Hunt ghosts with Snooperscope smartphone night vision lens by Tim Hornyak, cnet.com This magnetic device lets you act like a creepy spy, observe nocturnal wildlife, or see Kinect infrared dots. Maybe you want to check out whatever it was that just went bump in the night. Or maybe you just want to see things in … Continue reading Snooperscope iPhone night vision lens
Qardio unveils portable, wireless cardiovascular monitoring devices. Related articles Qardio Monitors Send Real-Time Stats to Your Doctor (mashable.com) GadgeTell Review: SanDisk Connect Wireless Media Drive (technologytell.com) Broadcom Eyes Big Role in Wearable Technology (eweek.com) Starbucks expanding pilot wireless charging program to Silicon Valley (electronista.com)
Act Now Or, When You Die, Your Secret Love Letters Will Belong To Google BY STAN ALCORN, fastcoexist.com Gmail’s recent policy changes that let you designate someone to control your account after you’re gone is just the tip of the iceberg in terms of the confusing issues around who can access your online life once … Continue reading Gmail now allows you to designate trustee after you die
How Adobe Reinvented The Pen To Draw On The Internet By Mark Wilson, fastcodesign.com What is the future of the cloud-connected interface? How about a simple pen and ruler? This week, Adobe announced that the Creative Suite was becoming the subscription-based Creative Cloud. It didn’t go so well. But amidst the bad news, we ma… … Continue reading Adobe redesigns a pen to draw on the Internet
CollabFinder Wants To Make Hackathons A Part Of College Life By Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan, fastcodesign.com A growing list of schools are turning to the “serendipity engine” to help students find cross-discipline collaborators for passion projects. After he graduated from UCLA with a degree in philosophy, Sahadeva Hammari emailed one of his… CollabFinder Wants To Make Hackathons … Continue reading Collabfinder: make hackathons a part of college life
If You Want Your App To Take Off, Learn To Reward Your Power Users By Lars Albright, fastcompany.com Yikes: 70 percent of the people who download your app will never, ever look at it again. So you better learn how to create and coddle power users. Mobile apps are booming by all the basic measures, … Continue reading Cultivate your power users if you want to succeed
How trapped are your digital movies and TV shows? by Danny Sullivan, cnet.com Buying films or TV episodes from a digital media outlet may be great if you watch though one particular device. But what happens if you change from iOS to Android? From a PC to a Mac? From a Roku to Apple TV? … Continue reading How trapped are your digital movies and TV shows?
Start-Up Behind Lumoback Posture-Monitoring Gadget Raises $5M Liz Gannes, allthingsd.com Lumo BodyTech, which makes a wearable waistband that tracks posture and movement and vibrates when the wearer slouches, has raised $5 million in Series A funding led by Madrona Venture Group. The Palo Alto, Calif.-based start-up double… http://flip.it/mi6cM Related articles Posture Police (wired.com) LUMOback Posture … Continue reading Lumoback Posture-Monitoring
Contrary to media frenzies, Apple is not giving up on innovation (it is actually becoming a more efficient, responsible, transparent and happier place to work). The Year of Doom For Microsoft, Google and Apple Haydn Shaughnessy, forbes.com 2012 was the year of the doom merchant in business. In the fantasy world of dying planets earth … Continue reading Why Apple, Google and Microsoft are not doomed
Sitegeist: mobile app mines public data to tell you about the spot you’re standing in Cory Doctorow, boingboing.net Nicko sez, “Sitegeist is a free Android and iPhone app from the Sunlight Foundation that helps you to learn more about your surroundings in seconds. Sitegeist takes public data about the people, housing, history, environment and thing… … Continue reading Location based culture data app
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Open-source Funf platform taps into Android’s huge knowledge about you By Daniel Cossins, wired.co.uk Magazine This article was taken from the November 2012 issue of Wired magazine. Be the first to read Wired’s articles in print before they’re posted online, and get your hands on loads of additional content by subscribing… http://flip.it/FiWXt Related articles Why … Continue reading Funf: computational social science in your pocket
