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Google Catalogs Puts All Your Holiday Shopping In One App
Google has announced its latest service, this time targeting the retail industry just in time for the holidays. Google Catalogs is an app that organizes your favorite look books, keeping them current and in one place. It enables you to curate product collages that can be shared (most likely on Google+) with your friends, family, and colleagues. The Catalogs service collects content from over 125 b... [Read More]
Riots, Pepper Spray, Oh My!
It has been crazy over the weekend and we are not just talking about Thanksgiving. Yesterday (Sunday), a crowd of 3,000 people trooped to one store in Jakarta, Indonesia, in anticipation for the retail launch of the BlackBerry Bold 9790. Research In Motion promised a 50 percent discount on the handset for the first 1,000 buyers and when the announcement came that the phone had sold out, things tur... [Read More]
Researchers Introduce Terminator-Style Contact Lenses
A group of scientists in University of Washington in Seattle introduces a new type of contact lenses that can project images in front of the eyes. Wearers would be able to read floating texts and e-mails, as well as augment their sense of sight with computer-generated images. This Terminator-style technology has undergone trials on rabbits, which so far show the lenses are safe and feasible. There... [Read More]
Future Chrome Updates To Include Gamepad Support
Google developer advocate Paul Kinlain revealed that Google Chrome web browser will come up with game-centric updates come early 2012. In a recent Develop conference in Liverpool, he stated that these updates include a plug-and-play gamepad, webcam, and microphone support in Chrome, as well as the implementation of WebRTC open-source video chat application. These updates would provide seamless vid... [Read More]
Worst Password List Revealed
Mashable has published a list of worst passwords. The list, which were provided by productivity app developer SplashData, consists of keywords and combination of numbers that are commonly utilized by Internet users. The worst password list includes the obvious ones like: password, 123456, 12345678, and abc123. Other passwords consist of commonly-used words for passwords such as trustno1, letmein, ... [Read More]
Air Touch by DisplAir Projects and Controls Images Out of Thin Air
A company based in southern Russia introduces a prototype technology that projects images into thin air and use gestures to manipulate them. The Air Touch system, developed by DisplAir, uses a stream of cold fog to display images and an intrared camera to detect gestures. Unlike the Microsoft Kinect that senses body movements, the Air Touch can be controlled just by the hands. The Air Touch has 0.... [Read More]
Personal Audio Sues Kindle Fire Over Patent Infringement
Personal Audio is back again in its patent trolling ways. After successfully suing Apple for infringing its patent about "downloadable playlists," which ended with an $8 million settlement, the Texas-based patent licensing company filed a patent infringement complaint against Amazon. Personal Audio did the same thing all over: filing the case again in the Eastern District of Texas federal court (w... [Read More]
Microsoft Announces Kinect for Windows PCs
Microsoft may be slow in embracing its Kinect's more extensive functionalities, which have long been tapped by hackers, but at least it is better than not at all. After announcing the Kinect for Windows commercial program, which will be launched in early 2012, as well as the Kinect Accelerator grant program for potential Kinect-based startups, Microsoft has confirmed a new Kinect hardware for Wind... [Read More]
Microsoft And TechStars Launch Grant Program for Kinect-Based Startups
When Kinect was launched for the Xbox 360, no one thought that this motion capture device can do things beyond its gaming capacity. But since its release, the Kinect has become a device for hackers ranging from student teams to noted researchers, all whie the device itself does not have that many commercial applications. But all these might change as Microsoft and TechStars launch the Kinect Accel... [Read More]
Gogo Launches Live Trials With Air China
Gogo, a company that provides in-flight entertainment solutions, has forged an agreement with Air China to provide a trial of its services. The first live trial on a commercial flight was done on November 15 flight from Beijing to Chengdu on a Boeing 737. More trials are expected to continue through the first quarter of 2012. Gogo offers a lightweight, wireless in-flight entertainment system that ... [Read More]