Jul 12
Jul 12
Is there anything more uninspired and unappetizing than a boring round cookie? Outside of known carcinogens, probably not. So if you’re looking for a way to spice up a glass of milk’s best friend, MakerBot has just released a custom software tool called the Cookie Cutter Customizer that allows you to turn freehand sketches into plastic cookie cutters.
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Jul 12
Audio Pioneer Amar Bose Is Dead
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Dr. Amar Bose, the man who founded one of the best-recognized consumer audio equipment brands in the United States has died at the age of 83. The MIT-trained electrical engineer, professor, and entrepreneur significantly altered the way people think about consumer audio, especially over the last few years as audio technology has become increasingly small and portable.
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Jul 12
Opinions about Bose’s consumer audio products aside, there’s no discrediting the extensive contributions its founder added to the world of amplified sound. On that note, we’re saddened to report that its Founder, Chairman and Technical Director, Dr. Amar Gopal Bose, has died — this, just two years after donating a majority of Bose Corporation shares to MIT. According to MIT News, after earning degrees in Electric Engineering at the college, he taught there from 1956 until 2001. While teaching, he studied physical and psycho-acoustics, which resulted in his patents in “acoustics, electronics, nonlinear systems and communication theory.” In 1964 he founded the company, Bose Corporation, that would bring us the well-known noise-cancelling headphones and audio systems that many have come cherish. An official statement from Bose Corp. and more info about the man himself can be found at the source links.
Filed under: Home Entertainment, Portable Audio/Video, Alt
Jul 12
This was a wonderfully exciting week to be an iPhone app. You know, assuming iPhone apps are sentient. But even if they aren’t, at least they can fake it now thanks to GroupMe’s adorable if not mildly bizarre emoji additions. And that’s just the beginning! Dive in to see all the great iPhone apps we’ve rounded up for you this week.
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Jul 12
Welcome to hot, sticky depths of summer. The initial giddiness has worn off, and in its wake you’ve found yourself knee deep in sweat and exhaustion. We’re here to help. This week’s Android apps are all about organization and giving you the tools you need to find that inner peace we all so desperately crave. Whether it’s keeping you up to date on news or giving you a notification center you’ve missed, we’ve got you covered.
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Jul 12
The iPad offerings were all over the place, jumping from intensive weather details to a news-reading puppy to enough emoji to ensure that you never have to use words for feelings ever again. But then again, that’s what life is all about, after all—anthropomorphized dogs and avoiding face-to-face human interactions at all costs. Or something like that.
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Jul 12
Old and busted: Missing your bus. New coolness: Misting your bus stop! The Chinese city of Chongqing is rolling out a cool mist spray system at several dozen city bus stops. Designed to operate much like the automatic misters in supermarket produce sections, the artificial clouds of chilled and purified water act to keep Chongqing’s commuters as cool as cucumbers.
Jul 12
It’s just a few weeks away: the Verizon HTC One, the smartphone introduced in February and out on carriers like AT&T and T-Mobile in the months that came soon after. Now the Verizon version of the device is headed to market and it would appear – not confirmed 100%, but just as well – that the HTC One will be appearing on big red on the first of August. Will it have been worth the wait, or will it be too late to care?
This device will still come with a 4.7-inch display with the highest pixels-per-inch resolution on the market at 441. That’s 1080p across the slightly-smaller-than-Samsung Galaxy S 4‘s display which rings in at 5-inches. With the same amount of pixels in a smaller area, the HTC One will beat the Galaxy S 4 even though the Samsung device has ben with the carrier for weeks. And the two are doing battle in their Google Play editions, as well.
So you’ve got the HTC One with its UltraPixel camera on its back, its also-impressive 2 megapixel camera on its front, and Verizon under the hood. You’ve got the full HTC Sense experience here as you’ve seen with the original HTC One as well as the HTC One AT&T edition. The AT&T version will give you a bit better an idea of what’s in store for carrier-added apps, too, red instead of blue.
Verizon did not hesitate on this release. Thought it may seem like they only decided to carry the HTC One once the first reviews were in, the DROID DNA still sits with the carrier having nearly run its full life with Verizon per the carrier’s preference in keeping a certain amount of months between releases of a device with the same manufacturer. This means that if Samsung released a Samsung Galaxy S4 “Slightly Better Edition” this week, Verizon still wouldn’t carry the phone until the first Galaxy S 4 had run its course.
While it’s not the same case for the Samsung Galaxy S 4 and the Samsung Galaxy Note III, you’ll find the number of months between the release of the last Samsung Galaxy Note and this year’s edition to be more than abundant. The Galaxy Note III and the Galaxy S 4 also have a key differentiator that the HTC One and the DROID DNA do not: a digital stylus by the name of S-Pen.
So here we are, more than five months since HTC announced the HTC One, and Verizon will carry the device with its own brand of 4G LTE. Will you pick it up? Or have you moved on?
Verizon HTC One hits August 1st: too late? is written by Chris Burns & originally posted on SlashGear.
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