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Thursday, 1 August 2013
Imgur Launches Official iPhone App
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The Moto X Will Come in ... Wood?
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El radiotelescopio ALMA visto desde el aire
Algunas de las antenas de ALMA vistas desde el aire
No era una tarea sencilla, porque a 5.200 metros de altura y 3 grados bajo cero las condiciones atmosféricas quedaban muy fuera de las recomendadas para el hexacóptero que usaron.
Pero aligerando al máximo su estructura para combatir la pérdida de sustentación a causa del tenue aire a esa altura y forrando las baterías con una especie de manta térmica Ariel Marinkovic y la gente de X-Cam Aero Fotografía consiguieron realizar las primeras fotos aéreas del radiotelescopio ALMA ya en funcionamiento.
Están disponibles en First Aerial Pictures from ALMA in Operations ; hay información en español en Volando al ALMA.
Como medida de precaución adicional el hexacóptero estaba dotado de un sistema que controlaba su posición por GPS para hacerlo volver a aterrizar en el mismo punto del que despegaba en caso de perder la señal de control.
Aparte de lo que molan las imágenes –y de lo que molaría un vídeo– es un récord de altura para el vuelo de un hexacóptero, y como tal han pedido su reconocimiento.
(Vía @Eurekablog).
- El cielo lleno de estrellas de Atacama, un timelapse de algunas de sus antenas, pero antes de estar terminado.
- ¿Cómo transportar antenas de 90 toneladas a 5.000 metros de altitud? Pues con paciencia y mucho cuidado.
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New update brings Gmail notifications to Pebble for iOS users
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How the Moto X Compares to the Galaxy S4, HTC One and iPhone 5
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Hacked Magic 8 Ball Tells Customizable Fortunes
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Moto X coming to Canada as a Rogers exclusive priced at $190 on a two-year contract
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Motorola Debuts a Wireless Speaker Your Friends Can Jack
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Moto X Coming to 5 U.S. Carriers for $199
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Moto X vs the new Droid lineup: fight!
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Deck Bluetooth speaker by SOL Republic and Motorola offers 300-foot range, fits in a pocket
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Motorola to make Moto X design social with future Facebook poll
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Motorola details Moto Maker, the website you'll use to build Moto X (video)
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Moto X finally official: Motorola X8, 4.7-inch 720p AMOLED, custom finishes, assembled in the USA from $199
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Moto X preview: A Google phone assembled with you, the user, in mind
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Belkin Echo Reveals How Much Energy Your Devices Use
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Chromecast Will Soon Support Hulu Plus and HBO Go
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Apple acquires wireless chip maker Passif Semiconductor
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Strategy Analytics: Android claimed nearly 80 percent of Q2 smartphone share
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Soylent Closes In On Finalizing Its Formula, Reaches $1M In Pre-Orders
Soylent, the seemingly wacky personal experiment of 24-year-old engineer Rob Rhinehart, is maturing into a full-fledged business.
Rhinehart and his team, who were running a Y Combinator-backed startup called Level RF last year, did what Paul Graham has called the “pivot of the century.”
Fascinated by inefficiencies in the industrial food system, Rhinehart designed and then started living off a meal replacement he cheekily named Soylent — after the dystopian movie Soylent Green where Charlton Heston discovers that society has been living off rations made of humans.
This Soylent, thankfully, is not made of humans.
It contains an assortment of carbohydrates, amino acids, proteins and dozens of other vitamins that are deemed medically necessary to for a person to live by the Institute of Medicine, plus other modifications Rhinehart made through the testing process.
“I’d like this to be something that is like coffee — a commodity something that’s available everywhere. Maybe a utility like water and power. Something that is ubiquitous and easy to consume,” he said. “I’d like to see it in grocery and convenience stores soon.”
Now Rhinehart says the company will be closing in on a finalized formula by the end of next month — a version 1.0, if you will. They’ll have a party in late August where they’ll invite press and members of the public. Then the company will gear up to do 140,000 shipments in September with $1 million in pre-orders. It costs roughly $65 a week, including shipping.
Most of the customers are young men, but there have also been a few Doomsday predictors and people preparing for a societal apocalypse that have tried to order lifetime supplies of Soylent, Rhinehart said.
The company has been posting updates of modifications to the Soylent formula, including changing the protein source to a vegan one derived from a rice or pea protein isolate.
“In terms of a new food product, this is much, much larger initial manufacturing run than has happened in the past,” Rhinehart said.
