Nov 22
Nov 22
If you were like me, you immediately switched the heads of your Barbies or Lego minifigures the moment you wrestled them out of the packaging. The new People Blocks by artist Andy Rementer reward our customizable toy fantasies with these hand-painted, rearrangeable wooden blocks.
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Nov 22
This week in our time capsule round-up we have a new time capsule vault in Massachusetts, an "evidence packet" submitted into capsule evidence in Iowa, and some Great Recession artifacts in Florida sure to bum out the good people of tomorrow.
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Nov 22
Engadget Podcast 370 – 11.21.13
Posted in: Today's Chili
The Xbox One release date is upon us and your host Brian Heater is joined by Ben Gilbert and Terrence O’Brien to game it up once again. Ben fell asleep at the controller the other night, so we’ve pumped him full of coffee in order to get the lowdown on Microsoft’s newest console. The One’s controller also grabs some of the spotlight, with its massive R&D budget having funded some interesting concepts; smell-o-vision anyone? We had the chance to get our hands on Nokia’s Lumia 2520 tablet in the studio, too, and it shows… all over its fingerprint-prone glossy red shell. We have plenty more in store for you this week, so hop on down to the streaming links below for another episode of the Engadget Podcast!
Hosts: Brian Heater, Terrence O’Brien, Ben Gilbert
Producer: Jon Turi
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Nov 22
The Aacorn app for iPad costs $189.99.
(Credit: Aacorn)
For kids, getting parents to understand what they’re thinking or feeling can be a challenge all on its own. But having additional speech impairments or developmental delays can make basic communication a serious hurdle.
Now, the Aacorn App for iPad is available for kids and teens with impairments to help empower them to communicate faster and more intuitively.
Developed for three years at the Murdoch Childrens Research Institute in Australia, the app is designed to enable children to express themselves more freely. But the app is not free — it’ll will set you back $189.99 at the iTunes Store.
The researchers experimented with a predictive approach that uses words the child selects to open up a new array of words the child most likely wants to use next. By presenting the words as they are needed, and fine-tuning these results to the child’s language history over time, the researchers remove to a large extent the hunting and pecking required in many other assistive tools.
“Our approach was to … create an ent… [Read more]
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Nov 22
To some, beer is something you just swill down while watching football, and flavor is a distant after-thought. But others will sip and savor a beer, picking it apart like a connoisseur of fine wines. Those that comfortably sit in that second category won’t think twice about dropping some hard-earned money on a bottle of finely crafted suds. But $200 for a single bottle!? That takes a special kind of person, and it had better be a special kind of beer.
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Nov 22
This is one of the first rivalry weekends of the college football season, and I’ll be spending it in New Haven, Connecticut, for what is perhaps the nadir of intercollegiate gridiron competition: the Harvard/Yale game. Inside the stadium, the future business leaders of America will strap on the pads and play what is expected to be a high-scoring, somewhat sloppy affair; but outside of the stadium, my friends and I will look on as thousands of twenty-somethings consume preposterous amounts of alcohol in an open field. The next day, many of these co-eds (and many more of us old farts) will wake up feeling shaky, with pounding headaches, nausea, fatigue, and perhaps a splash of diarrhea. Many will swear they’re never drinking again. I know I’ve made that promise at least a dozen times.
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Nov 22
Twitter’s added an extra layer of encryption in part to make it tougher for the government to spy on
Posted in: Today's ChiliTwitter’s added an extra layer of encryption in part to make it tougher for the government to spy on users. The service will now use Perfect Forward Security just like Google, Mozilla and Facebook which creates unique encryption keys for each session.
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Nov 22
It’s the hardware marriage we all assumed (and hoped) would eventually happen. A report over on gaming site MCV claims Sony is planning to offer an ‘Ultimate Edition’ PlayStation 4 bundle that would include its portable console, the PS Vita, as a pack-in for the UK. Further corroborating this rumor is an alleged image of the bundle (pictured above) said to be featured in MCV‘s upcoming print edition. If this turns out to be true, Brits could very well see the next-gen PlayStation combo hit retail in time for the holidays, although there’s no word on how much it’ll cost. Aside from being a match made in gamer heaven, the purported move is somewhat of a no-brainer for Sony, given the PS4’s much touted Remote Play functionality (which streams next-gen games to the handheld) and the Vita’s less-than-stellar install base. With about a month to go before holiday mania sets in, we should know sooner rather than later just how real this bundle fantasy is and whether it’s also destined for US shores.
Via: Joystiq
Source: MCV
Nov 22
Security camera footage makes some pretty boring TV. There’s no sound, so you don’t know what people are saying, and it’s tough to read body language out of context. But that’s exactly what makes deaf people the perfect workforce for interpreting the footage.
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