Insert Coin: Split, a diminutive, bite-controlled music player in earbud form

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DNP Insert Coin Introducing Split, a diminutive, wireless audio player that's bitecontrolled

With Split, developer Greenwing Audio is Kickstarting Moore’s Law to your ears. What you see in the image above are more than just wireless earbuds, they’re everything you need to listen to music wherever you are — no additional devices needed. Right about now you’re probably wondering how standard stuff like playback and volume controls work. Well, those tasks are handled by biting. No, you didn’t misread that. One bite skips a track and a double bite adjusts how loud your music is. According to the pitch video, gentle chomps are sufficient and you don’t even need to open your lips.

What makes Split different from many other wireless audio device is it isn’t beaming Bluetooth radiation into your skull, so maybe you’ll be able to retire that tinfoil hat. If the project reaches its $435,000 Kickstarter goal, your $155 pledge won’t be a promise, it’ll mean you don’t have to spend hours of your life untangling headphones for listening to music on the go.

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Fujifilm X100s digital split image display demoed (video)

Fujifilm X100s digital split image display demoed video

Just as Fujifilm is getting under way with its CES 2013 press conference, the folks over at FujiRumors found some footage of Fujifilm’s new digital split image display from the newly announced X100s. Earlier this week, the company announced this new way of manual focusing on the X100s, in which the user overlays two images to attain proper focus. This feature seems to hit a high note for range finder camera users as it brings a certain familiarity for focusing work flow. Note that the display in the video is the rear LCD of the camera and not the prized hybrid viewfinder. Overall the movement looks smooth and usable, but we’ll confirm when we get our hands on the new X100s.

check out the video after the break.

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It’s official: Comcast buys out Microsoft’s share of MSNBC

Breaking up is hard to do, and it took Microsoft and NBC a few more days to hammer out all the details and make it official. NBC is buying the software maker’s half of the MSNBC website for a reporter $300 million, which will be renamed NBC News — a change which has already taken place if you try to hit up the old site. Its HQ will also move across from Microsoft’s hub in Redmond to New York. Following the split, Microsoft is apparently readying its own news service for launch later this year, aiming to hire around the same number of people that were put to work on the previous site — and looking to improve on its recent online fortunes.

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Microsoft and NBC rumored calling it splitsville on the web, MSNBC.com to get friend-zoned

Microsoft and NBC rumored calling it splitsville on the web, MSNBCcom to get friendzonedMicrosoft and NBC have had what you might call a complicated relationship. They’ve been separated in the TV space ever since MSNBC became a solely NBC-owned entity in 2005, but the online fling has carried on to this day. If Daily Beast‘s tipsters are right, however, NBC may get a little less ambiguous with its relationship status and kick Microsoft to the curb. The now Comcast-owned NBCUniversal is supposedly irked at having to share equal control over the MSNBC website and wants to send Microsoft packing, buying out Redmond’s 50 percent stake. While the existing management would stay, MSNBC’s online staff would quit Microsoft’s campus and hop over to an NBCNews.com domain to reflect their newfound independence. An NBC representative wouldn’t confirm that an agreement had been signed, but did say talks had taken place — certainly much more of a response than most rumors get. With a signed deal rumored in a matter of “days,” there won’t be long to wait before we learn whether or not Microsoft gets dumped once and for all.

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Microsoft and NBC rumored calling it splitsville on the web, MSNBC.com to get friend-zoned originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 11 Jul 2012 16:59:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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