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While the majority of the insides of the Google Nexus 5 are, today in iFixit‘s teardown session, not appearing as big surprises, there are quite a few points of interest to be seen. Inside this beast of a smartphone you’ll find – to every repair shop’s glee – plastic clips holding the back of the […]
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Smartphones and tablets may have replaced a daily newspaper for many of us, but saying goodbye to the morning gazette also meant losing those weekly circulars and a surefire way to keep track of when dish detergent’s on sale. Thankfully, a new free app called Flipp, available for iOS today and Android early next year, promises to deliver all of those lost (but not forgotten) circulars directly to your smartphone or tablet.
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LG officially announced its curved G Flex smartphone late last month. The biggest feature of this device is that it has a banana-like curved profile. The key piece of technology that allows the smartphone to be curved is a display that uses flexible plastic substrates rather than glass. Flexible plastic substrates also open the door […]
MOGA has offered gaming controllers designed for mobile gamers using Android devices for a while now. We reviewed the MOGA Pro controller back in April when it launched. The company has announced new controllers including the MOGA Hero Power and Pro Power. The Hero Power controller is slim and designed to be portable while the […]
LG has announced that it is expanding its Android Developers Program with a device-loaning program, giving developers a handset for free to use during the development process. The first handset to be offered under the program is the LG G2, which isn’t surprising given the push the maker has present with the new handset. Those […]
Some guys are just super hardcore. Like Rambo hardcore. Able to stitch themselves up on the battlefield hardcore. Take this guy for instance. A man named Tim Cannon is a “biohacker,” and he had himself opened up and inserted a computer chip in his arm -with no doctor helping. I must be a wimp, because there is no way I could do this.
Don’t try this at home kids. Being a walking computer just isn’t worth it. Tim had a large “Circadia” board implanted into his arm. It is even larger than normal due to a special case. The chip is powered by a battery but can also be charged wirelessly.
This chip sends all of Tim’s biometric signals to an Android device. He would have used a doctor, but he says that no certified doctor could preform the operation to implant the device. So he had a “body modification enthusiast” named Steve Haworth do the surgery. Sadly for Tim, Steve isn’t an official medical practitioner, so he wasn’t licensed to use anesthetics. That had to be painful.
Here’s an update from Tim showing off the wireless charging process for his arm-implanted computer:
Have fun monitoring your biometric signals, Tim. My idea of fun is playing video games.
[via Motherboard via Kotaku]
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