General concept is a more "immersive experience", trying to mimic IMAX benefits, having the screen almost wrapping around you. Only really a benefit to bigger screens (eg. 55"+) and only if you sitting in the right spot (basically directly in front). Atleast that's what I read during last year's CES, unless much has changed since then(?).

Forbes had 6 pro's and 6 cons to them: http://www.forbes.com/sites/johnarcher/2014/08/13/curved-tvs-6-reasons-you-should-buy-one-and-6-more-why-you-shouldnt/
Ars Technica had a long piece trying to evaluating the "science" of them: http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2014/01/whats-the-deal-with-curved-tvs/

Internet Services I pay for:
It takes a lot to get me to pay for an internet service, basically it takes there being no way around getting the content without it. I looked at others answers and (since domain/hosting is excluded) the only ones I could come up with was:

Playstation Plus $50/year
Hockey Streaming (not GameCenter, like TgD, lol): $110/year
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Total: $160/year

Ones I’ve Paid For In The Past:
Xbox Live
OkCupid

My Justification For Not Paying For Some:
Netflix - I’m using my friends (after using it for a while though, it’s something I’d def pay for if I lost access)
Amazon Prime - I’ve never had a hard time getting to $30 to get the free shipping, and I can wait the 5-7 business days.
Feedly Pro - I love RSS and I love the Feedly mobile app, but there just isn’t a Pro feature that’s pushed me over the edge to pay for it yet (though the speed boost is tempting).
Dropbox Pro - I’ve gotten enough referral/bonus I don’t need it.

Thanks for the My Asics recommendation, have been looking for something like this, will be trying it out!

I googled around for a bit but honestly Engadget's $378 was the best price I could find: http://www.engadget.com/products/sony/cyber-shot/dsc-rx100/

I was excited about this at first, until I realized this is something an app developer needs to add to their app, not just an update to the 1Password app. Maybe i'm misunderstanding this, but it seems like if I'm an app developer and my users want to use 1Password or Lastpass, or another password manager, I'll have to implement something different for all of them?

How is this not like "the developer indicates these are login form fields, password app developers indicate their app can fill in login forms, then when a app user clicks on one of these login form fields they have an option to open a menu to choose which app you want to fill the form in from"?

Being from Canada I feel like I saw a lot of BlackBerry's no one in the US even got to see. My sister managed to convince her work at the time to get her the BlackBerry Storm (http://www.engadget.com/products/blackberry/storm/9530/), BlackBerry's first no-keyboard phone.

http://media.engadget.com/img/product/1/17k/blackberry-storm-9530-1ow-800.jpg

It was supposed to be BlackBerry's answer to the iPhone but it was a resistive touch screen that felt archaic compared to iPhone's compacitive touch screen. Also as you might imagine the app selection just wasn't there.

That is one very cool concept video, well done on making that, that must have taken some serious effort. Like dave & TgD, I have to agree though, I just can't see a touchscreen display for where the front facing buttons usually go working out, I need to be able to hit those physical buttons using muscle memory while looking at the tv.

I think Sony completely blundered the marketing of this phone. I thought the Xperia Z's design was up there with Android's phone of the year 2013 - the HTC One, however it didn't become nearly as popular. They did a great job of getting it hyped at CES January 2013, but then they didn't get the phone on any carriers till 6 months after launch, and it was only T-Mobile (not even one of the bigger carriers). I thought it was great they launched an unlocked phone from the get-go, however, you need carriers to have these phones in their stores, so people can see them and play with them. And to this day you can only find the unlocked versions on Amazon and Best Buy.

• Feedly Notifier - Notifications when new articles in my feedly Must Read category.
• Hacker News'd! - Indicates if the current page has a Hacker News discussion.
• Honey - Let's you know if there's coupons for the current page your on.
• InvisibleHand - Know if there's somewhere else you can get a better price.
• Neater Bookmarks - Access bookmarks without bookmarks bar taking up space.
• The Tracktor - Price history graph on amazon.com pages.
• Google Hangouts - I've actually started using this way more than Adium.
• Tampermonkey - For my userscripts/greasemonkey scripts.

