Day: January 9, 2014

Culture Tech

Why Cops and Cable Guys Will Be the Pioneers of Wearable Tech

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As reported on Wired BY MARCUS WOHLSEN ADVERTISEMENT SIMILAR GALLERIES Delivery Drones Already Exist — And They’re Way Bigger Than Amazon’s Giant Fembots Dance With Dinosaurs in the Weirdest Show on Earth The Next Big Thing You Missed: If the Apple Store Sold Groceries Google Channels Pixar to Change Storytelling as We Know It Nest Gives the Lowly Smoke Detector a Brain — And a Voice Box.com Melds Google and Microsoft Into Document Engine of the…

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Entertainment

Netflix chief product officer Neil Hunt on bringing 4K into your home

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As reported on The Verge. By Bryan Bishop Netflix has been busy here at CES. Over the past few days multiple TV manufacturers have announced partnerships with the company around its latest initiative: 4K streaming. With Ultra HD televisions one of the dominant stories of last year’s show, the fact that Netflix will be providing 4K content in the second quarter of this year has the potential to truly change the landscape. We sat down with…

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Games Tech

AirDroids Wants To Democratize The Skies With Its Pint-Sized Pocket Drone

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As reported on TechCrunch. by Chris Velazco The buzz around drones is undeniable these days — as it turns out, even Martha Stewart uses one to survey her farm — but there still hasn’t been a runaway drone hit that has captured that imaginations of the masses. That’s exactly what a hardware startup calledAirDroids is trying to accomplish with the Pocket Drone, a (relatively) inexpensive flying machine that’s meant to give people of all stripes a different…

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Photography Space

Gemini Planet Imager photographs alien worlds in just a minute

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As reported on Engadget. BY JON FINGAS Although it has been possible to take direct photos of exoplanets for a few years, the technology involved has been low-resolution and slow — it can take up to an hour to get a crude shot of a dimly-lit world. It’s much easier with the recently launched Gemini Planet Imager (GPI), though. Scientists have released early images from the Chile-based instrument that took a mere minute to capture, and reveal more detail than…

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Hardware Dev

Airtame wireless dongle mirrors your computer onto any HDMI display

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As reported on Engadget. BY RICHARD LAI Here’s yet another option for wirelessly mirroring your computer screen to another display, but don’t worry, this one rather impressive. Airtame, the creation of a group of Danish folks, is an HDMI dongle that links your PC — be it running on Windows, OS X or Linux — to whatever display it’s plugged into over WiFi. Installation is a breeze: all you need on the PC side is just…

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