Sense, the System That Pairs with Your iPhone to Help You Sleep Better – Video

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <img alt="Sense and your iPhone" height="351" src="http://i1-news.softpedia-static.com/images/news-700/Sense-The-System-That-Pairs-With-Your-iPhone-To-Help-You-Sleep-Better.jpg" width="640" /><br /> <br /> <strong style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 19px;">Sense looks like a beautiful desk lamp with some intricate electronics and sensors inside it. This device showed up on Kickstarter and made over seven times his pledge goal.</strong><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;"></span><br /> <div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;">  </div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;"> <a href="https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/hello/sense-know-more-sleep-better" rel="nofollow" style="color: #0058bb; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Sense</a> is described as a system that tracks your sleep behavior, monitors the environment in your bedroom and reinvents the alarm. The device itself would be nothing without the companion iPhone app that tells you everything about your sleep patterns and helps you make sense of that and get better nights. </div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;">  </div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;"> The device looks like an orb with a flat base. It sits on your nightstand monitoring the conditions in your bedroom and disturbances at night. It works together with the so-called Sleep Pill, a small but sensitive sleep tracking sensor clips to your pillow, and it also needs a nice iPhone app. Sense has a built-in speaker that can play white noise or calming rain to help you sleep better. The speaker is also used to play the Sense's Smart Alarm if it is programmed to wake you up before the time you set it to sense you are moving around. </div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;">  </div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;"> The Sleep Pill is designed to track your movement. You can clip it to your pillow or wear it on your clothes. The device has a 6-axis accelerometer and gyroscope hidden inside it, so it can detect any movement. The information is sent via Bluetooth Low Energy to your iPhone. One of the best things about it is that the Seep Pill has a battery that lasts for an entire year and it is fully waterproof, so you can wash it with your clothes or pillow covers. </div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;">  </div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;"> Every morning you get a Sleep Score up to 100 and full information on what interfered with your sleep from outside noises, light, your partner's snoring or your own movements. </div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;">  </div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;"> The Smart Alarm is just like a regular alarm when you set it, but it won't wake you up at the exact moment you choose, but rather when the device senses you are about to wake up. For example, if you set it up for 9:30 AM, but you are moving in your bed at around 9:15 AM, Sense will go sooner, before you fall deeper into sleep so then it has to force awake you. </div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;">  </div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;"> Sense has an Ambient Light Sensor, Temperature and Humidity Sensors, Particles Sensor (to spot dust floating into air and possible other allergy causing factors). It also has WiFi, Bluetooth, ANT modules built in, along with a speaker, a microphone, colored LEDs and a Proximity Sensor. </div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;">  </div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;"> It comes in black and white, and you can still pre-order it on Kickstarter for as low as $99 (€73.7). Shipping will start in November 2014, because this project went over $760,000 (€565,831), although the initial goal was only $100,000 (€74,453).</div> </div>

Sense, the System That Pairs with Your iPhone to Help You Sleep Better – Video

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Nokia Lumia 635 Now Available at AT&T

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <img alt="Nokia Lumia 635 now available at AT&T" height="351" src="http://i1-news.softpedia-static.com/images/news-700/Nokia-Lumia-635-Now-Available-at-AT-T.jpg" width="640" /><br /> <strong style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 19px;">Mobile phone users in the United States interested in the purchase of Nokia Lumia 635 on the network of wireless carrier AT&T should know that the handset is now up for grabs at the operator.</strong><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;">Made official back in April, the smartphone was officially confirmed for AT&T a few weeks ago, and the carrier has started selling it earlier today.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;">Nokia Lumia 635 is the cheapest Windows Phone 8.1 smartphone out there to also include 4G LTE connectivity, and is available at AT&T as part of the carrier’s GoPhone pre-paid lineup.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;">If you are looking to grab it, you will have to get $99.99 (€74) out of your pockets for it. The good news, however, is that you won’t need to sign a contract agreement with the wireless carrier. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;">Nokia Lumia 635 can be seen on </span><a href="http://www.att.com/shop/wireless/devices/nokia/lumia-635-prepaid.html#fbid=bGvkUk0Mt9Z" rel="nofollow" style="background-color: white; color: #0058bb; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">AT&T’s website</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;"> today. Moreover, users can head over to </span><a href="http://www.amazon.com/AT-Nokia-Lumia-635-Contract/dp/B00LBFFSNM/" rel="nofollow" style="background-color: white; color: #0058bb; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Amazon</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;"> to purchase the device.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;">Although it is the cheapest LTE-enabled Windows Phone 8.1 smartphone out there, the Lumia 635 can still provide users with appealing specs and capabilities, starting with a 4.5-inch touchscreen display that delivers a 480 x 854 pixels resolution (protected by Corning Gorilla Glass 3). </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;">The mobile phone was launched with a 1.2GHz quad-core Snapdragon 400 processor inside, as well as with 512MB of RAM and 8GB of internal memory. Moreover, it also features a microSD memory card slot with support for up to 128GB of additional storage space. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;">On the back, Nokia Lumia 635 sports a 5-megapixel camera with 720p video recording, but no front camera was added to it. The handset is powered by a 1830mAh battery that can deliver up to 11.3 hours of talk time, or up to 19.7 days of standby time.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;">“The Nokia Lumia 635 has almost everything you've been looking for in a smartphone packed into a beautifully designed silhouette. With its powerful quad-core processor and Windows operating system, the Lumia 635 keeps up with your day-to-day activities,” AT&T notes. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;">In addition to the aforementioned 4G LTE connectivity, Lumia 635 also offers support for 3G networks, as well as Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, Bluetooth 4.0, and Wi-Fi Direct capabilities. The device was also released with a built-in GPS receiver for making video calls while on the go.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;">Moreover, it will deliver all of the features and capabilities that the Windows Phone 8.1 operating system has been released with, which include enhanced personalization capabilities and improved performance. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;">Some of the features in the new OS flavor include Action Center, Word Flow, Internet Explorer 11, Start Screen backgrounds, and Cortana, the virtual personal assistant that can deliver a great experience to all users. </span></div>

