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Google Glass, Google schmass. What you really want on your face are these puppies. ION Glasses are sunglass or prescription glasses frames with a built-in LED, Bluetooth stack, and tiny button controller.
What do they do? Well the LED lights up to notify you of new messages – you can set different people to different colors – and you can use the glasses to control the music on your phone, a presentation, or almost anything else controlled via Bluetooth.
The astute observer will say “Why in the living blazes would I want an LED in my glasses? Are you daft, man?” And to this I would say “Non!”
Understand me here – I’m not saying this product is for everyone, but I met the founder, Santiago Ambit, and he is so earnest and big-hearted that we have to assume that he thought this through. So here we are.
Ambit’s system is fairly ingenious. He’s embedded a small piezo buzzer, LED, and Bluetooth stack inside the eyepieces of a standard pair of glasses. They are no heavier than regular Wayfarers and the logo glows on the side so people know you’re into the ION lifestyle.
He is raising funds on Indiegogo and has raised $22,000 of his $150,000 goal. You get a pair of glasses — suitable for prescription or sunglass lenses — for a pledge of $89. They last a week on one charge.
Again, why do you need these? Well, they’re extremely unobtrusive and they’re a great way to see when someone important is calling and to help your prioritize the times you need to pick up your phone.
Because of their clever design no one will have to know you’re using them and, in turn, you can react to messages and notifications without panic or rudeness.
Would I wear these? I’m not so sure, but if I were in security or needed to be in a lot of important meetings I could definitely see myself wanting to get small, discrete messages in the corner of my eye without the potentially off-putting nature of Google Glass.
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This infographic addresses some of the negative assumptions about remote access and its effect on the network.
This infographic, courtesy of HOB Secure Business Connectivity, explains how VPNs are much improved from the past and offer the best way to provide anytime/anywhere access to resources for employees.
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Technical issues are pretty much a guarantee these days whenever a highly anticipated game makes its online debut. It’s incredibly frustrating not to be able to play your just-purchased game as the creators intended and rather than try and prepare for the issue ahead of time, it seems publishers are content to work out the kinks or add more servers after the fact and shovel freebies at gamers to make up for it.
Such is the case with Rockstar’s latest smash hit, GTA V. While the single-player mode is outstanding, the multiplayer segment was predictably met with numerous technical issues. As a peace offering to those that have been unable to enjoy the online experience, Rockstar is offering anyone that has played or will play GTA Online this month a special in-game stimulus package.
Specifically, users’ bank accounts will receive $500,000 of in-game cash starting as early as next week. To help keep the worldwide in-game economy in check, the money will be awarded via two separate deposits of $250,000. Specific dates will be announced as soon as possible, Rockstar promised, and they hope this will facilitate a fresh start or makes your continued in-game life a bit sweeter.
Players must first install the latest inbound patch (1.04) which is expected to remedy some lingering issues like vehicle purchase loss. Otherwise, no additional actions are required and the money should automatically appear in the in-game bank accounts of eligible players. Technical issues are pretty much a guarantee these days whenever a highly anticipated game makes its online debut. It’s incredibly frustrating not to be able to play your just-purchased game as the creators intended and rather than try and prepare for the issue ahead of time, it seems publishers are content to work out the kinks or add more servers after the fact and shovel freebies at gamers to make up for it.
Such is the case with Rockstar’s latest smash hit, GTA V. While the single-player mode is outstanding, the multiplayer segment was predictably met with numerous technical issues. As a peace offering to those that have been unable to enjoy the online experience, Rockstar is offering anyone that has played or will play GTA Online this month a special in-game stimulus package.
Specifically, users’ bank accounts will receive $500,000 of in-game cash starting as early as next week. To help keep the worldwide in-game economy in check, the money will be awarded via two separate deposits of $250,000. Specific dates will be announced as soon as possible, Rockstar promised, and they hope this will facilitate a fresh start or makes your continued in-game life a bit sweeter.
Players must first install the latest inbound patch (1.04) which is expected to remedy some lingering issues like vehicle purchase loss. Otherwise, no additional actions are required and the money should automatically appear in the in-game bank accounts of eligible players. -
A European trio of researchers has discovered a "circumstellar disk" – a corpse, in other words – of a minor planet that was about 26 per cent water.
The discovery of the rocky remains, found orbiting a white dwarf star 150 light years over the rainbow, gives credence to the theory that our own Earth's watery condition was brought about when such H2O-bearing rocks – asteroids, planetoids, and the like – crashed into our home world in the distant past.
