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<span style="background-color: black; color: cyan;">Carpenter Richard van As made his own digits after losing his fingers in an accident. Now he's helping kids by 3D-printing prosthetics and running an Indiegogo campaign.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: cyan;">People who have lost fingers can try to get <a href="http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-57507044-1/latest-bebionic-hand-has-stronger-kung-fu-grip/" style="border: 0px; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">robotic hands</a> that cost tens of thousands of dollars. Or they can try to 3D-print their own hand.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: cyan;">That's what Richard van As did after a woodworking accident in 2011 cost him four fingers. The South African carpenter decided to build his own fingers from hardware store parts but eventually turned to 3D printing.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: cyan;">Using a MakerBot Replicator 2 printer, he collaborated with Ivan Owen to create a prosthetic finger after much trial and error. They've since printed hands for four South African children who lack fingers.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 1em; font-style: inherit; line-height: 1.333em;"><br />The Robohand works by a series of cables and bungee cords that are controlled by movements of the wrist and arm.</span>The first was Liam, a 5-year-old boy with<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amniotic_band_syndrome" style="border: 0px; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">amniotic band syndrome</a>, who was born without fingers on his right hand. At the request of his mother, Van As and Owen produced <a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Robohand/260864887366912?ref=hl" style="border: 0px; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Robohand</a>, a low-cost, 3D-printed prosthetic.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: cyan;">Check out <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kB53-D_N8Uc&feature=player_embedded" style="border: 0px; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">this video</a> of Liam using his Robohand, performing precise movements like picking up coins.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: cyan;">Aside from distributing the open-source files for Robohand on Thingiverse, the partners are now trying to raise $10,000 in an <a href="http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/robohand" style="border: 0px; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Indiegogo campaign</a> so they can help more children for free.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: cyan;">The cash is needed to buy materials such as PLA plastic for the 3D printer and hardware to assemble the hands.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: cyan;">Arthur C. Clarke wrote that "any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic," but he was wrong. It's easy to tell the difference—technology works. For example, "remote-viewing" mentalists claim they can see events far away, yet they fail every test. In fact, remote viewing is simple: It's called TV.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: cyan;">Another example that recently circulated online was a fake video of someone charging his iPhone by jamming the end of a USB cable into an onion. How do I know it was fake? First, you need contacts made of two different metals, and second, you can't get enough voltage out of a single vegetable. What makes the ruse so disappointing is that it is possible to charge an iPhone this way, if you do it right.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: cyan;">A regulation vegetable battery, made by sticking strips of zinc and copper into a potato, generates about half a volt. The electricity comes from the oxidation of zinc; the vegetable is just an elecrolyte (conductive barrier), and the copper completes the circuit. Stacking alternating layers of vegetables, zinc, and copper is like wiring batteries in series, each set adding its voltage to the total.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: cyan;">After some 10 volts' worth of teary-eyed onion peeling, I decided to switch to apples using a fruit corer to cut out the apple rods and a cheese slicer to cut them into disks. Pennies with the copper plating sanded off on one side made a handy source of copper and zinc layers in one.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: cyan;">About 150 of these, arranged into six parallel batteries of 25 apple/zinc/copper layers each, yielded enough power to charge an iPhone, but only for about a second. (Much larger zinc plates and whole slices of apple would have provided more power for longer.) Around 200 of the layers went into one three-foot long apple battery, delivering much higher voltage. I was able to create a visible, and potentially fatal, spark with this battery. Yes, in the right configuration, you can electrocute yourself with an apple.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: cyan;">This was one of the most involved demonstrations I've done, due to the need to produce a couple hundred half-sanded pennies. Post-1982 pennies are made of copper-plated zinc, so if you sand off the copper plating on one side of them, and combine them with solid copper pre-1982 pennies, you have both metals needed to create a battery.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: cyan;">I mounted a short iron water pipe, whose inside diameter was just about the same as a penny, up against a small vertical belt sander, leaving a gap between the end of the pipe and the sanding belt that was just a bit thinner than a penny. Then I filled the pipe with a stack of pennies, and pressed them up against the running belt with a plunger. Each penny in turn was sanded down until it was thin enough to fit through the gap, at which point the moving belt threw the penny out of the machine, allowing the next one to advance into position. It worked surprisingly well as an automatic penny sander, plopping out a sanded penny every few seconds.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: cyan;">I first thought of using onions because I figured I could core them with a fruit coring tool (basically a very thin-walled metal tube with a sharpened edge, which you can use to cut plugs out of fruits), and then the layers would separate into lots of individual disks. Unfortunately onion didn't work very well, I think becasue each layer has a sort of membrane on one side that doesn't conduct electricity very well. So I switched to using apples instead, and had to manually slice the cores into disks.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: cyan;">With about two hundred sets of alternating penny/apple disks connected in series (stacked inside a clear plastic tube) the battery produces enough voltage (over 100V) to actually be dangerous. To charge an iPhone I had to rearrange the battery into six stacks of about 20 apple/penny slices each, with the six stacks connected in parallel to incrase the current capacity. Even so it charged the phone for literally about one second, just long enough for it to come on and display the charging symbol</span></div>
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<span class="dropc" style="float: left; font-family: arial; font-size: 58px; line-height: 51px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 3px 2px 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: cyan;">I</span></span><span style="background-color: black; color: cyan;">t’s time for Round 2 of HTC One vs <a href="http://tech2.in.com/reviews/smartphones/samsung-galaxy-s4-review/872534" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><strong style="margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">Samsung Galaxy S4</strong></a>. Google’s Sundar Pichai, the head of Android, Chrome and Apps, took the stage at AllThingsD’s D11 conference with an HTC One. However, this was no regular HTC One as Pichai went on to reveal that a Google Edition for the Taiwanese company’s flagship will arrive on the <a href="http://blog.htc.com/2013/05/htc-one-google-nexus-experience/?gb25" rel="nofollow" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><strong style="margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">Play Store on June 26 for $599</strong></a>.<br style="margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" />HTC’s One and the Galaxy S4 are the biggest competition for each other when it comes to Android smartphones. And the ‘Nexus’ One will be a full $50 cheaper than the <a href="http://tech2.in.com/news/smartphones/this-years-nexus-device-is-the-samsung-galaxy-s4-running-on-stock-android/873306" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><strong style="margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">stock Android-running Samsung Galaxy S4</strong></a>, which will also be available on the same date on the Play Store. In terms of price and having seen the rave reviews (<a href="http://tech2.in.com/reviews/smartphones/htc-one-review/870122" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><strong style="margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">here’s ours</strong></a>) for the HTC One, this can be considered a great coup for the <a href="http://tech2.in.com/news/general/htc-may-be-facing-troubled-times-with-staff-departure-and-production-problems/873990" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><strong style="margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">ailing Taiwanese smartphone maker</strong></a>. After suffering a bleak couple of years in terms of sales and brand perception, HTC can finally count the Google Edition One as a minor victory against Samsung, the leading smartphone maker in the world.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: cyan;">When you name your product the <a href="http://www.aggift.com/products/products_info.php?code=B-01" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">'Amazing Humidifier'</a> it better be bringing something great to the table. After all, it's pretty hard to get excited over something as mundane as a humidifier. But the fact that this compact version transforms any water bottle into a secret weapon to battle dry skin is, admittedly, pretty amazing.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: cyan;">Powered via a USB connection, the <a data-amazonasin="B00C1RD3YU" data-amazontag="gizmodoamzn-20" href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00C1RD3YU/ref=as_li_ss_tl?tag=gizmodoamzn-20&ascsubtag=[type|link[postId|510263351[asin|B00C1RD3YU" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">$34</a> compact humidifier is easy to travel with since it uses any-sized water bottle as its reservoir. So the longer you want it to run without a refill, the larger the bottle you'll need to find, but an average-sized bottle should keep it going for up to eight hours.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: cyan;">Use our web-based software to create a playlist with your own images and animations - or choose from our collection of custom artwork. Then send your playlist to the Monkey Light Pro with Bluetooth wireless.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: cyan;">Mount the Monkey Light Pro to your bike wheel and take your message to the streets. Once you're rolling the display fills the bike wheel and is visible from both sides. The Monkey Light Pro is waterproof, durable and designed for use on city streets. <b style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Crank your bike to eleven.