Nokia Lumia 635 Now Available at AT&T

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Moto X+1 Leaks in New Photos, Shows Bamboo Back Cover

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <img alt="Moto X+1" height="350" src="http://i1-news.softpedia-static.com/images/news-700/Moto-X-1-Leaks-in-New-Photos-Shows-Bamboo-Back-Cover.jpg" width="640" /><br /> <br /> <strong style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 19px;">Over the past several months, mobile phone maker Motorola has been rumored to be working on the release of a successor for last year’s Moto X handset, and newly-leaked images that allegedly depict the device have emerged online.</strong><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;">The smartphone, long said to arrive on shelves under the name of Moto X+1, hasn’t been officially confirmed as of now, despite a flurry of leaked info on it.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;">The new images with the device, available courtesy of</span><a href="http://www.androidpolice.com/2014/07/25/leaked-photos-of-a-motorola-pre-production-device-this-may-be-the-moto-x1/" rel="nofollow" style="background-color: white; color: #0058bb; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Android Police</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;">, show that Motorola might release it with about the same design as the Moto X, just as previously suggested. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;">Moreover, it seems that the new device will come with a series of customizable back covers, just as its predecessor did, including bamboo ones, as you can see in the photos embedded below.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;">Rumor has it that Motorola will also pack it with a silver-colored segmented ring around the edge, and it seems that this aluminum frame will be the only metallic part that the outer case will sport.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;">Moreover, the mobile phone is expected to arrive on shelves with a 5.1-inch touchscreen display capable of delivering a full HD resolution, which would make it much larger than the Moto X (which features a 4.7-inch display).</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;">The handset will not sport capacitive buttons on the front, though it will include a loud speaker beneath the screen, it seems.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;">The Motorola logo on the phone’s back cover appears to be made of plastic, unlike the one present on Moto X at the moment. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;">Moto X+1 is also expected to sport dual-LED flash, something that can be seen in the leaked images with it (the two white dots next to the camera).</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;">Apparently, the upcoming device will be equipped with a Snapdragon 800 processor, along with 2GB of RAM and 32GB of internal memory, yet no microSD card slot will be available as means to expand the available storage. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;">At the same time, the handset should feature a 12-megapixel camera on the back, paired with a 5MP front camera. Moreover, Moto X+1 is expected to be powered by a 2900mAh battery, while running under the Android 4.4.4 KitKat operating system.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;">One thing that you should keep in mind, however, is the fact that the phone hasn’t been officially confirmed as of now, which means that you should take the info above with a grain of salt for the time being. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;">No specific info on when the new handset might become official has been provided either, and there is no telling when it might become available for purchase, or at what price tag.</span></div>

Moto X+1 Leaks in New Photos, Shows Bamboo Back Cover

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BlackBerry P’9983 (Khan) and Z3 LTE (Manitoba) Specs Leak Online

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <img alt="BlackBerry to launch new Porsche Design handset this year" height="351" src="http://i1-news.softpedia-static.com/images/news-700/BlackBerry-P-9983-Khan-and-Z3-LTE-Manitoba-Specs-Leak-Online.jpg" width="640" /><strong style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 19px;">Canadian mobile phone maker BlackBerry hasn’t released that many new smartphones so far in 2014, but rumor has it that things will change in the second half of the year, and info on two of the upcoming devices from the company has emerged online today.</strong><br /> <br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;">Apparently, the handset vendor is getting ready for the launch of a new Porsche Design smartphone, one that would arrive on shelves under the name of P’9983, but which has been spotted in the company’s roadmap before, with the codename BlackBerry Khan attached to it.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;">According to a recent article on </span><a href="http://n4bb.com/blackberry-p9983-khan-z3-lte-manitoba-specs-details/" rel="nofollow" style="background-color: white; color: #0058bb; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">N4BB,</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;"> the handset will be a BlackBerry 10 QWERTY device and will be nothing more than a BlackBerry Classic that will receive a Porsche Design makeover, the same as other handsets from the company did before it.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;">Specs-wise, the upcoming mobile phone is expected to feature a 3.5-inch touchscreen display, along with a 1.7GHz dual-core processor, which should be paired with 3GB of RAM. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;">Basically, it should be able to provide users with appealing performance capabilities, though it’s rather strange that BlackBerry would still go for a dual-core CPU with it, when competitor devices run under quad-core ones. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;">BlackBerry P’9983 (Khan) is also said to feature 64GB of internal memory, while packing an outer case made out of carbon and steel.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;">Supposedly set to land on shelves before Christmas this year, the mobile phone will be priced north of $2,000 (€1,488), something that is somehow expected from a Porsche Design handset.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;">One other device that BlackBerry should announce before the end of this year is the BlackBerry Z3 LTE, which supposedly features the codename Manitoba.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;">The mobile phone is said to pack a 5-inch touchscreen of unknown resolution, while expected to land on shelves with a 1.7GHz dual-core processor inside, and with 2GB of RAM next to it.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;">Overall, the specs of this device should be similar to those included in BlackBerry Z30, yet the phone’s form factor will be that of the already released Z3.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;">The back cover of the new mobile phone should be different from the one present on the current BlackBerry Z3 handset, courtesy of a new camera placement in a glass strip on the top. The LTE-enabled version of BlackBerry Z3 will sport a price tag of less than $400 (€298), rumor has it. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;">In addition to these two phones, BlackBerry should also release the already announced Passport, which will sport a large, square touchscreen display and a QWERTY keyboard.</span><br /></div>