The boffinry breakthrough is detailed in a paper published in the journal Science titled "Evidence for Water in the Rocky Debris of a Disrupted Extrasolar Minor Planet".
While those of us on Earth's surface are duly impressed by the vastness of our oceans and seas, our planet is actually rather water-poor. As Phys.org points out, water accounts for only about 0.02 per cent of Earth's mass.
That's a paltry dribble when compared with the 26 per cent of mass estimated to have been in the now-destroyed planetoid that once orbited around its home star, which collapsed into white dwarf GD61 about 200 million years ago.
That 26 per cent, by the way, is essentially equal to the proportion of water in Ceres, the largest asteroid in our solar system's main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter.
At 930 kilometers in diameter, however, Ceres is much larger than the now-defunct victim of GD61, which the researchers estimate to have been just 90km or so.
Artist's conception of a watery asteroid being torn apart white dwarf GD 61
Artist's conception of a watery asteroid being shreddedDespite its formerly small size, the ex-asteroid is tantalizing in a number of ways. First, of course, is its water content. But also of great interest is that it's the first body found outside our solar system that has the two main ingredients needed for life as we know it: a rocky composition and abundant water.
Also of interest is the fact that when GD61 turned into a white dwarf, there was no particular reason why the asteroid, planetoid, or whatever you want to call it – and likely some of its fellow travelers – should have been torn apart by the dwarf's gravitational forces.
Unless it was pushed.
"In order for the asteroids to pass sufficiently close to the white dwarf to be shredded, then eaten,"
the paper's lead author Jay Farihi told Phys.org,
"they must perturbed from the asteroid belt – essentially pushed – by a massive object like a giant planet."
That means that there are other, far more massive bodies that are now orbiting or have orbited GD61, and that at least some of them are or were likely to have the same rocky, watery composition as the object that met its doom in GD61's gravitational maw, or were given water by similar objects, as it appears that the Earth has been.
"Our results demonstrate that there was definitely potential for habitable planets in this exoplanetary system,"
Farihi said.
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Twice as fast as the iPhone 5? Twice as CRASHY claims app bug watcher
Apple's flagship iPhone 5s handsets are suffering "Blue Screen of Death" crashes that force fanbois to reboot their expensive gear.
And we're told application software, when launched by the user, crashes twice as often on the new mobile than freshly run code on the iPhone 5c and 5.
That's all according to data provided by app-performance tracker Crittercism: it claims about two per cent of the "hundreds of millions of app launches" it has tracked on the iPhone 5s result in crashes, compared to one per cent for the iPhone 5c and 5.
"Anytime there is new hardware or software release, we see issues,"
Crittercism boss Andrew Levy told AllThingD.
"Inevitably, over time, those issues get resolved."
Levy is of the opinion – which we share – that it's no surprise that the 64-bit A7-equipped iPhone 5s apparently has a higher app-crash rate than its 32-bit A6-equipped brethren. After all, developers have had over a year to tune their apps for the A6, which was introduced in September 2012 in the iPhone 5, and the iPhone 5c is essentially an iPhone 5 in an "unapologetically plastic" case.
The A7 and the iPhone 5s' M7 sensor-managing coprocessor have been available for devs to conquer only since September 20 of this year. There were undoubtedly some lucky folks who got their hands on prerelease versions for optimizing and testing their apps, but the unwashed masses of iOS app developers had to wait in line like the rest of the fanboi flock.
New hardware. New operating system. Nothing to see here. Move along – but keep your ear to the ground to learn whether Apple and its developer community can improve that 2X crash rate in a reasonable amount of time.
Of perhaps more interest is the fact that some iPhone 5s users are experiencing a nostalgic Windows-like Blue Screen of Death, especially when exiting the apps in Apple's iWorks productivity suite: Numbers, Pages, and Keynote.
The BSOD-then-reboot problem has been reported in Apple's discussion groups, MacRumors forums, and a YouTube video, among other places. Although the complaints center mostly on iWork apps, other users claim to have had the same problem with Chrome and Safari, and while using FaceTime.
Interestingly, iOS (like any system worth its salt) supposedly sandboxes apps, so you'd think that a misbehaving program couldn't take down the entire device – but perhaps Apple bent its own sandboxing rules for its iWork apps, and is now paying the price.