</b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: cyan;">In the past we've hand built our prototypes for exhibits and developers only. You may have seen one at Maker Faire, Siggraph, Dragon's Den, EuroBike, SXSW or at a Museum. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: cyan;">Finally, we're ready to launch the Monkey Light Pro in product form. We've field tested 100 units of the most recent hand-made prototype. We've refined the design a lot from our developer feedback. Now we need your help to manufacture the Monkey Light Pro with a user-friendly package and price.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: cyan;">To get you started we'll pre-load the Monkey Light Pro with an amazing image and animation collection for you to use. Over 10 artists have created artwork specially for the Monkey Light Pro. We're really excited to be able to give you a curated collection of work from <b style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://dvdp.tumblr.com/" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">David Ope</a>, <a href="http://www.sodeoka.com/" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Yoshi Sodeoka</a></b><b style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">, Devon Penney, <a href="http://www.openendedgroup.com/" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Shelley Eshkar</a>, Kevin Kunzman, Natalie Walsh, Katya Popova, Noah Vawter </b>and more. This is just a taste! If our project is successful we'll get lots more. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: cyan;">The Monkey Light Pro has 4 bars of LEDs which are attached together inside your wheel. As your ride the system rotates, using Persistence Of Vision to create an image with its 256 full color LEDs. The Monkey Light Pro has sensors to track its speed, heads-up position and rotation direction. This allows the system to create stable, full-wheel images from 10 to 40 mph (15 to 65 km/h).</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: cyan;">You won't find this technology in any other product. Geek out:</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: cyan;">The Monkey Light Pro fits a lot of common bike wheels. If you have a less common type of wheel please check carefully below.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: cyan;">The Monkey Light Pro includes 4 separate pieces. Connect the pieces within the spokes of your wheel and bolt them together. The assembled unit straps securely to your spokes. Installation is easiest if you remove your wheel from the bike first. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: cyan;">Installation and setup take about 1 hour. We'll make a video to show you how to do it.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: cyan;">If you want something that works right out of the box, check out the ready-to-ride option which is pre-installed on a Linus bicycle.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: cyan;">Application developers are welcome and encouraged. Our playlist, download and control software and API are available with an open-source license. Use Bluetooth wireless to download graphics and control the Monkey Light Pro. Make a moving installation with a bicycle, or check out our <a href="http://www.monkeylectric.com/sm1-display-stand/" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">SM1 powered display stand</a> for fixed installations. <a href="http://www.monkeylectric.com/contact/" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Contact us</a> if you have any questions about your idea.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: cyan;">Many developers have already done amazing things with our prototypes:</span></div>
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<li style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 6px 30px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: black; color: cyan;">The Fukushima Wheel project outfitted a bike with pollution sensors. As you ride around, it collects data from the environment and displays it on the wheels. </span></li>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: cyan;"><b style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">At a store near you</b>: Our <a href="http://www.monkeylectric.com/wheel_light_comparison/" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">M210 and M232 Monkey Light</a> bike lights are available worldwide for $50 to $75. They are fun and visible and your purchase is a great way to help this project. <b style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.monkeylectric.com/buy-now" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Ride one today!</a></b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: cyan;">All of us here at MonkeyLectric love riding our bikes. We developed the Monkey Light to make riding at night just as fun as the day, and to share our good cheer with those around us. The first thing you notice when you ride around town with a Monkey Light is how many smiles you get. Just remember to smile back!</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: cyan;">A business should reflect the values of its owners and employees. Several of our staff are volunteer organizers of the largest <a href="http://www.eastbaybikeparty.org/" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Oakland</a> and San Francisco events focused on positive, community-wide cycling. We contribute many non-commercial projects and How-To's to the open source community for others to build and use on their own. our innovative <a href="http://www.instructables.com/id/Battery-Powered-Mobile-Party-Sound-Systems/" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">mobile sound system designs</a> have inspired many other builders and helped enable off-grid parties around the world.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: cyan;">There's more about us at our <b style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.monkeylectric.com/about/" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">company website</a></b>.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: cyan;">We're a small company, 6 people. Two years ago we brought our M210 Mini Monkey Light to market largely through funding from Kickstarter. It was a really positive experience for us. We're really grateful for all of the support we received from our backers. Several contributed artwork and designs that were included in the final product. The Mini Monkey Light is now available in hundreds of bike shops around the world. We followed that up with the M232 light.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: cyan;">The Monkey Light Pro is a big chunk of hardware! Just take a look at the diagram below. Scaling it up to manufacturing requires a lot of up front costs for tooling and parts. Creating the web interface will require development effort. Kickstarter is the best way for us to raise funds and ensure we have enough customers to make it work - before we go out and buy all that gear. The Monkey Light Pro is also a really creative product. There is a lot of potential for artist and developer collaborations. Launching it on Kickstarter is a great way to connect and make something that is more than the sum of its parts.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: cyan;">Dan says: "I built the first prototypes purely as a technology demonstration - just for fun! I made an exhibit and showed it at Maker Faire, SigGraph, Interbike and some other places. People kept asking me if they could buy one, but it wasn't a product yet. We’ve built about 100 kits so far using a very labor intensive process, it is really difficult and expensive! The prototypes also had primitive software, only the hackers could use it. Over the past 2 years we sold some of the prototypes to application developers who did some really cool things - like the Fukushima Wheel project."</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: cyan;">"We kept taking the Pro to all our shows - everyone loves to see it. And they kept begging us to make it available! Every day we get an email like that. We put together a plan for how we could make the Monkey Light Pro commercially - bring the price within reach and make it easier to use. We talked to some traditional funding sources. Bankers drive BMW’s, they don't ride bikes! They just didn’t get what we are doing. "</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: cyan;">"We knew the Pro was a really big project so we had to make some steps along the way. In 2011 we launched our Mini Monkey Light on Kickstarter. That let us prove our manufacturing technology and production capabilities. We designed our own manufacturing line! Now both the smaller Monkey Lights are in hundreds of bike shops around the world. Finally we have all the pieces in place to make the Monkey Light Pro a reality. We can do this. I hope you will support our project so we can bring this amazing technology to you."</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: cyan;">This does not exist yet. The smartphone scenes in our video give an idea how it might work. If we're lucky enough to not only reach our goal but exceed it then we will plan to work on smart phone apps that can do live control of the wheel graphics. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: cyan;">Application developers are able to do their own smart phone interface as needed.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: cyan;">The Monkey Light Pro is a well tested design. Over the past 2 years we hand built 100 units of our latest prototype. Over 20 independent developers, artists and professional agencies have used the prototypes in a variety of applications. All of the footage in our video was made using our prototypes.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: cyan;">Our capabilities for engineering, design, manufacturing and distribution have been proven with our smaller Monkey Light M210 and M232 products. We Kickstarted our M210 product 2 years ago. Today both the M210 and M232 are in volume production and sold in hundreds of shops worldwide. They are top rated on Amazon and known for their quality.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: cyan;">The following tasks remain to complete the Monkey Light Pro:</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: cyan;">* Design and fabricate production molds for the Monkey Light Pro, integrating the same manufacturing technology we use with our smaller Monkey Light products.<br />* Update the Monkey Light Pro hardware to include USB charging, newer wireless hardware, additional themes, and cosmetic improvements.<br />* Curate additional artwork<br />* Deploy our playlist creation back end onto a web server<br />* Create a web front end for our playlist creation tools<br />* Create Windows downloading tool<br />* Make an installer for the existing Mac download tool</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: cyan;">* We will produce the Monkey Light Pro at the same California-based facilities as our existing Monkey Light M210 and M232 products. Our smaller Monkey Light products are already in volume production, and the Monkey Light Pro will use the same production technologies.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: cyan;">* Component sourcing has already been completed during the prototype phase. The funding received from this Kickstarter is essential to purchasing the full quantity of needed parts at more cost effective pricing.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: cyan;">* Our engineering, test and manufacturing processes are rigorous and focused on producing high quality, well tested products. As we move towards final integration and testing of the Monkey Light Pro, we may learn that additional revision is needed to meet our quality standards. This may delay the delivery schedule.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: cyan;">* The remaining tasks may take longer than expected to complete.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: cyan;">* Supply chain delays. The Monkey Light Pro uses a lot of different parts. Sometimes a part can become discontinued or be out of stock for a long time. This can impact delivery schedule if we need to design or test an alternative part or wait for delivery.</span></div>
