April 15th will be here before you know it, and it’s not like you’ve got complicated offshore holdings (or any holdings, for that matter), so why put off your taxes any longer than necessary? There are plenty of online services that let you do your taxes as soon as a you have your W-2. And unlike last year’s debacle at the CPA, you won’t be scolded for not putting on pants. More »
The marriage of social networking and television is nothing new, but Myriad recently launched Social TV, a white label solution which allows TV service providers to roll out their own custom social networking platform on your cable box. It complements services like Twitter, Facebook and Google+ by offering a more contextual way for viewers to interact with their friends while watching TV. Social TV provides an integrated HTML5 experience that’s consistent across both television and companion devices (phones and tablets). Viewers can chose between receiving alerts on their TVs, mobile devices or both and can create show- or series-specific virtual communities that automatically expire when the program ends. The system is even mindful of time zones and time-shifts messages to prevent spoilers. More after the break.
Gallery: Myriad Social TV hands-on
Filed under: Home Entertainment, Tablets, HD
Pictures speak a thousand words. A couple more hundred, if they’re really good. When arranged one after the other chronologically, you could even use them to tell your life’s story. Doing so, however, will take a lot of time and patience that you may not have.
Lucky for you, you can get Picturelife to do it all for you.
Picturelife is an app that you can use to sync all your photos from various social networking platforms to your computer. The app can grab images from numerous popular sites including Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Flickr, and Dropbox. After the images are synced, organized and de-duped, you can access and browse through all your life’s shots on your desktop, browser, or on your mobile device via their iOS and Android apps.
Memories are free to make. Unfortunately, they may not be free to organize in this case, because you’ll have to purchase a storage plan in order to start using Picturelife to back up your pictures – unless your life can be summed up in less than about 1700 photos (or 5GB.)
[via Laughing Squid]
Condoms are a life-saving piece of tech, and for being little more than uninflated latex balloons, they do their job pretty well if you wear them. That’s the part that Bill Gates is working on. No, he’s not going around as a one-man condom-police army, but he is offering $100,000 to anyone who can make a condom less of a bummer to wear. More »
(Credit: Kickstarter)
Last I checked, licking one’s finger and holding it up to the wind can be a fair indicator of what’s blowing.
But if you’re into activities like sailing, windsurfing, or flying your army of robot drones, you might want to check out Vaavud, a wireless wind meter that works with your smartphone.
The subject of a 20,000-pound ($30,456) Kickstarter campaign, Vaavud was developed by a Danish trio keen on windsurfing and kitesurfing.
You can plug the little wind meter into your phone’s audio jack, or simply hold it near your handset. It works wirelessly and doesn’t even have electronics.
The unit contains two magnets in the rotor that create a magnetic field when it spins. That effect can be measured by your phone’s magnetometer, with the results displayed in meters per second, mph, knots, etc.
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Yes we CAN! Most stores stack their food in the same old boring way, but there are some stores or should I say some people, that rise above the status quo and go above and beyond the call of duty – like the guys who set up Canstruction at the SouthCentre Mall in Calgary, Canada.
Obviously guys working on this exhibit really love a good game of Mario. Is it wrong that I want to see a Koopa shell knock this awesome sculpture down? Or see Toad’s Kart barrel into it? I hope someone topples this thing at the end of the exhibit. Is that mean? it’s not like the cans aren’t going to go to a good cause when they fall over – with all the canned goods going to the Calgary Inter-Faith Food Bank.
Anyway, it’s pretty awesome what some geeks can do with a few cans and a dream.
[via Geekologie via Obvious Winner]
Given much thought to picking up a Nook HD+? Neither has anyone else, which is why Barnes and Noble is keen to sweeten the potential deal by adding a pretty enticing bonus to the package: a free Nook Simple Touch. Free free free. More »
“There’s an app for that…”, or so the saying goes, and we are quite sure that iPhone as well as Android owners have far more installed apps than stock apps on their respective handsets. While Apple might seem to be on the backpedal when it comes to their iPhone at this point in time in terms of market share compared to the expanding Android footprint, do bear in mind that Apple’s App Store is a well respected cash cow for the Cupertino firm, so to speak, as the App Store still outsells Google’s Play Store by a rather hefty ratio in comparison – and we all know that there is money at the end of the apps rainbow. What happens when you take into account hardware accessories as well? This is where this unique iPhone microscope accessory would come in handy for the medical field.
An international team of researchers recently reported in The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene that they managed to make use of a very simple microscope which was self-constructed, where thanks to a lens that costs just $8, it has been placed over the iPhone 4S’s camera and held in place with some sticky tape, and it was successfully used to detect the eggs of soil-transmitted parasitic worms, otherwise known as helminths, if you want to get technical about it. When compared to the results shown by a proper microscope when diagnosing children in rural Tanzania, it was discovered that for some nematodes, the iPhone microscope is more than capable of detecting worm eggs.
Well, what can we say about that? It would be nice if this makeshift solution was able to measure up to the kind of performance found in actual microscopes, but I guess that further refinements need to be made to ensure that this will happen sometime down the road.
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[ iPhone microscope helps out the naked eye copyright by Coolest Gadgets ]
You know that soldiers are made out of tough stuff – if you were to get a bunch of geeks to defend the country’s honor, or to send them out to war, you would most probably end up making plenty of widows in the process, with mourning families in tow. No sir, a country needs a strong army to ensure that one’s sovereignty would not be trampled upon that easily, and churning out a tough batch of soldiers is easier said than done. Well, you might want to have some of these troopers around your home, too, where the £24.99 Soldier Doorstop will not stop advancing enemies, but rather, use their inherent toughness to prevent doors from slamming shut.
We know that war is hell, but ensuring that everyone around the home has enough peace and quiet is also important, as slamming doors not only send a shock down the spine of some of the weaker hearts around the home, they are also not too good for the ears in the long run, not to mention you might just have an extremely painful finger or two in the event that your finger/toe is parked somewhere on the doorpost itself by accident when a sudden gust of wind arrives. Made from sturdy plastic polyresin, the Soldier Doorstop tips the scales at a solid 1.75kg, ensuring he remains firmly entrenched whenever you place him, without suffering from fatigue or fear round the clock.
[ Soldier Doorstop ensures slamming doors are a thing of the past copyright by Coolest Gadgets ]
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