Some users have suggested that the BSOD issue can be fixed by disabling the iWork apps' iCloud syncing – which seems reasonable, knowing Apple's less than stellar history of cloudy offerings. To do so, launch Settings, tap iCloud, then toggle off Numbers, Pages, and Keynote in the app list that appears.
The BSOD problem is not new to the iPhone – it has been reported previously on the iPhone 5, 4S, and 4, as well, but our best guess is that those appearances were due to hardware problems.
This time around, well, who the Tophet knows? We're dealing with Apple, after all, and our role as consumers is to simply sit back and wait until Cupertino's iOS engineering team releases an update. -
Has your boss ever bought everyone pizza, as a special favor? That must have been cool! Twitter employees ate oysters, scallops and lamb chops yesterday.
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Mega-VC Peter Thiel's eponymous, anti-college "fellowship" is part of his techno-libertarian fantasy: in the future, no one will need to attend bloated institutions like college. You'll just start a business instead—how about trading an education for topical energy spray?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=sOxAK5USB6wBen Yu is taking time off from Harvard to pursue "Sprayable Energy," which is exactly what it sounds like: caffeine you spray on your neck like cologne and absorb through your flesh. It's basic premise is that drinking caffeine—in a capsule, coffee, or whatever—is too much. Better to cut out the step of ingestion and just absorb chemicals directly into your bloodstream.
Yu and his partner are looking to raise $15,000 on Indiegogo—meanwhile, we must notes that:
"there haven’t been any long-term studies on how in-taking caffeine through the skin compares to ingesting it."Not that everyone leaves Harvard necessarily goes on to do something worthwhile, but trading time toward a degree for time fundraising for caffeine spray doesn't either.
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Can big data predict heart disease before today’s doctors can? IBM thinks so.
The company, joined by Sutter Health and Geisinger Health Systems, has received a $2 million grant to use big data analytic to detect the signs of heart disease years earlier than we can today.
The research, which started back in 2009, will comb through patients’ electronic health records, using data like demographics, medical history, and medication to find common signals indicative of heart disease. If things go right, the insights from the analysis will eventually be integrated into primary care, which should make it easier for doctors to predict which patients are at highest risk for the disease.
The research couldn’t come at a better time. Heart disease is the leading cause of death and hospitalization in the U.S., affecting 5.7 million people today. Half of those diagnosed with it die within five years — largely because by the time doctors detect the disease, it’s already done irreversible organ damage.
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In a scathing statement on the state of the Web, leading organizations on Internet policy, governance, and architecture blasted the U.S. for its spying on Internet users.
Without calling out the United States by name, leaders from the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), ICANN, the Internet Architecture Board, and other organizations nevertheless made it clear that the U.S.’s policies and practices are harmful to an open web.
From the official statement:
The leaders reinforced the importance of globally coherent Internet operations, and warned against Internet fragmentation at a national level. They expressed strong concern over the undermining of the trust and confidence of Internet users globally due to recent revelations of pervasive monitoring and surveillance. …They called for accelerating the globalization of ICANN and IANA functions, towards an environment in which all stakeholders, including all governments, participate on an equal footing.
Currently, the U.S. Department of Commerce wields a substantial amount of control and unilateral oversight where ICANN is concerned.
Also, the next Internet Governance Summit will be held in Brazil, where President Dilma Rousseff has been vocally critical of U.S. Internet surveillance.
Rousseff cancelled a diplomatic visit to the U.S. in the wake of the Snowden revelations (including the fact that the U.S. was spying on Brazil, an ally).
“The United States and its allies must urgently end their spying activities once and for all,”Rousseff told reporters as the summit location was announced.
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Samsung’s Galaxy Gear smartwatch launched a couple of weeks ago as a fat, ugly, and expensive smartphone accessory that our own Devindra Hardawar called “relentlessly inessential.”
That’s not where Apple is going with iWatch.
Rather, Apple is looking to create a device that will allow you to control your music, your temperature, your security, your lighting, your energy use, your entertainment, and potentially much more, says Cantor Fitzgerald’s Brian White, who talked to Taiwanese and mainland China suppliers.
iwatch“As an Apple supplier, our contact offered insight into the “iWatch” and described this potential new device as much more than an extension of your iPhone but as a multi-purpose gateway in allowing consumers to control their home (i.e., heating/cooling, lights, audio, video, etc.),” White said today in a research note.
Now that is interesting.