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<a href="http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/minimonkey/monkey-light-pro-bicycle-wheel-display-system"><span style="background-color: black; color: cyan;">http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/minimonkey/monkey-light-pro-bicycle-wheel-display-system</span></a></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: cyan;">How many times have you stood outside your front door, fumbling with your key until you found the right one, or with arms so full of groceries you wish your door would magically open itself? For those people (admit it, that's you,) key-and-lock-maker Kwikset is introducing Kevo, a not-quite-keyless one-touch entry lock for your front door.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: cyan;">With the smart device within about 4 feet of the door, you simply lock or unlock it by tapping your finger (or elbow or nose) on the lock face. An LED ring lights up green when the door unlocks, yellow when it locks, and blue while it's processing. A red flash denies entry.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: cyan;">Skin is the main conductor here, so while the unit may detect your touch through light fabric, don't count on unlocking your front door while wearing gloves. Never fear, snowbirds. Kwikset's front door works with old-fashioned mechanical keys, too.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: cyan;">system that includes the mechanical door lock, a unit you can swap in for your usual deadbolt in about 5 minutes, and a smartphone app. A quick Bluetooth handoff with a unit behind the back plate pairs the "master" phone with the front door lock. From there, the key "owner" can invite other household members to become admins (like a spouse) or users (like kids.) There's no software limit to how many keys you can create.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: cyan;">The app controls basic permissions and lock disabling -- in the case of a lost or stolen phone (the files are also encrypted with military-grade keys.) There's also a way to check history to flag comings and goings, and alerts you can set up when someone leaves or enters the house. The latter was intended especially for working parents to know the minute their kids get home after school.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: cyan;">As a unit, the Kevo is pretty simple. A Bluetooth 4.0 protocol called Low Energy (Bluetooth Low Energy) powers the initial phone-pairing and subsequent locking cycles.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: cyan;">For now, Kevo has an iOS app. While newer Android phones accept the Bluetooth 4.0 hardware specs, the software side isn't yet compatible with Bluetooth low energy, which means, in a nutshell, that Android app support is coming soon.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: cyan;">One touch of your finger can lock or unlock your front door.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: cyan;">Kwikset already dominates the mechanical door lock market, so it has the kind of clout to really market its electronic key. It doesn't hurt that UniKey, the tech company behind the Kwikset product name, generated a mound of interest on last year's <a href="http://www.unikey.com/" style="border: 0px; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Shark Tank TV show</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: cyan;">However, Kevo isn't the first or only of its breed. CNET's Rich Brown compares the way Kevo works to <a href="http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-17889_7-57584886/unikey-bluetooth-door-lock-emerges-as-kevo/" style="border: 0px; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Lockitron here.</a></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: cyan;">Kevo comes in three popular finishes, a shiny gold color, and more muted, brushed pewter and brass colors. It will become available thus summer for between $199 and $249 at outlets like home improvement stores, Amazon, and likely other electronics retailers.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: cyan;">Google is enabling a more naturally spoken question-and-answer interface to its search service for people with a new version of Chrome.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: cyan;">It's all part of the gradual arrival of Google's vision to <a href="http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-57574187-1/star-trek-computer-inspires-future-of-google-search/" style="border: 0px; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">build a Star Trek-style search engine</a>, in which the computer grasps what people want and answers them. Eventually, expect Google to let people initiate a query by saying, "OK, Google," as with <a href="http://reviews.cnet.com/google-glass/" section="luke_topic" style="border: 0px; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Google Glass</a> voice commands.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: cyan;">It's not clear yet how broadly the service is available. Some reported receiving errors that said "no Internet connection."</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: cyan;">Google confirmed the move Wednesday. "Conversational search has started rolling out on Google.com in the latest version of Chrome. You can just click the mic in the search box, ask your question in a natural way, and get spoken answers," the company said in a statement.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: cyan;">Users need to update their Chrome browser to get the new functionality, according to Google.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 1em; font-style: inherit; line-height: 1.333em;"><br />To see a more elaborate version of the feature in action, check</span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 1em; font-style: inherit; line-height: 1.333em;"> </span><a href="http://news.cnet.com/1606-2_3-50146891.html" style="border: 0px; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; line-height: 1.333em; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Google's demonstration of conversational search</a><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 1em; font-style: inherit; line-height: 1.333em;"> </span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 1em; font-style: inherit; line-height: 1.333em;">from Google I/O.</span>Google tries to be clever enough to understand that "here" means "the questioner's present location" and that a pronoun could refer to the subject of a previous query. One example: Ask Google "Who did Angelina Jolie marry?" then follow up with "How old is he?"</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: cyan;">Google sometimes delivers the results firsthand, a major departure from search results years ago that typically were located on others' Web pages. The search engine optimization industry grew around this search-driven Web traffic, but it's not clear yet how it'll be changed as Google gives the answers itself.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: cyan;">The conversational search feature requires <a href="http://news.cnet.com/8301-1001_3-57585598-92/chrome-gets-a-touch-faster/" style="border: 0px; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Chrome 27</a>, which Google released Tuesday.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: cyan;">The <a href="http://www.gottabemobile.com/tag/samsung-galaxy-s4/" style="text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word;">Samsung Galaxy S4</a> is a great smartphone, but after a week I only have 3.5GB of storage left and dumbed down Micro SD card support on Android highlights the missing 32GB and 64GB Galaxy S4 models.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: cyan;">Currently the 16GB Samsung Galaxy S4 is the<a href="http://www.gottabemobile.com/2013/04/30/samsung-galaxy-s4-32gb/" style="text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word;">only model available for purchase from U.S. carriers</a>, and several confirmed it will be the only model they offer. Some sources claim a Samsung Supply chain issue is behind the problem, but carriers are quick to point out that users can rely on a Micro SD card and the Cloud instead of the internal storage, but that’s not completely true.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: cyan;">There are limitations to what users can place on a Micro SD card and using the Cloud will push data usage up, which could force customers to spend $10 to $20 more a month.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: cyan;">Don’t get me wrong, I love the inclusion of a Micro SD card to store media and USB OTG support makes it possible to plug a USB drive into the Samsung Galaxy S4 when I need even more, but this doesn’t solve the problem of limited internal storage.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: cyan;">Google is focused on pushing consumers towards internal storage with changes in the ability to move apps to the SD card in Android 4.2 and in the design decisions of the Nexus 4, which only offers internal storage.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: cyan;">After using the Samsung Galaxy S4 for a week, and only downloading some of the apps I traditionally use, I am left with only 3.5GB of storage left on my 16GB Galaxy S4. That’s after a week of use, and forcing 1080P HD video and my photos onto an SD card.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: cyan;">Currently the biggest data hogs, after Samsung’s implementation of Android, are games, Google Play movie purchases and a few other apps. I’m afraid to download all the games I’ve purchased and to store any Google Play Music on the phone.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: cyan;">Why is this such a big deal with a 32GB Micro SD card waiting with 90% open?</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: cyan;">Simple. Google won’t let me move any of this data to the Micro SD card.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: cyan;">Samsung Galaxy S4 data used after one week thanks to a few games and one HD movie.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: cyan;">Apps need to be on the Internal memory in order to work, likely because Google is worried users will purchase cheap, slow Micro SD cards that will impede performance. With many popular games clocking in at over 1GB in size, internal storage space disappears fast.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: cyan;">Google Play Movies and TV shows are also restricted to the internal memory. This is probably a concession to prevent piracy, which is especially annoying because there’s no apparent way to buy or rent content that I can store on the Micro SD card. If I were to pirate movies or break DRM to rip them to my computer I could store them on the Micro SD card.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: cyan;">When it comes time to listen to music, I’m not able to download the 1,645 songs I uploaded to Google Music without wasting internal storage. Some of them I can side-load from a computer onto my Micro SD card, if I want to give up the convenience of cloud sync. The same goes for music apps that allow offline playback, most of which will store songs on the internal memory.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: cyan;">With all of this in mind, the Micro SD card is basically good for photos and videos taken with the camera, as long as the photos aren’t taken in Burst Mode, which only supports saving to the internal storage.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: cyan;">There is the option to rely on the cloud for movies and music, but with a limited plan on AT&T this isn’t the best option for me or for many users. This also means more time spent picking and choosing apps and media when I will be offline on a plane or long trip. Apple offers the iPhone 5 with up to 64GB of storage and the <a href="http://www.att.com/shop/wireless/devices/htc/one-64gb-glacial-silver.html" style="text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word;">HTC One comes with up to 64GB of internal storage</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: cyan;">Until Android improves on the ability to use built-in apps and services on the Micro SD card, it cannot be a replacement for 32GB or 64GB Android smartphones.</span></div>
