Apple – TimBatchelder

Structure sensor turns any iPad into a 3d scanner

December 7, 2013December 26, 2013 by timbatchelder, posted in Cognitive Science, Design UX, Knowledge Management, Metadata Masterdata

The 3D Scanner for Your iPad Will Digitize Reality
By Alexander George, popularmechanics.com

Technology

Structure Sensor plugs in to any iPad and makes a detailed 3D image of your surroundings.

First outfit your iPad with this smooth and appropriately futuristic-looking appendage. Then point your tablet in any direction an…

http://flip.it/d6HvI

Structure Sensor. A 3D scanner for your iPad. (modular4kc.com)
Structure Sensor (uncrate.com)
ETH Zurich 3D Scanner App To Transform A Smartphone Into A 3D Scanner (video) (geeky-gadgets.com)

Pencil: the coolest, natural iPad stylus

November 24, 2013December 25, 2013 by timbatchelder, posted in Design UX, Knowledge Management

Meet Pencil: The Best iPad Stylus Yet, From the Makers of ‘Paper’
Kyle VanHemert, wired.com

As Georg Petschnigg, one of FiftyThree’s founders, puts it, a stylus gives you the chance to “think with your hands.”

http://flip.it/3Xc8i

The Company Behind The iPad App Of The Year, Paper, Is Making A Stylus For The iPad (AAPL) (businessinsider.com)
Meet Pencil: The Best iPad Stylus Yet, From the Makers of ‘Paper’ (wired.com)
Introducing Pencil by FiftyThree: A Stylus That’s Been Designed Down to the Last Detail (core77.com)

ReconJet creates Google glass competitor with Apple connections

September 29, 2013December 24, 2013 by timbatchelder, posted in Design UX, Knowledge Management, Linguistic Search

Google Glass competitor ships 50K units, gets Intel investment, and hints at Apple connection
John Koetsier, venturebeat.com

Google Glass competitor Recon Jet, which bills itself as the Google Glass for athletes and professionals, has secured an investment from Intel Capital.

In perhaps bigger news, the company announced that is has already shipped 50,000…

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Google Glass competitor ships 50K units, gets Intel investment, and hints at Apple connection (venturebeat.com)
Competitors of Google Glass.. (virtual3dtravelresearch.wordpress.com)
Video Shows How Hilariously Awful It Could Be To Wear ‘Microsoft Glass’ (businessinsider.com)

The future of biometrics is personalization and experience

September 20, 2013December 24, 2013 by timbatchelder, posted in Health Informatics, Knowledge Management, Linguistic Search, Network Science

The future of biometric data tracking isn’t about devices, it’s about experiences
Ki Mae Heussner, gigaom.com

Everywhere you look these days, there seems to be yet another sensor-enabled device or mobile app that wants to monitor everything from your heart rate and posture to your brain waves and breathing patterns.

Dr. Leslie Saxon is the found…

http://flip.it/nAgHr

Apple Patents Integrated Heart Rate Monitor For Smartphones, Hover Touch Sensors (techcrunch.com)
10 Wearable Devices That Should be On Everyone’s Holiday Wish List (list/holiday) (gadgetreview.com)
Apple Patents Integrated Heart Rate Monitor For Smartphones, Hover Touch Sensors (theloveoftech.wordpress.com)
Apple Patents Integrated Heart Rate Monitor For Smartphones, Hover Touch Sensors (highonscienceandtechnology.wordpress.com)

Mysterious Apple office in Boston linked to voice tech

August 27, 2013September 17, 2013 by timbatchelder, posted in Knowledge Management, Linguistic Search

Check out this interesting article

Mysterious Apple office in Boston linked to voice tech | Apple – CNET News.

Mysterious Apple office in Boston linked to voice tech (cyberparse.co.uk)

Why health care needs Apple

August 27, 2013October 2, 2013 by timbatchelder, posted in Knowledge Management, Network Science

Why health care needs Apple | VentureBeat.

Obama Striking Assad Risks International Law Conflict – Bloomberg (bloomberg.com)
Forrester’s top 15 emerging technologies | VentureBeat (venturebeat.com)

Why healthcare needs Apple

July 26, 2013December 21, 2013 by timbatchelder, posted in Health Informatics, Knowledge Management

Why health care needs Apple
Christina Farr, venturebeat.com

Apple has a huge opportunity to innovate in digital health.

