A HUGE Hint That The iPad 3 Will Launch In Early
• www.businessinsider.comBased on some code found in the latest developer release of Apple's iOS, it looks like the next update will be available on or around March 9.
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Google Testing Experimental Devices In Hundreds Of Employees’ Homes
• www.seattle.cbslocal.comGoogle is testing 252 “mystery” devices in its employees’ homes, but what the device is, nobody outside of Google knows.
Autonomous Quadrotors Fly Amazing Formations
• www.wired.comRoboticists at the University of Pennsylvania’s GRASP are able to get as many as 20 of their autonomous microcopters to fly in formation and perform complex maneuvers flawlessly.
Video: To Enable the Robo-Insects of the Future, Researchers Capture Butterfly Flight at 3,000 FPS
• www.popsci.comNeither bio-mimicking robots nor insect-analog micro aerial vehicles (MAVs) are new concepts. But where super high-speed video capture, competitive figure skating, and lepidopterology collide, there PopSci shall be.
iPhone sales drive record quarter for Apple
• The RawStory.comApple blew past forecasts and reported record quarterly net profit and revenue in the first quarter since the death of founder Steve Jobs, driven by strong sales of the new iPhone.
RIM and BlackBerry on the edge under new CEO
• www.reuters.comTakeover talk swirled around Research In Motion on Monday as investors and analysts pondered whether new Chief Executive Thorsten Heins had been appointed to lead a turnaround of the struggling smartphone maker or prepare it for sale.
Tesla's Model S Sets a New Standard for Battery-Powered Cars
• www.popsci.comUntil now, there hasn’t been an all-electric car fit for road-tripping. But Tesla’s Model S, due out late in 2012, is made for extended drives. Its battery goes up to 300 miles on a charge.
Camcorder device allows for live, computer-free video streaming
• www.gizmag.comThe Live Shell is an add-on device that allows existing video cameras to stream live to the internet, without the need of a computer.
Prototype GHOST military watercraft claims a world's first
• www.gizmag.comGHOST is a prototype military boat, that is claimed to be the world's first super-cavitating watercraft
Victorinox packs a 1 TB SSD into a pocket-knife
• www.gizmag.comNot all that long ago the availability of a 1TB solid state drive (SSD) was big news, now you can fit them in your pocket ... or in this case, your pocket-knife.
MakerBot unveils its new 3D printer, the Replicator
• www.gizmag.comEven though the original small object creation device would still see the jaws of most people dropping in wonder, the company has now unveiled a new model at CES 2012 called the Replicator that is not only capable of fabricating much bigger objects t
German Hackers Are Building a DIY Space Program to Put Their Own Uncensored Internet into Space
• http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2012-01/gSyncom 1, the First Geosynchronous Satellite What NASA could do in the 1960s, we can do now. At least, that's the line of thought underpinning the Hackerspace Global Grid, a project that aims to build a space-based network of communications satellit
CES DAY 1: Here Are All The Incredible Gadgets You Missed, Plus A Very 'Enthusiastic' Steve
• www.businessinsider.comDay 1 of the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas yesterday was a flurry of keynotes, gadgets, and very long lines.
Wormhole Station connects Windows to Mac to Android to iOS
• www.gizmag.comThe Wormhole Station can easily transfer files and share peripherals between Mac, PC, Android, and iOS
iDevices unveils iShower water-resistant Bluetooth speaker for Apple and Android devices
• www.gizmag.comFrom iDevices, the iPeople behind the iGrill, comes iShower - a battery-powered, Bluetooth-enabled, water-resistant speaker for what its makers charmingly refer to as "aqua-centric environments."
SolarKindle promises three months of unplugged reading time
• www.gizmag.comWhat if you could read on your Kindle for three months straight? SolarFocus will be showing off a Kindle case at CES this week designed to do just that. Called SolarKindle, the case can provide you with months of reading time and over 50 hours of rea
Eton (hand) cranks out new self-powered products at CES
• www.gizmag.comWhile insufficient battery-life can be annoying in most mobile devices, getting cut off from the outside world because your radio has run out of juice can be much more serious.
Micromanagement Material: Electronic Sleeves Monitor Workers’ Efficiency
• Dave Mosher via WIRED.comComputerized sleeves may soon allow manufacturing bosses to monitor and record workers’ moves and mine them for efficiency data.
Custom Made Home Distillation
• LNL ProtektHome distillation is a simple process by which you can purify water, distill alcohol, manufacture antiseptics or produce fuel grade ethanol. There are several different types of distillation methods available, depending on your specific needs – basic
Robot Overview: Titanoboa
• www.wired.comI’m a sucker for robots of any sort, but make them big and creepy and you’ve got my attention. This one does so in spades. Titanoboa is a 50 foot long electromechanical snake weighing in at 2,000 pounds, built by the same guys who brought us the gian
KX3 Transceiver
• www.elecraft.comThe revolutionary Elecraft KX3 puts the world in the palm of your hand! Despite its small size, it covers all amateur bands from 160-6 meters, operates in all modes, and has DSP-based features usually found only on larger radios.
11 Huge Gadget Releases Coming In 2012
• www.businessinsider.comWe're less than a week away from the new year. With the massive holiday gadget launches behind us, it's time to look forward to 2012.
Researchers prepare cheap quantum dot solar paint
• www.physorg.comThe new solar paint, which the researchers humorously call “Sun Believable solar paint,” consists of a yellow or brown paste made of quantum dots. The small size of these tiny semiconductor nanocrystals makes it possible to capture nearly all inciden
No-glasses 3-D technology to showcase at CES 2012
• www.physorg.comUltra- D is the company’s display technology that can carry out realtime conversion of 2-D to 3-D without necessitating the use of special glasses for viewing.
Casio EX FC150 Slow Motion Scopecam Setup (Part 1)
• www.youtube.comThe Casio EX FC150 is capable of capturing video at 30fps, 120fps, 240fps, 480fps, and 1000fps. Increasing speed decreases resolution. I've found that 240fps works best for most airgun shooting.
Microsoft pulling out of Consumer Electronics Show after 2012 event
• www.washingtonpost.comMicrosoft said it decided to pull out of CES after the January 2012 show because it no longer fits its needs and its timing does not always mesh with its product announcements.
Apple Ruling Hits Android
• Wall Street JournalApple Inc. was handed a legal victory that is bad news for rival Google Inc., as a U.S. trade agency ruled that some HTC Corp. smartphones that use the Internet company's Android software infringe an Apple patent.
Analysis: Could RIM's survival mean abandoning the BlackBerry?
• reuters.comIt might seem like corporate heresy but an increasing number of technology investors and experts are asking whether Research in Motion needs to ditch its BlackBerry handset business to survive.
Google Launches Android Classes to Bolster App Development
• wired.comIn today’s mobile platform wars, it’s not the size of your smartphone that matters — it’s the number of apps you’ve got, and how well they work.
Road Trip … Or Moon Shot?
• lewrockwell.com/Eric PetersYou don’t have to be a cranky old fart to find yourself increasingly at odds with the multiplexed interfaces, mouse inputs and menus, touch screen displays and tyrannical computer “aids” that are becoming commonplace features on modern cars – and whi
