Hasta La Gadget!

Having our phone glued to our sides keeps us in the know. The latest news, the up and coming meme, and relationship statuses galore are all information that we want to be knowledgeable on. You can watch the lives of your friends and family, and want to be able to respond at a moment’s notice. However, doing so when you’re driving might get you killed.

Keeping one hand on the wheel and half of your focus on the road while you’re answering a text or email can easily be hazardous for you, passengers, and anyone on the road near you. If you really have to take that call, why not get someone else to do it for you? The MINIKIT Neo by Parrot is a hands-free car kit that will allow you to control aspects of your phone through voice. This means you won’t have to reach for your phone every time it goes off, but can still answer it.

The MINIKIT Neo can pair with your phone contacts so that you can tell it who to call through text-to-speech. It can last for about 10 hours of talking, and six months of standby time on ultra low power mode. Costing around $100, it should pair with just about any Bluetooth phone or device you have. This will clip onto your visor so it won’t get in the way, but it could be useful to have around.

Available for purchase on Parrot
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The first full-length trailer for Captain America 2 has been released, and inside you’ll find no shares of the past. While “The Winter Soldier” was at first – for a very short while – suggested to be covering the World War II-era Steve Rogers, we’re set here in the not-to-distant future with mutants, S.H.I.E.L.D., and […]

The silicone sleeve is placed near the end of the stomach and reaches the first part of the small intestine.

(Credit: Gut)

Bariatric surgery is primarily performed on people who are at least 100 pounds above their ideal weight and haven’t been able to lose weight via diet, exercise, or medication. The aim is to restrict the amount of food people can digest by disrupting their digestive process. It’s both invasive and irreversible — essentially a last-ditch effort.

So a new study on rats out of the University of Cincinnati is worth a look considering the upside if it works on people as well as it did on the trial rats. (At this point, that’s still a big if, though co-lead author Kirk Habegger said he expects these results to carry over to humans.)

Researchers inserted tiny “intestinal barrier sleeves” just inside the ends of the rats’ stomachs and extended the sleeves along the intestine. They did this surgically in the rats, but say that in humans it could be done by endoscopy — through the mouth and down into the gut — which may not sound pleasant but is far less invasive and doesn’t require hospitalization, not to mention the procedure is reversible since the sleeve can be removed.

“The whole key of course is to remove the knife,” Habegger said in an… [Read more]

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Apple may have announced its hotly anticipated Retina iPad Mini a few days ago, but that doesn’t mean that the speculation is going to end there. Prior to the announcement, it was being consistently rumored that the new iPad Mini might be in short supply immediately after launch. The reason for supply constraints is believed to be low yield rates of Retina display panels. Director of tablet and monitor research at IHS iSuppli, Rhoda Alexander, doesn’t expect “meaningful” volume of iPad mini shipments until the first quarter of next year.

According to Rhoda, supply for the Retina iPad Mini is “severely constrained.” A number of other analysts have voiced their concerns over shipments as well. Apple didn’t even give a concrete release date for the new iPad Mini, some take this as a sign that the company is having to cope up with inconsistent supply. Apple has said that the Retina iPad Mini will be launched later in November, but hasn’t provided a solid date. If Apple only has a limited amount of iPad Mini units that must be divided in all launch markets, then perhaps it might be a little harder for you to get your hands on a new iPad Mini come launch day.

Analyst Doesn’t Expect ‘Meaningful Volume’ Of Retina iPad Mini Shipments Until Q1 2014 original content from Ubergizmo.

The iPad Air versus iPad mini with Retina display shopping question could be decided by severe shortages of the smaller tablet, analysts predict, with suggestions that supplies of the new high-resolution display could amount to less than a third Apple will need to meet demand. “Production is still ramping up on the 7.9-inch Retina panel […]