Jun 18

Insert Coin: Air Guitar Move for iPhone (video)

Posted in: app, AppleIphone, AppStore, guitar, ios, iPhone, IphoneApp, Music, Today's Chili, video

In Insert Coin, we look at an exciting new tech project that requires funding before it can hit production. If you’d like to pitch a project, please send us a tip with “Insert Coin” as the subject line.


We’re not sure proper air guitarists would ever consider adding a bonafide pick to their cherished imaginary pastime, but what if a petite plastic plectrum could turn those strokes into stringed acoustics that more than just you can hear? That’s the idea behind Air Guitar Move, a $50 motion-sensing guitar pick that pairs with a dedicated iPhone app using a single dock-connected string. The minds behind Move aren’t new to product design — Colin Karpfinger created Thumbies, a suction cup-based gaming control accessory for iPhone, and Ronald Mannak has launched other freestyle electronic toys, including the V-Beat AirDrums and AirGuitar — so if they meet their $25,000 funding goal, we imagine that we’ll have a very solid iPhone accessory on our hands.

A $39 pledge gets you a single Move with a 20 percent discount, and a pledge of $49 will net you a pick from the first shipment, so you’ll be strumming away a month before folks in the first group. The creators have yet to commit to a ship date, but head over to Kickstarter if you’d like to make a pledge, or jump past the break for the intro video and an update on our last featured product, ZionEyez.

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Jun 18

Twitter is Exploding in Popularity, but wait, what is it?

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This article was written on March 16, 2007 by CyberNet.

TwitterYou’re probably already sick of the word Twitter. I know, I’m just about at that point too. It wasn’t long ago that I hadn’t even heard of it, but lately it seems to have exploded in popularity. I was getting sick of seeing the word “Twitter” everywhere I went, yet I really didn’t know what it was. Yesterday I decided to search around and read up on the thousands of people writing about it. In case you are unfamiliar like I was, here’s Twitter in a nutshell:

  • Twitter calls themselves a community of friends (and strangers) who answer the question, “What are you doing?”
  • You can constantly update your friends with your answer to the above mentioned question by phone, IM, or on the Web.
  • You’re given 140 characters (it’s not much) to get your message across.

With everybody answering that one simple question, “what are you doing”, it’s a lazy way to keep in touch with your friends.  It eliminates the need to call your friends to see how they are doing, or what they’re up to because they’ll have already answered that question with an informal, impersonal Twitter message.

Do you really need or want to know what everybody is doing? I don’t know about you, but I’m okay with not knowing when someone is stuck in a traffic jam, or when they’ve stopped at the grocery store. I’m sure there are also plenty of instances of TMI (too much information) that people could do without.

I think part of the explosion occurred at SXSW where hundreds of people were using Twitter and talking about it. And it seems that either people love it, or they don’t. There’s really no in-between. If you must stay connected at the hip with everybody around you, this would probably be the best way. It’s also being used for “micro-blogging” with short snippet posts (remember, only 140 characters) using SMS.

While I haven’t used it, the idea of updating my life for everyone to see isn’t really my thing. I like personal phone messages with friends and family to get updates, not text messages. Despite this, I could see some benefits to using it.

If you have a question that you don’t know the answer to, you could easily send it out to all of your friends and get multiple responses back. For example, if you’re going out for dinner and you want to know what the best Thai restaurant is in town, just ask, and then get all of your friends responses back.Another benefit might be if you’re hanging out with a group of people for a night out on the town, Twitter would be a good way to keep track of everybody and where they’re at.

If you’re not a Twitter user yet, but it sounds intriguing, Webware put together a Newbie’s Guide to Twitter so that you can get yourself caught-up with the frenzie.

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Jun 18

NYU medical center goes sci-fi, scans patients’ palms

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PatientSecureNYU’s Langone Medical Center is getting a jump on that whole 21st-century medical care thing by ditching the clipboards and paperwork for palm scans and digital databases. On June 5th the hospital threw the switch on an electronic patient-tracking program from Epic Systems and paired it with biometric identification technology from PatientSecure, which scans the veins in persons hands using near-infrared light. Instead of being forced to fill out forms with your insurance info and social security number every time you visit, you simply place your hand on a scanner and — ta-da! — your records come right up. By combining the vasculature scans (which are even more unique than fingerprints) with patient photos, NYU should be able to minimize misidentification and cut down on duplicate records. Rather than go out on some cheesy pun about palm reading, we’ll leave the predictable word play to the folks at ABC news — check out their coverage after the break alongside PR from the Langone Medical Center.

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Jun 18

Stupid kids show us why you shouldn’t hit an iPod

Posted in: Apple, ipod, ipod touch, Today's Chili

Regardless of who manufactures an electronic device, to sell it in the U.S. it has pass a number of stringent safety tests. That means we can buy and use the device safe in the knowledge it isn’t going to harm us. What those tests don’t guarantee is that a device will continue to work when […]

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Jun 18

Sun’s coronal ejections caused by magnetic ropes, galactic weathermen to predict solar storms?

