“The fact that I’m an independent media businessman is because no one was interested in co-opting me,” Jesse Thorn laughs. It’s plenty easy to make light of with a decade’s distance and a sunny office overlooking MacArthur Park and the skyscrapers of downtown Los Angeles. Maximum Fun’s Westlake …
The Livescribe 3 is a wireless ink pen that automatically syncs your handwritten notes with your iPhone or iPad.
This is totally going on my holiday wish list.
To look at the Livescribe 3, you'd hardly know it was a magic pen.
(Credit: Livescribe)
Livescribe pens have long offered the ability to “record” your notes, but early models required manual syncing with your PC if you wanted to view them. Last year’s Sky Wifi model cleverly added cloud syncing to the mix, delivering your scribbles straight to your Evernote account — but only when connected to a Wi-Fi network.
With the Livescribe 3, everything happens locally: the pen pairs with your iPhone or iPad (sorry, Android users — for now it’s an iOS-only offering) via Bluetooth, instantly syncing to the free Livescribe+ app everything you write on special paper. From there, of course, you can share digitized notes via e-mail, SMS, AirDrop, Dropbox, Evernote, and so on.
Previous Livescribe pens could also record audio,… [Read more]
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Episode 53: Road Testing the iPhone 5C
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Here’s a message to your future you living two minutes from now: You will be smiling after your past you clicks to play this Back to the Future street improv. Now take yourself to have a beer. [Thanks Charlie!]
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This morning the service known as Amazon Kindle MatchBook launched with a whopping 70,000 books in its employ. This service takes a listing of books you’ve purchased (through Amazon) in physical form and offers them up to you in digital format for relatively low prices. Originally suggested to be hitting the books with 10,000 copies, […]
The beautifully obsessive folks at Pop Chart Lab have a knack for making gorgeous visual histories of things we love, like bicycles, cameras and beer. The lab’s latest is just as lovely: a hand-illustrated view of how we’ve listened to music since 1840. Take a closer look at what you’ve been hearing.
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AnonNews.org this weekend posted a 3.8 GB file listing over 150 million Adobe account usernames and hashed passwords stolen in the late September breach that came to light Oct. 3, reports Krebs Online Security. 38 million users were directly affected and have already been contacted by Adobe to change their passwords. That figure is above […]
Students and staff from the Catalina Island Marine Institute heft the 18-footer.
(Credit: Catalina Island Marine Institute)
Two different oarfish, massive eel-like fish from the deep, have washed up near the California coast over the last two weeks. Considering the scarcity of sightings, it’s been a veritable plague of oarfish. It has also been an unexpected gift for researchers.
Parasitologists at the University of California at Santa Barbara got their hands on pieces of the longer of the two fish, the 18-footer that appeared near Catalina Island. They took the opportunity to dissect samples from the fairly intact sea beast. Inside, they found a host of parasites.
“Our findings say that these are actually majorly parasitized fish,” says Armand Kuris, professor of zoology in the UCSB Department of Ecology, Evolution and Marine Biology.
Well, would you look at that. It seems the recent rumblings and trademark paperwork for the reportedly low-cost Moto G had some merit. The unannounced device popped up in the navigation of Motorola’s site despite leading to a dead link (moto-g.com) but has since been removed. Details are quite …
Motorola wants to alter the smartphones landscape forever and they plan on doing it by creating modular phones based on an open-platform, very much in the same way that desktop PCs are modular today. This is an extremely ambitious project, but if Motorola can make it happen, it would effectively change the game, and could build a vast and dynamic eco-system of third party innovative hardware vendors. As we have said during our initial coverage, ARA builds on the same idea as Phoneblocks, a modular-phone idea that was once popular, until it eventually fizzled out due to the impossibility to make it come true. It did prove one thing however: people genuinely love the modular phone idea and therefore it is worth looking into it. I am really glad that Motorola is willing to take that chance, and I respect that very much.
Motorola Project ARA: Amazing Possibilities… And Challenges original content from Ubergizmo. 
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All airports are absolutely, positively not created equal. Case in point: the brand new Terminal 3 at Shenzhen’s Bao’an International hub, which will be inaugurated next month after five years in the making. This place is a certifiable beaut that befits the awesome act of flying that we take for granted all the dang time.
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