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Google Play comes to Barnes & Noble’s Nook HD and HD+, we go hands-on (video) Hands-on

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As reported on Engadget. By Brian Heater Barnes & Noble’s refusal to open its ecosystem has long been one of our primary complaints about the company’s tablet offerings. The Nook HD and HD+ are extremely nice pieces of hardware that have been held back by their own walled software offerings — having a fast device with a nice screen only gets you so far without the proper apps. The company line up to now has been that walling off content…

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

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As reported on Engadget. By Steve Dent 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,…

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Google Is Alive, It Has Eyes, and This Is What It Sees

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As reported on Wired. BY JAKOB SCHILLER View as gallery   Sam Bland has spent a lot of time with Google Goggles. He’s learned how it sees the world and how it communicates — they play games together. Goggles is the image search feature in the Google mobile app, and by layering the app’s best attempts to match his photos, Bland has created an artistic view of the world as seen through Google’s eyes. His first experiment…

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Living with Google Glass, Day Three: Security Checkpoint

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As reported on Engadget. By Tim Stevens You might be inclined to think that airport security is not the best place to wear Google Glass. You’d probably be right, but given the amount that I travel it was pretty-well inevitable that I’d cross through some security checkpoint before the course of this testing would be through. MORE INFO Living with Google Glass, Day One: The Reveal Living with Google Glass, Day Two: Around the House I’m…

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Iterations: How Six Technology Investors Size Up The Google Glass Opportunity

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As reported on TechCrunch. by SEMIL SHAH People won’t stop talking about Google Glass, and rightfully so. Ever since the epic parachute-hangout demo, the Valley has been buzzing about the future coming of what is arguably one of the biggest potential advancements in computer interfaces since the iPhone. Lately, the buzz has been bubbling as Google employees, early adopters (Scoble just posted his detailed review), tech bloggers, and contestwinners have started to receive their glasses, combined with heavy, consumer-focused advertising,…

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Living with Google Glass, Day One: the reveal

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As reported on Engadget. By Tim Stevens In a loft atop Chelsea Market, Google is doing something special. Here, lucky Explorers will get their first taste of Project Glass. Yes, Google’s latest X project (that we know about, at least) has finally made its way to the East Coast en masse. More importantly, it’s also made its way to my face. A full Engadget review of the headset is most certainly on the way, but this…

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Google Now Could Arrive On The Web, Making The Timely Assistant Truly Cross-Platform

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As reported on TechCrunch. by DARRELL ETHERINGTON Google Now is one of the best things to happen to Android in a while, and now new code discovered in a sample page taken from Google itself suggests it could arrive on the desktop, not just via Chrome but through the Google homepage itself. Code snippets includeprovisions for letting a user set their home and work location, “Discover Google now” and change their current location, all in support of…

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You’ve Got The Whole World In Your Hands As Leap Motion Gains Google Earth Support

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As reported on TechCrunch. by DARRELL ETHERINGTON Leap Motion’s gesture-based controller launch is less than a month away, but so far we’ve heard relatively little about app support, besides the fact that the company is working hard on filling out its Airspace app store. Now, Leap Motion and Google are announcing support for Google Earth for Leap Motion tech, which will be built-in to the desktop Google Earth app for Windows, Mac and Linux as of version…

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How Will We Define A “Good” Google Glass Experience?

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As reported on TechCrunch. by DARRELL ETHERINGTON Google Glass is getting closer and closer to becoming a shipping product. It’s already making its way out to early “Explorer” program pre-launch testers, and we’ll almost definitely see a lot more from Glass at Google I/O in mid-May. Drew already got his lucky mitts on an Explorer set, and provided some useful insight about how it operates, and how it might be useful as someone goes about their average…

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Google’s new Places for Business app lets you verify and update listings on your iPhone Mobile

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As reported on Engadget. By Mat Smith When you run your own business, time is money and sometimes you don’t have the excess minutes to return to your PC and tweak your Google Place Google+ Locallisting, right? Fortunately, if you’re carrying an iPhone in your pocket and have Google’s new Places for Business app, you can adjust those opening times, verify your establishment (and more) on the go. Other features include web traffic tracking, plus the ability to…

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