Making html websites for collections of Dragon Ball Z gifs, lol.

Are you looking for specifically to track runs, or are you considering step-trackers as well like the Fitbit Flex or the Jawbone Up? I used the Fitbit Force for a while and liked it for step-counting, but for runs I prefer to just use RunKeeper (or iSmoothRun) on my phone.

• Product Hunt (http://www.producthunt.co/) -- A daily leaderboard of the best new products. Each day, contributors post and discuss their latest discoveries.
• Beta List (http://betali.st/) -- A curated list of internet startups that are currently in private beta and have a so called 'beta list' where interested people can subscribe to, to be notified when the startup goes live.

For keeping running/biking data synced across services I really like iSmoothRun (http://www.ismoothrun.com) for iOS, it will automatically post your run/bike to an impressive amount of different services (RunKeeper, Strava, Dailymile, Nike+, Garmin, Fitbit, etc). Not sure if there's something similar for Android, I used to use Google MyTracks (http://www.google.com/mobile/mytracks/) and then share the run/bike to each service manually.

I had this same issue, after a while the lightning cable would only work at certain angles. Took it in to Apple hoping to get a new iphone before the warranty expired, turned out it was just lint, how embarrassing.

DICE's Battlefield 4 launch was plagued with so many issues the first week of release that DICE's parent company EA's stock took a 8.28% drop because of angry users and as a result DICE had to cease development on other games to fix bf4's issues. Although, many of the big issues were fixed in patches released a couple weeks after the launch, and the game is amazingly fun now.

For the first week the main multiplayer game type Conquest did not work for anyone, users experienced annoyingly getting disconnected from games they did manage to connect to, as well as the game crashing all together and kicking them out to their console home screen often.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/briansolomon/2013/12/05/electronic-arts-tanks-after-hitting-reset-on-battlefield-4/

SendTab
Fastest way to a send a tab I have open on my phone onto my desktop screen and vice versa. I like it so much, I wrote about it here: http://mitchmckenna.com/post/11839/sendtab

Revolver
If your company's using Campfire chat by 37Signals without Revolver, you're doing it wrong (this might be a plug for a buddy's project). http://www.papermodelplane.com/revolver/

Skitch
Fastest way to take a screenshot, mark it up, and send it to someone. http://evernote.com/skitch/

Fantastical
No opening an app, selecting dates or typing in a location field, just type and let their natural word processing take care of the rest. http://flexibits.com/fantastical

Wunderlist
If your gonna have a to-do list app, it might as well look good (and be synced across desktop and mobile for free). https://www.wunderlist.com/

I agree with all your points here, I was on android up till iPhone 5, I was ready to try something new and by that time the platforms had a lot of the same functionality the other was boasting about. Which I think is a good thing, you can just got with the best phone when your contract expires without really worrying about the OS.

What gets harder for jumping platforms is if you have invested a lot of money in apps, gets tough to justify re-buying all your favorite apps.

Customizing homescreens/icons got old, I came to enjoy the simplicity in iOS of your homescreen is your app drawer; no more moving apps to the homescreen, they're all there, just swipe through. Notifications aren't as good on iOS but they're better than they used to be. @sirdurable makes a good point on iTunes, I do hate opening it up to sync music, hoping the new Google Music app for iOS alleviates this.

Everything gets tossed into Google Docs for me. Whether it's notes for a project at work or someone I'm interviewing, or a grocery list of stuff to pick up on the way home. I know I can access it from anywhere and I can easily share it with anyone. It gets a little cluttered , but search is so good I can always find what I'm looking for.

I mostly on my phone when I'm commuting or waiting - walking to the office, waiting in line, on the bus, waiting for someone to show up, etc.

Although I can see a lot of people agreeing, saying "it's too late" half a year before the next gen consoles even come out seems funny.