How do you buy an Apple Watch?

April 10th is SUPER close!

For those playing at home, April 10th is when you can start seeing for yourself what all the fuss is about the Apple Watch, try one on, and if you like it and have some spare cash sitting around, pre-order it!

You’ll need to make a try-one appointment at a retail store, which you can do through Apple.com or the Apple store App beginning April 10th. Most try-on appointments will be maximum 15 minutes, with the exception of the Apple Watch Edition appointments which will need to be made at select stores and will last up to 30 minutes.

When you get your appointment, get thee to the Apple Store! There, you can decide exactly what kind of watch you’ll want (Apple Watch Sport, Stainless Steel Apple Watch, Apple Watch Edition), which of the 2 size options,  and with what kind of band.

So here’s the dealio: Apple will not be letting customers mix and match multiple watches with multiple bands, or re-size links on bands at their try-on appointments. Bummer hummer, but kind of makes sense, as that seems chaotic even just to type. So, they’ll instead have 18 specific Apple Watch combinations on display at the try-on tables, and 10 specific combinations at the in-store display cases.

If you see what you like, you can pre-order it on the 10th and during the next couple of weeks, but the Apple Watch won’t be launching until April 24th. That is also the date when the first deliveries of the pre-orders will occur.

Now, when it comes to the 24th, you apparently won’t be able to just pop on in to your closest Apple store and buy one, as they won’t be selling them to walk-in customers. 

You’ll actually need to make an ‘Online Reservation’ to hold a specific model at a retail store. If you walk in to a retail store wanting to buy a watch after the 24th, you’ll be invited to try one on, and then an employee will walk you through how to order it online or through the Apple Store App. This also makes sense as there is apparently going to be low inventory of the Apple Watches both in real life and kept at the store, at least initially. Supply and demand people!

If you are interested in buying an Apple Watch, you should check out the Apple website to try and get an idea of what kind of Apple Watch you might be after before your (very short) try on appointment.

Need some cash for that shiny Apple Watch? Read this!

Just look at those beauties. Shiny, functional, brand spanking new Apple Watches. Available for pre-order April 10th, with earliest delivery and purchase coming at you April 24th. SO SOON!

If you’re not looking at getting an extra large tax return this year, and you’ve decided that an Apple Watch is what you very very want yes please with a cherry on top, then you be might in need for some extra cashola to help you out with the minimum $349 clams you’re going to have to hand over.

Maybe you have a significant other who’s decided that that’s what they very very want. And if you really love them, then an Apple Watch they shall have!

Got an old, broken or water damaged iPhone lying around?  Get some cash for that stink-bomb!  We will give you up to $400 for that thing! (more for a new phone, d’uh)

It’s super simple. Go to www.iphoneantidote.com and enter in the details of your phone. You’ll receive a quote of the amount of cash we’ll pay you, then you can choose whether you want to be paid via check, Paypal or Bitcoin (because we’re fancy like that).

You can use any box you might have lying around and we’ll mail you a pre-paid postage label, or we’ll mail you a pre-paid mailer box and all you need to do is slip your old stinky phone in it and mail it away to us and wait for your cash!

BAM! Shiny Happy Apple Watch wearing person!

Play Pac-Man in Google Maps for reals whaat

Perhaps in honor of the great day that is April Fools day tomorrow, today Google has enabled a most excellent feature in Google Maps!

Say bye bye to Tuesday work, say hello to playing Pac-Man in the streets where you live! Don’t believe us?

Go to Google maps now son! Make sure the location you’re set to has a lot of roads, or change it to one that does, and on the bottom left of the screen, next to street view, you’ll see your old friend Pac-Man.

Click and play, man. Click and play. Sorry Tuesday work, well played Google.

Elon Musk to announce new product line April 30!

You guys heard of Tesla? How about Solarcity or SpaceX? Paypal? Yeah? Well, these are all (in part or wholly) the brainchildren of superhuman Elon Musk. And they’re all awesome companies, building products and producing services that have changed or are changing the world.

And guess what? On April 30th, his company Tesla will be bringing forth a new baby into the world! Tesla is a company that currently makes electric cars, but – wait for it – this new product?

