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Welcome to The After Math, where we attempt to summarize this week’s tech news through numbers, decimal places and percentages.

Welcome to this week’s After Math, with Nokia and T-Mobile both holding New York-based events for their future plans. The US carrier continued to roll out its Magenta-hued LTE service across America, while Nokia finally revealed the long-rumored (and often-leaked) Lumia 1020, which brings its high-megapixel-count sensors to its Lumia line — a true PureView Windows Phone. All this in numerot (that’s Finnish for numbers), right after the break.

Filed under: Cellphones, Wearables, Mobile, Nokia

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Todd Blatt wants to have more fun with Google Glass than just the occasional game of Battleship, and he has been crowdfunding 3D-printed GlassKap add-ons to spice things up. His newest additions to the line have us especially intrigued, though: he just unveiled a set of crosshairs (pictured above) and a macro lens (after the break). Both function as you’d expect, letting Glass wearers either live out their future soldier fantasies or snap up-close photos that they’d normally miss. The September launches for both accessories are contingent on Blatt reaching his $1,500 funding goal, although that should happen soon when it takes a $30 pledge to set aside a GlassKap. The real challenge is obtaining Glass in the first place.

Filed under: Wearables, Google

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Source: Kickstarter

To say that Pebble’s Kickstarter-launched smartwatch has been more popular than it expected would be a slight understatement. In fact, the company touched base with us today to let us know exactly how much demand there’s been for the wearable, how it’s going to fulfill that demand and what it’s doing to help developers. For a small startup, Pebble’s taken a huge amount of orders for its $150 device. Along with the initial 85,000 Kickstarter pledges, the company told us today that it’s had over 190,000 pre-orders to date. On top of that, over a million Pebble “watchapps” have been downloaded from Pebble and its developers. Naturally, all that success has created some issues — to see what the company’s planning on doing about it, head after the break.

Filed under: Wearables

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Source: Pebble (blog)

Wearable technology is all the rage these days, and Dell isn’t immune to the peer pressure: its global VP of personal computing, Sam Burd, tells the Guardian that his company is “exploring ideas” in the field. While it’s not clear just how serious plans would be at this stage, Burd notes that the idea of a Dell smartwatch is alluring. He can’t champion his firm’s tablet sales, however. Dell has reportedly sold just “hundreds of thousands” of Windows 8 and RT slates like the Latitude 10 and XPS 10. The executive predicts a sales boost as corporate customers adapt to Windows’ new interface, but he’s cautious — he believes that the young platform has to grow before clients (and rivals) take notice.

Filed under: Tablets, Wearables, Microsoft, Dell

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Via: SlashGear

Source: The Guardian

Google has nearly finished rolling out Glass to Explorer Program members, but many of us still have questions while the technology remains rare. The company is satisfying some of that curiosity today: it just posted a FAQ that explains Glass beyond the hardware. While there are no revelations in store, the page goes out of its way to address some of the controversies surrounding Glass, including app policies, privacy concerns and the risk of technology addiction. It’s doubtful that the FAQ will please everyone, but those who just have to get some official answers on Glass can find them at the source link.

Filed under: Wearables, Google

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Via: Project Glass (Google+)

Source: Google