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<a href="http://www.gottabemobile.com/2013/05/03/why-the-samsung-galaxy-s4-micro-sd-card-is-useless/"><span style="background-color: black; color: cyan;">http://www.gottabemobile.com/2013/05/03/why-the-samsung-galaxy-s4-micro-sd-card-is-useless/</span></a></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: cyan;"><span class="article-leader" style="font-family: FranklinGothicFSCdRegular; font-size: 1.3em; font-weight: 700; line-height: 22.798294067382813px;">Mobile payment processor Square on Tuesday revealed a new hardware accessory for Apple's iPad: the Square Stand, which turns the popular tablet into a register capable of accepting credit card payments.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: cyan;"><br style="font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue Light', 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Sans Serif'; font-size: 15.454545021057129px; line-height: 22.798294067382813px;" /><span style="font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue Light', 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Sans Serif'; font-size: 15.454545021057129px; line-height: 22.798294067382813px;">The </span><a href="https://squareup.com/stand" style="-webkit-transition: all 125ms ease-out; border: none; font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue Light', 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Sans Serif'; font-size: 15.454545021057129px; line-height: 22.798294067382813px; outline-style: none; text-decoration: none; transition: all 125ms ease-out;">Square Stand</a><span style="font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue Light', 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Sans Serif'; font-size: 15.454545021057129px; line-height: 22.798294067382813px;"> is specially designed to fit either the iPad 2 or iPad 3 and has a built-in credit card reader to allow for easy payment processing. Connecting the accessory to an iPad running Square's point-of-sale management apps allows for tracking of sales data and management of inventory and employees. </span><br style="font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue Light', 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Sans Serif'; font-size: 15.454545021057129px; line-height: 22.798294067382813px;" /><br style="font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue Light', 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Sans Serif'; font-size: 15.454545021057129px; line-height: 22.798294067382813px;" /><span style="font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue Light', 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Sans Serif'; font-size: 15.454545021057129px; line-height: 22.798294067382813px;">The new accessory is a more iPad-specific hardware option from Square. The company's popular card swipers are already compatible with the iPad, but the Square Stand leverages the iPad's unique properties to make a more capable point of sale system. </span><br style="font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue Light', 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Sans Serif'; font-size: 15.454545021057129px; line-height: 22.798294067382813px;" /><br style="font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue Light', 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Sans Serif'; font-size: 15.454545021057129px; line-height: 22.798294067382813px;" /><span style="font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue Light', 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Sans Serif'; font-size: 15.454545021057129px; line-height: 22.798294067382813px;">The Square Stand also connects to </span><a href="http://appleinsider.com/articles/13/02/20/square-launches-ipad-driven-business-in-a-box-hardware-for-299" style="-webkit-transition: all 125ms ease-out; border: none; font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue Light', 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Sans Serif'; font-size: 15.454545021057129px; line-height: 22.798294067382813px; outline-style: none; text-decoration: none; transition: all 125ms ease-out;">Square's Business in a Box</a><span style="font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue Light', 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Sans Serif'; font-size: 15.454545021057129px; line-height: 22.798294067382813px;"> connected register system, which can generate receipts and store cash as well. </span><br style="font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue Light', 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Sans Serif'; font-size: 15.454545021057129px; line-height: 22.798294067382813px;" /><br style="font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue Light', 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Sans Serif'; font-size: 15.454545021057129px; line-height: 22.798294067382813px;" /><span style="font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue Light', 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Sans Serif'; font-size: 15.454545021057129px; line-height: 22.798294067382813px;">In introducing the device, Square said that 13 businesses with 30 locations will begin using the Stand on Wednesday. Square is also in discussions with Starbucks about putting the Stand into use in the coffee chain's locations. </span><br style="font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue Light', 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Sans Serif'; font-size: 15.454545021057129px; line-height: 22.798294067382813px;" /><br style="font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue Light', 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Sans Serif'; font-size: 15.454545021057129px; line-height: 22.798294067382813px;" /><span style="font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue Light', 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Sans Serif'; font-size: 15.454545021057129px; line-height: 22.798294067382813px;">Square also revealed that it's processing more than $15 billion in payments on an annualized basis. The company's revenues from processing those payments — 2.75 percent for swiped transactions and 3.5 percent + 15 cents for manually-entered transactions — have encouraged investors to continually pump money into Square, with the firm raising $200 million in funding last fall.</span><br style="font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue Light', 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Sans Serif'; font-size: 15.454545021057129px; line-height: 22.798294067382813px;" /><br style="font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue Light', 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Sans Serif'; font-size: 15.454545021057129px; line-height: 22.798294067382813px;" /><span style="font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue Light', 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Sans Serif'; font-size: 15.454545021057129px; line-height: 22.798294067382813px;">The </span><a href="https://squareup.com/stand" style="-webkit-transition: all 125ms ease-out; border: none; font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue Light', 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Sans Serif'; font-size: 15.454545021057129px; line-height: 22.798294067382813px; outline-style: none; text-decoration: none; transition: all 125ms ease-out;">Square Stand</a><span style="font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue Light', 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Sans Serif'; font-size: 15.454545021057129px; line-height: 22.798294067382813px;"> is currently available for preorder. 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<a href="http://appleinsider.com/articles/13/05/14/square-shows-off-new-hardware-stand-that-turns-ipad-into-a-register"><span style="background-color: black; color: cyan;">http://appleinsider.com/articles/13/05/14/square-shows-off-new-hardware-stand-that-turns-ipad-into-a-register</span></a>gkJr.http://www.blogger.com/profile/06954270932636855307noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6255447387549735269.post-84646163554758162472013-05-14T18:47:00.003+03:002013-05-14T18:47:49.569+03:00Apple patent lets users control a device with taps, thumps and scratches<br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: cyan;">The interpretation maybe based on the type of input, nature of the input, the location of the contact on the housing, the amplitude of input, as well as other various other factors. For example, a scratch may be interpreted differently from a tap, and so forth. Additionally, a tap on the housing near an output or input device may actuate the device whereas a tap on another surface of the housing may be interpreted as a keystroke.</span></blockquote>
<span style="background-color: black; color: cyan;"><br style="font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue Light', 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Sans Serif'; font-size: 15.199999809265137px; line-height: 22.799999237060547px;" /><span style="font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue Light', 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Sans Serif'; font-size: 15.199999809265137px; line-height: 22.799999237060547px;">A sound "vocabulary" is employed to distinguish patterns and locations of noise input. For example, three taps near a camera can turn said device on, while another tap can snap a picture. Other forms of interaction, such as scratching or moving a finger along the device surface, can also be interpreted.</span><br style="font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue Light', 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Sans Serif'; font-size: 15.199999809265137px; line-height: 22.799999237060547px;" /></span><div align="center" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue Light', 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Sans Serif'; font-size: 15.199999809265137px; line-height: 22.799999237060547px;">