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Bose Sues Beats after Apple Takeover

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <img alt="Bose noise canceling earphones" height="351" src="http://i1-news.softpedia-static.com/images/news-700/Bose-Sues-Beats-after-Apple-Takeover.jpg" width="640" /><br /> <br /> <div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;"> <strong>With $3 billion coming in the bank, Beats' owners must be the happiest people in tech. Unless they lose some of that to Bose for infringing their patents. </strong></div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;">  </div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;"> Two months ago, Beats was acquired by Apple. The big decision was announced by Tim Cook in a Press Release and on stage at Apple's 2014 World Wide Developers Conference. </div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;">  </div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;"> Just a week ago, Beats was suing all the manufacturers and sellers of fake Beats headphones because they were stealing their Intellectual Property. The big law suit didn't even start in China and today, Beats Electronics got subpoenaed. </div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;">  </div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;"> Bose Corporation is suing Beats Electronics and Beats Electronics International for infringing five of their patents. These <a href="http://news.priorsmart.com/bose-v-beats-electronics-laLp/#Complaint" rel="nofollow" style="color: #0058bb; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">are related</a> to noise-canceling technologies: </div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;">  </div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;"> - 8,073,151: “Dynamically configurable ANR filter block topology”<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>by Joho et. al.. Includes 30 claims (2 indep.). Was application 12/430,994.<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Granted 12/6/2011.</div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;"> - 8,073,150: “Dynamically configurable ANR signal processing topology”<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>by Joho et. al.. Includes 24 claims (2 indep.). Was application 12/430,990.<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Granted 12/6/2011.</div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;"> - 6,717,537: “Method and apparatus for minimizing latency in digital signal processing systems”<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>by Fang et. al. Prosecuted by Thelen Reid & Priest LLP Robbins; Steven J.. Includes 19 claims (3 indep.). Was application 10/179,930.<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Granted 4/6/2004.</div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;"> - 8,345,888: “Digital high frequency phase compensation”<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>by Carreras et. al..<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Includes 16 claims (3 indep.). Was application 12/750,309.<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Granted 1/1/2013.</div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;"> - 8,054,992: “High frequency compensating”<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>by Sapiejewski..<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Includes 23 claims (6 indep.). Was application 11/409,894.<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Granted 11/8/2011.</div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;">  </div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;"> Bose lawyers believes that Beats pro noise-canceling headphones and other high end products like Beats Studio and Beats Studio Wireless have used that technology. It appears that at least 36 patents were infringed. </div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;">  </div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;"> According to <a href="http://www.idownloadblog.com/2014/07/25/bose-sues-apple-owned-beats-over-noise-cancelling-headphone-patents/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+iphonedlb+%28iDownloadBlog%29" rel="nofollow" style="color: #0058bb; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">idownloadblog.com</a> Beats was in the headphones making business since 2005. However, Bose was there since 1964. Beats prides itself with their products that are built using 3 major technologies: noise isolation, noise-cancelation and adaptive noise-cancelation. The company was founded 50 years ago by Amar G. Bose. The company now has eight manufacturing facilities and 153 high-end retail stores. </div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;">  </div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;"> Beats was founded in 2006 by rapper Dr. Dre and Jimmy Iovine. Over the past few years they have partnered with HTC, HP  and other until they went their own ways. On May 28th, 2014, Apple has announced that it would acquire Beats for $3billion in cash and stock. At The last week's financial call, Apple's CEO, Tim Cook explained that the acquisition will reflected in the Q4 revenue. </div> </div>

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LG D635 with Windows Phone 8.1 Allegedly Coming Soon

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <img alt="Windows Phone 8.1" height="351" src="http://i1-news.softpedia-static.com/images/news-700/LG-D635-with-Windows-Phone-8-1-Allegedly-Coming-Soon.jpg" width="640" /><br /> <br /> <strong style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 19px;">Windows Phone 8.1, the latest flavor of Microsoft’s mobile operating system, is expected to arrive on shelves on an LG smartphone in the not too distant future, and some info on what this phone might have to offer has emerged online.</strong><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;">Although LG and Microsoft have already confirmed that the South Korean mobile phone maker will release a Windows Phone 8.1 device, no details on what it might have to offer have been formally revealed until now.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;">However, according to a recent tweet coming from Alan Mendelevich, the founder of AdDuplex, the aforementioned handset is expected to arrive on shelves with a 5-inch touchscreen display.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;">Apparently, the smartphone was spotted in their network’s database with model number D635 attached to it, and with the Windows Phone 8.1 operating system loaded on top.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;">The handset is also said to boast a 720 x 1,280 pixels resolution, but no further info on its hardware specs has emerged as of now.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;">Considering the fact that other mobile phone makers out there who have joined Microsoft’s Windows Phone party this year have already announced their WP8.1 devices, chances are that LG will make its device official sooner rather than later. </span></div>

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Script of the Day: bounce.js

