Tag Archives: golf

Pebble gets a golf app now, two-way app support within a month

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Pebble and its developer partners have been working at a manic pace in recent days, and they’ve just released a flood of status updates that prove they’re not easing up. Along with confirming that the first red watches have shipped inside of the p…


Time’s Harry McCracken on the battery life mystery and Polaroid Super Shooters

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Every week, a new and interesting human being tackles our decidedly geeky take on the Proustian Q&A. This is the Engadget Questionnaire. Time’s technology editor-at-large Harry McCracken offers his take on OS agnosticism and the golf disconne…


Play this: ‘Super Stickman Golf 2′ is like regular golf, but crazy

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Fishing isn’t the only mundane sport that can be improved through the power of video games: golf gets better with an ample dose of crazy, too. Available on iOS and Android, Super Stickman Golf 2 is the follow-up to the beloved origina…


SwingTIP for Android helps golfers improve their swings, scores [VIDEO]

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One of Android’s earliest examples of app innovation was the good old golf app that would allow golfers to choose a course, input their score for each hole, get a detailed view of each hole, and see where they were currently standing in relation to the pin. In fact, one of the first Android Developer [...]


Motorola MOTOACTV update adds Twitter and Facebook to keep you company during marathons

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If you wish you could tweet during that round-the-block 5K, then Motorola’s latest update to MOTOACTV is for you. The fitness computer will display Facebook and Twitter messages on the device as well as offering more accurate mapping, easier WiFi net…


Alternative Wii U controller design makes brief appearance on Twitter, goes into hiding

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Excited for Nintendo’s new tablet-esque controller? So are the kids in TT Games’ QA department. An over-excited tester tweeted out an image of a slightly different Wii U slab than the one we laid hands on at E3 2011, teasing “look we what we have at …


Callaway upro mx+ will show you a real view of the golf course, won’t give you a mulligan

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While Callaway has been helping you navigate the golf course for awhile, all its imagery has been abstract; that’s not much help if it turns out a patch marked “rough” on one hole is really shorthand for “crocodile-infested swamp.” To that end, Calla…


Nintendo patent application lends a look at Wii U’s core technology, add-ons too

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Little did we know that, just two months after we were trying the Wii U for ourselves, Nintendo was busy patenting nearly everything its unique game console would have to offer. A pair of just-published US Patent Office applications filed last August…


Motorola MOTOACTV now likes Ice Cream Sandwich, to its nutritionists dismay

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Motorola is pushing out an update for the MOTOACTV that’ll improve the dinky machine’s calibration with heart rate monitors and improved media selection. Golfers who plumped for the tailored edition of the unit will find links-friendly features like …


HTC Golf allegedly appears in press shot sporting ICS and Sense 4

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The HTC Golf, as it’s known by codename, has been rumored to be in the works for quite some time now, but today marks our first virtual encounter with the device. Thanks to a leaked press image acquired by PocketNow, we can finally get an idea of wha…