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<span style="background-color: black; color: cyan;"><br style="font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue Light', 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Sans Serif'; font-size: 15.199999809265137px; line-height: 22.799999237060547px;" /><span style="font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue Light', 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Sans Serif'; font-size: 15.199999809265137px; line-height: 22.799999237060547px;">As computers tend to have moving parts like a hard drive or cooling fans, the patent calls for acoustic isolation in the form of either physical barriers constructed around the noisy components. Another embodiment calls for a software-based solution that ignores the sound signature of a certain part, for example a DVD drive. Noise interference can also be dealt with by subtracting signal data from an external transducer, much as the iPhone cancels sound with its secondary microphone. </span><br style="font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue Light', 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Sans Serif'; font-size: 15.199999809265137px; line-height: 22.799999237060547px;" /><br style="font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue Light', 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Sans Serif'; font-size: 15.199999809265137px; line-height: 22.799999237060547px;" /><span style="font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue Light', 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Sans Serif'; font-size: 15.199999809265137px; line-height: 22.799999237060547px;">Apple notes that the invention can be used as a replacement for a physical keyboard, with the sound of tapping on a computer housing being enough to generate the appropriate onscreen information. For example, micro perforations backlit by LEDs or a solid surface can be used instead of a QWERTY keyboard. The system can also be configured for use as a trackpad. </span><br style="font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue Light', 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Sans Serif'; font-size: 15.199999809265137px; line-height: 22.799999237060547px;" /><br style="font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue Light', 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Sans Serif'; font-size: 15.199999809265137px; line-height: 22.799999237060547px;" /><span style="font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue Light', 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Sans Serif'; font-size: 15.199999809265137px; line-height: 22.799999237060547px;">When applied to a mobile phone, the patent can be used as a simple input gesture, such as stopping an call from ringing. One of the more interesting examples described is when a user drags their finger up or down on the back of a device, thereby increasing or decreasing volume output. Yet another embodiment allows a user to tap a device housing near a specific component like a camera or speaker to activate it.</span><br style="font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue Light', 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Sans Serif'; font-size: 15.199999809265137px; line-height: 22.799999237060547px;" /></span><div align="center" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue Light', 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Sans Serif'; font-size: 15.199999809265137px; line-height: 22.799999237060547px;">
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<span style="background-color: black; color: cyan;"><br /><span class="minor2 small gray" style="font-size: 0.85em; line-height: 1.25em;">Multiple acoustic transducers in a device housing (106).</span></span></div>
<span style="background-color: black; color: cyan;"><br style="font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue Light', 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Sans Serif'; font-size: 15.199999809265137px; line-height: 22.799999237060547px;" /><span style="font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue Light', 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Sans Serif'; font-size: 15.199999809265137px; line-height: 22.799999237060547px;">It is unknown if Apple will deploy such technology in a future device, as the advent of capacitive touch technology is simpler and more precise for many operations outlined in the patent. For other purposes, like tapping anywhere on an iPhone to answer a call, the property could come in handy.</span><br style="font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue Light', 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Sans Serif'; font-size: 15.199999809265137px; line-height: 22.799999237060547px;" /><br style="font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue Light', 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Sans Serif'; font-size: 15.199999809265137px; line-height: 22.799999237060547px;" /><span style="font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue Light', 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Sans Serif'; font-size: 15.199999809265137px; line-height: 22.799999237060547px;">Apple's acoustic input patent was first filed for in 2009 and credits Aleksandar Pance, Nicholas Vincent King, Duncan Kerr and Brett Bilbrey as its inventors.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: cyan;">Google's capacity to store your files will jump by a factor of three, the company said Monday, rising from 5GB to 15GB shared across Google+, Drive, and Gmail.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: cyan;">Google made the announcement just before <a href="http://news.cnet.com/google-io/" style="border: 0px; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Google I/O</a> developers conference begins this week. The changes will "roll out over the next couple of weeks," Google said in a <a href="http://googledrive.blogspot.com/2013/05/bringing-it-all-together-15-gb-now.html" style="border: 0px; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">blog post</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: cyan;">The new amount of storage space will give people who use Google services the most generous storage capacity of any player in the free online-storage game. A quick look at competitors shows that Dropbox currently starts free subscribers at 2GB, Microsoft SkyDrive users get 7GB, and Apple iCloud, Amazon Cloud Storage, and SugarSync offer 5GB for free. The announcement follows a Google Drive update from last week that allows you to <a href="http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57583730-93/from-the-web-to-google-drive-with-just-the-click-of-a-button/" style="border: 0px; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">save files from the Web directly to Drive</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 1em; font-style: inherit; line-height: 1.333em;"><br />Nevermind "do no evil," Google -- as we all know -- is in the business of making money. If Google is offering you more storage, then there is something that extra storage helps you do that will help Google make more money.</span>There's no doubt that the 15GB is a game-changer in the free storage market. The question is, why did Google do it?</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: cyan;">What that is, Google is not saying -- yet.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: cyan;">It's possible that at I/O, Google will reveal that Drive or Google+ will incorporate a more multimedia approach. Or perhaps it's simply nothing more than a shot across the bow of Dropbox: you now get 15GB because Google can give you 15GB.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: cyan;">Either way, it makes Gmail, Google+, and Google Drive that much more appealing to serious Google services users.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: cyan;"><b style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Update, 10:47 a.m. PT</b>: <i style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Clarified that the new storage capacity is shared by Gmail, Google+, and Google Drive.</i></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: cyan;">That question became more complicated Thursday as online-video viewers got another suitor: The Google-owned video site YouTube <a data-xslt="_http" href="http://youtube-global.blogspot.com/2013/05/yt-pc-2013.html">said</a> it will ask consumers to pay a monthly subscription for some of the videos on its site.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: cyan;">With the announcement of its new service, Google is throwing its hat into a crowded market of video providers all trying to answer consumers’ demands to give them want to see, when they want to see it. Americans are increasingly watching video through their laptops, smartphones and tablets — particularly the approximately 5 million “zero TV” households without cable television that the Nielsen research firm identified in March.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: cyan;">But with all these choices and their various price models, it’s difficult for consumers to figure out which services will offer the best bang for their buck, said Dan Rayburn, a streaming-video analyst for Frost & Sullivan.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: cyan;">YouTube’s new service asks users to pay as little as 99 cents a month for individual channels. Netflix charges a higher subscription rate butboasts partnerships with studios including Disney, which Thursday granted the streaming service exclusive rights to five popular children’s shows.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: cyan;">Meanwhile, Apple’s iTunes charges for television shows per episode and season. And on Thursday, Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) introduced a bill that puts pressure on cable companies to offer their consumers the ability to pay only for the channels they want to watch.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: cyan;">That may sound like a good idea, but some analysts said that it’s also setting consumers up for a big headache as more companies jump into the mix. “As a consumer, it’s completely fragmented,” Rayburn said. “You don’t know what is available, at what quality or with what business model.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: cyan;">In YouTube’s case, Rayburn said that he doesn’t think Google’s long-awaited push into this market will offer serious competition to bigger streaming players such as Netflix because it doesn’t offer enough variety.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: cyan;">But the company could make a lot of money if even a fraction of its 1 billion monthly users sign up for a subscription, he said.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: cyan;">In the long run, analysts said, the addition of paid subscriptions could also make it more attractive to advertisers, particularly if draws professional videographers to the site, said Gerald Kane, associate business professor at Boston College.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: cyan;">“Advertisers are a little concerned about what their brand will be alongside” YouTube’s eclectic and often amateur mix of videos, Kane said. “They’re asking if it’s a good idea to have your brand next to a video about Mentos and Coke or a little kid recovering from a dentist trip.