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <img alt="bounce.js simplifies how developers can build complex CSS 3 keyframe animations" height="294" src="http://i1-news.softpedia-static.com/images/news-700/Script-of-the-Day-bounce-js.jpg" width="640" /><br /> <br /> <strong style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 14px; text-align: justify;">As JavaScript once replaced Flash as the main medium for running animations on the Web, it is now the time to move on from JavaScript to CSS 3, and bounce.js is the tool to help you do it.</strong><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 14px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 14px; text-align: justify;" /><a href="http://bouncejs.com/" rel="nofollow" style="background-color: white; color: #0058bb; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 14px; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">bounce.js</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 14px; text-align: justify;"> is a Web-based GUI that lets developers create animation routines and sequences using a visual interface and a set of built-in methods.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 14px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 14px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 14px; text-align: justify;">The user can select the type of animations he wants to use, the order in which he wants to apply them and after the animation renders the way he wishes it to play, he can then export the necessary CSS 3 code into his own project.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 14px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 14px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 14px; text-align: justify;">Developers can also modify various other animation settings like animation easing effects, animation durations, overall stiffness level, axis movements, delay interval, bounces, and so on.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 14px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 14px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 14px; text-align: justify;">There are also controls to loop created animations, or just play them back in slow motion so you can get an idea of what's happening.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 14px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 14px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 14px; text-align: justify;">Some ready-made animation sequences are packed in by default, just to help developers easily create their own.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 14px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 14px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 14px; text-align: justify;">The bounce.js source code is available on </span><a href="https://github.com/tictail/bounce.js" rel="nofollow" style="background-color: white; color: #0058bb; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 14px; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">GitHub</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 14px; text-align: justify;">, and you can use it locally, host it online yourself, and even offline.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 14px; text-align: justify;" /><a href="http://webscripts.softpedia.com/scriptDownload/bounce-js-Download-82907.html" style="background-color: white; color: #0058bb; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 14px; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><strong><br />Download bounce.js</strong></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 14px; text-align: justify;"> from our Scripts section. Check out more </span><a href="http://webscripts.softpedia.com/scriptScreenshots/bounce-js-Screenshots-82907.html" style="background-color: white; color: #0058bb; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 14px; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><strong>bounce.js screenshots</strong></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 14px; text-align: justify;">.</span></div>

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Kingston Unveils V310 SSD With 450 MB/s Speed and 960 GB Capacity

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <img alt="Kingston SSDNow V310" height="351" src="http://i1-news.softpedia-static.com/images/news-700/Kingston-Unveils-V310-SSD-With-450-MB-s-Speed-and-960-GB-Capacity.jpg" width="640" /><div> <strong style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 14px; text-align: justify;">One problem with most solid state drives is that they trade capacity for performance, compared to HDDs. However, there are exceptions, like the SSDNow V310 that Kingston has just released.</strong><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 14px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 14px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 14px; text-align: justify;">In truth, the SSD is still leagues behind hard drives, especially now that Seagate is actually providing customers with </span><strong>8 TB HDD monsters</strong><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 14px; text-align: justify;">.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 14px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 14px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 14px; text-align: justify;">On the other hand, SSDs seldom go above 500-512 GB, at least in 2.5-inch SATA-ready form, but the new one from Kingston goes well beyond that, to 960 GB. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 14px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 14px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 14px; text-align: justify;">It’s almost a shame that it doesn’t use a SandForce controller, since it would give it read and write speeds of over 500 MB/s. As it is, the top throughput is of 450 MB/s.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 14px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 14px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 14px; text-align: justify;">Nevertheless, it is a true HDD replacement in every sense of the word, since that basically makes it ten times faster than the best of them. Add to that the natural shock protection (no moving parts) and high energy efficiency and only the price can dissuade people from a purchase. Kingston didn’t say what it is, exactly, but it is bound to be very high, probably around $500 / €500.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px; text-align: justify;" /><br /></div> </div>

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Nokia Lumia 930 Arrives at Carphone Warehouse in Ireland

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <img alt="Nokia Lumia 930" height="351" src="http://i1-news.softpedia-static.com/images/news-700/Nokia-Lumia-930-Arrives-at-Carphone-Warehouse-in-Ireland.jpg" width="640" /><br /> <br /> <strong style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 14px; text-align: justify;">Nokia Lumia 930, the high-end Windows Phone 8.1 smartphone that went official in April this year, is now available for purchase in Ireland too, via Carphone Warehouse.</strong><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 14px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 14px; text-align: justify;">Last week, the smartphone emerged at various retailers and wireless carriers in the UK, but it seems that users in more markets can actually acquire the phone.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 14px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 14px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 14px; text-align: justify;">Carphone Warehouse is one of the retailers to have released the mobile phone in the UK, and the company is now offering it in Ireland as well, </span><a href="http://nokianewsireland.com/2014/07/20/the-nokia-lumia-930-now-on-sale-at-the-carphoneie-nokia-ireland-cpw/" rel="nofollow" style="background-color: white; color: #0058bb; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 14px; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">NokiaNewsIreland</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 14px; text-align: justify;"> has found out.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 14px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 14px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 14px; text-align: justify;">The smartphone can be purchased on monthly plans on the networks of wireless carriers such as Vodafone, Meteor, and eMobile. Lumia 930 features a price tag of €429.99 ($581) with Meteor and eMobile contracts, while being priced at €499.99 ($676) at Vodafone.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 14px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 14px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 14px; text-align: justify;">Those of you interested in the purchase of a Nokia Lumia 930 in Ireland should head over to </span><a href="http://www.carphonewarehouse.ie/Product/strong-nokia-strong-lumia-930/239119/" rel="nofollow" style="background-color: white; color: #0058bb; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 14px; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">this page</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 14px; text-align: justify;"> on the retailer’s website to learn more on its availability.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 14px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 14px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 14px; text-align: justify;">One thing that you should keep in mind, however, is that this handset runs under the Windows Phone 8.1 operating system and not under Android, as the retailer claims. Undoubtedly, they will update the listing soon to correct that error.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 14px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 14px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 14px; text-align: justify;">As mentioned above, Nokia Lumia 930 was made official in April this year as the first flagship handset running under the new flavor of Microsoft’s mobile operating system.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 14px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 14px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 14px; text-align: justify;">The mobile phone arrives on shelves with a 5-inch touchscreen display capable of delivering a full HD resolution and is powered by a 2.2GHz quad-core Snapdragon 800 processor.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 14px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 14px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 14px; text-align: justify;">Moreover, the Windows Phone 8.1 device sports 2GB of RAM, along with 32GB of internal memory. Unfortunately, no microSD memory card slot is available for expansion purposes, although the phone does come with free OneDrive storage.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 14px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 14px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 14px; text-align: justify;">What Lumia 930 does offer, however, is high-end imaging capabilities, courtesy of a 20-megapixel rear camera with full HD video recording and Surround-Sound, paired with a front camera for making video calls while on the go.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 14px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 14px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 14px; text-align: justify;">It also features 4G LTE connectivity, along with 3G, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and NFC capabilities, and a GPS receiver. On top of that, it comes with all of the features and capabilities that Windows Phone 8.1 was announced with.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 14px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 14px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 14px; text-align: justify;">“The Nokia Lumia 930 comes with the latest Windows Phone experience, so the things that matter most are always with you whether you’re on your smartphone, Xbox or PC,” the retailer notes on its website.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 14px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 14px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 14px; text-align: justify;">“Exclusive Live Tiles keep you up to speed with what’s happening in your world, while new features like customizable background images for your home screen make Windows Phone 8.1 more personal than ever.</span></div>

