It’s hard to stand out in a crowd when you and millions of other people all have the same smartphone. So DODOcase, makers of some of the finest phone and tablet cases around, are now letting iPhone users create their own customized wallets by mixing and matching colors and fabrics.
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Google has the noble ambition of wanting to power all of its operations with renewable energy, such as what you get from wind mills. Such has been furthered today, with the announcement that the Internet giant has purchased a wind farm located outside of Amarillo, Texas. Such is not a first for Google, but it […]
While there’s no reason to believe that the newest keyboard device from Kanex wouldn’t work with any and all Bluetooth 3.0-compatible devices, they’ve aimed directly at the Apple world here in the week of this accessory’s launch. The Kanex Multi-Sync Keyboard works with the iPhone, iPad, iMac, and any other machine (with Bluetooth 3.0 or […]
A Redditor in Turkey found the greatest Beats by Dre knockoff ever.
(Credit: DailyDot)
Leaked from today’s 404 episode:
– Man stabbed and robbed of Grand Theft Auto V.
– Why a disembodied finger can’t be used to unlock the Touch ID sensor on the iPhone 5S.
– McAfee reveals the most dangerous celebrities of 2013.
– A Redditor in Turkey found the greatest Beats by Dre knockoff ever.
– Popular counterfeit site in China offers its own counterfeit Beats by Dre: the “… [Read more]
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(Credit: Video screenshot by Michelle Starr/CNET Australia) (Credit: David Hayward)
We’ve seen 1993’s Doom running (slowly) on an E Ink display, but this is a new one. A team of indie developers got together at an arcade jam hosted at the London Hackspace and modified an old $48 upright piano to work as the controller input for Doom.
According to team leader David Hayward, the group used three I-PAC controllers to let the keyboard communicate with the PC running the game and covered the piano hammers with copper tape, soldering the piano strings to a common ground. A whole mess of wiring later, and the piano keys work to control the game.
We suspect one would have to know their way around a piano to play the game effectively, though. As you can see in the Vine below, player (and producer) Marie Foulson seems to know what she’s doing without looking at the keys, but if you’re used to the rather more compact QWERTY keyboard, you might be in troub… [Read more]
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The playing field has sort of leveled out with phones when it comes to specs. Most are fast enough, and most help you do the things you want to do easily. Most have good enough cameras. But battery remains final frontier
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Metaio announced today that it has developed the first hands-free, marker-less augmented reality car manual on Google Glass, the prototype has been developed as a proof-of-concept of the capabilities of Metaio’s AR platform on wearable devices. The core technology and platform will both be updated to accommodate wearable devices from other manufacturers such as Epson and Vuzix.
Up until now, AR technology has used point clouds or algorithms to recognize objects or images before overlaying the related content. Metaio’s platform uses 3D model frameworks of objects, making it easier for the camera to recognize objects and overlay content in dynamic environments, such as the outdoors or under variable lighting. Metaio calls it “edge-based tracking”, since the camera is essentially comparing a lite 3D model to the actual object. Edges are lined up and the augmented reality experience immediately starts. It can also track things like furniture, cars, toys, airplanes, product packaging, electronics and even entire buildings. This technology will be showcased at InsideAR 2013, Metaio’s annual tech conference which takes place between October 10 and October 11 in Munich, Germany. Attendees will be able to try out the demo on Google Glass and will also be able to experience many other wearable demos that feature hands-free AR.
Metaio To Unveil First Hands-Free AR Car Manual on Google Glass At InsideAR 2013 original content from Ubergizmo. 
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With the release of the Chromecast came the second wave of Google’s vision for ultra-simple “flinging” of content from your Android device to a larger display. As the Nexus Q took a belly dive, the much smaller and simpler Chromecast took hold, it being small enough to fit in a person’s pocket and able to […]
3D is not only confined to the movies, but it has more or less made its way to mainstream consciousness on the home front as well with a rash of desktop 3D printers exploding in this fast growing niche market. Hmmm, having said that, there might just be an opportunity for the world of 3D scanning to mature even more. So far, we do know that Kinect from Microsoft has been edging closer to making such technology mainstream, while the Digitizer from MakerBot is about to be launched, so here we are with another small player in the market who has turned to Kickstarter for help so that it can ensure the Structure Sensor will be able to roll off production lines when the time comes.
Occipital’s Structure Sensor will require a cool $100,000 from backers to believe in the project, with the rather ambitious goal of delivering this mobile scanner to market before 2013 calls it quits. The Structure Sensor works by clipping itself onto a tablet using a bracket, which would then allow you to scan objects in addition to creating your very own 3D maps of indoor spaces, among others. Just what will a $349 pledge net you? The Structure Sensor itself, an iPad bracket and a Lightning cable, of course. [Kickstarter Page]
Occipital Structure Sensor Allows You To Capture The World In 3D original content from Ubergizmo. 
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Google’s goal of meeting its electrical needs with renewable sources got another big boost today. The Happy Hereford wind farm in Texas will produce 240 megawatts of juice, and all of that output has been bought by Big G. That power won’t flow directly from the turbines into Google’s data centers, instead it’ll be fed into the regional grid when Google sells the energy on the wholesale market. The 240 renewable energy certificates (REC) acquired in the deal will be retired in support of mother earth, and any additional REC’s created by the wind farm will be used to “reduce our [Google’s] carbon footprint elsewhere.” According to Google, this is similar to other green energy deals it’s done in Iowa and Oklahoma, so it’s highly likely we’ll be seeing more such deals in the not-so-distant future. Of course, no one will be receiving any of that Happy Hereford wind power just yet — the farm won’t be sending out any renewably-sourced electrons until late 2014.
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