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: cyan;">The new service has certainly attracted impressive partners, including the producers of Sesame Street, the Ultimate Fighting Championship league, and National Geographic Kids, all of which will offer full episodes on the video site.Other partners, such as the e-learning company Big Think, will offer paid users access to additional content such as question and answer sessions with experts or access to exclusive discussion forums, according to chief executive office Victoria Brown.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: cyan;">Paid channels begin rolling out immediately and will be available more broadly to a number of YouTube content creators over the “coming weeks,” according to a company blog post. Users will be able to access YouTube paid channels on their computers, phones, tablets and televisions.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: cyan;">source: <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/youtube-paid-channels-officially-launch/2013/05/09/4de0b506-b8d8-11e2-b94c-b684dda07add_story.html">http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/youtube-paid-channels-officially-launch/2013/05/09/4de0b506-b8d8-11e2-b94c-b684dda07add_story.html</a></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: cyan;"><a href="http://mashable.com/category/facebook/" style="text-decoration: none;">Facebook</a> has made its way to <a href="http://mashable.com/category/project-glass/" style="text-decoration: none;">Google Glass</a>. Sharing to Facebook, that is, in the form of a third-party app appropriately named “Glass to Facebook.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: cyan;">Once connected to your Facebook account, the app lets you share pictures taken with Glass to your Facebook account. The process is exceptionally similar to the how the current <a data-crackerjax="#post-slider" href="http://mashable.com/2013/04/30/google-glass-twitter-app/" style="text-decoration: none;">third-party Twitter client works</a> for Glass, in that it makes your Facebook account a contact with which you share photos.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: cyan;">We gave it a whirl, and it works as advertised. After connecting my Facebook account and adding the app as a contact I was able to share a photo I had taken outside of our office window onto Facebook.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: cyan;">Photos show up as a small square on your profile, but you can click into them to view them full screen.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: cyan;">It's worth noting that there’s currently a security alert on <a href="https://www.tesseractmobile.com/glass/GlassToFacebook/index.php?code=AQDGztbvLtyUmmeBRtEQ_g0gPzWxOt1Qa6InnaTDTRuLjTSDj5a4Be8yrRBFqv2nd7g839dhxgOFwSkczfPc1NUWkacq-F1UenmKY7tIJ4A7H3QcTm2AAh1khpTPVC2hUm8p9tXnxe-V4knXK8Z_gtSXIOk7RH-PqQGHN1ynfuILOzKysYNeFFsXfpLp26uRnv66HYGtjKzMabaJ4CPL-LZQbvRSbDKh2UEnqCFmhto9lEwrJM7khvG2KnVPvyv35DlREMNeOPMWm9R5U2-EDa2DUYuBzBg9tMW2gosBCiXT_NqYWnJqmR10L9tCHLvrETw&state=14c576d5d4ff6bbada7c4fad0dd590e0#_=_" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">TesseractMobile’s website</a> — the creator of the app — associated with the site’s root certificate. So install at your own risk.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: cyan;">Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg told Google’s Sergey Brin earlier this year that <a data-crackerjax="#post-slider" href="http://mashable.com/2013/02/22/zuckerberg-google-glass/" style="text-decoration: none;">he couldn’t wait for Glass</a>, which means we might see an official Facebook app come down the pipeline at some point as well.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: cyan;">Apple has released a new iOS update exclusively for the <a href="http://www.gsmarena.com/apple_iphone_5-4910.php" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">iPhone 5</a>. This update bumps the version number to 6.1.4 and includes just one tiny little change.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: cyan;">According to the change log, the 6.1.4 update brings ‘updated audio profile for loudspeaker'. The update is just 11.5MB in size and currently available for download on the iPhone 5. If you have any other iOS device, don't bother checking as it's not available for them.</span></div>
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gkJr.http://www.blogger.com/profile/06954270932636855307noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6255447387549735269.post-37639872303704624402013-05-03T13:10:00.001+03:002013-05-03T13:10:16.600+03:0016GB Samsung Galaxy S4 Only Has 8GB Of Usable Storage<br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: cyan;">If you’re considering buying a 16GB Samsung Galaxy S4, you might want to reconsider. As the first people are beginning to get their hands on Samsung’s new phone, they’re <a href="http://crave.cnet.co.uk/mobiles/samsung-defends-16gb-s4s-mere-8gb-of-usable-storage-50011111/" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 15.199999809265137px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">discovering</a> that there isn’t actually quite 16GB of storage available to them. In fact, the actual number is almost half that, with the phone containing roughly just 8.5GB of usable storage.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: cyan;">While Samsung markets the device as a 16GB phone, almost half of those 16GB are taken up by the OS and pre-installed apps which can’t be deleted. This means that while users buy the phone expecting to be able to put 16GB of apps on it, they’ll actually only be able to put around 8GB on the phone.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: cyan;">Samsung has issued a statement defending itself, stating that the inaccessible 8GB is essential “in order to provide [a] high resolution display and more powerful features to our consumers.” The company adds, “To offer the ultimate mobile experience to our users, Samsung provides [a] microSD slot on Galaxy S4 for extension of memory.” While it is true that users can expand their S4′s memory by up to 64GB with an SD card, it is only possible to store things such as photos, music and video on the card, it is not possible to store apps on it.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: cyan;">Many are criticizing Samsung for not marketing the device as having 8GB of storage instead of 16GB. They claim that Samsung is getting away with charging more for the phone than they would be able to if people knew it only had half of its advertized storage space.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: cyan;">In comparison, Apple’s iPhone 5 has just under 14GB usable of its advertised 16GB.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: cyan;">If you’re thinking about getting a Galaxy S4 and know that you want a lot of apps, perhaps you should consider the 32GB model. Or should I say, the 24.5GB model.</span></div>
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gkJr.http://www.blogger.com/profile/06954270932636855307noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6255447387549735269.post-19828054504834759032013-04-30T18:29:00.000+03:002013-04-30T18:29:03.773+03:00Apple's contact service intelligently determines when to send a text instead of a call<br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: cyan;"><span class="article-leader" style="font-family: FranklinGothicFSCdRegular; font-size: 1.3em; font-weight: 700; line-height: 22.799999237060547px;">The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office on Tuesday granted Apple a patent for a dynamic communications system that automatically selects the best method of contacting another person, be it through voice, text or email, based on a given situation.</span></span><div align="center" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue Light', 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Sans Serif'; font-size: 15.199999809265137px; line-height: 22.799999237060547px;">
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<span style="background-color: black; color: cyan;"><br /><span class="minor2 small gray" style="font-size: 0.85em; line-height: 1.25em;">Source: USPTO</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: cyan;"><br /><span class="minor2 small gray" style="font-size: 0.85em; line-height: 1.25em;">Diagram of contacting service and deployed monitor devices.</span></span></div>
<span style="background-color: black; color: cyan;"><br style="font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue Light', 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Sans Serif'; font-size: 15.199999809265137px; line-height: 22.799999237060547px;" /><span style="font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue Light', 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Sans Serif'; font-size: 15.199999809265137px; line-height: 22.799999237060547px;">Examples of monitoring devices include GPS, personal computers, microphones, web cameras and the like. Using the data provided by these devices, the contacting service can automatically determine a user's location and likely situation. </span><br style="font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue Light', 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Sans Serif'; font-size: 15.199999809265137px; line-height: 22.799999237060547px;" /><br style="font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue Light', 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Sans Serif'; font-size: 15.199999809265137px; line-height: 22.799999237060547px;" /><span style="font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue Light', 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Sans Serif'; font-size: 15.199999809265137px; line-height: 22.799999237060547px;">A contactee can configure the contacting service, which may be Internet-based, to set certain rules and parameters attached to the monitored device data. Customization options include time, location, activity, and others. For example, if a contacting service uses GPS data and determines a contactee is riding a high-speed train, the system will choose a mobile phone as a preferred method of communication. </span><br style="font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue Light', 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Sans Serif'; font-size: 15.199999809265137px; line-height: 22.799999237060547px;" /><br style="font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue Light', 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Sans Serif'; font-size: 15.199999809265137px; line-height: 22.799999237060547px;" /><span style="font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue Light', 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Sans Serif'; font-size: 15.199999809265137px; line-height: 22.799999237060547px;">Alternatively, parameters can be set through a graphical user interface, which assigns rules to specific situations and relays the data back to the contacting service.</span><br style="font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue Light', 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Sans Serif'; font-size: 15.199999809265137px; line-height: 22.799999237060547px;" /></span><div align="center" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue Light', 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Sans Serif'; font-size: 15.199999809265137px; line-height: 22.799999237060547px;">