The Silicon Valley technology giant has yet to confirm any new health and fitness gadgets — including its hotly anticipated “iWatch.” If you were hoping yesterday’…

http://flip.it/mxJnO

Is Apple Moving Into Digital Health? (inc.com)
Samsung Smart Watch May Have a Long Way to Go (technologyreview.com)

Your digital footprint

May 22, 2013June 10, 2013 by timbatchelder, posted in Data Governance, Digital Health, Knowledge Management

5 Places to Look for Your Digital Footprint
TechNewsDaily, mashable.com

Recently, many iPhone and iPad users were incensed to learn that Siri — the personal digital assistant for iOS devices — has an eerily long memory. Unbeknownst to Apple customers, Siri sends all your queries directly to Apple’s company’s servers,…

http://flip.it/hKkfD

5 Places To Look For Your Digital Footprint (presurfer.blogspot.com)
Apple’s ‘ iOS in the Car ‘ Lets Drivers Access Their iPhone Via The Dashboard … – Forbes (forbes.com)
Apple unveils ‘biggest change ever’ to mobile software (itv.com)
5 Places to Look for Your Digital Footprint (mashable.com)
Five More Ways To Master Siri On Your iPhone And iPad [Feature] (cultofmac.com)
Three new iOS 7 features you’re going to love (pocketnow.com)

The rise of artisanal publishing

May 18, 2013July 2, 2013 by timbatchelder, posted in Design UX, Knowledge Management, Metadata Masterdata

Call It “Artisanal,” And 5 Other Ways To Crush Self-Publishing
By: Sam Harrison, fastcompany.com

When former Apple evangelist Guy Kawasaki submitted what he believed was a perfect manuscript to a professional copyeditor, the editor found 1,500 errors. So he knows a thing or two (or 1,500) about how to self-publish the right way. Read on for h…

Call It “Artisanal,” And 5 Other Ways To Crush Self-Publishing http://flip.it/3Pa0G http://flip.it/leion

Call It “Artisanal,” And 5 Other Ways To Crush Self-Publishing (fastcompany.com)
iUniverse Publishing: How To Be Your Own Copyeditor (iuniversepublishing.wordpress.com)
Guy Kawasaki’s Best Tips for Publishing Your Own Book (entrepreneur.com)
Artisanal (cultofajracewood.wordpress.com)
Why Quality Editing is Crucial When You Self-Publish (Part Three – Copyediting) (projecteve.com)
Guy Kawasaki’s Best Tips for Publishing Your Own Book (newspodge.wordpress.com)

Steve Jobs, Pablo Picasso, Nate Silver: why the most creative people are generalists

May 18, 2013July 2, 2013 by timbatchelder, posted in Design UX, Knowledge Management, Metadata Masterdata

Steve Jobs, Nate Silver, And Pablo Picasso: Why The Most Creative People Are Generalists
By: Drake Baer, fastcompany.com

The compelling case for why a breadth of knowledge and a depth of expertise spur innovation.

In the summer of 1982 a 27-year-old Steve Jobs accepted an award at the Academy of Achievement. During his brief speech, he hit what would become…

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Kanye Got Mice Autographed By Steve Jobs And Woz For Father’s Day (gizmodo.com.au)
Let’s go for a walk (empwaynek.wordpress.com)
A Video Compilation of ‘Steve Jobs’s Funniest Keynote Moments’ (macobserver.com)
Build A Company That Attracts The Next Steve Jobs (techcrunch.com)
A Thought-Provoking Quote From Steve Jobs (renardmoreau.wordpress.com)
Steve Jobs Biopic Puts the Ashton Kutcher in Steve Jobs (animalnewyork.com)

Postach.io converts your Evernotes to a content management system

May 18, 2013July 1, 2013 by timbatchelder, posted in Knowledge Management, Linguistic Search

Postach.io Turns An Evernote Notebook Into A Blog
Sarah Perez, techcrunch.com

One of the more interesting projects to emerge from Evernote’s 2013 Devcup hackathon is called Postach.io, a new blogging platform that turns your Evernote notebook into a content management system. Input Logic, the Vancouver-based…

Postach.io Turns An Evernote Notebook Into A Blog http://flip.it/vOkRS http://flip.it/IV8va

Postach.io Turns An Evernote Notebook Into A Blog (techcrunch.com)
Evernote, IFTTT, Automatic Posts, and the Link Blog (trishussey.com)
Six digital publishing startups to watch (paidcontent.org)

iBeetle: Apple meets Volkswagen

April 29, 2013June 25, 2013 by timbatchelder, posted in Knowledge Management

Volkswagen and Apple come together in the iBeetle
David Szondy, gizmag.com

With the burgeoning Chinese car market seeing a large percentage of cars being snapped up by younger people, it’s no surprise Volkswagen chose the 2013 Shanghai Auto Show as the location for the world première of its iBeetle – a marriage of…

Volkswagen and Apple come together in the iBeetle http://flip.it/JjdoZ http://flip.it/MeQa5

