Who of us hasn’t wished for their own Purple Crayon like Harold’s? While this new graphite-based piezoresistive sensor won’t make your home come alive with creatures from your imagination, it will provide an inexpensive, easily-applied means of measuring mechanical stresses. You’ll just need a pencil and paper.
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When it comes to Windows Phone brands, Lenovo is probably not a company you would think of. Sure the company makes Windows-based products like laptops and tablets, but when it comes to smartphones, they tend to favor Android.
That being said, it seems that Lenovo might be interested in attempting to break into the Windows Phone market with a smartphone of their own, according to reports from WP7Forum.ru. The reports are claiming that Lenovo will be launching their first Windows Phone handset around April which is following the announcement of Windows Phone 8.1. (more…)
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You might say the day is never really done in consumer technology news. Your workday, however, hopefully draws to a close at some point. This is the Daily Roundup on Engadget, a quick peek back at the top headlines for the past 24 hours — all…
In an era when more people are watching movies at home or on their mobile devices, Dolby and Hollywood are hoping sound will lure people back into theaters.
Dolby Atmos, an evolution of Dolby’s 5.1 and 7.1 systems, was used on two of this year’s Oscar-nominated movies for sound mixing, “Gravity” and “The Hobbit: Desolation of Smaug.” The system includes speakers in the ceiling theater, in additional to the front, back, and sides of a theater. The real audio innovation comes from the ability to isolate sounds and control where, when, and which sounds come through each speakers.
Stuart Bowling, Dolby’s director of market development, explains: “When something moves through the room, it basically goes from speaker to speaker to speaker instead of the way it does normally when it hits every speaker and then fades.”
As a theater goer, you can track sounds as they make their way around the room. So, for example, when a helicopter flies across the sky in a movie, you can distinctly hear the sound of the blades travel above your head and across the ceiling from one end to the other. Currently only 450 theaters are equipped with the Dolby Atmos system.
Bowling said “Hobbit” Director Peter Jackson used the sound technology to draw the audience into the movie’s fantasy world. “He re… [Read more]
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Today Seattle’s City Council voted to put a cap on ride-sharing services — specifically, on the number of drivers services like Sidecar, UberX, and Lyft can have in operation at … Continue reading
It’s time to get down to basics with the plug-and-play customizable smartphone platform known as Project Ara – or Google Ara. Paul Eremenko took the stage at Launch this week … Continue reading
Everybody loves pizza. (This guy, especially
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After watching this guy I’m really jealous. Even if it’s pretty crazy at the beginning, I’m jealous.
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The machines. They are learning. The Plotclock is a small, 3D-printed clock that forgoes the traditional gears and springs for servos and an Arduino microcontroller. It writes the time. And then erases it. Then writes the time again, continuing forever even though the white board will quickly descend into a smudgy mess of partially erased ink. It’s a simple device: One servo lifts the pen… Read More
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