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<span style="background-color: black; color: cyan;"><br /><span class="minor2 small gray" style="font-size: 0.85em; line-height: 1.25em;">Illustration of contacting service GUI.</span></span></div>
<span style="background-color: black; color: cyan;"><br style="font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue Light', 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Sans Serif'; font-size: 15.199999809265137px; line-height: 22.799999237060547px;" /><span style="font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue Light', 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Sans Serif'; font-size: 15.199999809265137px; line-height: 22.799999237060547px;">Priorities can also be assigned. Groups can be placed in a number of tiers, each of which carries special contact rules. A user's boss and spouse may be in Tier 1, while friends are in Tier 2, and co-workers in Tier 3. </span><br style="font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue Light', 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Sans Serif'; font-size: 15.199999809265137px; line-height: 22.799999237060547px;" /><br style="font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue Light', 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Sans Serif'; font-size: 15.199999809265137px; line-height: 22.799999237060547px;" /><span style="font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue Light', 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Sans Serif'; font-size: 15.199999809265137px; line-height: 22.799999237060547px;">With the variety of predetermined parameters selected, the contacting service is then ready to receive queries from a contactor. In one embodiment, the contactor selects a contact from an address list on a mobile device. The device queries the contacting service, the service determines a contactee's location or likely activity, checks the preset parameters and sends back a message to the contactor regarding which method is best suited for the situation. Contactor may then choose the preferred method, or wait to contact at a different time. The system can alternatively use the selected method automatically. </span><br style="font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue Light', 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Sans Serif'; font-size: 15.199999809265137px; line-height: 22.799999237060547px;" /></span><div align="center" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue Light', 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Sans Serif'; font-size: 15.199999809265137px; line-height: 22.799999237060547px;">
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<span style="background-color: black; color: cyan;"><br style="font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue Light', 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Sans Serif'; font-size: 15.199999809265137px; line-height: 22.799999237060547px;" /><span style="font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue Light', 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Sans Serif'; font-size: 15.199999809265137px; line-height: 22.799999237060547px;">Users can also modify the parameter set through the GUI, making the system continuously customizable and allowing for error correction.</span><br style="font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue Light', 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Sans Serif'; font-size: 15.199999809265137px; line-height: 22.799999237060547px;" /></span><div align="center" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue Light', 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Sans Serif'; font-size: 15.199999809265137px; line-height: 22.799999237060547px;">
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<span style="background-color: black; color: cyan;"><br style="font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue Light', 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Sans Serif'; font-size: 15.199999809265137px; line-height: 22.799999237060547px;" /><span style="font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue Light', 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Sans Serif'; font-size: 15.199999809265137px; line-height: 22.799999237060547px;">In some iterations, the service can even suggest the contactor simply walk over to the contactee if both users are in close proximity. </span><br style="font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue Light', 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Sans Serif'; font-size: 15.199999809265137px; line-height: 22.799999237060547px;" /><br style="font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue Light', 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Sans Serif'; font-size: 15.199999809265137px; line-height: 22.799999237060547px;" /><span style="font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue Light', 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Sans Serif'; font-size: 15.199999809265137px; line-height: 22.799999237060547px;">Apple's contacting service patent was first filed for in 2008 and credits Thomas Ethan Lowry as its inventor.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: cyan;">Easy app creation, outside of the land of Ruby and Python, has become a huge phenomenon in the last year. And the latest company to join the fold,<a href="http://www.apparchitect.com/" style="font-weight: bold; outline-style: none; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">AppArchitect</a>, is launching straight from our Disrupt NY stage.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: cyan;">AppArchitect lets you build custom iPhone and iPad apps using a simple drag-and-drop interface. That’s right — you need zero coding experience to build your own iPhone app. It’s a brand new world.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: cyan;">Once you log in to the AppArchitect system, you’ll be asked whether you want to make an iPad or iPhone app. From there, you head straight into a dashboard complete with a Screens tab, Library tab with default background and picture options, and a Properties tab where you can handle styling. You can drag and drop backgrounds, images, add text, maps, or links.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: cyan;">From there, you can test and review your app before submitting it to the App Store for approval.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: cyan;">According to co-founder Ilya Zatulovskiy, AppArchitect is unique within the competitive landscape because there are no templates in the entire system. Of course, the downside here is that n00bs looking to explore app creation will need their own unique idea in mind before trying to build.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: cyan;">Still, the template-free model gives aspiring entrepreneurs and creative explorers as much freedom as a true, coding app developer. In fact, one of the few apps you probably couldn’t build within the platform would be a game. “The platform is fully extendable,” said Zatulovskiy. “Since each plugin is written in Objective C, any feature requirements can be implemented via our SDK.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: cyan;">The idea for AppArchitect started at the TechCrunch Disrupt Hackathon in 2011, where the first lines of code were written. Since then, the company went through the <a href="http://www.crunchbase.com/financial-organization/dreamit-ventures" style="font-weight: bold; outline-style: none; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">DreamIt Ventures</a> accelerator and so far raised a total of $325,000 from <a href="http://www.crunchbase.com/financial-organization/actinic-ventures" style="font-weight: bold; outline-style: none; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Actinic Ventures</a>, <a href="http://www.crunchbase.com/financial-organization/bhv-venture-capital" style="font-weight: bold; outline-style: none; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">BHV</a>, DreamIt Ventures and angel investors, with plans to raise another round soon.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: cyan;">The app creation industry has been blowing up lately. Services like <a href="http://www.crunchbase.com/company/appycouple" style="font-weight: bold; outline-style: none; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Appy Couple</a> and <a href="http://www.crunchbase.com/company/yapp" style="font-weight: bold; outline-style: none; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Yapp</a> have been focused on niche use cases, such as weddings or events. On the other side of the spectrum, <a href="http://www.crunchbase.com/company/kleverbeast" style="font-weight: bold; outline-style: none; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Kleverbeast</a>is using similar drag and drop tools to build all kinds of personal apps in a snap.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: cyan;">However, AppArchitect is one of the first services to offer web-based tools without any of the limitations of a template-based system. The company has been in a private beta for the past 4 months with over 400 testers using the service, but today it’s open to everyone.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: cyan;">At launch, the AppArchitect service will remain free for the first few months. The business model includes a publishing fee to send the app to the App Store, and potential for subscription services for apps that use push notifications, backend services or analytics.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: cyan;">For now, <a href="http://www.apparchitect.com/" style="font-weight: bold; outline-style: none; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">AppArchitect</a> is only available for iOS but will expand to Android and other platforms soon.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: cyan;">A: We want to focus on design agencies and marketing firms who already have existing clients. We see ourselves as fitting in with the same group of people who use PowerPoint and PhotoShop.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: cyan;">A: We want to partner with the leading companies that already have relationships with existing customers. Museums and galleries are a big focus for us, as we already have partnerships with 100 museums in eight countries. We want to leverage industries that have little technical experience but relationships with big companies.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: cyan;">A: It will be free for the next few months. You can use the Express package, which lets us publish for you under our account. There are also Professional packages that lets you publish under your own account.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: cyan;">Q: The falls into the service as a software company. We tend to have trouble investing lots of Venture in companies like this because it’s difficult to scale. That said, how do you feel about taking outside money?<br />A: It’s all about making big bets on what you think will be the next big thing. Years ago, the people who built web publishing platforms had huge exits. If I believe in mobile, I think AppArchitect will be a big opportunity for our company and the industry as a whole.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: cyan;">Q: How is the platform evolving?<br />A: We want to extend it to other developers to build on top of it. We want to make sure there is a community of developers offering up a huge number of templates and themes.