FUNKY GREEN: 11/08/13

Friday, 8 November 2013

BlinkScan is a flexible, fast and high-fidelity scanning solution

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This week on gdgt: iPad Air, Sculpt Comfort Mouse and Everpix alternatives

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The 1930s Mechanical Man Who Tried To Start A Robot Uprising

iOximeter is a smartphone heart-rate monitor, powered by the headphone socket

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LittleBits and Korg team up on Synth Kit modular DIY instrument, we go hands-on

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Postales de Curiosity desde Marte

Postal de Curiosity en el sol 409 - clic para ver en grande, que es como hay que verla - NASA/JPL-Caltech/Damia Bouic

Aprovechando que las fotos que envía Curiosity desde Marte están disponibles en Internet para quien quiera usarlas Damia Bouic hace de vez en cuando lo que llama «postales desde Marte» con resultados espectaculares.

Carte Postale de Curiosity du Sol 409 es lo que Curiosity veía mirando hacia atrás en su sol 409 en Marte. Si ves la foto a su tamaño completo se distingue perfectamente el generador térmico de radioisótopos de Curiosity –el cacharro con aletas– y su antena UHF, el cilindro gris.

También se pueden apreciar las huellas que ha ido dejando sobre la superficie de Marte.

Eso sí, ese espectacular cielo es creación de Damia, ya que las cámaras de Curiosity apuntan fundamentalmente hacia abajo para ver por donde anda.

En la categoría Marsroversimages de su web hay más imágenes de este estilo.

(Vía @elakdawalla).

Primer autorretrato oficial de Curiosity en Marte, mucho mejor que cualquier fototuenti.

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Torque Audio outs a new set of interchangeable TorqueValves for custom tuning its in-ear headphones

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BlackBerry board reportedly declined offers for specific limbs, wanted to sell the corpse whole

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New York City Chief Digital Officer Rachel Haot says we're in a 'golden age of technology in NYC'

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Peripheral Vision 011: Ayah Bdeir on the importance of knowing how your electronics work

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Smart Power Strip set to bring simple, cheap automation to the home (video)

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Engadget Podcast 368 - 11.7.13

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GameStick delayed once again, will now compete with PS4 on launch day

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Nexus 5 coming to T-Mobile online November 14th for $450, in stores November 20th

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Reveel: a portable headphone amp that promises to enhance your music

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MYBELL keeps cyclists safe by blasting their MP3s of choice (hands-on)

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Eyes-on with HeadsUP, a smartphone-powered HUD for your car

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Hands-on with Mr. Postman, a smart mailbox that links your inbox to your letterbox

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Guitar Hero dudes team up for Singtrix, hope to make your singing less terrible

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Singtrix: The Karaoke Machine That Makes You Sound Like a Rock God

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Now Google Glass Knows Where You Live

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Twitter intros Android Alpha program, lets members test new features even sooner

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How to Use Amazon Glacier as a Dirt Cheap Backup Solution

Xbox One will arrive with six months' of free Skype calls -- if you have an Xbox Live membership

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LittleBits Makes Building a Modular Synth as Easy as Lego Time

Green Throttle Ends Arena Support As The Android Game Microconsole Herd Begins To Thin

Guitar Hero creator Charles Huang founded Green Throttle, a Santa Clara-based startup with $6 million in funding, to build out multiplayer Android gaming for the living room. Now, the company says it's closing the door on that mission for now. It's a mission shared by others including Ouya, BlueStacks and its GamePop, and Nvidia's Shield, but now the space is a little less crowded. The question is, was Green Throttle a canary indicating the whole market's unstable, or just or just part of the natural culling of a herd centered on a real, but limited opportunity?

Green Throttle worked by providing an Arena app in the Play Store and Amazon Appstore for Android, which worked with their Atlas Bluetooth controllers. It had created some games on its own, and partnered with third-party devs to provide an SDK that would let their software work with Arena, too. It's a slightly different vision than that espoused by consoles like Ouya and GamePop, and Green Throttle had a more concentrated focus on multiplayer interaction, but it's still not a confidence-inspiring development for anyone watching this space.

The closure involves the end of support and removal of Arena from the digital app stores where it appears. The app will still work with existing games tailored to Arena for those who already own it, and the Atlas controllers will work as normal, too. The controllers are compatible with any titles that support Bluetooth HID as well, and Green Throttle will continue to sell the controllers, too. Ultimately, while stock remains.

Green Throttle still seems like it will exist, as it says to watch for “the evolution” of the company. That could indicate that there's been an acquisition of some kind, but it's tough to say at this point. We've reached out to Green Throttle for more information, but for now, it's hard to come up with a very positive spin.

