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Photography Tablet

Sony add-on will let you graft a giant camera to your tablet

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As reported on Engadget. BY JON FINGAS Whether you like it or not, tablet photography is here to stay — it’s only fair that slate owners get a fair chance at taking nice pictures. Sony certainly thinks so, since it has unveiled a new mount, the SPA-TA1, that attaches its QX lens cameras to tablets. The peripheral isn’t just for small devices, either; it includes six adjustable arms that accommodate larger hardware, like the Xperia Tablet Z and VAIO Tap 11. Sony ships…

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Culture

Forget Matadors, These Guys Wrestle Bulls With Their Bare Hands

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As reported on Wired. BY JAKOB SCHILLER ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT SIMILAR GALLERIES 30 Years of Amazing Sports Moments, Captured by a Master Photographer Meet the Coolest 84-Year-Old on the Internet Throwback Thursday: 100 Years Ago, Drone Cameras Soared on Kites 2,000 Feet High Powerful Photos Go Deep Inside America’s Fracking Boom Siamese Fighting Fish Show Off Their Fiercest Looks Haunting Photos of a Crumbling Post-Communist World 1 / 12 A forcado tries to hang on after the…

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Art

Trip on psychedelic GIFs from the safety of your browser

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As reported on The Verge. By Aaron Souppouris Henrique Lima is a man of many talents. Perhaps better known as ‘Gringo,’ the São Paulo-based artist is one half of the illustrative duo Mulheres Barbadas, but he also creates typefaces, designs T-shirts for Tenso Graphics, is part of the loose Black Rock Collective, and, most recently, has turned his hand to crafting GIFs. Lima’s Mestre Fungo is a psychedelic series of expertly animated images, in which faces drip like melting waxworks, eyes well with…

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Automotive Culture

Will connected cars cause more accidents?

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As reported on The Verge. By Adrianne Jeffries With a deluge of apps coming to the car, it’s time to start taking distracted driving as seriously as drunk driving Morgan Webb, the gaming and tech personality, stood on a purple-lit stage between a Chevy Impala and a Corvette and raised her arms triumphantly. The candy-apple-red cars looked ordinary, if a little shinier than normal, but it was what was inside that mattered: LTE connectivity and an…

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Apple

Apple’s next cash cow could be your fingerprint

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As reported on Engadget. BY BRAD MOLEN The mobile payments arena may not seem so big right now, but make no mistake: We’re just seeing the beginning of a rapidly growing trend. Some estimates we’ve seen from market research firms put the future mobile payment market in the US alone at around $90 billion spent in 2017. Compared to that, the $12.8 billion spent in 2012 is just pocket change underneath the couch cushions. Apple’s very much aware…

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Google

Google Glass gets prescription glasses: four styles, $225 each (video)

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As reported on Engadget. BY MAT SMITH Remember when Google said its wearable would work perfectly fine with prescription glasses? Well it’s finally delivered, offering a $225 upgrade option for current Google Glass Explorers. Crafted from titanium (whatever else?), the designs are pretty unassuming and classy: they look like glasses frames you’d see at an optometrist. There’s four styles to choose from — Curve, Thin, Split, Bold — making the selection sound more like font categories than frame categories.…

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Government Internet Security

If You Used This Secure Webmail Site, the FBI Has Your Inbox

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As reported on Wired. BY KEVIN POULSEN Photo: Peter Earl McCollough/WIRED   While investigating a hosting company known for sheltering child porn last year the FBI incidentally seized the entire e-mail database of a popular anonymous webmail service called TorMail. Now the FBI is tapping that vast trove of e-mail in unrelated investigations. The bureau’s data windfall, seized from a company called Freedom Hosting, surfaced in court papers last week when prosecutors indicted a Florida man…

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Android Business

Samsung ‘Galaxy Glass’ wearable reportedly set for September reveal

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As reported on The Verge. By Vlad Savov As the purveyor of smart phones, TVs, fridges, ovens, and even kitchen sinks, Samsung couldn’t possibly let the opportunity to create smart glasses pass it by. A new report from the Korea Times cites unnamed Samsung officials who claim the company is presently developing a competitor to Google’s Glass — tentatively named Galaxy Glass — which could make its debut at the IFA trade show in Berlin this September. One of the…

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Business Mobile

Enterprise Mobility: Devices, Security, Design, And Distribution

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As reported on TechCrunch. by Semil Shah Editor’s Note: Semil Shah works on product for Swell, is a TechCrunch columnist, and an investor. He blogs at Haywire, and you can follow him on Twitter at @semil. Every Sunday for this column, I write on something related to mobile. To date, it’s mostly been about consumer-facing apps,device sensors, user interfaces, tactics likepush notifications, and a range of other topics. However, I have yet to dig into mobile for more business-facing, enterprise-oriented users and considerations. That’s partly because I…

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Culture Internet

Switched On: The next steps for digital wellness, part one

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As reported on Engadget. BY ROSS RUBIN  Some of today’s leading wearable devices are, at their core, little more than souped-up pedometers. Their once-dim monochrome LCD screens have migrated from atoms to bits that connect to the internet, allowing them to display information in a more engaging way and track it over time. They have been a big win for output, but with essentially the same input. Indiegogo in particular has been a fertile launchpad for…

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