The ‘$2000 phone’ thing annoys me. There’s a lot of it about after today’s Apple launch. It’s a classic judgment…
Seamus Byrne
Seamus Byrne
Seamus runs Byteside. You may also have spotted his words at the Australian Financial Review, the ABC, Junkee, Gamespot, The Esports Observer, CNET, Gizmodo and a few other spots over the years. He's very happy that he gets to nerd out for a living.
Social drives are a critical part of the human experience. Being able to comprehend these subtle cues and work with…
Boy loves space. Boy loves space game. Boy becomes astronaut and flies to space, taking copy of space game with…
Sphero has been making excellent programmable robots for years, and last year everybody went nuts for their gorgeous little BB-8.…
Trevor Paglen’s Orbital Reflector is a satellite launch for purely artistic purposes, delivering a reflective object that we’ll all see…
Nasty, aggro, rude players love to ruin games for everyone. They make good people stop playing, which tips the scales…
Here’s a good piece on cultivating creative thinking in schools, and why it matters for both students and for their…
VR is excellent, but the best experiences are still expensive. Microsoft has been touting the promise of its HoloLens technology,…
The partnership to allow Microsoft’s Cortana and Amazon’s Alexa to speak to each other is big for the companies involved,…
As backward as you’d expect from the IOC. President Thomas Bach (a former Olympic fencer) has said he’s not against…
I haven’t been following the new features all that closely, so this news peaked my interest. If you’re into mobile…
I can imagine a world where augmented reality key finding technology becomes the ‘killer app’ for mainstream AR adoption. At…
Big announcements this week as Microsoft’s long hyped world of ‘HoloLens’ (which has been all hype, not much else) finally…
The Australian government has launched STARportal as a resource for parents and kids to find cool STEM themed activities, camps,…
A good piece about a very good question. I had such hopes for the Apple TV platform as a gaming…
An incredibly advanced lamp, dubbed the Komorebi, delivering some of the most natural lighting effects I’ve ever seen. Stunning concept.