Volkswagen and Apple Presented The iBeetle (extravaganzi.com)
Volkswagen Beetle Pickup Rendering Is Deeply Troubling (autoevolution.com)
Volkswagen Beetle (globetrotterscribbles.wordpress.com)

Samsung’s WiFi Home Security SmartCam — Easy Setup, Works Great | GeekDad | Wired.com

April 3, 2013November 23, 2025 by timbatchelder, posted in Knowledge Management, Security Privacy

On sale a BJ’s

Samsung’s WiFi Home Security SmartCam — Easy Setup, Works Great | GeekDad | Wired.com

Gigabit Wi-Fi: 802.11ac is here: Five things you need to know (stellartechnews.wordpress.com)
GeekDad prescribes a weekend free from mobile data (wired.co.uk)
Global WiFi Hotspot Market 2012-2016 : Latest Industry Analysis, Size, Share, Trends And Forecast (marketresearchsurvey.wordpress.com)

How much does T-Mobile’s contract-free iPhone plan save over two years?

March 30, 2013November 23, 2025 by timbatchelder, posted in Information Visualization, Knowledge Management

en Lovejoy, 9to5mac.com

Now that T-Mobile offers the iPhone, how do the four national carriers compare in terms of costs? A couple of websites have done the sums.

Our friends over at Zagg did a blog post that suggested three of the four networks come out at…

http://flip.it/8HvEU

How much does T-Mobile’s contract-free iPhone plan save over two years?

Best Buy to hold second round of ‘free’ iPhone 5 deals (electronista.com)
iPhone hotspot: some like it (not so) hot (macviruscom.wordpress.com)
Pegatron CEO says ‘price is still high’ for low-cost iPhone (electronista.com)

Can the iPad rescue education?

March 19, 2013June 19, 2013 by timbatchelder, posted in Knowledge Management, Regenerative Economy

Can the iPad Rescue a Struggling American Education System?
Christina Bonnington, wired.com

Tablets are reinventing how students access and interact with educational material, and how teachers assess and monitor students’ performance at a time when many schools are understaffed and many classrooms overcrowded.

Christina Bonnington

Can the iPad Rescue a Struggling American Education System? http://flip.it/Ym399 http://flip.it/bBhoJ

Appealing Apps for Educators: Flipping iPad from Consumption to Creation Station (21stcenturytips.wordpress.com)
Apple providing iPads to Los Angeles school district in $30 million contract (engadget.com)
LA to give every student an iPad; $30M order (sfgate.com)

Context app for presentations

March 17, 2013June 18, 2013 by timbatchelder, posted in Cognitive Science, Knowledge Management

From An Apple Alum, An App That Makes Design Presentations A Cinch
By Shonquis Moreno, fastcodesign.com

Called Context, the software allows designers to mock up backgrounds and settings, without resorting to photoshop or outside photography.

Context, a new app created by a designer for designers, is poised to make it vastly easier and fast…

From An Apple Alum, An App That Makes Design Presentations A Cinch http://flip.it/KWRZ7 http://flip.it/ms6qY

Apple’s Designers Weren’t In Charge Of iOS 7 Icons, Overall Design Still “A Work In Progress” (cultofmac.com)
How Google Surpassed Apple in Design — and How Apple’s Coming Back (fool.com)
How web designers and marketers made the ‘breakthrough’ in iOS 7 (diarraeg.wordpress.com)
Apple Spent A Lot Of Time Making Fun Of The iPhone Software Design Steve Jobs Loved (AAPL) (businessinsider.com)
A thousand nos for every yes – the essence of design (acidlabs.org)
Good reading on iOS 7 (robottuxedo.net)

The human body is the next interface

March 8, 2013June 17, 2013 by timbatchelder, posted in Digital Health, Knowledge Management

Why The Human Body Will Be The Next Computer Interface
By Fjord, fastcodesign.com

Fjord charts the major innovations of the past, and predicts a future of totally intuitive “micro gestures and expressions” that will control our devices.

