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Monday, 1 July 2013
Three UK now selling Samsung Galaxy Mega on its site, retail stores to offer it July 2nd
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Google Glass update adds web browsing, widens voice commands
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Fly Or Die: Form 1 3D Printer
Early leader in the 3D printing space Makerbot may have just been acquired for $400 million, but we still can’t forget about the Form 1 3D printer out of FormLabs.
It started as a Kickstarter project, which received 6x its $100,000 goal in just one day, topping $1.4 million in one week. Since, we’ve had the chance to review it and pit it against the Makerbot.
However, the two are quite different:
The Form 1 shines a laser onto a metal surface through a layer of resin. Using a process of photopolymerization, the slices are laid down one after the other creating a solid object that lifts out of the resin as it is built. Think of the Makerbot as a stalagmite maker — the material is laid down on a platform — while the Form 1 is a stalactite maker where the object hangs from the platform that slowly moves up.
They also have different price tags: The Makerbot Replicator 2 costs $2,199 where the Form 1 goes for $3,299. However, Biggs found that the Form 1′s resin-based approach offered much more precision and a higher resolution result.
Two flys.
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Microsoft preps standalone gold Xbox 360 controller, brings new glitz to old consoles
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Twitter briefly shows the sites where embedded tweets reside
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Xbox Music Is Now Available on the Web
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Microsoft to sell 256GB Surface Pro in the US, but only through certain resellers
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Future soldier: Theoretical physicist Michio Kaku on building a Death Star and Silicon Valley brain drain
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Made in the USA: Four stories in four days
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gdgt's best deals for July 1: Free LG Blu-ray player with LG 3D HDTV purchase
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The Potential Behind Wearable Gadgets
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Facebook 5.0 for Windows Phone 8 now live, out of beta
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ATD: Microsoft Xbox head Don Mattrick leaving for unknown role
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Storify Adds More Tools For Brands (And Others) With New Collaboration And Export Features
Social media curation startup Storify is unveiling a couple of new features that should be particularly useful for the brands that make up a growing part of its user base.
The biggest change is probably the new collaboration feature. Previously, if different people were going to post Storify stories from a single account, they had to share a single login and password, which is not really ideal — particularly if you’re posting for, say, the White House.
Now, however, different users can be authorized to edit a single account, with no more password-sharing needed. In addition, users can now lock their content so that they don’t accidentally undo or override each other’s work. The Storify team gave me a quick demo of the feature last week. When one user wants to access a story that someone else is editing, the editing user will get a notification asking whether they want to save and close (so that their collaborator can take over) or keep working (in which case their collaborator won’t be allowed in). Over time, the team said this could get more sophisticated, so that different users could edit different sections of a story without interfering with each other, or could set different permissions levels for different users.
Another new feature is the ability to export a Storify as a PDF. So if an agency or other company wants to showcase their work for a client, it shouldn’t require any extra work to create a well-formatted document that they can attach to an email.
Both features are going to be available for Storify’s paying customers. The company added VIP and Business payment tiers earlier this year, and co-founder and CEO Xavier Damman told me that it now has more than 130 customers. Surprisingly (given the high-profile adoption of Storify by journalists and media organizations), 90 percent of those customers aren’t publishers. That helps Damman address one of the main concerns he has heard about turning Storify into a business — the fact that traditional media organizations aren’t in a position to do a lot of spending.
Storify’s customers include everything from sports teams to universities, but Damman said the biggest group includes brands plus the agencies representing those brands. (Storify’s Business plan, in particular, includes features aimed at marketers, such as the ability to create private stories.)
“We realize that the boundary between media and brands and content marketing is getting more and more blurry,” Damman said. “Brands increasingly want to publish their own content, and they want to use the tools that journalists are using.”
That’s what gives Storify its unique perspective on content marketing, he added — it comes at the problem from a journalistic perspective (Damman and several team members have journalism experience), and they want to continue building a product that’s useful for both journalists and marketers.
Today’s announcement isn’t just relevant for paying customers, however. Storify is also introducing a slick-looking grid view, which you can see in the screenshot above, and which is available to all users.
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IRL: Chromebook Pixel and AlienBees' ABR800 Ringflash
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Microsoft overhauls OneNote apps for iOS and Android
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TomTom's Runner and Multi-Sport watches now available
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Skype for Android gets redesigned as app hits 100 million installs
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Microsoft Developing Smartphones to Detect Your Mood
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14 Gadgets to Keep You Safe This Summer
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Hands-On With CE Week's Hottest Wearable Tech
Wearable technology is all the rage right now, and I’m not just talking about Google Glass or Apple’s forthcoming iWatch. Companies large and small are getting in on the trend, and that was made all the more obvious as we roamed through CE Week’s ShowStoppers showroom.
As you’ll see in the video above, we venture from smart watches to bone-conduction musical hats to wearable portable video recording devices and blue-light therapeutic glasses. It’s a wild ride.
