Gadget
Google’s wearable Glass gadget: cool or creepy? – Yahoo! News
By Alexei Oreskovic SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Google staged four discussions expounding on the finer points of its “Glass” wearable computer during this week’s developer conference. Missing from the agenda, however, was a session on etiquette when using the recording-capable gadget, which some attendees faithfully wore everywhere – including to the crowded bathrooms. Google Glass, a cross between a mobile …
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Coming soon: An Android gadget that could unleash data for Kenyan farmers – GigaOM
Over the past four years as Jason Aramburu sold kilns, which turn plant waste into bio charcoal, to Kenyan farmers, he became something of an expert on one of the key things that Kenyan farmers lack: data. “There’s very little data anywhere,” says Aramburu, founder and CEO of startup Re:char, over a breakfast interview on Thursday, as Re:char chief technology and …
Tags: CEO, Kenya, Orange Fab, Vivek Badrinath
Google didn’t deliver the gadget goods at I/O, so what’s its game? – Digital Trends
Although Google is famed for its Nexus phones and tablets, its roots are in software, and this year at Google I/O it returned to them in a big way. The three-hour-plus Google I/O keynote presentation was almost devoid of new device announcements, save for the three minutes spent talking about the Nexus-like Samsung Galaxy S4. The disappointment many of us …
Tags: Android Studio, Glasshole Robert Scoble, Google Glass, Samsung Galaxy S4
First Wave of Google Glass Apps Revealed – Wired
A wave of big-name apps are getting Glass functionality. Photo: Alex Washburn/Wired If you thought Glass’ abilities were limited to documenting your trips to the shower, think again. At Google’s annual I/O developer conference Thursday, the company announced the first big wave of third-party Glass apps, dubbed Glassware. Those who own the stylishly questionable headgear will soon be able to …
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Welcome to Google Island – Wired
Google IO attendees visit Google’s virtual island Photo: Alex Washburn/Wired I awoke aboard a boat, just before daybreak, which was weird. The last thing I remembered was being in San Francisco’s Moscone Center, wrapping up a four-hour Google I/O keynote liveblogging session. My last recollection was of Google CEO Larry Page taking questions from the audience and promoting a vision …
Tags: Google Island, Jim Crow, Kenya, Larry Page
Apple Hits 50 Billion Apps Served – Wired (blog)
Billions and billions served. Image: Apple Someone out there just won a $10,000 iTunes gift card, Apple’s way of saying “Thanks” for downloading its 50 billionth iOS app. The Cupertino company announced today that 50 billion — that’s billion with a “b” — apps have been downloaded from the iTunes App Store. There’s still no word on who downloaded the …
Tags: Angry Birds, CSI, Image Apple Someone, Taiwan Pop
The 5 Coolest Things From the Google I/O Keynote – Wired
Larry Page made a surprise appearance to close the keynote at Google I/O. Photo: Alex Washburn/Wired.com As expected, there was nothing revolutionary about the boatload of upgrades introduced at today’s Google I/O conference, but that doesn’t mean there wasn’t a whole lot of very cool stuff announced. The marathon four-hour session covered everything from new Android integrated development environment (IDE) …
Tags: Chris Yerga, GIF, Google Maps, Larry Page
Saws Cut Off 4000 Fingers A Year. This Gadget Could Fix That. – Mother Jones
Since it started making table saws in in 2004, SawStop has recorded 2,000 “finger saves”—customer reports of accidents likely to have caused disfiguring injuries with conventional saws, but that resulted in minor cuts or a few stitches at most. (SawStop also has acknowledged two reports of amputations.) Wheeler bought two of the company’s first saws. In March 2006, Carl Seymour, a foreman …
Tags: Black Decker, CPSC, Emerson Electric, Power Tool Institute
Google Demands Microsoft Pull YouTube App from Windows Phone – Wired (blog)
Photo: Ariel Zambelich/Wired Wired has obtained a copy of a cease and desist letter sent by Google to Microsoft today, demanding Microsoft immediately remove the YouTube app from its Windows Phone Store and disable existing copies on consumers’ devices by May 22. The YouTube app for Windows Phone–developed by Microsoft, not Google–strips out ads and allows downloading, both violations of …
Tags: Windows Phone, Windows Phone Store
Google’s New Hangouts App: Exactly How Chat Should Be – Wired
Google’s new Hangout app. Photo: Alex Washburn/Wired The new Google Hangouts app combines typed conversations, images and video conferencing into a single, seamless experience. This is the way chat is supposed to be. The tagline for the service is “Conversations that last, with people that you love.” You can chat, like you would in a normal messaging app; include photos, …
Tags: Google Hangouts
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