The raison d’etre behind smartwatches has been a little suspect; they’ve mostly looked like little more than an adjunct to your smartphone. Which begs the question: Why do you need one? And the real-life use of smartwatches as sort of a wrist-based Google Glass, with constant social updates streaming in, can be problematic. One startup founder I talked to said when he checked updates on his Pebble, people thought he was being rude because he was “always checking his watch” and clearly was bored with them.
Building a watch-like device that is truly smart and useful for something other than seeing a constant stream of tweets would be a very Apple-like way to go. Personal fitness tracking and monitoring is a no-brainer, and adding home automation control makes it even more interesting.
Clearly, Apple TV could be part of the mix, as well as support for a number of the home automation standards.
As interesting as this could be, however, it’s unclear how big of a market Apple would be attacking here. Because the home automation market, while growing fast and offering tremendous opportunities, is still relatively nascent. -
Everyone's favorite Red Hot Nickel Ball has been on an absurd amount of adventures between boiling a jar of honey and completely demolishing the world's largest gummy bear. Naturally, the next stop on its quest to be submerged in everything known to man is peanut butter. Why not, right? ...and I love peanut butter! Let's see it...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=1QJO6nEq2Kg
the only thing that you'll miss it's the wonderful smell...
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After seeing the beautiful massive destruction that a hot ball of nickel can cause to honey,
it's obvious to want to drop that burning ball of seemingly eternal fire into more things. But most things just burn boringly. But what about the world's largest gummy bear? It's like seeing T-1000 destroyed.
I gotta admit though, the world's largest gummy bear held up admirably to the hot ball of nickel (though its indestructibility may be a cause for concern since we... eat gummy bears?). Yeah there is black sludge oozing out of the gummy bear but it takes multiple re-heats to penetrate it all the way through.https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=LKzxnY1oXLQ
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Because dropping super freaking hot balls of nickel is always fun to do, seeing it get dropped in various substances never gets old. This time, honey gets the hot nickel treatment. It starts pulsating like a geyser while getting all bubbly and foamy until it squashes the plastic container holding down the steam. At the very end, the honey turns into some kaleidoscopic goop. The video takes a while to get started but you can spend that time wondering what other things you can drop the ball in.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=awuaBAH8wXo
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It is a truth universally acknowledged that black snakes are among the lamest of fireworks, second only to snappers. But when you get everyone's favorite red hot nickel ball involved, things get a lot more fun.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=QX7MReiJRto
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The allure of Pop Rocks is undeniable. Sure, the whole "fireworks in your mouth" thing is a gimmick, but it's an awesome one. You know what else is an awesome gimmick? Everybody's favorite Red Hot Nickel Ball.
The results aren't especially explosive, but those rocks still pop. Except instead of saliva, they're popping in a molten lava flow of liquid sugar fueled by red hot metal. And there's only one of those that you want in your mouth.https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=xQUaUW10M0Q
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That's really cool...
What must I do/perform/kill/destroy/build/grow (pun not/intended).... to have something for me... at your choice? or perhaps you must know me better...
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Yeah, I've noted it too, but I was thinking to some sort of poetic license... so it's 'art'!
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Do you believe in giants? I was watching a thread posted by one of our best uploaders here in CyberPhoenix @RobertoWarez about giants... a new movie that I'm still downloading
and, as one of my best friends here in CP is used to say 'Dang!' I've found a video about a guy that has done a nifty research on the Giants throughout human history.
So, do you believe it? Let's see what the poll will tell us
after the breakhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5jXVStAYPU&feature=player_embedded
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That's exactly what happened! Very funny and... sadly real...
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Very inspirational and moving! But, perhaps the phrase ""a designer is the one who can create life in the dead also" may be written not 'in dead' but 'in death'? Just a thought... and perhaps it's simply that I don't get it right...
Anyway, really a good job that move me to become a designer. Cheers
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...sad times lol!
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Abaft toward or at the stern of a ship; further aft
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Nice! I like them really very very much! Bravo! Cheers
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Hi to you and welcome on board! Hope you enjoy your stay and, in the meanwhile, read our rulez pls
Cheers
Analyst Travels To China, And Is Shocked To Find Stores Have Plenty Of Gold iPhones
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Apple analyst Brian White at Cantor Fitzgerald is in Asia filing daily reports.
In today's report he says he was surprised to see that in China, there were plenty of gold iPhones in stock, but the "Space Grey" model was selling out.
We don't think anyone can read anything meaningful into this anecdote but we read it, said, "huh," to ourselves, and thought it would be interesting to pass along.
Consider it one for the files: