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06 December, 2012

Lose Something? These Tiny Stickers Will Find It

Good news for anyone prone to losing the TV remote.

A group of developers created a series of Bluetooth-powered stickers that track down the objects you're most likely to misplace. The StickNFind stickers are about the size of a U.S. quarter and sync with a smartphone app. They have a range of about 100 feet and a battery life that reportedly lasts almost a year.

Using them is easy: The objects you tag with the stickers are displayed on the app's screen, which lets you know how far away you are from them. If you lose something that's tagged, you can tap the object on your phone's screen, and the sticker will buzz and light up.

The developers say the stickers are also handy for finding your luggage at the airport. With the "Find It" feature, you can choose which object you want to track -- in this case, your suitcase(s) -- and you'll receive an alert whenever it comes into range. So, instead of crowding around baggage claim while hundreds of bags pile up on the conveyor belt, you can relax in the back of the line until your phone buzzes.

The group behind the project is currently raising funds through an Indiegogo campaign. At the time of this writing, funding was at $93,007 -- far past its original goal of $70,000. There are still 41 days left to donate. The group expects to release its first batch of SkickNFind stickers by March 2013.

Watch the video above to learn more. Does StickNFind sound like something you'd use? Tell us in the comments below.

TOPICS: APPS AND SOFTWARE, INDIEGOGO, MOBILE ADVERTISING, MOBILE APPS, NEWSY, NO LEAD IMAGE, STARTUPS, TECH, TRACKING, TRAVEL & LEISURE, VIDEOS

13 July, 2012

Spider-Like iPhone 5 Design Is Creepy Yet Cool [PICS]

Spider-Like iPhone 5 Design Is Creepy Yet Cool [PICS]
July 6, 2012 by Peter Pachal on Mashable

The iPhone 5 as a Spider?

Designer Federico Ciccarese re-imagined the iPhone as a futuristic (and creepy) gadget that lives on the back of your hand. What do you think of the design concept?

Spider iPhone, Right Angle

Spider iPhone, Left Angle

Spider iPhone, Left

Navigation App

Navigation App, Left

Wrist View

Spider iPhone, Standalone

Spider iPhone, Alternate View

What will mobile communication of the future look like? Google thinks it could be a pair of glasses; IBM favors mind-reading gadgets.

Designer Federico Ciccarese, however, envisions the same cellphones we’ve been using, just re-imagined. Instead of a touchscreen slab that’s held in the palm, the “iPhone 5 new” features a curved design that’s actually worn on the back of your hand. It’s held in place by five slim and somwhat creepy “legs” which wrap between your fingers and around the wrist.

The main “phone” part of the design looks like the familiar iPhone app array, though the curved casing appears to be flexible — perhaps Ciccarese is channeling Sony’s color e-paper here.

The renderings look amazing, and we love the sci-fi look of the thing, but the creepiness and probable discomfort created by the legs make it a non-starter. And even if he axed the legs in favor of some kind of adhesive (à la the communicators on Bablyon 5), if we learned anything from the belt clips of early 2000s it’s that cellphones do not make good accessories.

We could be wrong, of course. What do you think of the Spider iPhone? And what would you like the real iPhone 5 to look like? Have your say in the comments.

14 June, 2012

Microsoft Is Launching an ‘iPad Killer’ [REPORT]

Microsoft Is Launching an ‘iPad Killer’ [REPORT]
05/06/2012 by Chris Taylor on Mashable

We already had our invitation to Microsoft’s “major” announcement in Hollywood next Monday — an Apple-style event so hush-hush, there isn’t even a location yet.

Now rumors are starting to coalesce around the thing being launched: a touchscreen tablet, manufactured by Microsoft itself, running on Windows RT (a version of Windows 8), intended to rival Apple’s iPad.

Hollywood blog The Wrap cites “an individual with knowledge of the company”, who claims the software giant would be “making a foray into a new hardware category that would put the company in direct competition with rival Apple” — tablets.

This would hardly be the first time Microsoft has tried its hand at a tablet device. Indeed, its first tablet preceded the iPad by the better part of a decade. But it was a bulky laptop hybrid that required a stylus, to which it wasn’t very responsive.

