 It's Tuesday, August 14th, 2012. I'm the often bearded Ellis Hamburger. Join me for 90 seconds on The Verge. Google has agreed to buy travel brand Fromers. The deal is part of a larger sell-off from publisher John Wiley & Sons that includes CliffsNotes and Webster's New World Dictionaries, although Google hasn't expressed interest in any other properties. Google hasn't announced any plans with Fromers just yet, but we'll bet they roll it into search just like they did with Zagat ratings. Sony continues to inch towards a unified PlayStation platform. The company today announced Crossbuy, a new initiative that lets you buy a PS3 game and get the Vita version for free. Supported titles will include the upcoming Sly Cooper and Ratchet & Clank sequels, as well as the brawler PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale. If you're not familiar with Battle Royale, it's kind of like Super Smash Bros., but with Kratos and Parappa the Rapper. Kickstarter phenom, the Pebble smartwatch is alive, and it has a working interface. The company behind Pebble released a video showing off the UI work so far. Linking up with an iPhone or Android device, the smartwatch will offer a simple e-paper screen for reading emails, controlling music, and of course, checking the time. The design looks clean and relatively uncomplicated, focusing on a simple set of vertical scrolling and horizontal swiping movements. Still no update on when the Pebble smartwatch will ship, but at least we have some more evidence that it actually exists. And that's it for today's top stories. Coming up tomorrow, our exclusive report, How I Hacked My Brain with Stimpaks, a cautionary tale.
 It's Tuesday, August 14th, 2012. I'm the often bearded Ellis Hamburger. Join me for 90 seconds
 on The Verge.
 Google has agreed to buy travel brand Fromers. The deal is part of a larger sell-off from
 publisher John Wiley & Sons that includes CliffsNotes and Webster's New World Dictionaries,
 although Google hasn't expressed interest in any other properties. Google hasn't announced
 any plans with Fromers just yet, but we'll bet they roll it into search just like they
 did with Zagat ratings. Sony continues to inch towards a unified PlayStation platform.
 The company today announced Crossbuy, a new initiative that lets you buy a PS3 game and
 get the Vita version for free. Supported titles will include the upcoming Sly Cooper and Ratchet
 & Clank sequels, as well as the brawler PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale. If you're not familiar
 with Battle Royale, it's kind of like Super Smash Bros., but with Kratos and Parappa the
 Rapper. Kickstarter phenom, the Pebble smartwatch is alive, and it has a working interface.
 The company behind Pebble released a video showing off the UI work so far. Linking up
 with an iPhone or Android device, the smartwatch will offer a simple e-paper screen for reading
 emails, controlling music, and of course, checking the time. The design looks clean
 and relatively uncomplicated, focusing on a simple set of vertical scrolling and horizontal
 swiping movements. Still no update on when the Pebble smartwatch will ship, but at least
 we have some more evidence that it actually exists. And that's it for today's top stories.
 Coming up tomorrow, our exclusive report, How I Hacked My Brain with Stimpaks, a cautionary
 tale.