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No matter you’re deciding if you should wait and get the Samsung Galaxy S4 next week, making sure you don’t have buyer’s remorse from just having purchased your Galaxy S3, or perhaps just plain curious, CNET makes it easy to compare the two sibling handsets with this chart.

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Vassar computer science professor Greg Priest-Dorman dons Glass.

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By the time the next presidential election rolls around in the United States, millions of us could be watching the results on our Google Glass. That might not seem crazy, being that the election will be only months after the 2016 Summer Olympics in Brazil, which will be broadcast, viewed, and shared by many via Glass.

This is only a snippet of what the near future could hold if predictions made by research firm IMS come true.

IMS’ most optimistic forecast finds that shipments of “smart glasses” — including Glass and similar products from competitors — could total almost 10 million worldwide over the next four years. The firm’s projections show big jumps in shipments, from 434,000 units next year to more than 2 million in 2015 and 6.6 million in 2016.

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From now until 2015, IMS estimates shipments of smart glasses will be driven mostly by sales to developers, such as those who have been able to get their hands on the Google Glass Explorer Edition for $1,500 a piece. The firm predicts the success of Glass “will depend primarily on the applications devel… [Read more]

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An engineering team at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln have just developed a new nanofiber that is simultaneously tough and strong. Strength determines how well a material can carry a load, while toughness determines how much energy is required to break said material. Before, it was believed that you would have to sacrifice one attribute for the other, but the UNL team were able to prove that theory wrong. They discovered that by making nanofiber more thinner than it was ever done before, they could give the material not just more strength, but toughness as well.

The team is comprised of Yuris Dzenis, the team’s leader as well as a McBroom Professor of Mechanical and Materials Sciences at UNL, and his engineering colleagues Dimitry Papkov, Yan Zou, Mohammad Nahid Andalib, Alexander Goponenko, and Stephen Z.D. Cheng. The National Science Foundation, the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, and the U.S Army Research Office Multidisciplinary University Research Intiative all provided the funding for the group’s research.

The UNL team developed the thin, polyacrilonitrile nanofiber using a technique known as electrospinning, where they applied high voltage to the synthetic polymer related to acrylic until a small jet of liquid ejected. This resulted in “a continuous length of nanofiber”. The team stated that while the strength of the nanofiber came from its thinness, its toughness resulted from the “nanofibers’ low crystallinity”.

Dzenis says that this new nanofiber could be used to transform anything made of composite materials. He stated that body armor, airplanes, bridges, bicycles and more could benefit from this new material. He used body armor as an example, and pointed out that in order for body armor to stop a bullet, it needs material that can absorb the bullet’s energy, which these nanofibers are capable of doing. He says,

“If structural materials were tougher, one could make products more lightweight and still be very safe.”

[via University of Nebraska-Lincoln]

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In an email to press, HTC took the opportunity to make a few clarifications about the injunction filed by Nokia this week regarding the dual-membrane microphone in the One. The preliminary injunction claims that the high-amplitude mic, which HTC uses in its flagship device, was supposed to be manufactured exclusively for the Finnish company (and currently used in the Lumia 720). If you’ve been wondering how this particular action would affect sales of the high-end HTC handset, spokespeople assure us that it’s business as usual for the company. According to its official statement, the One is not the actual target of any injunction in The Netherlands — in actuality, the legalities of the matter are apparently only between Nokia and STMicroelectronics, the supplier of the component in question.

HTC tells us that Nokia’s attempts to institute a recall of the One failed; since the products were purchased in good faith, the ruling states that HTC can continue to use microphones that are in its inventory. Despite having a history rich in manufacturing delays, we’re told that this legal ruling will have no effect on the One’s availability. The Taiwanese phone maker plans a transition to “improved microphone designs” as soon as its current stock of STM supplies has been exhausted, a move which HTC claims will be transparent to consumers. Head below to see the full statement.

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Over the years, we’ve seen people take their love for Mario Kart to the streets with even students at MIT joining in on the Mario Kart fun. But leave it to Japan to take something like a real-life Mario Kart and completely take it to the next level.

The two Mario Kart fans were spotted on the mean streets somewhere in Japan by a friend of Redditor justicefreedomlogic. Both “Mario” and “Luigi” were seen zipping down a freeway in Mario Kart-inspired vehicles that resembled the very karts both Mario and Luigi drive in their respective game series. Not only were their karts decked out in a Mario and Luigi paint scheme, but both drivers even dressed up as the iconic characters during their drive. (more…)

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