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The noPhone, Because Smartphone Separation Anxiety Is Real
On in Industry News, Just For Fun.
The other day, as I sat on the couch with a dead iPhone resting on my belly, I found myself wondering why my phone is constantly dead. And I had a revelation: I’d rather have a dead phone within reach than be even a few feet away from it as it charges across the room. It’s pathetic, I know, but absolutely true.
Enter the noPhone. READ MORE
Disney Researchers Create Algorithm to Bring 3D Textures to Touchscreen
On in Industry News, Just For Fun, New Apps.
Researchers at Disney have developed a new algorithm, which is capable of simulating 3D geometric features on touch screen surfaces and allow people to ‘feel’ the texture of the objects viewed on a touchscreen.
According to researchers at Disney’s research lab in Pittsburgh, the latest technique involves transferring small vibrations via the display that offers users a feel of shallow bumps, ridges and edges of an object. READ MORE
Anything is Possible, Never Say Never: The 18 Most Ridiculous Startup Ideas That Eventually Became Successful
On in Industry News, Just For Fun, StartUp LA.
Even the most well-known venture capitalists have startups they regret passing on. For John Doerr of Kleiner Perkins, it was Twitter. For Fred Wilson of Union Square Ventures, it was Airbnb, the home-rental website that’s now worth an estimated $2.5 billion.
“We made the classic mistake that all investors make,” Wilson recalled in a blog post lamenting the blunder. “We focused too much on what they were doing at the time and not enough on what they could do, would do, and did do.”
It’s hard to blame him. After all, a lot of successful companies sounded stupid when they first launched — see: Rap Genius — and the vast majority of new businesses flop, sometimes leaving investors with heavy losses.
But before you write off a fledgling firm, always keep in mind that you never know. READ MORE
China Military Hacker – Not like the movie Hackers…at all!
On in Cool Tech, Just For Fun.
What It’s Like to Be a Chinese Military Hacker
All-black stealth suits, fingers flying across keyboards, screams of unintelligible jargon at Matrix-style lines of code. These are the things that generally come to mind when you hear the phrase “foreign military hacking unit”—or at least the mind of anyone who’s seen a movie in the past 10 years. But as the Los Angeles Times discovered when they stumbled across the blog of...READ MORE
Preemptive Google Glass Ban (only in Seattle)
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The Banning of Google Glass Begins (And They Aren’t Even Available Yet)
A Seattle bar has declared that ‘Google Glass’ (aka Google Glasses)–not yet available to the public–are banned “in advance” from the establishment. Seattle’s 5 Point Cafe posted a message to their Facebook….http://tinyurl.com/bcjmmuj
How much Data does a Super Bowl eat… A LOT!
On in Cool Tech, Just For Fun, Mobile News.
AT&T Data Use Explodes At The Super Bowl
We’ve all been there. You are at a crowded event, taking pictures with your smartphone and trying to share them on Facebook or Twitter but the damn photo just won’t upload. The data network you are using is clogged because too many people are trying to do the exact same thing you are: making phone calls, sending texts, uploading pictures and streaming video… http://ow.ly/hrCgn
Remember to communicate and don’t assume anything!
On in Just For Fun.
Communication is Key!
The scene: a woman goes to buy a cake for, oh, let’s say her cat Whiskers’s birthday. She decides to put a photo of Whiskers’s face on top of the cake…
Sad and strange…but still this is amazing personal project management / outsourcing at its best.
On in Just For Fun.
How a ‘model’ employee got away with outsourcing his software job to China
Bob was his company’s best software developer, got glowing performance reviews and earned more than $250,000 a year.
Then one day last spring, Bob’s employer, an American infrastructure company, thought its computer network had been attacked by a virus… http://ow.ly/hdbZk