Between 2008 and 2010, the company was said to be working on a dual-touchscreen folding tablet — kind of like a book — called “Courier.” But Microsoft management killed that project — coincidentally, right around the time Steve Jobs launched the first iPad. (The Courier team went on to design the award-winning iPad notebook app, Paper.)

We’ve previously seen half-baked demonstrations of Windows tablets from CEO Steve Ballmer, and of course there are a variety of third-party tablets on the way for the Windows 8 interface that works on PC, phone and tablet.

But this forthcoming tablet, if the rumors are to be believed, will be made in-house — much like the most successful Microsoft product of the last decade, the Xbox.

What would a Microsoft tablet have to do to beat the iPad? Let us know your thoughts in the comments.

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Source: Mashable

11 June, 2012

Apple - Introducing MacBook Pro with Retina display

Apple - Introducing MacBook Pro with Retina display

Stunning Retina display. All-flash architecture. Incredibly thin and light design. It's a whole new vision for the notebook.

19 May, 2012

Top 10 Tech This Week, Horizontal Shower,iCar ,Netgear Adapter for Faster Wi-Fi , Synergy Aircraft,Sony Wireless Power ,iPhone 5 Tall Boy ,Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon Ultrabook , Porsche 918 Hybrid,

Top 10 Tech This Week [PICS]
19/05/2012 by Charlie White on Mashable

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1. Sneak Peek: Beacon Phoenix Bluetooth Speaker

As speakers get smaller, their sound seems to get bigger. That's the case with this Beacon Phoenix Bluetooth speaker, a handsome unit available in red, blue and black. We listened to this cute $99 cube, available for preorder next month, and it cranked out some crispy tunes at a prodigious volume despite its diminutive size. In other words, it's loud.

My biggest thrill was unplugging it and running it on battery power -- it felt like there was a whole band standing in the palm of my hand, rocking it with impressive intensity. It hooks up easily to your Bluetooth-compatible device, and the company says the Phoenix's rechargeable battery will play on for eight hours.

However, because of its tiny size, its bass sounded diminished, although still present. Even so, it might be a worthy companion for a dancing beach trip this summer.

[Pre-orders start next month at beaconaudio.com]

2. Windows 8: The Next Revision

The consumer preview of Windows 8 has been around for months now, but now Microsoft reveals the next beta version of the upcoming Windows 8 juggernaut. From this picture you can see subtle changes in the Windows 8 user interface: Still gone is that Start orb that's currently on the bottom left in Windows 7, and now that familiar glass look is gone as well. It all looks rather flat now.

I've been testing Windows 8 since its first beta, and I'm impressed with its Metro UI. Its live tiles on the front take a little getting used to, but they give you lots of useful information at a glance. Even the consumer preview is quite stable already, so I'm looking forward to Windows 8's final release -- Microsoft's not yet saying when that'll be.

3. Horizontal Shower

If you thought the ordinary shower couldn't be improved, take a look at this. Now you can take a shower lying down with this Horizontal Shower, placing yourself a shower field of six "water bars" that are recessed into its special ceiling.

Horizontal Shower Side Shot

Apparently you'll need some sort of special bathroom that can take lots of splashing, but still, it looks like a lot of good clean fun. If you've ever been given a sponge bath lying down on a massage table, you'll know what I mean.

3. Horizontal Shower controls

You can control temperature and intensity of the spray with this panel, called eTools. According to its manufacturer Dornbracht, you can choose from your favorite shower "choreography," including balancing, energizing or de-stressing effects.

[via Technabob]

4. Synergy Aircraft

Thanks to this futuristic Synergy Aircraft's diminutive size and double-boxed tail, it's hyper-efficient. The idea is to give ordinary families the ability to fly in fancy, cool airplanes like this, say its creators, with an eye toward making the second century of flight a whole lot easier.

With that small size and those weird-looking wings comes increased speed and easy handling, something that will make this high-tech plane whole lot more attractive to people like you and me. It's aKickstarter project, and if it reaches its goal of $65,000, it might just get built sooner than anyone thought.

I think I'd rather have a flying car.

