Hasta La Gadget!

Since the days of Walt “Clyde” Frasier and Earl “The Pearl” Monroe, basketball players have always heeded the call of the fashion world, ready to don a flashy suit and bedazzle the lenses of whatever camera is pointed their way. Between the post-game faux frames, the hipster beards (honorable mention: James Harden!), and the occasional monocle, today’s N.B.A. basketball stars continue that tradition, making sure to put a great distance between their fashionable duds and Michael Jordan’s ill-fitting suits.

Read More…
More on Sunday Magazine

Most people would buy a Bluetooth controller if they decide to keep an old phone for gaming, but one particular user from Chinese site Zoopda was struck with a better idea. Kissing his plan to buy a Bluetooth add-on goodbye, he instead spent a weekend adding steampunk-inspired accoutrements to his Palm Pre 2. Check out a video of the tricked out phone in action after the break. It’s not in English, but it might give you an idea of what to do with your old handheld devices in case you’re looking for something to go with your goggles and Victorian-era laptop.

Filed under: Cellphones, Misc

Comments

Source: Zoopda

Like a spider’s web stops a fly in flight, a patent-pending man-made
fibrous web stops a bedbug in its tracks. Commercialized as Fibertrap,
this material, created in the laboratories of Stony Brook University’s
Center for Advanced Technology in Sensor Materials, has tested effective
not only for trapping bedbugs, but also for stopping termites in their
tracks.

At a time when stress levels in the workplace are higher than ever before and young people are coming of age as America’s “most stressed generation,” we need a new way to define success beyond the two standard metrics of wealth and power. To [discuss the]DEFINE A new “third metric” of success, leaders from the business world and beyond will gather for “The Third Metric: Redefining Success Beyond Money And Power,” The Huffington Post’s first-ever women’s conference, hosted by Arianna Huffington and Mika Brzezinski, on June 6, 2013.

“Right now, the two metrics of success that drive the American workplace are money and power, but by themselves, they make a two-legged stool — fine for balancing on for a short time, but after a while, you’re headed for a fall,” Arianna Huffington, president and editor-in-chief of the Huffington Post Media Group, wrote in a recent blog post. “And guided by this limited definition of success, more and more “successful” people are falling. So what we need is a more humane and sustainable definition of success that includes well-being, wisdom, wonder, empathy, and the ability to give back.”

Click through the slideshow below for recommended reading from [conference speakers and panelists]LINK TO LINEUP/SCHEDULE, and other books that embody the spirit of the new third metric of success.

Read More…
More on The Third Metric

In December, word surfaced that ZTE would be showing off the Grand S, which was being hailed as the world’s thinnest phablet, at CES 2013. Such was the case, and we got our hands on the giant smartphone back in January. Since hitting shelves, some feedback of the smartphone has been of the critical variety, with some consumers taking issue with the small non-removable battery. Such complaints have been addressed with the Grand S Flex.

The folks over at Frandroid, a French Android-centric website, got their hands on two ZTE smartphones, one being the ZTE Grand S Flex, and the other being a handset called the ZTE Blade G, which is the next generation of the ZTE Blade smartphone. They posted some pictures of both handsets, which you can check out in the gallery below to get an idea of their size and style.

The ZTE Grand S phablet sadly did not have the kind of battery you’d expect to find in a phablet, offering a low-capacity 1780mAh battery, something depleted quickly by the hardware and screen size of the handset. Things will be improved on the ZTE Grand S Flex, however, which is said to feature a girth-expanding 2300mAh battery.

On the flipside, we also see the update to the ZTE Blade, simply dubbed the ZTE Blade G. This handset is black in the photographs, though it is possible other colors will be offered. According to Frandroid, the smartphone features a dual-core 1.2GHz Qualcomm processor, as well as 512MB of RAM, and a 4.5-inch display with a lowish resolution of 854 x 480. The battery is a decent 2000mAh.

The specs for the ZTE Blade G aren’t eye-catching, but they’re certainly decent and point towards what we’re guessing will be a price tag on the lower side of things. The ZTE Grand S Flex is reportedly slated for launch in France this upcoming September, with no word on other locations. The ZTE Blade G, on the other hand, will be launched sometime this summer.

SOURCE: Unwired Review

ZTE Grand S Flex and Blade G images and specs surface is written by Brittany Hillen & originally posted on SlashGear.
© 2005 – 2012, SlashGear. All right reserved.