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Here’s another Kickstarter project that was born out of necessity. Called the Optrix Wide-Angle, it’s a water-resistant, bump-, spill-, splash-, and drop-proof case with a built-in wide-angle lens for the iPhone 4, 4S and iPod Touch.
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The Camera Bag: Optrix Wide-Angle iPhone Case for Shooting HD Video of Extreme Sports
Disney Research has announced some new touch interface technology that add extra gesture functionality to existing touchscreens and more exotic items like doorknobs and even the water’s surface.
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Disney Research’s Touché system detects your touch on most things, even water (video)
We could all use a little feedback, right?
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Patent application highlights Apple’s continued flirtation with haptic feedback
A new gadget from a new startup based in Santa Cruz, CA promises to make videography and photography with Apple’s iPhone and iPod Touch products much more versatile. The Motrr Galileo allows for infinite, 360-degree pan and tilt control of Apple’s popular iOS devices, providing some very interesting possibilities for remotely-controlled video and still capture. While development looks to be well under way, the Galileo is currently still at least a few months from reaching the market, with the newly-formed company currently seeking funding courtesy of a Kickstarter project .
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Follow the fun with a flick of the finger, with the Motrr Galileo
A new gadget from a new startup based in Santa Cruz, CA promises to make videography and photography with Apple’s iPhone and iPod Touch products much more versatile. The Motrr Galileo allows for infinite, 360-degree pan and tilt control of Apple’s popular iOS devices, providing some very interesting possibilities for remotely-controlled video and still capture. While development looks to be well under way, the Galileo is currently still at least a few months from reaching the market, with the newly-formed company currently seeking funding courtesy of a Kickstarter project . Motrr is the… (read more)
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Follow the fun with a flick of the finger, with the Motrr Galileo (updated)
As anyone who’s ever played a game of Duck Hunt is aware, there are ways of directly interacting with CRT monitors that don’t require any modifications to the display itself (a la resistive overlays). A group of students from the University of Hasselt in Belgium have now taken that idea further than most, however, and developed a glove-based system that uses a pair of phototransistors in the fingertips to detect the electron beam as it makes its way across the screen. While not quite “multitouch,” the student’s current setup (dubbed CRTouch) does let them draw on the screen with one finger and call up additional options (like an eraser or color palette) with the second.
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Glove-based CRTouch project turns old monitors into touchscreens
It’s been a few months since Ford promised us that juicy refresh to its whips’ infotainment system, but it looks as if the wait is about to come to an end. The Built Tough manufacturer says it’s finally shipping those 2GB USB sticks (plus an SD card if you have Navigation) to proud owners of MyFord Touch -equipped rides.
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MyFord Touch update rolling out now, promises to be ‘faster, simpler, better’
It was just over a year ago when we met with the folks from Immersion, and they showed us a prototype handset packing its HD haptics technology . Since that time, the piezoelectric actuator that makes the tactile magic possible has gone into mass production, and the first commercial device packing such hi-fi haptics, the Pantech Element , hit store shelves. Immersion’s got greater aspirations for its tactile tech, however, and its new HD Integrator platform aims to put high fidelity haptics in every handset.
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Hands-on with Immersion HD Integrator hi-fi haptics
Each week Ross Rubin contributes Switched On , a column about consumer technology.
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Switched On: Think form factors, not PCs
Neonode’s name isn’t plastered on your spate of gizmos, but if you’ve purchased a touchscreen-based device in the past year or so, there’s a better-than-average chance that it’s technology is tucked within. In the run-up to CES, the outfit is introducing the world’s first ultra-low power single-chip optical touch controller, NN1001. This guy was developed in cooperation with Texas Instruments, specifically designed to shave costs and increase performance / functionality for smartphones, tablets, e-readers and automotive applications.
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Neonode’s NN1001 optical touch controller tracks gestures with any object, ‘gloved fingers’ included
Virgin Mobile’s feature phone arm just added a third tier, delivering unlimited talk and texting, along with 50 megs of web access for $40 per month. This offering joins Sprint’s other payLo budget offerings, including an entry-level option that includes 400 minutes of talk time for $20 per month, and a $30 monthly plan that delivers 1,500 minutes, 1,500 texts and 30MB of data
(Credit: Blizzard Entertainment) One week after its release, Diablo III remains the only PC game anyone is talking about .
Nuance, of Dragon TV fame announced today that it was licensing Rovi’s (formerly known as Macrovision ) metadata for its talky-TV platform .
If you’re tired of bananaphones that just make calls, the crew at Gadget Gangster now has a homebrew project to use them for musical escapades. A custom-coded (and appropriately named) Adafruit Propeller board turns a bunch of bananas into the Bananaphone TouchSynth, a synthesizer using the same capacitive touch principles that let a MaKey MaKey turn anything into a controller
Bicom, makers of the Corian -hewn playGo USB will unveil a new AP1 AirPlay device, but only you if help fund it.
Matilda Ceesay, a Cornell fiber science and apparel design major from Gambia, adjusts the anti-malarial garment on model Sandy Mattei. Who knew mosquito nets could be so fashionable?
Plants , like pets, need to be constantly cared for, but not everyone’s blessed with the requisite green thumb. So, for those of you imbued with what we’ll call the bad, brown touch, Swiss outfit Koubachi’s got a cloud-based solution to sidestep those negligent ways and keep your window garden thriving. Dubbed the WiFi Plant Sensor, this wireless peripheral nestles into the soil of any potted flora or fauna, sending relevant vitality data off to the company’s servers where it’s then analyzed and beamed back to your handset (via iPhone app) or online account with care instructions in tow
The HTC 4G LTE will finally land in Sprint customers’ hands this week.
Pentax didn’t wait long after a rather conspicuous leak to make the details official: welcome the K-30, the company’s spiritual successor to the long-serving K-r . The camera makes its biggest numerical jump in sensor size, from 12.4 megapixels to 16, but you’re primarily shelling out for a much tougher body that’s both resistant to rain as well as to dust and temperature extremes; one of the cheapest cameras to do so, if you go by Pentax’s word. We’re slightly down on the light sensitivity being unchanged from three years ago at ISO 100 to 25,600, though you can now shoot video at a much higher 1080p at 30 frames per second — and that French catalog was wrong about a drop in burst speeds, which still top out at a healthy 6 fps.
