Quirky's New A/C Unit Smartens Up Your Dumbest Energy Hog

Quirky's New A/C Unit Smartens Up Your Dumbest Energy Hog

This is Aros, a Wi-Fi connected air conditioner aimed at energy-conscious consumers that Quirky and GE are launching today. It’s by far the biggest and most complicated product that Quirky has ever built, and it aims to help solve truly endemic problem: The window a/c unit, which has remained pretty much unchanged since the 1970s.

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Monitor Your Digital Life With These Badass Smart Gauges

Monitor Your Digital Life With These Badass Smart Gauges

The Nimbus personal dashboard is made up of four gauges that would look at home on the dash of a 1970’s muscle car. But instead of reporting on the oil pressure, alternator output, and current temperature of your cooling system, …

    



Google Glass developer reveals ‘Winky’ eye gesture app that takes photos

Google Glass developer reveals 'Winky' eye gesture app that takes photos

Remember those “eye gestures” spotted in Google Glass code? Developer Mike DiGiovanni, who just released the “Bulletproof” lockscreen for Glass, has already used them to develop an app called “Winky” that snaps photos on the Explorer Edition of the AR eyewear. When activated and calibrated, a simple wink of the eye allows you to capture a still of whatever you’re looking at, rather than using a voice command or tapping the side of the glasses as normally required, which DiGiovanni says “takes you out of the moment.” He released the app purely as Android source code to protect users’ personal info, so if you’re interested, you’ll need to compile and run it as an APK — assuming you’re lucky enough to have a pair of the specs, of course.

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‘Eye gestures’ spotted in Google Glass app code, hints at wink-based photography

Eye gestures spotted in Google Glass code might offer winkbased photos

While perusing the code for Google Glass’s companion Android app, Reddit user Fodawim chanced across several lines of code that could offer up some interesting navigation options for your Glass. Titled ‘eye gestures,’ it looks like the wearable’s built-in sensors should be able to detect eye activity and integrate that into device input. Two lines of code mention enabling and disabling eye gestures, suggesting it’ll be an optional feature, while other lines hint that it would have to be calibrated to your wink before use. Get your well-timed slow-wink at the ready, however, as the final line spotted suggests that a wink gesture can command the 5-megapixel camera to capture whatever you’re looking at. Google was already granted a patent for unlocking a screen using eye-tracking information, although wink-based commands sounds a shade easier to deal with — as long as it doesn’t think we’re blinking.

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Source: Reddit