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Here is What's New in iOS 8 and OS X Beta 4 and iTunes 12.0

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <img alt="iOS 8 and OS X Yosemite" height="351" src="http://i1-news.softpedia-static.com/images/news-700/Here-is-What-s-New-in-iOS-8-and-OS-X-Beta-4-and-iTunes-12-0.jpg" width="640" /><br /> <br /> <div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 14px; text-align: justify;"> <strong>Busy Monday at Apple Headquarters. The tech giant has released plenty of updates dedicated to the developers for iOS and OS X. </strong></div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 14px; text-align: justify;">  </div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 14px; text-align: justify;"> The most important news so far is that we have a brand new iTunes 12.0 that comes along with the all the new tweaks Apple promised. </div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 14px; text-align: justify;">  </div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 14px; text-align: justify;"> Apple describes the new iTunes design as an elegant and streamlined one and explains the ability to share purchases with your family. There are also some new improvements that make organizing your library fun and easy. </div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 14px; text-align: justify;">  </div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 14px; text-align: justify;"> Family Sharing allows you to share your purchases from iTunes, iBooks and the App Store with up to six people in your family, without sharing the same account. </div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 14px; text-align: justify;">  </div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 14px; text-align: justify;"> Playlists have been improved. You can now see full library and playlists side by side, making it even easier to add your favorite songs to playlists. </div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 14px; text-align: justify;">  </div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 14px; text-align: justify;"> There's also a redesigned Info Window. When you press command+I or right click and get to the "Get Info" menu you are going to see a clean look that displays the most useful info about your media, Apple explains.<br /><br />So far, iOS 8 Beta 4 brings only small improvements  (according to 9to5mac.com):<br /><div> <br />- New Settings Menu for Display, Text Size, and Bold text</div> <div>  </div> <div> - New HomeKit icon for data privacy</div> <div>  </div> <div> - New options for Messages history</div> <div>  </div> <div> - Animation is slightly slower when moving in and out of multitasking</div> <div>  </div> <div> - Bug Reporter application has been removed.</div> </div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 14px; text-align: justify;">  </div> <span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 14px; text-align: justify;">This article is being updated often. Stay tuned for more new about the new iOS 8 and OS X Betas. More pictures will be added soon.</span><br /> <br /></div>

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Scythe Tatsumi CPU Cooler Is a Deceptively Cheap

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <img alt="Scythe Tatsumi CPU cooler" height="351" src="http://i1-news.softpedia-static.com/images/news-700/Scythe-Tatsumi-CPU-Cooler-Is-a-Deceptively-Cheap.jpg" width="640" /><br /> <strong style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 14px; text-align: justify;">Scythe, the cooling product maker stations in Japan, has introduced a CPU cooler that can spin its fan at 2,500 RPM while not going about 31.07 dBA of noise.</strong><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 14px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 14px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 14px; text-align: justify;">Called Tatsumi, the newcomer can be as silent as 7.2 dBA, which is barely audible at all, and only if you lean in really close to the case.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 14px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 14px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 14px; text-align: justify;">Measuring 102 x 146 x 83 mm / 4.02 x 5.75 x 3.27 inch (that’s including the fan), it weighs 450 grams / 1587 ounces and promises “great performance above the market average” despite the relatively low price of €21.60 / $29. Shipments should have already started. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 14px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 14px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 14px; text-align: justify;">On that note, it can push 11.4 and 94.3 cubic meter per hour (6.70 to 55.55 CFM) and can do its job while causing the minimum of air turbulence, thanks to the Multiple Airflow Pass-Through Structure (M.A.P.S.) technology.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 14px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 14px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 14px; text-align: justify;">Finally, the list of CPU/APU sockets compatible with the Scythe Tatsumi cooler includes the following: AMD AM2, AM2+, AM3, AM3+, FM1 and FM2, plus Intel LGA775, LGA 1150, LGA 1155, LGA 1156, LGA 1366 and LGA 2011. The "Hyper Precision Mounting System" (H.P.M.S.) is what allows this.</span></div>

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AirTame Wireless HDMI Dongle – Just Shut Up And Take My Money

