 million. These KURATAS mechs look pretty bad ass and you can aesthetically customize the arms and head by adding bad ass (pea-shooter level) weapons, shields, arms and even customize the head gear. I can’t stress enough that these are mechs you can pilot and control via your iPhone (3G), via “voodoo doll” scale model or by going inside the cockpit and going all Daimos (!!!).
If you don’t believe me, watch these two videos. One introduces the KURATAS mech while the other one teaches you how to drive it. Holy crap. It’s amazing.
Link to the online build-to-order form: http://suidobashijuko.jp/#bto
Kinda reminds me of Dead Space — if it was not sci-fi horror. Tom Cruise plays a drone repair dude and he’s also equipped to kill (just like the Dead Space miner!). Like most sci-fi epics, s#it hits the fan when he discovers that things aren’t what they seem and his world collapses when everything he thought was real isn’t.
Watch the trailer. Now!