Watch Out Fitbit, This Badass New Activity Tracker Is Out to Eat Your Lunch Peter Ha, gizmodo.com You might not have ever heard of Misfit Wearables but you’ll want to pay attention starting now that its first gadget has made its debut. Founded by Agamatrix founders Sonny Vu and Sridhar Iyengar, the Redwood City-based company … Continue reading Misfit wearable is superior to Fitbit
People Are Literally Allergic To BlackBerry Phones By Colin Lecher, popsci.com Like, an actual itching allergy. But, come on, there are lots of other reasons to dump BlackBerry. BlackBerry has been having a rough go of it lately, slowly sliding into irrelevance as Android and iPhone corner the market. Now add one… http://flpbd.it/OS1sT Related articles … Continue reading People Are Literally Allergic To BlackBerry phones
Stitcher keeps the news flowing for desktop users with new web-based app Zachary Lutz, engadget.com Stitcher is already a heavy hitter in the world of mobile apps, but users will now find their favorite radio shows and podcasts are accessible from the desktop. Today, the company announced an HTML5 version of its popular app that’s… … Continue reading Stitcher is the best podcast app keeps the news flowing
Google+ Goes Looking For Love By Andy Meek, fastcompany.com Instead of going for the billion-user benchmark recently set by social titan Facebook, Google+ is trying to harness emotion, says Google’s Vic Gundotra. An interview with Google’s senior vice president for engineering, Vic Gundotra, about… http://flpbd.it/oOkme Related articles Nexus phones to feature 'insanely great cameras' says … Continue reading Google+ Goes Looking For Love
Netatmo Urban Weather Station tells iOS users when it’s safe to brave the great outdoors (video) Jon Fingas, engadget.com We haven’t seen weather stations garner the same level of clever mobile integration as other pieces of household gear — like, say, thermostats. Netatmo wants its newly available Urban Weather Station to inject a similar dose … Continue reading Netatmo Urban Weather Station
Apple’s case that Samsung copied the iPhone and iPad—in pictures Jon Brodkin, arstechnica.com With the Apple v. Samsung patent trial underway, Apple is making its case that Samsung’s phones and tablets are ripoffs of the iPhone and iPad. We’ve had extensive coverage of the testimony from our reporter in the courthouse, a… http://flpbd.it/tLwVj Related articles … Continue reading Apple vs Samsung case in photos
If you're going to do good science, release the computer code too | Technology | guardian.co.uk. Related articles Berners-Lee calls for computer science education at a younger age (vg247.com) Entertainment Industries Council Inc. Celebrates the Importance of Science, Engineering and Technology during High-Tech Month with Special Interviews and Feature Reports (prweb.com) High … Continue reading If you’re going to do good science, release the code
Mobile medical resources for iOS, Android & Blackberry | Skyscape. Related articles 500+ Android And iOS Apps Now Available on Appy Pie Inc (prweb.com) Home Depot abandoning BlackBerry platform in favor of Apple's iPhone and iOS (technologynewsworldwide.com) Opinion: An Apple iOS UI redesign? Nice, but not essential (electronista.com)
I've been a big fan of e-Ink because it allows a very low energy cost, low EMF design for reading. However this comes with drawback for people who need monitors with higher resolutions or brightness. Now there appears to be a type of display that does both... E-Ink Is Dead, Pixel Qi's Amazing Transflective LCD … Continue reading Pixel Qi’s Transflective LCD: Best of both worlds?
http://www.wired.com Great article on the new iPad which argues it represents a major shift in communication away from the conventional computer towards an always on, always connected, keyboard-less, mouse-less, cloud based, multi-sensory, gesture based social networking device. Related articles Kindle Fire HD: 10 Critical Specs and Review of Amazon Kindle Fire 2 Revealed by Tablet … Continue reading How the Tablet Will Change the World | Magazine
Sales 2.0 Presentation Tool by Glance. Related articles Sales 2.0 and Gamification: A Q&A with Anneke Seley (customerthink.com) Screensharing a browser tab in HTML5? (html5rocks.com) 5 Recommended iPad Screensharing Apps (edudemic.com) Smart Business Applications of Google+ Hangouts You're Missing Out On (hubspot.com) Spring Design Launches Beta of ScreenShare™, an Android App that Extends Mobile Phone … Continue reading Sales 2.0 Presentation Tool by Glance
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