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <img height="327" src="http://netdna.coolthings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/airtame-dongle-1.jpg" width="400" /><br /> <br /> <div style="background-color: white; color: #393a3a; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Tahoma, sans-serif; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 16px;"> <span style="line-height: 19px;">I'm a huge fan of Google's </span>Chromecast<span style="line-height: 19px;">. It's cheap, it works, and it seriously cuts down on the drain on whichever gadget you're streaming from.  And while AirTame compares itself to Chromecast, along with similar solutions like Apple TV, we have a feeling people will be interested in it for far beyond the entertainment applications.</span></div> <br /> <div style="background-color: white; color: #393a3a; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Tahoma, sans-serif; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 16px;"> <a href="http://netdna.coolthings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/airtame-dongle-2.jpg" style="border: none; color: #393a3a; outline: none;"></a></div> <br /> <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #393a3a; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"> A wireless HDMI dongle,  AirTame basically turns any HDMI-equipped display panel into a second computer monitor that can display content over WiFi.   It boasts no lag time and a literal plug-and-play setup that makes it a very attractive option for extending your desktop's reach.  Windows, Macs and Linux are all supported, too, with no transmitters necessary since it will use the existing WiFi network for streaming data.</div> <div class="post-44137 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-entertainment category-gadgets tag-cool-gadgets tag-indiegogo tag-streaming singlepost" id="post-44137" style="background-color: white; color: #393a3a; display: inline; float: left; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Tahoma, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; width: 570px;"> <div class="entry" style="line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px;"> <div style="margin-bottom: 16px;"> Sure, we get the Chromecast and Apple TV comparisons because you can use it to turn the TV into a wireless second monitor for watching movies and clips you'd otherwise just see on a computer display.  And that's a sweet thing.  The real benefit, though, is being able to use any HDMI-equipped display (including TVs, projectors, and even other laptops) around the house as an extended desktop.</div> <div style="margin-bottom: 16px;"> Want to show your sister a must-see, life-or-death clip of a pesteringly-cute cat on YouTube, but she's watching one of the housewives show in the basement TV?  Send her a text to change to the HDMI input and stream the clip over instead.   Want to monitor your 12 year old's computer habits?  Plug an AirTame on your laptop, set his up to duplicate the display onto your system, and you've got an admittedly invasive but undoubtedly effective way to monitor what he's doing on Facebook full time.  When sending the stream to a second computer, by the way, it appears as a window with the receiving computer restricted to view-only mode, so no chance you will accidentally hit anything that will clue your unsuspecting son to what's going on.</div> <div style="font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 16px;"> <a href="http://netdna.coolthings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/airtame-dongle-3.jpg" style="border: none; color: #393a3a; outline: none;"><img alt="" class="aligncenter" height="283" src="http://netdna.coolthings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/airtame-dongle-3.jpg" style="border: none; display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="570" /></a></div> <div style="margin-bottom: 16px;"> The bummer?  No Android or iOS support, so it only works with actual computers for now.  AirTame is currently collecting funds for a production run on <a href="http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/airtame-wireless-hdmi-for-everyone--2" style="border: none; color: #393a3a; outline: none;">Indiegogo</a>.  Pledges to reserve a unit starts at $89.</div> <div style="font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 16px;"> <br /></div> </div> </div> </div>

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Forget Your Smartwatch, I’m Wearing A Smarty Ring

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <img src="http://netdna.coolthings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/Smarty-Ring-1.jpg" /><br /> <div style="background-color: white; color: #393a3a; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Tahoma, sans-serif; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 16px;"> <br /></div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #393a3a; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Tahoma, sans-serif; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 16px;"> The rising popularity of smartwatches confirms one thing: a good amount of people are stoked about the idea of wearing computers on their limbs.  Since we have that "wearable computer on the wrist" part figured out, it's probably time to move on to other body parts.  How about those skinny things sticking out of your hands?  Well, the Smarty Ring wants to take care of that.</div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #393a3a; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Tahoma, sans-serif; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 16px;"> Why use a gadget that wraps around the wrist for mobile notifications when you can have all those on a gadget that's worn on just a single finger?  Yeah, makes sense to me.  Sure, a ring is too small to read emails, hold a camera, or cram in a mic for hands-free conversations, but if all you plan to use a smartwatch for are receiving notifications, then this seems like a more efficient device for achieving the same thing.</div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #393a3a; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 16px;"> <a href="http://netdna.coolthings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/Smarty-Ring-2.jpg" style="border: none; color: #393a3a; outline: none;"><img alt="" class="aligncenter" height="380" src="http://netdna.coolthings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/Smarty-Ring-2.jpg" style="border: none; display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="570" /></a></div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #393a3a; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Tahoma, sans-serif; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 16px;"> The Smarty Ring is a stainless steel band with a small LED panel (single-color only, either blue or red) on the body acting as the display.  The panel will display time by default (you can set the time from the accompanying app), but will change to display an icon, along with playing an audible beeping sound, when a notification comes in.  It uses Bluetooth 4.0 to pair with your phone, after which it can alert you of calls, texts, emails, and various updates (upon launch, Facebook, Twitter, Google Hangouts, and Skype will be supported).</div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #393a3a; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Tahoma, sans-serif; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 16px;"> The features don't end there, though.  On the outer side of the band sit a set of buttons, which you can use to control the phone remotely, letting you accept/reject incoming calls, place calls (only to numbers preset via the app), trigger the camera, control music playback, or change to a different user profile.  Plus, it will beep any time the phone is more than 30 meters away, so it can help minimize the chances you'll forget the phone in the bathroom at Chili's like you did last week after a couple of beers.  Everything is watertight, too, so you can keep the ring on all through the day.</div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #393a3a; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Tahoma, sans-serif; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 16px;"> Want one?  The Smarty Ring is currently raising funds for a production run on Indiegogo.  Pledges to reserve a full unit starts at $175</div> </div>

