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.
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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.
Spring-Loaded MEMS-Driven Pixels Could Enable 3-D Holographic Video Displays
• Clay Dillow via PopSci.comHolographic video is sort of the holy grail of video display technology right now. Stereoscopic 3-D is fine and everything, but it basically works by tricking the brain into seeing that 3-D depth via two offset 2-D images
The revolutionary pocket-sized gizmo that turns any television into a PC for just £16
• www.dailymail.co.ukRaspberry Pi will offer office programmes and video for £16 - Just need to add keyboard, television and mouse - Connects to internet via cable - and can connect to other gadgets via USB - First 10 'collectors' samples on eBay this week
Microphone Turns Any Surface into Touch Interface
• Christopher Mims via TechnologyReview.comBruno Zamborlin collaborated with Norbert Schnell to use a contact microphone connected to a system that processes sound in real time to turn any rigid surface into a touch interface. There's no way to explain it adequately in words, so just watch th
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.
Apple in race to keep ahead in 2012
• www.ft.comApple is facing mounting challenges in 2012 to refresh key product lines in the face of rising competition after a year marked by record profits but also the death of its founder Steve Jobs and less dramatic design innovation.
Apple Patent Describes New Type of Face-Recognition Tech
• www.wired.comSwipe to unlock could be a thing of the past for next-gen iOS devices. Like current Galaxy Nexus users, iOS users could soon be using facial recognition technology to lock or unlock their iDevices.
Why Windows 8 Tablets Will Surprise Everyone
• www.wired.comWindows-based tablets haven’t been treated kindly by the test of time. Those released in the Windows XP era relied on wonky, stylus-based data entry, and even modern, touch-based tablets running Windows 7 are poor performers.
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.
Universal transistor serves as a basis to perform any logic function
• www.physorg.com“Synthetic nanowires are used to realize the proof-of-principle,” Weber told PhysOrg.com. “However, the concept is fully transferable to state-of-the-art CMOS silicon technology and can make use of self-aligned processes.”
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
iPad 3 rumors: What we know, don't know, and think we know
• csmonitor.comIPad 3 rumors point toward early 2012. So what kind of features will be included? Here's a roundup of iPad 3 rumors, with a little context as to whether you should believe the scuttlebutt or not.
Hands-On With New Xbox Kinect Features
• Tech News DailyThe system update offers quite a few new features, including a new interface; enhanced voice- and gesture-control for Kinect owners; easier ways to connect and play with friends; and access to live television channels and on-demand movies that will r
Startup Turns Your Cell-Phone Number into a Location Fix
• www.technologyreview.comLoc-Aid can track almost any cellular device in North America.
See-Through Tablets in 2012?
• news.yahoo.comThis week we got our hands on a Samsung commercial released in Korea for a see-through, flexible tablet that's unlike anything we've ever seen here at This Could Be Big, and we knew we had to find out more.
PopSci Q&A: Lytro CEO Ren Ng Talks About Making Light-Field Happen
• popsci.comThis year, for the first time, a camera has been awarded PopSci's Innovation of the Year. The Lytro Light-Field Camera, a $400 gadget that allows photographers to re-focus pictures after they're taken, is the product of a decade of work from Ren Ng.
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