You wouldn’t believe it just by looking at it, but this slice of 60s Americana is located three feet underneath a New York City park. Or, at least, it was back in 1964. Whether it’s still there remains a mystery—one almost as fascinating as the reason it was constructed in the first place.
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Facebook launched ten years ago in February 2004. A month later, so did this site. Social media hasn’t, doesn’t and won’t stay still. As Myspace rises, Friendster declines. The pattern’s repeated itself a few times already, and even Google hasn’t…
GE did get the industry talking in 2013 when they invested $30 million into Quirky, which is a New York-based start up, and it seems as though that money has started to pay off through the form of the Aros air conditioner which was specially designed for the smart home. The Aros is not too different from the Nest Learning Thermostat, where it claims to synchronize with your smartphone while learning more about you and its surroundings through your schedule, budget, location, and usage so that it can work on maintaining an ideal temperature and maximizing energy savings automatically.
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Earlier this month Huawei announced its plans to launch a dual boot Windows Phone and Android device. The idea behind this device to give users more flexibility and choice on a single gadget, eliminating the need to carry to separate devices for each platform. Less than two weeks after this statement was made by Huawei CMO Shao Yang, the company said in a statement today that it has no plans of launching a dual-OS smartphone “in the near future.”
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Sony might have revealed Project Morpheus yesterday, and this could very well translate to the beginning of a new era in gaming for the masses. Seebright does look as though they do not want to miss out on this particular opportunity, and has revealed its affordable see-through head-mounted display platform as well as software development kit (SDK). This special interactive platform would rely on innovative optics in order to provide popular smartphone models with an ergonomic headset. The headset itself will be untethered so that it can deliver crisp stereoscopic images and 3-D graphics without having to block the user’s peripheral view, or to hide one’s facial expressions, or even limit mobility.
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(Credit: Cloak)
A new iPhone app called Cloak promises to help you keep your distance from contacts in your digital circle who you’d rather avoid in real life.
The application, which bills itself as an “antisocial network,” is as simple as they come in that it has a single purpose: to alert you to the nearby whereabouts of flagged Instagram and Foursquare “friends.”
The idea is to let you construct the opposite of a contact list, so that you know when your overly loquacious acquaintance Joe is inching dangerously close to your current location.
Cloak connects to your Instagram and Foursquare accounts and uses the location data associated with your friends’ updates to find out where they are. The app plots people on a map and lets you flag friends to track. When a flagged contact is within a specified range of one block, half a mile, a mile, or two miles, you’ll get a push notification so that you can avoid the approaching person if you’d prefer.
Though it could come in handy when trying to avoid awkward social situations, the iPhone application seems more social shtick than actually antisocial, considering the complex ways people use social networks.
Cloak has at least one major flaw in logic and, thus, practice. Presumably, the people you real… [Read more]
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Toshiba has just announced a spanking new Canvio Wireless Adapter peripheral that will definitely add more usability to the traditional external hard drive by turning those into networked storage devices. The Canvio Wireless Adapter might be simple, but it is a powerful innovation which is capable of augmented the standard external hard drive with wireless networking capabilities, opening up the door for users to share, stream and access their content from any place, regardless of the device.
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The team at Valve responsible for releasing the gaming documentary “Free to Play” aren’t making any attempt to pretend it was done for profit in and of itself. Instead, released … Continue reading
Piracy has been around far longer than its association with digital pilfering, and efforts to protect against it varied depending on the industry. For those who made maps, the issue … Continue reading
A bulletproof, air-conditioned, diamond-covered, $3.2 million suit? Even James Bond would drool over this. Not that it would matter; it’s also waterproof. Naturally.
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