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Alt-week takes a look at the best science and alternative tech stories from the last seven days.
Science and research. Two of our favorite words around these parts. This week, we have both in spades. From the first good visualization of the solar system’s tail, to the prospect of diagnosing cancer through smell — this is alt-week.
It’s time to have a peek at the HTC Butterfly S once again, this time seeing how this DROID DNA-sized smartphone works with all the features of the HTC One along with not just one, but two SIM cards at once. There’s a bit of a “must have” feature out there for much of the world outside the USA, and that is the aforementioned ability to work with more than on SIM card at once, holding both of these micro-SIM-sized cards under the hood at once as well. This device is also appearing this week for the first time in black.
Where the first reveal of the HTC Butterfly S we saw white, red, and silver, with black expected to appear – again, eventually – with Verizon in the USA. The DROID DNA is the USA-bound version of the HTC Butterfly J, a device revealed several months before the HTC One, inside 2012 in that case. It was only a matter of time before black and red leaked (via LeaksChina) before the final drop.
Here with the Butterfly S, the consumer gets a 5-inch, 1080p Super LCD 3 display running alongside a healthy collection of HTC One-borne features. You’ve got a 4 UltraPixel camera on th back of this machine, 2 megapixel camera up front, and an HTC ImageChip 2 processor under the hood for added photo processing excellence. Under the hood you’ve got a Qualcomm Snapdragon 600 quad-core processor, just as the HTC One works with, this time clocked at 1.9 GHz.
Also inside is 2GB of RAM, Android 4.2.2 Jelly Bean, and the newest form of HTC’s own Sense user interface. This machine rings in at 144.5×70.5×10.89 mm in size, the same as the HTC Butterfly S without the ability to roll with more than on SIM card.
You’ll have to wait for the final machine to hit the market at least a few more weeks, as HTC hasn’t actually made this iteration of the Butterfly S public quite yet, and it’ll be more than just a few months before it gets to the USA. It’s far more likely that the USA will get a version of the Butterfly S without dual-SIM abilities than with, and as the HTC One is only just getting to carriers like Verizon here in the summer of 2013.
HTC Butterfly S dual-SIM edition appears: One Up! is written by Chris Burns & originally posted on SlashGear.
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A bittersweet moment for Boeing today as it’s been declared by investigators that yesterday’s fire aboard a Boeing 787 Dreamliner that occurred at London’s Heathrow airport was unrelated to the plane’s battery. While it’s good news that the redesigned battery isn’t failing again, it seems Boeing still has an issue with the new plane.
Britain’s Air Accident Investigation Branch released a statement on the incident and detailed where the fire was located, saying that there was “extensive heat damage in the upper portion of the rear fuselage,” and the batteries are located far from that area. Because of that, the AAIB says that “there is no evidence of a direct causal relationship.”
While it’s a good sign that it’s not another battery problem (considering that the FAA approved the new design for the battery), the fire is still unexplained, and the AAIB said it would take several days just to complete the initial investigation.
No matter what the cause of the fire was, this is not great news for the 787 or Boeing as a whole. The initial problems of the new aircraft already cost Boeing millions of dollars, and another grounding of the entire 787 fleet would just add insult to injury. The 787 was initially grounded by the FAA back in January after problems with the battery caused fires on several of the planes.
Luckily, there were no passengers on the plane at the time of the fire, and those who were on the plane were able to safely get off and weren’t injured. Again, the cause of the fire is still unknown, but it appears to have been an isolated incident, as the rest of the 787 fleet are continuing to fly.
VIA: Reuters
SOURCE: AAIB
IMAGE CREDIT: Boeing
Boeing 787 Dreamliner Heathrow fire unrelated to battery is written by Craig Lloyd & originally posted on SlashGear.
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Handwriting is dying out in general, but cursive especially. Does anyone under the age of twenty ever use it anymore? They will, if the minds behind Lernstift have anything to say about it. They’ve got a haptic smart-pen that will spellcheck your script, but does that really make it any more enticing?
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One reason that we prefer keyboards to pens is the dignity-saving presence of a spell checker — but that won’t help your average schoolchild, obligated to learn their language scrawling on dead trees. Now, a pair of German inventors have developed Lernstift, a learning pen that’ll ruthlessly nag you into improving your spelling and handwriting with the power of vibration. Packing a stripped-down Linux system with a non-optical motion sensor, it’ll work out what you’re writing and buzz you if it thinks you’ve made a mistake, even if you’re scrawling in mid-air. In addition, there’s a calligraphy mode, which’ll let you know exactly how you could make your penmanship a little more, you know, legible. The makers have taken to Kickstarter to raise £120,000 ($181,476) in funding, with a pledge of £99 ($150) snagging you a device. If you’re not sold, then you can head past the break, but we’ve already pre-ordered a ton for our local doctor’s office.
Filed under: Peripherals
Via: The Telegraph
Source: Kickstarter
This series of ANICASE iPhone covers demonstrates how a great product invention can arise from a good cause. Can philanthropic ideals launch your ideas as well?
Illustrator Elizabeth Sherry likes to make classical-style art based on videogame characters. No, not 8-bit. She went way more old school than that. Her digital paintings even have cracks and creases on them to make them look really old.
The one above is my favorite, but her Mario still life is a close second.
Elizabeth said she’ll be selling prints of her artwork at the Toronto Fan Expo, but she’s also accepting orders online. Head to her blog or her deviantART page to contact her and check out her other artwork.
[via Gamefreaks]
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