Posted in: NASA, solar, Today's Chili

Space weather gets nasty when the sun starts shooting plasma into the cosmos, and these solar storms wreak havoc on both satellites and gadgets here on earth. Scientists want to predict the sun’s eruptions so we can protect our gear (and know the best time to go tanning), and George Mason University researchers have made a discovery that may help us do so. By examining images from NASA’s Solar Dynamic Observatory spacecraft, Professor Jie Zhang and grad student Xin Cheng determined that magnetic ropes are causing coronal ejections. The ropes are formed by several magnetic fields wrapped around each other, and scientists believe they can carry electrical currents strong enough to cause the plasma bursts. Prior to an eruption, Zhang observed a low-lying channel with unique electromagnetic properties (believed to be a magnetic rope) heat a portion of the sun’s surface up to 10 million degrees. Once hot enough, the spot spewed forth copious amounts of the plasma and magnetic energy that gives GPS units and phones fits. Now that we know what gets Helios all riled up, we just need to find a way to calm him down. Close-ups of the sun in its tizzy are after the break.

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Jun 18

Tactus touch screen sprouts keys and buttons

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Silicon Valley start-up’s touch screen grows 3D buttons and knobs where and when you want them, promising the best of real and virtual controls.

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Jun 18

Daily Downloads: RSS Bandit, 7-Zip, QT TabBar, and More

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This article was written on December 27, 2007 by CyberNet.

RSS Bandit 7Zip Logos Icons Welcome to Daily Downloads brought to you by CyberNet! Each weekday we bring you the Windows software updates for widely used programs, and it’s safe to assume that all the software we list is freeware (we’ll try to note the paid-only programs).

As you browse the Internet during the day, feel free to post the software updates you come across in the comments below so that we can include them the following day!

–Stable Releases–

The software listed here have all been officially released by the developers.

  • QT TabBar 1.2 [Homepage] [Release Notes] [Review]
    Type of Application: Tabs in Windows Explorer
    Changes: Tab close button, drag & drop, bug fixes, and more
  • RSS Bandit 1.6 [Homepage] [Release Notes] [Review]
    Type of Application: Feed reader
    Changes: Shows most popular links over the past week, new twitter plugin for posting links or replies, and bug fixes

–Pre-Releases (Alpha, Beta, etc…)–

The software listed here are pre-releases that may not be ready for everyday usage.

  • 7-Zip 4.58 [Homepage] [Release Notes] [Mirror]
    Release: Alpha 1
    Type of Application: Compressor and extractor
    Changes: Minor improvements
  • Vista/XP Virtual Desktop Manager 0.7 [Homepage] [Review]
    Release: Release Candidate
    Type of Application: Virtual desktops
    Changes: Sticky applications, show all windows, and bug fixes

–Release Calendar–

  • Early 2008 – Vista SP1 [Review]
  • Early 2008 – XP SP3 [Review]
  • January, 2008 – PhraseExpress 5 [Review]
  • January 10 – Ubuntu 8.04 Alpha 3
  • January 15, 2008 – Mac Office 2008 [Review]
  • January 24, 2008 – WordPress 2.4
  • February, 2008 – iPhone SDK [Review]
  • February, 2008 – Deskscapes 2.0 [Review]
  • February 27, 2008 – Windows Server 2008 [Review]
  • March 4, 2008 – OpenOffice.org 2.4
  • April 24, 2008 – Ubuntu 8.04
  • September 2, 2008 – OpenOffice.org 3.0 [Review]
  • 2009 – Paint.NET 4.00 [Review]
  • 2010 – Windows 7 [Review]

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Jun 18

This week in Crave: The flying-high edition

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This week, we attempted liftoff in the Hoverbike, got caught lying to an ATM, and whiffed the possibilities of TVs with Smell-O-Vision.

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Jun 18

Kobo eReader Touch Edition goes on sale in the US and Canada

Posted in: e reader, e-book, e-books, e-readers, Today's Chili
At the moment, there are two very similar-looking e-readers with black-and-white Pearl E Ink touchscreens on the market, and now, the smaller and less expensive of the pair is up for grabs. The Kobo eReader Touch Edition went on sale today in the US and Canada for $129.99 (or $139.99 Canadian) at Best Buy, Borders, Walmart, and the Canadian bookseller Indigo. If you’ll recall, the 6-inch Kobo is thinner, lighter, and more compact than the Nook Touch, even though its screen is the same size. It also undercuts it by $10 but it lacks the convenience of any physical buttons. Could these trade-offs be worth the trimmer design? We’ll leave that to you and your wallet (and the guy who may or may not receive this as a last-minute Father’s Day gift).

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Jun 18

Jelly Belly cases make your iPhone smell edible, come in BlackBerry flavor

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There are 53 “official” Jelly Belly flavors available at present, few (if any) of which are MP3 compatible — strange, really, in an era where pretty much everything else is capable of music playback. The company’s new gadget cases are perhaps the next best thing, though despite the fact that they’ll add a candy-like scent to your iPhone, iPod touch, nano, or BlackBerry (sadly not this guy), biting into them will almost certainly void your warranty — and raise your dental co-pay. The cases are currently available and will run you $15 apiece, the same price as the new Jelly Belly-branded headphones, which are similarly recommended for external use only.

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