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Launchpad Mini Shrinks The Popular Music Controller Down To Super-Portable Size

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <img src="http://netdna.coolthings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/novation-launchpad-mini-1.jpg" /><br /> <div style="background-color: white; color: #393a3a; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Tahoma, sans-serif; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 16px;"> We've been big fans of Novation's Launchpad ever since it came out a few years back. It's fun, functional and those grid of lighted control pads just look pretty as heck. If there's any knock on the thing, in fact, it's just that it's a tad too big to comfortably carry around for on-the-go tactile music creation. The new Launchpad Mini offers a more compact, more portable alternative.</div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #393a3a; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Tahoma, sans-serif; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 16px;"> Styled similar to the original Launchpad, it comes with the same grid of 64 light-up pads, along with multiple buttons lined up on the sides. Because everything was shrunk down in size, it's a little more crowded than the original. If you can live with that though, it should offer exactly the same functionality as the larger model.</div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #393a3a; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 16px;"> <a class="highslide" href="http://netdna.coolthings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/novation-launchpad-mini-2.jpg" style="border: none; color: #393a3a; cursor: url(http://netdna.coolthings.com/wp-content/plugins/Viva-ThumbZoom/lib/v-zoom/graphics/zoomin.cur), pointer; outline: none;"><img alt="" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-44437" height="387" src="http://netdna.coolthings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/novation-launchpad-mini-2.jpg" style="border: none; display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="570" /></a></div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #393a3a; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Tahoma, sans-serif; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 16px;"> As with the original, you can use the Launchpad Mini's multiple three-color launch pads to trigger loops, sounds, effects, and your collection of cat noises similar to any music controller. It works on Macs, PCs, and iPads, with full Ableton Live and FL Studio compatibility, apart from Novation's own Launchpad app. Even better, it works without a separate power source -- it will draw power directly from whatever machine it's hooked up to. You can string together as much as 16 Launchpad Minis (only for Macs and PCs) to put a gargantuan amount of tactile music controls at your fingertips.</div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #393a3a; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Tahoma, sans-serif; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 16px;"> Novation claims the device is rugged enough to withstand the rigors of the road, so you don't need to worry about breaking the thing when sharing the back of the van with six other rowdy dudes during a tour. Set comes with a complete set of cables, along with a set of stickers for labeling the keys.</div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #393a3a; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Tahoma, sans-serif; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 16px;"> The Launchpad Mini is available now, priced at $99.</div> </div>

Launchpad Mini Shrinks The Popular Music Controller Down To Super-Portable Size

We've been big fans of Novation's Launchpad ever since it came out a few years back. It's fun, functional and those grid of l...

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Google Smart Contact Lens Lets Diabetes Patients Monitor Their Glucose Levels By The Second

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <img src="http://netdna.coolthings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/google-smart-contact-lens-1.jpg" /><br /> <br /> <div class="post-45465 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-gadgets category-latest tag-cool-gadgets tag-cool-inventions tag-google tag-health tag-wearable-tech tag-wearables singlepost" id="post-45465" style="background-color: white; color: #393a3a; display: inline; float: left; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Tahoma, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; width: 570px;"> <div class="entry" style="line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px;"> <div style="margin-bottom: 16px;"> A smart contact lens does seem like the logical evolution of eye-mounted wearable gadgets -- why look like a weirdo with Google Glass on your face when you can do everything on the sly? And while Google's new Smart Contact Lens doesn't exactly come with Glass' functionality (cramming that much hardware into a piece of plastic that fits over your cornea probably isn't feasible at this point in time), it does provide a glimpse into smart eyewear's potential future.</div> <div style="margin-bottom: 16px;"> Aimed at diabetics, the contact lens allows wearers to constantly monitor their glucose levels. It can take as frequent as one reading per second, ensuring users get up-to-date information that can prove crucial to their well-being<span style="font-size: 14px;">.</span></div> <div style="font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 16px;"> <a href="http://netdna.coolthings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/google-smart-contact-lens-2.jpg" style="border: none; color: #393a3a; outline: none;"><img alt="" class="aligncenter" height="413" src="http://netdna.coolthings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/google-smart-contact-lens-2.jpg" style="border: none; display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="570" /></a></div> <div style="margin-bottom: 16px;"> The Google Smart Contact Lens performs its feat using a wireless chip and a miniature glucose sensor that takes it measurements from your tears, with the electronics sandwiched between two soft layers of lens material. They're also looking to add equally tiny LEDs down the line, which will alert users when their glucose levels reach specific thresholds. The electronics used in the lenses are so small, they look like tiny specks of glitter, so they're not that intimidating to put on either.</div> </div> <div class="more" style="font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 16px;"> </div> </div> <ins style="border: none; color: #555555; display: inline-table; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; height: 250px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; visibility: visible; width: 300px;"></ins></div>

Google Smart Contact Lens Lets Diabetes Patients Monitor Their Glucose Levels By The Second

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Pocket Drone Can Fit In Pockets, Fly For 20 Minutes And Carry A GoPro