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: cyan;">Samsung is counting on the S4 to help extend the Suwon, South Korea-based company’s lead in smartphone sales. The phonemaker had one-third of the global smartphone market in the first quarter -- almost twice the size of Apple’s share, research firm <a density="full" href="http://topics.bloomberg.com/strategy-analytics/" style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Strategy Analytics</a> said last week.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: cyan;">Whether the S4 is more susceptible to accidents or not, consumers will still be attracted to the phone, said Kevin Roe, an analyst with Roe Equity Research in Dorset, <a density="sparse" href="http://topics.bloomberg.com/vermont/" style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Vermont</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: cyan;">“People want thinner phones and bigger screens,” said Roe. “That might trump the concern that the phone is more breakable.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: cyan;">With a 5-inch (13-centimeter) screen and 13-megapixel camera, the S4 is thinner and lighter than its predecessor and also includes new software that responds to gestures and facial movements. The larger display screen and slippery grip made it more susceptible to damage, in part simply because its surface area is bigger, SquareTrade said.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: cyan;">“While the S4 proved slightly more water resistant than its predecessor the S3, Samsung’s new Galaxy phone actually performed worse in most other categories,” SquareTrade said in a statement. SquareTrade is a San Francisco-based seller of phone warranties.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: cyan;">The phone is getting a mixed reception from reviewers, which may hinder Samsung’s ability to build a buzz around it. AllThingsDigital’s Walt Mossberg said the Galaxy S4 software is “especially weak,” while <a density="full" href="http://topics.bloomberg.com/bloomberg-news/" style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Bloomberg News</a>’s <a density="full" href="http://topics.bloomberg.com/rich-jaroslovsky/" style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Rich Jaroslovsky</a> called the Galaxy S4 “soulless.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: cyan;"><a density="sparse" href="http://topics.bloomberg.com/david-pogue/" style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">David Pogue</a> at the <a density="full" href="http://topics.bloomberg.com/new-york/" style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">New York</a> Times said Samsung was “playing it safe,” while Mashable’s Christina Warren called the S4 the best smartphone based on Google Inc.’s Android software.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: cyan;">After earlier supply delays, the Samsung Galaxy S4 is “now flowing” into stores, said Mark Elliott, a spokesman for <a class="web_ticker" density="full" href="http://www.bloomberg.com/quote/S:US" style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" ticker="S:US" title="Get Quote" topic_url="http://topics.bloomberg.com/sprint-nextel-corp/">Sprint Nextel Corp. (S)</a>, the third-largest U.S. mobile-phone carrier.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: cyan;">One in five Americans will buy the S4, according to SquareTrade. And one in eight people in the U.S. who buy the Galaxy S4 will break it within six months, according to SquareTrade’s estimates. The company didn’t provide a similar statistic for the iPhone. In general, one out of three smartphone owners break their devices within the first year, the insurance company said.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: cyan;">SquareTrade hasn’t yet tested <a class="web_ticker" density="sparse" href="http://www.bloomberg.com/quote/2498:TT" style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" ticker="2498:TT" title="Get Quote" topic_url="http://topics.bloomberg.com/htc-corp/">HTC Corp. (2498)</a>’s One device, an Android phone that has was praised by Pogue and Jaroslovsky.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: cyan;">LG has taken something that was first considered a concept into consumer reality by announcing that it will start taking pre-orders for its 55-inch Curved OLED TV in South Korea. Consumers who scoop one up will begin receiving them as early as next month, though no official timetable has been released, nor any word of when, or if, the TV will hit Stateside.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: cyan;">LG has plenty of retail stores in South Korea, and 1,400 of them have already begun taking pre-orders today, where customers have been paying the equivalent of $13,500 U.S. each.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: cyan;">The curved model (55EA9800) was <a href="http://www.digitaltrends.com/home-theater/who-really-built-the-worlds-first-curved-oled-tv/" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">shown at CES</a> in Las Vegas in January, but at the time, was considered only to be a conceptual design showing the flexible properties of OLED screens. This announcement marks the first time a manufacturer has begun selling both a curved and flat OLED TV, the latter of which began selling in February, but has since been delayed in the U.S. market.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: cyan;">Featuring what it calls “an ‘IMAX-like’ viewing experience in the home,” LG says more than five years of research went into developing the perfect curvature to ensure “the entire screen is equidistant from the viewer’s eyes” in order to eliminate any potential problems with screen-edge visual distortion or an apparent lack of detail. LG didn’t outright suggest what the best viewing distance would be for the TV.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: cyan;">The TV is just 4.3mm thin, weighs only 37 pounds, and <a href="http://www.digitaltrends.com/features/" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">features</a> LG’s proprietary WRGB technology, a four-color pixel system made up of a white sub-pixel that works in tandem with the usual red, green and blue palette to create the right color output. An “exclusive color refiner” adds another level of tonal depth for extra vibrancy in images onscreen.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: cyan;">As is to be expected in any OLED TV, contrast ratio is essentially infinite with unimpeded viewing angles. The speakers will reside in the crystal clear stand rather than the panel itself. LG didn’t address it in its announcement, but it appears the curvature and speaker placement may preclude the TV from being wall-mountable, despite its light weight and thin profile.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: cyan;">The OLED TV market still remains very nascent, and DisplaySearch believes the segment will grow to seven million units by 2016, a paltry number when compared to LED-LCDs or even plasma, but a likelihood unless prices come down considerably.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: cyan;">Last month, Google <a href="http://www.macrumors.com/2013/03/12/google-now-for-ios-promotional-video-leaks-on-youtube/" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">briefly leaked</a> a video showing that its information aggregation tool<a href="http://www.google.com/landing/now/" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Google Now</a> would be coming to iOS. Several weeks later, Google chairman Eric Schmidt was <a href="http://www.macrumors.com/2013/03/21/eric-schmidt-on-google-now-for-ios-youll-need-to-discuss-that-with-apple/" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">asked</a> about Google Now for iOS, and he noted that "you'll need to discuss that with Apple", although it was later confirmed that Google had not submitted a version of Google Now to the iOS App Store. <br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Roughly a month later, Google Now has now appeared in the App Store as part of a revamped version 3.0 of the company's <a href="http://appshopper.com/reference/google-mobile-app" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Google Search</i></a> app.</span><blockquote style="background-image: url(http://cdn.macrumors.com/images-new/quote.png); background-position: 0px 12px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; font-size: 10pt; font-style: italic; margin: 0px 0px 0px 18px; padding: 11px 18px 12px 30px;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: cyan;">Get just the right information at just the right time with Google Now. <br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />- weather and traffic conditions before you start your day <br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />- updates on your favorite sports teams and breaking news stories as they happen</span></blockquote>
<img alt="google_now_ios" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-372731" height="490" src="http://cdn.macrumors.com/article-new/2013/04/google_now_ios.jpg" style="border: 0px; display: block; height: auto; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px;" width="585" /><span style="background-color: black; color: cyan;"><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The Verge</i> has a <a href="http://www.theverge.com/2013/4/29/4275334/google-now-available-on-iphone-and-ipad" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">brief preview</a> of what users can expect from Google Now on iOS:</span><blockquote style="background-image: url(http://cdn.macrumors.com/images-new/quote.png); background-position: 0px 12px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; font-size: 10pt; font-style: italic; margin: 0px 0px 0px 18px; padding: 11px 18px 12px 30px;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: cyan;">The look and feel of the app is virtually identical on both platforms, a testament to Google's newfound ability to make well-designed apps on iOS. The main differences between Android and iOS are few, mainly in that iOS can display fewer different kinds of cards. "The types of Google Now cards available are largely the same on both platforms," says Baris Gultekin, Director of Product Management for Google Now. <br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />On iOS, the Google Search app can't be launched with a system-wide shortcut (unless you are a jailbreaker) and it can't do the same kind of background sync that Now can do on Android. However, Google tells us that it will support the iOS background location feature, so that at least it won't need to spend as long hunting for your position when you open up the Search app.</span></blockquote>
<span style="background-color: black; color: cyan;">Google reports that 22 of the 29 card types found on the Android version of Google Now are making their way to the iOS version, with airline boarding passes, Fandango, and local events being among those not making the transition. <br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Google Search</i> with Google Now functionality is <a href="http://appshopper.com/reference/google-mobile-app" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">available now</a> in the App Store. [<a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/google-search/id284815942?mt=8" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Direct Link</a>]</span></div>
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