A chance introduction got him in touch with the makers of MuscleMilk, Cytosport, who helped him find an factory in Modesto certified by the National Sanitation Foundation. He also started working directly with suppliers; in early versions of Soylent, he would buy components off Amazon or Alibaba.
The taste is pretty bland, kind of malty even. “Soylent is not supposed to be this luxurious thing,” Rhinehart explained.
To be clear, Rhinehart is not necessarily arguing that people should consume only soylent. He’s more of a believer that we don’t really think about or even consciously care about the vast majority of our meals. So instead, his goal is to create a wholly nutritious and inexpensive source of food that he uses for most of his meals. He tries to savor the few non-soylent meals he eats, and says he even appreciates them more as a result.
So is it safe? Well, there are only 15 beta testers at the moment plus Rhinehart’s running journal of his Soylent-based lifestyle.
But all of the components of Soylent are approved by the Food and Drug Administration. Soylent wouldn’t need any kind of additional approval unless there was a new additive of some sort.
“The typical Western diet is pretty easy to beat in terms of nutritional value,” Rhinehart said. “You have to accept the pre-ponderable amount of testing the EFSA (European Food Safety Administration) and the FDA has done on these ingredients. These organizations are very conservative on the quantities of foods that they approve under six-sigma sorts of control.”
At the same time, there are already longstanding meal replacement products out there like Jevity from Abbott Nutrition and Nutren from Nestle, which are targeted at medical patients that can’t consume whole foods or need tube feeding.
So conceptually, medical foods have existed for a long time and they’ve kept patients alive for years. Rhinehart lived solely off Soylent for a month at the beginning of the year, and now he’s probably relying on it for about 80 percent of his intake.
But if you decide to consume it or live primarily off of it, you’re essentially trusting that because the 15 beta testers and Rhinehart haven’t had serious health problems as a result of living off Soylent, you probably won’t either. Because Soylent is also so new, no one has lived off it for years and years either. So nobody fully understands what the consequences of consuming Soylent for years will be.
“No one really worried about me when I had an awful diet of Doritos and fast food. But now that I’ve invented something that’s good for you, everyone is worried about me killing myself,” Rhinehart said. In his month of living entirely off his creation, he claimed his physique improved, his skin cleared, his hair got thicker and his dandruff disappeared.
Rhinehart has five dietitians and medical professionals who work with the company on an advisory basis. He also tests his blood every day for his sugar level and regularly posts panels of tests to his blog to show things like his platelet counts and sodium levels. He tracks everything from how far he can run comfortably to how many hours he sleeps on a regular basis. He’ll also offer a discount to any customers who want to regularly run medical tests on themselves too.
He’s tried to design Soylent from the most elementary level possible with raw minerals and vitamins.
He believes that other previous meal replacement products have fallen short because they mixed together traditional foods, instead of breaking down a person’s daily nutrition needs to their most basic level. Through constant iteration, he’s realized deficiencies in the formula over time. Some joint pain earlier this year led him to add a sulfur source to the mixture.
There is also a very active discussion board on the company’s site where enthusiasts share their own DIY recipes and modifications to the mixture.
“Soylent has taken on a life of its own,” Rhinehart said. “You may have an initial knee-jerk reaction to the name. But when you step back, it allows you to analyze or engage in a reasonable discussion about the nature of food and sustainability.”
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Snaptee, The App That Makes Designing And Ordering Custom T-Shirts Easy, Officially Launches With New Editing Features
Snaptee, the custom T-shirt iOS app that we profiled back in February, is launching to the public today with a fresh look and more options, including a women’s tee and upgraded shipping. Snaptee’s first Android app will also be available by the end of this month.
The app was created to make designing and ordering custom T-shirts as easy as applying a filter to a smartphone photo. Snaptee’s updated interface features Instagram integration, a wide choice of fonts and colors, custom filters and design templates. Finished designs can be printed onto 100% organic cotton T-shirts for $19.99 each and shipped anywhere in the world. Regular shipping is $5 worldwide, while the new upgraded shipping option is $26. Users can also sell their designs for a 10% commission per order.
“We’ve gotten rid of the clutter of the old layout and background and have gone with a minimalist, clean look that makes both designing and exploring designs much more enjoyable and aesthetically appealing,” chief communications officer Catherine Shao told me by email. “The icons and buttons have been adjusted (bigger!) and simplified, making the user’s progression through the design and ordering process much more seamless and self-explanatory.”
Don’t feel like designing a shirt from scratch? The Remix button allows users to “unlock” their designs so they can be altered by other people. Albums by seven Instagram photographers from around the world are currently available as starting points for designs by other users.
Shao says the startup wants users to see Snaptee as a community instead of just an editing tool.
“We envision Remix growing and playing a part in friends and collaborators designing together in Snaptee,” she says. “To us, a T-shirt is more than just an article of clothing, it’s a blank canvas for expression.”
Since its soft launch earlier this year, Snaptee built up a base of over 130,000 users in 45 countries, including its key markets of the U.S., Japan and Germany. The app has been used to create more than 160,000 unique T-shirt designs.
Shao says Snaptee is now focused on finding partnership opportunities with other companies and brands and plans to target Australia, the UK, South Korea and Southeast Asia as their next core markets.
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Android 4.3 update causing problems with Nexus 4 handsets, rendering some unusable
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Las intimidades de los trajes espaciales de los astronautas reveladas mediante rayos X
Los trajes espaciales son en realidad como una pequeña nave espacial que tiene que mantener con vida a su ocupante en condiciones extremas de temperatura y presión, a la vez que le permite la suficiente movilidad como para que pueda llevar a cabo la tarea que tenga encomendada en cada momento.
A falta de poderla ver en persona, en Pictures: What's Inside a Space Suit? X-Rays Reveal All se pueden ver unas cuantas imágenes de los componentes de un traje espacial que forman parte de la exposición itinerante Suited for Space del Smithsoniano.
(Vía Boing Boing).
- No es tan fácil ponerse un traje espacial, tal y como comprobaron los Cazadores de mitos.
- Traje espacial Z-1: hasta el asteroide… ¡Y más allá! Una propuesta de uno más fácil de ponerse.
- La importancia de un buen traje espacial, otra interesante imagen conseguida con rayos X del traje lunar de Alan Shepard.
- Chris Cassidy explica cómo falló el traje espacial de Luca Parmitano, y es que hay multitud de subsistemas que pueden haber causado la fuga de agua en su interior.
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CityMaps Launches Official iOS App That Aims To Make Mapping Social
CityMaps, a mapping startup that picked up $2.5 million last year to offer “social mapping,” has been down a long and winding road. Founded in 2012 by an urban panner and a former financial product manager, the company began by mapping New York and adding SoLoMo tags to various locations based on popularity and friend recommendations.
“Our old map was quickly named the official map of New York City by its department of tourism, selected to power 35,000 TaxiTVs worldwide, and named a ‘breakout company’ by Goldman Sachs,” said Lindsay Kaplan, the company’s marketing manager. They didn’t stop there.
From these auspicious beginnings the team, led by Elliot Cohen and Aaron Rudenstine, began working on a global version of the app for iOS. They released it last week. It is free on the App Store.
The new version allows you to create your own maps anywhere in the world – think of them like locative playlists – and then share those with friends. For example, the @citymaps account on the app has lists for the best jeans in Nashville (Osh Kosh B’gosh, duh!), best celebrity-owned restaurants, and a list of the best food carts in Portland (abridged). The app is also populated with maps by companies like Barnes & Noble and Equinox fitness, in case you want some marketing with your recommendations.
Luckily the maps are actually quite beautiful. Rendered in a delicate blue and tan color scheme and nicely parallaxed, they are reminiscent of a better Google Maps.
“Citymaps is a new global map platform built with mapmaking at its core,” said Kaplan. “Our mapping technology is on par with Google Maps and Apple Maps. We’ve built a proprietary, global vector map from scratch, featuring 15 million business locations that stream into the map with logos.”
“Citymaps features the standard navigational utilities found in Google maps, but our focus is on personalization, discovery, and mapmaking.”
The real value comes in being able to create maps for your friends from out-of-town. You can also use the system to plan your own trips to foreign climes. The maps are instantly shareable and you can plot routes for yourself or others. I could definitely see this as being useful for, say, tour guides or fashionistas who can share their favorite spots for bargain dresses and infinitesimally small meals.
“We believe no two people should see the same map,” Kaplan said.
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BBC Sport app comes to Kindle Fire, now lets you filter out Chelsea news
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New iPad Mini Will Have Retina Screen, Report Claims
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Leaked Samsung 'Galaxy Folder' suggests return of the dual-display flip phone
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Dish Network, Raycom squabble blacks out local channels in 36 markets
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Sharp posts quarterly loss, but sees sales up 33 percent on mobile LCD demand
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20 Best Free Windows 7 Software Platforms
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