Before the Food Network, it was Julia Child’s cooking show that encouraged America to ditch their TV dinners and get back to experimenting in the kitchen. And it worked, although it encouraged inventors to come up with a glut of overly-specialized food prep tools that promise to make life in the kitchen a lot easier. More »
Amidst all the exciting chaos from yesterday’s events, Canadian availability of Motorola’s newfangled RAZR HD were wistfully lost. Fret not, however, as the Google-owned outfit has let it be known that its recently announced 4.7-inch slab will be coming to Canada as an exclusive to Rogers — not to mention with a slightly tweaked moniker. The RAZR HD LTE — as it’ll be known in Great White North territory — is still the same unit we got our grubby paws on, meaning you’ll have the same 8.4mm thin body, 2,500mAh battery, dual-core, 1.5GHz S4 CPU and, naturally, that trademark Kevlar backing found on the RAZR family. There’s no word yet on how much folks will have to shell out once it hits Canadian shelves “this fall,” but there is a registration page open for anyone interested in being kept in the loop — link to that is just down below.
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From outside a massive hangar in Los Angeles, California, grown men and women — members of the press — just literally ran into the venue for Amazon’s special 2012 press event.
A next-generation Fire is expected, along with updated Kindle ereaders and a whole lot of content deals.
We even caught wind of a new serialized fiction deal just last night, so expect to hear quite a bit.
We’re told this is going to be a long press conference, but fear not. I’ll be right here with you from beginning to finish.
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Some people have green thumbs while others are known for their plant-killing black thumbs. The former are naturally great at keeping their potted plants and gardens alive and green, while the latter are notoriously known for causing plants to die or wilt a few weeks after they start ‘caring’ for them.
Regardless which group you might belong to, I’m pretty sure you’ll find the Wi-Fi Plant Sensor useful. All you have to do is stick it into your plant’s pot and log on online (or run the iOS app it works with). Select what species your plant is and keep the sensor there for a week, because that’s how long it’ll take for the sensor’s app to come up with a care plan specifically put together for your plant.
After seven days, you can move the sensor to another plant to start the whole process all over again.
The Wi-Fi Plant Sensor was designed in Switzerland by Koubachi and is available for CHF 99.00 (~$104 USD.)
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Researchers have been working on this for a very long time and now they have finally achieved it: scientists at North Carolina State University have successfully remotely controlled cockroaches. Watch the video. It’s both disgusting and impressive, but it could save your life one day. More »
The next time you grab the humble toothbrush to keep your pearly whites nice and clean, do remember that it is not only capable of putting tartar and plaque issues at bay, but with a little bit of ingenuity, a couple of astronauts managed to replaced a vital power unit on the International Space Station today with the help of a toothbrush. Of course, the toothbrush was not the only exclusive repair tool, but rather, the sum of a whole, but it is definitely the most unique tool out there thanks to a little innovation and improvisation.
NASA astronaut Sunita Williams and Japanese spaceflyer Akihiko Hoshide were the ones who performed this spacewalk repair with a toothbrush to help them out along the way. Certainly there should be some McGyver blood running through the veins of those astronauts, don’t you think so? I for one, will never look at my toothbrush in the same way ever again. How about you? I guess it did not matter whether the toothbrush was electronic or otherwise.
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Fans of the torrent-juggling desktop client can now get their downloads direct to their mobile device, because uTorrent’s launched a beta app for any Android device running version 2.1 or higher. It’s currently free, with RSS support, fully adjustable upload and download speeds and the ability to play games in the background as you wait for your files. There’s currently no limit on download sizes either — just so long as you can stomach the data charges.
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We had an extended look at the Nokia Lumia 920 this week courtesy of Nokia and Microsoft, complete with a brief glance at the difference between standard and PureView photography technology. What you’re about to see is a look at the unibody-like design of the hardware first, then a vision of what it means to work with Windows Phone 8 with Nokia-specific additions like Nokia City Lens and wireless charging right out of the box. And of course you’ll have Microsoft’s full suite of Office apps to back you up as well, SkyDrive included!
Have a peek first at how Nokia presents an updated vision for their Lumia line with a lovely 4.5-inch display and a body that’s 10.7mm thick, 70.8mm wide, and 130.3mm tall. You’ll be seeing a bit of a “smile” at the top and bottom of the device as the front stays flat under the pillow of the display glass and the back curves to the contour of your hand. This device is available in yellow, red, white, gray, and black, and will be available to actually own later this year – price and release dates have not yet been revealed, mind you.
Inside you’ve got a dual-core Snapdragon S4 Processor, inside you’ve got NFC capabilities as well as wireless charging abilities right out of the box, and the whole shebang will be available eventually with GSM, WCDMA, and 4G LTE connectivity as well! This device works with a microSIM card, has 1GB RAM and 32GB internal storage – with 7GB cloud storage free via SkyDrive.
Of course one of the most fabulous elements in this device is its Carl Zeiss Tessar lens working with 8.7 megapixels of power with PureView technology. You’ve got a glorious bit of technology under the hood here, folks, ready for image stabilization, lightening of dark environments, and such vibrant scenes as you’ve never seen before. Have a peek at our hands-on photos and video above and below and don’t forget to hit the timeline below as well for more key points from the Nokia event – and stay tuned for more Lumia and Windows 8!
Nokia Lumia 920 hands-on extended cut: City Lens and PureView is written by Chris Burns & originally posted on SlashGear.
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In this corner, we have recording artists – those beleagured believers clinging dearly to the notion that they can quit their day jobs, just like their tune-slinging forebears did. As many have pointed out, they don’t make much per stream from even today’s most popular streaming services – about $0.003 from iTunes Match and $0.001 from Spotify, according Josh Davidson, whose September 3 tweet sparked this latest round of speculation. More »
Greetings from Los Angeles, home of the second-place Dodgers and a host of brand-new Kindles. Amazon’s mega major event starts in an hour or so, but we’re firing up the liveblog now to get you up to speed on what the scene is like and what we’re expecting to see. Join us, won’t you? More »
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