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  • Nokia N8-00 flops onto the scene

    Nokia N8-00 flops onto the scene

    Posted on March 23, 2010 | No Comments
    Nokia's new flagship, the Symbian-powered N8-00, has HD video recording, a 12-megapixel camera, and a 3.5-inch capacative touchscreen. What doesn't it have? A US release date or price.

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  • If only you had actually seen The Hurt Locker

    If only you had actually seen The Hurt Locker

    Posted on March 18, 2010 | No Comments
    Who saw The Hurt Locker? Oh, right: none of you. Even if you didn't you probably are already familiar with the basic concept: a U.S. Army guy whose job it is to disable I.E.D.s sorta goes crazy. That's the gist of it. Meanwhile, the Ministry of Defense in the UK has unveiled something called the Dragon Runner, a remote-controlled robot that disables bombs.

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  • AirStash: Wireless portable storage

    AirStash: Wireless portable storage

    Posted on March 16, 2010 | No Comments
    If you’re like me, you thought the AirStash was a mustache that floats in the air, like those seed things in Avatar, only not glowy. But the AirStash is actually a USB key with built-in SD card slot that can, in a few seconds, create a private hotspot that allows you to share the media [...]

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  • Digital camera is half-inch thick, costs $25

    Digital camera is half-inch thick, costs $25

    Posted on March 12, 2010 | No Comments
    Welcome to the future of digital photography, friends. This $25 camera measures 13.5 millimeters thick and takes what I can only assume to be mind-blowingly detailed 640x480 photos. That’s not all! The built-in memory holds 52 images! There’s no expansion slot but like I said, it holds 52 images. You’re not going to need an expansion slot, am I right?

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  • That student spying case is now officially boring

    That student spying case is now officially boring

    Posted on March 8, 2010 | No Comments
    Remember the story about the school district that spied on its students at home? Well it just got boringer. Now that the lawyers are involved and some of the IT guys have been put on leave, this he said/she said/school officials saw story has just jumped the shark. To recap: The Lower Merion School District gave their students MacBooks. The MacBooks had a theft protection system built in designed to capture images of the laptop's surroundings in the case of a theft. The school district instead took pictures of a kid eating Mike&Ikes at home and accused him of being a pill popper. Essentially, the school spied on a student at home and is claiming it was only trying to recover a stolen laptop. As we later learned, however, some school officials enjoyed turning on the cameras just to freak the kids out, a decidedly Orwellian thing.

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  • DIY: Macro photography on your iPhone

    DIY: Macro photography on your iPhone

    Posted on March 4, 2010 | No Comments
    Here's a way to get your iPhone (or any other mobile device) camera to zoom in a bit tighter. It's a fairly simple process using a magnifier loupe and an aftermarket iPhone case, and will definitely make your close up images pop.

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  • “Problematic Wi-Fi Access”: Apple Bans Augmented Reality App Sekai Camera

    “Problematic Wi-Fi Access”: Apple Bans Augmented Reality App Sekai Camera

    Posted on March 4, 2010 | No Comments
    More and more apps are stricken from the App Store as of late, for a variety of reasons. Today, the Apple hammer hit Tokyo-based Tonchidot whose augmented reality app Sekai Camera was removed without warning. The free app, which made its - memorable - debut during TechCrunch 50 in 2008, intends to help users "tag the world" by imposing information (text, pictures, video and audio) over images in the iPhone camera.

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  • Image recognition startup Kooaba unveils API

    Image recognition startup Kooaba unveils API

    Posted on March 4, 2010 | No Comments
    Image recognition technology startup Kooaba yesterday released an API that definitely deserves some developer attention. The Swiss company aims to unlock its library of over 10 million images, ranging from album covers to books and movie posters, and provide access to all that precious data via the cloud.

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  • A look at Nepal’s equivalent of CES

    A look at Nepal’s equivalent of CES

    Posted on March 2, 2010 | No Comments
    BB has some great images from Nepal’s CAN InfoTech, a 17-year-old tech trade show. It had 238 stalls where folks were flogging amazing 8TB hard drives and the three year old Nokia N81. It’s absolutely laudable that these guys are doing what they’re doing. Outside of Western Europe, CE manufacturers tend to ignore the rest of [...]

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  • Dropcam gets an updated iPhone App

    Dropcam gets an updated iPhone App

    Posted on March 1, 2010 | No Comments
    I like a secure household. I like to back up my seismics with a perimeter of screamers and I like to keep a webcam trained on my front door. One problem, however, has been viewing my perimeter remotely with my iPhone. It is a problem no more. Dropcam, makers of $199 wireless webcams, have released an updated iPhone app that let's you add cameras to your system with a minimum of fuss and muss. Each camera pops up on the app as its started and you can view images over Wi-Fi and 3G anywhere in the world.

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  • TSA orders some full body scanners, to be delivered some time

    TSA orders some full body scanners, to be delivered some time

    Posted on February 23, 2010 | No Comments
    L3 Communications has been awarded a $165 million contract from the Transportation Security Administration for the indefinite delivery of an indefinite number of their ProVision millimeter wave security scanners. So, the TSA is sure that they're going to get some of these, but they don't know how many, or when. More than 200 ProVision scanners are currently deployed around the world, despite myriad privacy concerns. L3 had more than fifteen billion in sales in 2009, so this agreement doesn't seem like that big a deal, financially.

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  • Bone Marrow Aspiration and Biopsy? There’s an app for that

    Bone Marrow Aspiration and Biopsy? There’s an app for that

    Posted on February 23, 2010 | No Comments
    Procedures: Hospital Collection, where have you been all my life? I remember back at Webelos camp in grade school when I needed to do an Arterial Line Placement to get my "Arterial Line Placement" badge and if I had had this charming, $19.99 app I would have been able to blow in that arterial line without anyone getting hurt (sorry, Frankie!) This app is clearly for professional doctors, not diletantes like myself, but 80 minutes of video plus plenty of images and diagrams make this quite a steal.

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  • Kodak, RIM file International Trade Commission complaint against Apple re: image preview patents

    Kodak, RIM file International Trade Commission complaint against Apple re: image preview patents

    Posted on February 18, 2010 | No Comments
    The International Trade Commission must have a pile of Apple-related complaints so high it can... reach some high place. A few months ago Nokia accused Apple of patent infringement, and now there's word that Kodak and Research in Motion, or RIM as the cool kids say, have also filed a complaint. Kodak says parts of the iPhone's interface infringe on Kodak patents relating to previewing images.

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  • Microsoft’s Pink concept phone becomes less of a concept, shows up on FCC

    Microsoft’s Pink concept phone becomes less of a concept, shows up on FCC

    Posted on February 13, 2010 | No Comments
    Remember when people were all excited about Microsoft’s weird tablet stuff? And the phone they were supposed to make? Well, it seems the FCC has released images of an upcoming “Turtle” phone, the PB10ZU. It runs on CDMA and has Bluetooth and WiFi. Sharp, who cut their teeth building the Sidekick way back when, should release [...]

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  • The world is all a buzz over Google’s new social networking service

    The world is all a buzz over Google’s new social networking service

    Posted on February 9, 2010 | No Comments
    Over-sharing the minutiae of your life is already difficult, so why complicate things with Twitter, Facebook and Foursquare when you only need one service to rule them all? That’s where Google Buzz comes in and makes annoying your friends with news about your snacking habits that much easier. Google Buzz is rolling out today, and over [...]

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