Not a car.

Major new Tesla product line — not a car — will be unveiled at our Hawthorne Design Studio on Thurs 8pm, April 30

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 30, 2015

There has been no other hints today as to what this new product could be, however some in the industry are predicting that is will be a stationary battery pack that will be designed to power the home which was mentioned by Musk at an earnings conference call in February. Exciting stuff to be sure, but is that actually what the new product will be?

Only time (and Elon musk) will tell!

How will April 10th work?

Looking to buy an Apple watch? Or simply to go have a gander at them? Starting April 10th, you can do just that (although you won’t be able to take one home until the 24th, only pre-ordering starts on the 10th).

So how will it work? Well, it’ll be really, really busy. Think your average Apple store experience, with about 100 more people. That’s totally  a guesstimate, and we’re also guesstimating that the numbers will go up in the days following the 10th with people who are trying to miss out on the starter crowds. Sneakers!

So: busy. If you want to try on an Apple Watch, you’re looking at making and holding a personal 15 minute appointment with an Apple store employee, where they’ll presumably go through a bunch of questions about what style watch and band you want. Supposedly, they’re being trained to look at your style, what you do for a living, your lifestyle, etc and use that information to recommend the perfect Apple watch for you.

If you’re looking at buying the super fancy Gold Apple Watch Edition, you’re looking at a whole 15 minutes more than the rest of us plebs. That’s right, you get half an hour! And you’ll also get attended to by a specially trained employee. So that’s pretty special.

Apple Watch Edition will however only be available in select stores. The other Apple Watch options will be available to try on  in all Apple retail stores from the beginning of store hours on April 10th. The stores will be transformed overnight to and the watches themselves will be placed in glass display tables surrounded by try-on tables.

There will also be pop-up stores for the fancy Edition Apple Watches, although we haven’t heard of any in the states yet. So far we’ve heard mentioned The Wonder Room in Selfridges, the Galeries Lafayette in Paris, and the Isetan Department Store in Tokyo.

Will you be going to try on an Apple Watch on April 10th?

Deals Of The Week Thursday !

No funny business, let’s get straight into some DEALS!

* Get a Pebble smart watch for just $80 from Best Buy! Combine that with the movers coupon (from your local post office) for another 10% off. Helllla good deal. Free shipping!

*Get $175 Gamestop credit towards a New Playstation 4 when you trade in your PS3 120GB or Higher/ XBOX 360 250GB or Higher. If you have the Gamestop App you will also be able to get 1 Year Free of Playstation Plus when you buy a PS4. Valid until 04/05/15

* Get a Samsung – 78″ Class (78″ Diag.) LED Curved  2160p  Smart  3D  4K Ultra HD TV for just $5999.98, from Best Buy and save $3000!

*~HELLA GOOOD DEAL ALERT~

Starting March 22nd, T-Mobile will pay off devices from AT&T, Sprint, and Verizon! This includes accounts of up to $650 per line. They are also guaranteeing that as long as you sign up during the time a promo is offered, you will get to keep that promo. AND Unlimited data is guaranteed not to change price for the next 2 years. Well played, T-Mobile. Check it out here!

* Grab this 55″ LG 1080p Smart 3D Curved OLED HDTV for only $1999.99 WITH free shipping from eBay. Current price of this product from Amazon is $3000!

* Get a good deal on a 7-Day Programmable Thermostat with Backlit Display from HoneyWell. Only $20 with Free Shipping!

*Finally, get out there and goPro with this deal on the GoPro HD HERO4 Black Edition 4K Action Camcorder,  for only $399.99 with free shipping from Groupon. Deal ends March 24.

Yay Deals!

Wanna play Mario on your iPhone? (D’uh)

This is most excellent news! Today Nintendo announced that, alongside Japanese mobile game maker DeNA,  they will now (finally) be creating games for smartphones, tablets and PC’s.

Mama Mia!

They’ll be creating new games based on their amazing franchises such as Mario, Pokemon and Zelda, which you’ll be able to play on you iPhone or iPad in the not too distant future. Next Fall, to be more precise.
Nintendo is purchasing a 10% stake in DeNA for $182 million, and their plan is to create a “multi-device membership service for the global market,” available next fall for PCs, smartphones, tablets and also Nintendo gaming consoles.

Whooppeeeee!

Play cards against humanity online!

Have you guys played Cards Against Humanity yet? If you haven’t, get on it! (but only if you’re not super politically correct?)

If you have, and you loved it, you’ll FUR REALZ welcome, as we did, the introduction of a new way to play.

Online B*itches!! Woop!

Yup, you read right, you can now play the game for horrible people online.

Here’s how: when the game was first created, it was created under a creative commons license, which meant that anyone could recreate their own copy of the game. Any spinoffs are perfectly fine as long as they’re not for profit.

Dawson Whitfield, a designer and a genius, has now turned it into an online browser based web app. You can play it on your smartphone, iPad or computer against your friends. You do however have to be in the same room, so it’s not perfect yet. Skype cards against Humanity is coming, though, we swear.

Featuring all the original cards along with the five expansion sets, all you need is for one player needs to set up a new game and then send its custom link to everyone else who wants to play.

It’s called Cards against Originality. Get on it horrible people!

iPhone 6S rumors already?

Yup, now that we’re over the Spring forward special media event, we now have WWDC to look forward to, and with that comes the rumors as to what actually will be revealed or announced at the annual conference. Which means, generally, a SHINY NEW IPHONE!

Yay!

We’re expecting iPhone 6S and iPhone 6 plus…S? iPhone 6S Plus? Not sure how that whole naming thing will work with the Plus, but unless Apple are upping the Ante with their iPhone release schedule, we shouldn’t expect an iPhone 7 until 2016.

If we’re looking at a ‘s’ update then we’re probably looking at incremental spec updates rather than anything astonishing design or capability wise, especially in the same year as the Apple Watch is released.

We’re probably looking at two different sized new models, just like the iPhone 6  and the iPhone 6 Plus. The bigger screens have proven successful for Apple and they should definitely be happy to continue in that direction. Although we would be very surprised to see them move any larger than the current 5.5 inches of the iPhone 6 Plus. There have been rumors of a new third size, a 4-inch iPhone to be released alongside the larger phones, to please those who are still attached to the size of the 5S.

We’ll be expecting the new iPhones to have brand spanking new A9 processors from Samsung, which will apparently be 15% smaller, 20% more powerful and 35% more power than the current A8 chips. Camera improvements are also on the cards, possibly a two lens system that would provide the iPhone with the ability to take DSLR quality photos, although this rumor is highly debated, as it would require a rather large chassis design change.

More RAM could be a possibility, going up to 2Gb from the current 1GB in the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 plus. The Touch ID feature as well as Siri would be expected to have some improvements. There have been rumors that the new iPhone could come with the new force touch haptic feedback seen on the Apple Watch, however that is a rumor not many are clinging to.

Then there are the constant rumors that have a little less credibility – that the new iPhones will start at 32GB instead of the beginning-to-be-too-meagre 16GB, that the new iPhones will have wireless charging (we wish!) and that the new iPhones will come with a mini unicorn that will grant you 3 wishes.

That one has far less credibility. Just sayin’

The new iPhones are, of course, believed to be announced at the Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco June 8th – 12th this year, which, at time of writing is 90 days, 16 hours 51 minutes and 42 seconds away. 

Following Apple’s previous release schedule, we should be looking at a September release.  

See all of Apple’s new ads and videos!

Missed the Apple Special Media Event yesterday? Want to look at some pretty pictures, hear Jony Ive speak and find out a bit more about the Apple Watch, the new Macbook, and Research kit?

We got you !

Check out the following Ads and videos from yesterdays event below. And don’t worry, these aren’t the make-you-cry type Apple videos, so enjoy!

The Apple Watch Ad –

The Apple Watch – Aluminum

The Apple Watch – Steel

The Apple Watch – Gold

The Apple Watch with Christy Turlington-Burns

ResearchKit – how iPhone is transforming medical research

The new Macbook!

If you want to watch the whole keynote, check it out here.