By now you’ve probably heard a lot about wearables, living services, the Internet of…

Why The Human Body Will Be The Next Computer Interface http://flip.it/vjGKv http://flip.it/p3PyX

Fmr. Frog Design Strategist: What We Need For Wearable Computing To Work (fastcolabs.com)

Curious rituals: the anthro of tech behaviors

March 8, 2013June 17, 2013 by timbatchelder, posted in Digital Health, Knowledge Management

‘Curious Rituals’ Examines Technology-Induced Gestures & Posture
core77.com

We’ve all seen it: the teenagers with one earbud in, feigning interest in conversation; iPad users brandishing the device like a radiation barrier to snap a photo; the veritable hypnosis of the “cell trance.” In fact, maybe you’re reading these ve…

Anthro study of tech postures http://flip.it/57qCf

Diy Anthro Inspired Necklace (cutoutandkeep.net)
Anthro Antlers (51likes.wordpress.com)
Hypnosis Annihilates Austin Allergies (yvonnebergeron.wordpress.com)
Visual comparison: outfits vs. Anthro dinnerware (kittenhood.wordpress.com)
Anthro.Polo.Gie (plainchic.wordpress.com)
Fund this: Smart Cargo adds a storage compartment to your iPad (reviews.cnet.com)

Night reading on ipad to protect melatonin production

March 3, 2013June 17, 2013 by timbatchelder, posted in Digital Health, Health Informatics, Knowledge Management, Systems Science

(via How to Enable Night-Reading Theme in any iPad or iPhone App)

iPhone App Leads Wellesley Police To Suspect In Car Break-Ins (boston.cbslocal.com)
His name wasn’t Earl: but he returned my lost iPhone with some iPad Karma (daniweb.com)

iPhone as psycho research lab

February 25, 2013June 15, 2013 by timbatchelder, posted in Design UX, Knowledge Management, Linguistic Search, Regenerative Economy

Your iPhone Is A Reliable Research Lab
By Shaunacy Ferro, popsci.com

A new study says that smartphones are feasible for use in psychological testing.

Josef Bless, a PhD candidate in psychology at the University of Bergen in Norway, was listening to music on his phone when he noticed the similarity…

RT @PopSci: Your iPhone could also be a pretty fantastic research lab for psychological testing: http://flip.it/sxl6P http://flip.it/6egZe

Shall we be Buying the Apple IPhone 4 White (seantipper.wordpress.com)

Square business in a box

February 25, 2013June 15, 2013 by timbatchelder, posted in Information Visualization, Knowledge Management

Square unveils ‘Business in a Box’
by Daniel Terdiman, cnet.com

The online-payment company’s Business in a Box bundle has everything needed to get up and running with Square Register. iPad not included.

Square today unveiled its “Business in a Box” package, a bundle including all the components needed…

http://flip.it/Z0OIN

Square unveils Stand for Register (oddonion.com)
Square unveils Stand for Register merchants (news.cnet.com)
Square Finally Makes a True POS Solution with New Card-Reading iPad Stand (webpronews.com)
Square cofounder Tristan O’Tierney latest exec to leave after string of departures (venturebeat.com)
Square’s stylish Stand accessory taps iPad to reinvent the cash register (idownloadblog.com)

Apple’s trademarked stores

February 4, 2013June 13, 2013 by timbatchelder, posted in Cognitive Science, Knowledge Management

Take A World Tour Of Apple’s Newly Trademarked Stores
By Addy Dugdale, fastcompany.com

First it won ownership of a rountangle—that’s a rectangle with rounded corners—and now Apple has patented its store design. You know, lots of giant glass, pale wood, and nerds in royal-blue tees.

Apple has won itself a trademark for its retai…

RT @FastCompany: Take A World Tour Of Apple’s Newly Trademarked Stores http://flip.it/8SEhr http://flip.it/DSlFj

Apple’s New TV Commercial (technoteamblog.wordpress.com)
Apple adds around a million new store accounts (most with credit cards) every two days (sexymacman.wordpress.com)
Apple to create virtual currency “iMoney” on 6/6/2013 (666) (seeker401.wordpress.com)
Apple’s new ad showcases apps that change lives: Smart prosthetics, democratized health care and more (thenextweb.com)

Honda adding Siri to cars

January 31, 2013February 12, 2013 by timbatchelder, posted in Knowledge Management, Linguistic Search, Sustainable Design

Honda adding ‘Eyes Free’ Siri integration in some 2013 cars
by Josh Lowensohn, cnet.com

A trio of upcoming Honda and Acura vehicles are getting Siri’s “Eyes Free” integration, letting drivers interact with their phones while driving.

Automaker Honda today said it plans to integrate Apple’s Siri voice assistant in some of its…

RT @CNETNews: Honda adding “eyes free” Siri integration in some 2013 cars http://flip.it/Y2vzx http://flip.it/MlOT0

Honda adding Siri to cars (timbatchelder.wordpress.com)
Apple’s Siri coming to 2013 Honda Accord & 2 Acura models (gigaom.com)
Siri Eyes Free Will Be Offered on the 2013 Honda Accord, Acura RDX and ILX (iClarified.com)
Official: Honda integrating Siri into select models (autoblog.com)
Apple’s Siri heading to Honda Accord, Acura (smartplanet.com)
First Look: Honda Urban SUV Concept (automobilemag.com)

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