When we reviewed Adidas’ Smart Run training watch, we were very fond of it. That said, we had three major niggles: the poor battery life, the low volume of the media player and the inability to export your map/run data from either the watch itself, …
Can you spot the fakes? Hundreds of amazing images wash over our greedy eyeballs each and every day, clogging our Twitter timelines and Facebook feeds. Many of them are fakes, lies, or both. Like these!
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Geothermal heat pumps are a cost- and energy-efficient way to stay warm during the long, cold months of winter. They have been around since the late 1940s, but as the technology gets better and the prices continue to fall, they have recently become more popular for home use. Today, about 80,000 geothermal heat pumps are installed per year in the United States. Here’s how geothermal heat pumps work — and how you can get one for your home.
When it comes to national air security, Israel doesn’t mess around; it has not one but four separate levels of "active defenses" alone. And with the introduction of the new Iron Beam system, Israel now has five different ways to shoot down incoming projectiles.
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When you open Beats Music – after you’ve signed up or signed in – you’re not going to find a playlist of music you’ve listened to a thousand times before. … Continue reading
You get funding, you get funding, everyone gets funding!
Just two short weeks after launching, Atlas Wearables joins The Pocket Drone as the latest Hardware Battlefield company to hit its fundraising goal.
The company initially asked for a lofty $125,000 to build its uber-smart fitness wearable. As of today, with 17 days left in the campaign, Atlas Wearables has collected north of $196,000 on Indiegogo with the vast majority of its pledging ringing in as pre-orders.
Rather than just counting your steps for the day, the Atlas — which was shown off for the first time on stage at our Hardware Battlefield — is capable of determining exactly what exercises you’re doing to give you a better sense of both your fitness level and your form. The creators likened it to creating dots of paint in a 3D space. Then, along with other sorts of tracking, the device learns different exercises.
The company made it to the final round of the inaugural Hardware Battlefield at CES 2014. The judges questioned the device’s ability to track different exercises that were very similar. Apparently the masses on Indiegogo do not share in this concern or rather trust that the company can make good on its word.
First, dig a hole. Then, reinforce it with clay, concrete, steel, and plastic. Fill it with nuclear waste and cover it in forty more feet of concrete. Then profit. That’s how one company in Texas has struck radioactive gold, charging companies $10,000 per cubic foot to store nuclear refuse.
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Cash-strapped and somewhat adrift in terms of missions, the U.S. Army is in the midst of an existential crisis. Once ballooning in budget and size, the Army now says it wants to be "a smaller, more lethal, deployable, and agile force." And it’s going to need robots to do it right.
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The hottest toys and top gadgets due to be lining your nearest Toys ‘R’ Us were given their public debut at the Toy Fair in London. Among the building blocks and train sets, movie and TV show tie-in toys and gaming merchandise dominated many of the stands.
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Go ahead Android users, roll your eyes. But this is new territory for iOS gamers. A jailbreak app called Controllers for All makes the PlayStation 3′s Dualshock 3 controller compatible with all games use the controller support introduced in iOS 7. So all those new MFi controllers? You can forget about them now.
Assuming you already have a jailbroken device running iOS 7, all you need to do is download Controllers for All, pair your Dualshock 3 controller with your iOS device by following these simple steps and you’re good to go. Here’s a mouth-watering demo video from the app developer, Ori Kadosh:
All current MFi controllers cost about $100. A Dualshock 3 controller costs $35 (USD). Controllers for All costs $2. Jailbreaking is free. You do the math.
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