5. Porsche 918 Hybrid

The eagerly anticipated Porsche 918 plug-in hybrid is now in prototype form, screaming along roads somewhere on this planet. Peruse these alluring pics of the 770 hp beast, just rolled out this week in monochromatic livery for your astonishment.

Even though there's a mid-engine that's aspirated normally, it's got a couple of electric motors assisting -- one cranking the front wheels and another handling the back pair.

Porsche 918 Hybrid Rear

You'd think with all of those horses under the hood, this brute would be gobbling gas, but because of its electro-coolness along for the ride, it gets the equivalent of 78 miles per gallon. That's especially impressive considering the 918's 0-to-60 time of 3 seconds and top speed of 200mph.

Porsche 918 Hybrid Side

But honestly, miles per gallon? When you're spending $845,000 on a supercar like this, who's counting? It's so beautiful it's downright scary, making it even harder to wait until September, 2013 for its initial delivery.

[via Inhabitat]

6. Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon Ultrabook

We're keeping an eye on the pack of Ultrabooks currently in mid-explosion, and now Lenovo surprises us with its claim of the lightest Ultrabook ever: It's the impressively named ThinkPad X1 Carbon Ultrabook, a 14-inch laptop touted as "amazingly thin and extremely powerful."

Packed with one of those prodigious new Intel Ivy Bridge processors, this one presses all the right buttons, with a backlit keyboard, high-definition display, a RapidCharge battery that reaches a "near-full" battery charge in a half an hour and an under-3-pound weight.

Lenovo's not talking price yet, but this lustworthy carbon-fiber laptop can't be cheap.

7. iPhone 5 Tall Boy

iPhone 5 rumors heated up to an even higher fever pitch this week, with additional credible sources crowing about a bigger iPhone screen with a diagonal dimension of at least 4 inches. Okay, okay -- we believe that, but we wanted to see pictures.

And here they are in the form of a design concept from one of our favorite illustrators, Federico Ciccarese. This handset looks like a thinner, stretched-out version of the iPhone 4S, with a 16x9 screen that gives you just enough room for an additional row of icons.

iPhone 5 Tall Boy

And look there on the back: is that substance the much-vaunted LiquidMetal? I certainly hope so. Come on, new iPhone -- you can't get here a moment too soon!

[via Macrumors]

8. Sony Wireless Power

It's hard to believe wireless power is even possible, but it most certainly is, and Sony has just filed a patent showing how it's getting closer to perfecting it. Sony's figured out how to precisely locate a device so its wireless power loss will still be in the practical range.

Sony's even figured out a way to daisychain devices, having one gadget sending power to another, as long as all are within the most efficient range. I think the most useful application of this technology will be used for charging electric cars, letting you jump out of the car and run into your house without having to deal with plugs and wires.

[via Engadget]

9. Netgear Adapter for Faster Wi-Fi

Netgear and the rest of the Wi-Fi industry are gearing up for the next protocol for your home networking, and it's called the tongue-twisting name 802.11ac. This week, the company rolled out a slightly lower-priced router ($179.99, available Q3) similar to the $199.99 R6300 (available this month) we told you about a few weeks ago that embraces the new protocol, and it also showed us this interesting bauble: a $60 dual-band adapter (model A6200) that you can use with laptops and desktop PCs. The adapter will be available in the third quarter of this year.

Why should you care? Well, this new 802.11ac Wi-Fi will be three times faster than the fastest Wi-Fi connections are today, and it'll cost about the same. Its range will be significantly wider than today's Wi-Fi, and it's backward-compatible with all the Wi-Fi devices you currently own.

Better yet, soon you won't even need a little adapter like this -- Netgear told me the new protocol is well on its way to universal adoption, where the faster Wi-Fi will eventually be built into most devices that use wireless networking -- and it will be approaching the speeds of wired networks. Wow.

