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Are you a cycling enthusiast? Ever wanted to try your hands (read legs) on biking at the comfort of indoors? Here’s a fine solution to your needs: Wahoo Fitness has unveiled a new Biker Trainer that not only comes with many tweaks and options but is also tech-savvy.

It is aptly called KICKR Biker Trainer and you can control it with the help of an iPhone app. It is essentially a bicycle except that it packs a different equipment in the place of the rear wheel. You can control the resistance of the pedal simply by adjusting the settings on the app. (more…)

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At last, Google Maps caters to those who get around on two wheels – in particular, on a bicycle. After all, searching for the best biking route in town can prove to be quite a challenge, which is where the latest version of Google Maps for Android comes in handy. It will deliver mobile biking directions as well as navigation to 10 countries where desktop biking directions was launched last month, namely Australia, Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland and the UK.

Some of the other features thrown into the mix include turn-by-turn capability as well as voice-guided biking navigation to Google Maps Navigation (beta) in every country that has biking directions. All you need to do is mount your device on your bicycle’s handlebars and then you are able to get a clear, unobstructed view of the turn-by-turn directions and navigation. Alternatively, you can always rely on the speaker-mode to hear voice-guided directions. (more…)

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If you are interested to find out the results of Apple’s injunction against Samsung’s products, then you might want to mark down December 6th on your calendar, as that is the date that a U.S. judge set to hear Apple request for a permanent injunction against Samsung Electronics’ smartphones (all 8 of them for starters), and between now and then, it might just delay the impact of Apple’s recent legal victory that saw Samsung have to fork out $1 billion in damages over to the fruity company.

Originally, a hearing concerning the preliminary injunctions had been scheduled for September 20th, although it remains to be determined whether the 8 device ban from Samsung will be addressed then, or will it be moved to the end of the year. U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh mentioned that the scope of Apple’s preliminary injunction request was large enough that it was deemed “appropriate” that various post-trial motions be consolidated.

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I know that we have been living in the atomic age for quite some time already, but we have yet to see mutants running around like crazy as depicted in the X-Men movies. This means you are safe from a telepath “hacking” into your brain, but a normal human might be able to do so with the right tools and under the right circumstances, of course. It seems that security researchers have managed to rely on affordable Emotiv headsets (which we have seen in the past) to capture the subconscious responses of a person to external stimuli, further using them to uncover data straight from the horse’s mouth – in this case, their subjects’ brains. Needless to say, on paper, this is a theoretical risk to privacy and security which might eventually end up as rather significant should such technology advances further in its own field. (more…)

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So you love your Moleskine to bits and pieces, although some might call it an overglorified notebook. The things that careful branding is able to achieve never ceases to amaze me, and here we are with an unprecedented partnership that merges the exclusivity of Moleskin alongside the Evernote iOS app, resulting in the Evernote Smart Notebook. This limited edition notebook will allow you to digitize your scribbled pages thanks to special dotted patterns that are pre-printed on the pages itself. Using said patterns, the updated iPhone and iPad app’s ‘Page Camera’ functionality will allow you to capture photos of the physical pages, creating an archive of your handwritten masterpiece at the same time. (more…)

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