We start by visiting Basis, the folks who’ve developed the Basis smartwatch with more sensors than any other smart watch on the market. The company has thrown a little style into the mix with new interchangeable “fashion bands.” Some are leather, some are colorful, and some are made by legit artists. You can check them out here.
The next stop we made was with a company called MaxVirtual, which built a special hat called the Cynaps. The Cynaps uses Bluetooth to connect to an audio source and then pumps that music into the hat, and ultimately into your brain through bone conduction. With nary a headphone in sight, you can enjoy music and the shade of a hat bill all at once. The MaxVirtual Cynaps is available now for $79.
But what’s audio without some video? A quick tour of the Ion Camera station offered up a number of portable recording products, namely the Ion AirPro 2 and the Adventurer. The AirPro 2 bumps from a 5-megapixel sensor to a 14-megapixel sensor, complete with a microphone and one-click capture. The Adventurer, on the other hand, tracks speed, location, altitude, and direction natively in the file. You can check out more here.
Last, but certainly not least, we made our way to the Psio station, where I learned that Clockwork Orange-style stimulation can actually be good for you in the right circumstances. The Psio glasses offer up natural blue light, which helps relieve stress, boost mental acuity and regulate the Circadian Rhythm. The glasses come with 10 preloaded “exercises” and price starts at $399.99.
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Pocket Spacecraft launches crowdsourced lunar mission on Kickstarter (video)
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Smart TV manufacturers subjected to 'coercive sales tactics' by Google, says ETNews
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Mozilla Announces First Firefox OS Phones
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Groupon takes on OpenTable with 'Groupon Reserve,' bundles reservations with coupons
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180M Downloads Later, iHeartRadio Migrates To Windows Phone 8
After topping 180 million downloads on other platforms, the iHeartRadio app is finally migrating over to the Windows Phone 8 platform. Starting today, iHeartRadio enthusiasts toting a WP8-powered handset will have access to iHeartRadio’s music streaming service.
This includes access to over 1,500 live stations from across the U.S., along with user-created custom stations that feature more than 400,000 artists and 16 million songs. Plus, users of the new WP8 app will have the same “Perfect For” feature — which matches a station with your mood — as other iHeartRadio users.
Though the Windows Phone 8 iHeartRadio experience will be identical to its other platforms, which include Amazon Kindle Fire, iPhone, iPad, and Android, iHeartRadio is also taking advantage of specific Windows Phone 8 features. The app is integrated so that users can post their favorite stations to the home screen as its own “live tile.”
Users will also enjoy a sleep timer, which lets you fall asleep listening to a station without killing your battery for the morning. The app also includes a “Discovery Tuner” which lets you adjust custom stations to play music your more or less familiar with. This way listeners can stick with the classics they love or branch out into uncharted musical territory.
Past that, you’ll also see deeper Facebook integration to let you share what you’re listening to with friends direct to the timeline, as well as songs and stations to newsfeeds.
iHeartRadio is seeing ever-growing competition in the digital radio sector, with apps like Pandora growing steadily as well as the introduction of iRadio, Apple’s new Genius-based streaming service. Still, iHeartRadio claims to be the number 1 digital radio service, as the first digital service to hit over 20 million registered users.
The app is available now in the Windows Phone Store.
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Apple France raided over claims that it gives resellers the cold shoulder
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Last Day for Google Reader and Other News You Need to Know
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RIP: Google Reader
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Vodafone launches a 4G mobile hotspot, suffers from premature dispensation
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Three UK simplifies pay-as-you-go tariff, offers data at 1p per MB
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Apple 'in negotiations' to launch new iPhone with LTE-Advanced in South Korea
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El bolígrafo que es también compás, transportador de ángulos y regla
El All In One Pen de Mohammad Reza Navaei es como la navaja suiza del bibujo: tiene una pequeña pantalla LCD —y se supone que sensores y similares (es un diseño conceptual)— de modo que puede calcular ángulos y medidas; en la parte posterior tiene una pequeña rueda que al girar calcula la distancia recorrida sobre el papel, y de paso utiliza el movimiento de la rueda para cargar la batería interna.
El All In One Pen también pinta.
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Ordenadores para unos Juegos de guerra
Estuve el otro día repasando Juegos de guerra, una de nuestras películas geek favoritas y la verdad es que aguanta el paso del tiempo dignamente. Hay algunas cosas un tanto irrisorias hoy en día, como el acoplador acústico, las cabinas telefónicas o la moda del aeróbic, pero el resto envejece de forma razonable.
En IT World han recuperado la tecnología de Juegos de guerra en imágenes , con una colección de fotos de los ordenadores que aparecen en la película: el IMSAI 8080 con un disquetera y un monitor Electrohome, el módem y el acoplador acústico, un CompuPro 8/16, el IBM AN/FSQ-7 que servía de «centro de control de combate» en el NORAD, un HP 9845C que creo que aparecía como terminal y, cómo no, un Apple II.
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