10. iCar

There was talk this week about Steve Jobs's dream of an iCar, whispered to Apple board member Mickey Drexler and repeated to Fast Company.

iCar 3/4 View

Although drawings of this Steve Jobs fantasy haven't surfaced (yet?), designer Franco Grassi showed off his interpretation of what such a car might look like, depicting a radical design that seems perfect for warm climates, and perhaps functioning as a dune buggy.

iCar Interior

Of course, there's an iPad front-and-center, along with the steering wheel from an alien spacecraft. We're assuming there are clear glass panels that slide into place for inclement weather.

iCar Side

That is quite a rakish silhouette, isn't it? If only it were real.

iCar at Leisure

Now, here we go. It's a golf cart, right? We kid, but people probably made fun of the Wright brothers' aircraft, too.

[via Ubergizmo]

The futuristic tech we found this week was so radical, it was getting hard for us to separate fantasy from reality. The week was swarming with future cars, efficient aircraft, brand-new Windows 8 screenshots, yet another peek at the iPhone 5 with its almost-confirmed bigger screen, and even a sexy new way to take a shower.

Yes, it was as if we had our own time machine, jumping into its cockpit and finding faster Wi-Fi, wireless power, and perhaps even discovering everyone in the future will be above-average. Well, perhaps that’s going a bit too far.

But you haven’t gone too far; in fact, dear reader, you’ve come to the right place, where we give you a sneak peek into the future with Top 10 Tech This Week.

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Source: Mashable

14 May, 2012

New 15-Inch MacBook Pro Will Have Retina Display, Ultra-Thin Design [RUMOR]

New 15-Inch MacBook Pro Will Have Retina Display, Ultra-Thin Design [RUMOR]
14/05/2012 by Stan Schroeder on Mashable

The new, 15-inch MacBook Pro will be a significant departure from the current design, with a retina display and an ultra-thin profile, 9to5Mac claims citing sources from Apple‘s supply chain.

It will be so thin, in fact, that it won’t have room for an optical drive, just like its lightweight cousin MacBook Air.

Other design changes include a power button on the keyboard itself (replacing the eject button) and, possibly, the lack of an Ethernet port (replaced by an extra Thunderbolt port).

The MacBook Pro’s new Retina display is described as “definitely the most important Mac innovation in years” by the sources who’ve handled a prototype of the device. The specifics are unknown, but users should be able to choose between several Retina resolution modes.

Finally, the new 15-inch MacBook Pro will have USB 3.0 support, and the latest Ivy Bridge processors from Intel are a safe bet, too.

If these rumors are true, the new 15-inch MacBook Pro might be one of the most important MacBook devices to see the light of day in recent years.

How do you like these specifications? What do you think about a 15-inch MacBook Pro without an optical drive? Share your opinions in the comments.

BONUS: Could the iPhone 5 Look Like This?

Based on some of the latest rumors regarding the upcoming iPhone, artist Jon Fawcett created concept pictures of what he thinks Apple’s newest iPhone will look like.

The iPhone 5 Might Look Like This [PICS]
14/05/2012 by Emily Price on Mashable

The iPhone 5 is rumored to be coming later this year, with an official announcementexpected in June around Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC).

Based on some of the latest rumors regarding the phone and what we can expect, one artist, Jon Fawcett, created some concept pictures of what he thinks Apple’s newest iPhone will look like when it hits store shelves.

Rumor has it that the next version of the iPhone will be made of LiquidMetal. A mix of several different metals, LiquidMetal could allow the phone to be more durable. Light like plastic but durable like aluminum, it would also allow the phone to weigh less and have a thinner profile.

Measuring at 4.14″ x 2.25″, Fawcett’s concept phone is just 7mm thick and has a 4-inch widescreen multitouch display. The phone has a 10-megapixel rear-facing camera, 5-megapixel forward-facing cam for video chatting, and quad speakers for listening to tunes or watching videos in both portrait and landscape mode.

Fawcett isn’t affiliated with Apple in any way, and doesn’t really know what the newest version of the phone will look like — the pictures, however, are pretty impressive and can offer a glimpse at what might potentially be in store for us later this year.

Beyond aesthetics, the newest iPhone is also rumored to have updated specs under the hood, including a faster processor and NFC capabilities.

Check out the gallery below for a look at the concept iPhone 5. Do you think Apple’s next iPhone will look like this?

LiquidMetal iPhone 5 Concept

Here’s a bonus gallery of more iPhone 5 pics — another interpretation of what a LiquidMetal iPhone might look like:

Source: Mashable