Android gaming is something many are betting on, and Nvidia's CEO was positively bubbly about the possibilities earlier today on an investor call. So far, though, no one company has managed to come up with the right formula to really get the ball rolling on consumer demand.

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Ajedrez recursivo

Bonito aspecto el de este tablero de ajedrez recursivo que así a simple vista probablemente fuera tan infinito como la forma en que está planteado.

Es un montaje de fdecomite, en cuyo canal de Flickr hay muchos otros objetos matemáticos interesantes.

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NSA reportedly cracks down on staff who thought it was okay to share their logins with Edward Snowden

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Elgato Thunderbolt Drive+ SSD earns its 'plus' tag through USB 3.0 and brisk speeds

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With 220M Downloads And $12M From Qualcomm, Magma, TabTale Is Quietly Becoming One Of The Top Children's App Makers

With education apps crossing one billion downloads on iTunes earlier this year, the demand for quality learning content, especially content of the kid-friendly variety, is growing fast - and so is the opportunity for app publishers. Since launching in 2010, Israel-based startup, TabTale, has been on a mission to capitalize on this demand and is quietly becoming one of the App Store's top publishers as a result.

With a suite of over 240 apps that have more than 220 million downloads between them, TabTale wants to strike while the iron is hot. The startup announced this week that it has raised $12 million in Series B financing, led by Qualcomm Ventures and Magma Venture Partners, with contributions from Vintage Investment Ventures and existing investors.

To complement its organic growth, the company revealed in a statement this week that it plans to use its new capital to grow its team and to continue establishing itself as a buyer in the children and family market. The startup acquired mobile-focused educational app publisher and “Paint Sparkles” maker, Kids Games Club, back in March.

In September, TabTale was named the eighth largest publisher by download value by App Annie in September, placing it alongside names like EA, Rovio and Disney, with a significant share of downloads powered by Design It, the company's fashion makeover app.

Operating in a fast-growing, hyper-competitive space where the forecast is more of both (growth and increase in competition) for the foreseeable future, what TabTale has managed to accomplish in three years is impressive. It's now raised $13.5 million to date and claims more than 20 million active monthly users and done so behind girly games like “princess party planner” and while largely flying under the radar.

And, clearly not one to miss an opportunity to provide a note of emphasis for its competitors (and startups looking for exit opportunities), TabTale said that it also recently hit profitability.

Not bad.

a milestone TabTale has since underlined by re profitability.

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These £999 stereo speaker horns will go nicely with your gold HTC One

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Google Voice now supports MMS messages from T-Mobile users

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This Device Turns Smartphone Alerts Into Smells

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LG G Flex launches in Korea next week for $940, headed to Europe in December

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Panasonic's 20-inch 4K 'tablet' comes to the US in January for $6,000

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Securly Raises $1M From NewSchools, Imagine K12 Founder To Help Schools Protect Their Students Online

Launching in the fall of last year as part of education accelerator Imagine K12′s third batch of startups, Securly set out to help K-12 schools across the U.S. prevent their bright young minds from being exposed to the not-so-savory side of the Internet. While the Web can be a powerful learning tool and source of educational content, schools protect their students from its Dark Side by limiting by blocking access to inappropriate sites and content.

Maintaining the wall between educational content and The Void is a challenging job and generally falls on the shoulders of already-overworked IT admins. Securly‘s developed cloud-based web filtering platform admins reduce the pain associated with the web filtering process, allowing them to manage student access, whitelisted and blacklisted sites and solve the “over blocking” problem without having to install any hardware or software.

Today, Securly is now working with IT admins at more than 200 schools in the U.S., Canada and the U.K., according to EdSurge, and looking to expand, the startup has raised $1 million in seed financing, led by Founder.org Chairman and CEO Michael Baum, with participation from NewSchools Venture Fund, Imagine K12 co-founder Geoff Ralston, as well as several professors from the Wharton School at UPenn.

To compete with enterprise web filtering solutions and boost the appeal for schools, Securly has streamlined its on-boarding process so that districts can be up and running “in five minutes,” the company says. It's also hoping to reduce the potential barriers to entry by setting prices at $3/student/year and $10/user/year to use the service at home, which could make it an attractive alternative to more expensive enterprise alternatives.

Securly has also expanded admin roles within its platform so that teachers can now control which sites are blocked and which aren't so that they can tweak settings themselves if a site ends up being blocked that shouldn't.

The startup also claims to be the first web filtering option of its kind to integrate with Google Apps for Education and Chromebooks.

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