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <img src="http://netdna.coolthings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/pocket-drone-1.jpg" /><br /> <div style="background-color: white; color: #393a3a; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Tahoma, sans-serif; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 16px;"> Mini-drones that can fit in your pocket are definitely a lot of fun, but the inability to mount an action cam makes it practically useless for traditional spy drone missions. And while regular-size drones are great for that, the size doesn't exactly make them convenient to carry around. The Pocket Drone changes that.</div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #393a3a; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Tahoma, sans-serif; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 16px;"> Made by Airdroids, it can fold up into a pocketable bundle, allowing you to slip the whole thing into the back of your jeans when housed inside the included protective case. It's light, too, weighing just a pound, so it barely adds any weight to your carry-around gear.</div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #393a3a; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 16px;"> <a class="highslide" href="http://netdna.coolthings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/pocket-drone-2.jpg" style="border: none; color: #393a3a; cursor: url(http://netdna.coolthings.com/wp-content/plugins/Viva-ThumbZoom/lib/v-zoom/graphics/zoomin.cur), pointer; outline: none;"><img alt="" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-45578" height="290" src="http://netdna.coolthings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/pocket-drone-2.jpg" style="border: none; display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="570" /></a></div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #393a3a; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Tahoma, sans-serif; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 16px;"> Unlike other miniature multicopters, the Pocket Drone is actually strong enough to haul aGoPro (among other action cams up to half a pound in weight) via the integrated mount, so it can be used for aerial videography and photography just like any of the popular consumer quadcopters. It comes ready-to-fly out of the box, with a folding mechanism that can be collapsed and bundled in just 20 seconds. Doing mini-drones that came before it one better, the tricopter design helps it conserve battery life, allowing for flight times as long as 20 minutes even with a camera in tow.</div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #393a3a; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 16px;"> <a class="highslide" href="http://netdna.coolthings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/pocket-drone-3.jpg" style="border: none; color: #393a3a; cursor: url(http://netdna.coolthings.com/wp-content/plugins/Viva-ThumbZoom/lib/v-zoom/graphics/zoomin.cur), pointer; outline: none;"><img alt="" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-45579" height="290" src="http://netdna.coolthings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/pocket-drone-3.jpg" style="border: none; display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="570" /></a></div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #393a3a; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Tahoma, sans-serif; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 16px;"> Designed to survive in-flight mishaps, it boasts tough construction (hard plastic and carbon fiber), retracting/breakaway propellers, and integrated landing gear. Paired with the app, it supports autopilot flight planning via Google Maps, fly-by GPS waypoints, and "Follow Me" mode, among a whole load of other cool tricks.</div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #393a3a; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Tahoma, sans-serif; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 16px;"> The Pocket Drone is a big hit at <a href="http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/airdroids/the-pocket-drone-your-personal-flying-robot" style="border: none; color: #393a3a; outline: none;">Kickstarter</a>, where it's currently fully-funded. Lucky for you, it's still ongoing, with pledges to reserve a unit starting at $495.</div> </div>

Pocket Drone Can Fit In Pockets, Fly For 20 Minutes And Carry A GoPro

Mini-drones that can fit in your pocket are definitely a lot of fun, but the inability to mount an action cam makes it practically useles...

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Atlas Fitness Tracker Can Monitor Absolutely Any Exercise You Perform

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <img src="http://netdna.coolthings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Atlas-Fitness-Tracker-1.jpg" /><br /> <div style="background-color: white; color: #393a3a; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Tahoma, sans-serif; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 16px;"> Fitness trackers can be a very useful tool. Except all they really do for the most part is track cadence, then parlay that into all sorts of useful information. Basically they're only good for running, biking and occasionally, swimming. The Atlas Fitness Tracker changes that, tracking a whole bunch of exercises well beyond what traditional fitness monitors can handle.</div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #393a3a; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Tahoma, sans-serif; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 16px;"> Aside from running, biking, and swimming (yes, it's waterproof), it can track your exercises in the gym, forays into action sports and other physical activities, allowing you to get a more complete picture of your personal fitness. That's right -- everything from bench presses to skateboarding to smashing tires with sledgehammers will finally be tracked. Even better, the system can isolate and track new exercises, so you can still get your readings even when doing that weird compound exercise you saw some buff dude doing on YouTube. Sorry, specialty activity trackers -- you're not needed anymore.</div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #393a3a; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Tahoma, sans-serif; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 16px;"> The Atlas Fitness Tracker uses inertial sensors to identify your movements in a 3D trajectory, allowing it to create a specific motion fingerprint for practically any physical action. That means, you'll get a clear reading for how each exercise will affect you, which should help when planning future workouts. It doesn't stop there, either -- the device can monitor heart rate (including how quickly you recover), how rest affects each exercise, and a whole load of new metrics (exercise form, thrust, explosiveness, and more). Basically, it lets you dive way deeper into your physical activities, in a way that's probably more sophisticated than you'll get even when hitting the weights with a personal trainer.</div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #393a3a; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Tahoma, sans-serif; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 16px;"> The actual device consists of a silicone band and a detachable rectangular OLED screen where your stats are displayed in real time. It comes with an onboard 120 mAh battery that's good for up to seven workouts on a full charge. Like other fitness trackers, it comes with an accompanying mobile app where you can review your stats.</div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #393a3a; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 16px;"> <img src="http://netdna.coolthings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Atlas-Fitness-Tracker-3.jpg" /></div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #393a3a; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 16px;"> As of now, the Atlas Fitness Tracker is a successfully-funded <a href="http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/atlas-the-first-fitness-tracker-that-actually-tracks-your-workout" style="border: none; color: #393a3a; outline: none;">Indiegogo</a> project. Pledges to reserve a unit starts at $159.</div> </div>

Atlas Fitness Tracker Can Monitor Absolutely Any Exercise You Perform

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Google Glass Titanium Prescription Eyeglass Frames Make Wearing Google Glass Just A Tiny Bit Less Weird

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <img src="http://netdna.coolthings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/google-glass-titanium-eyewear-0.jpg" /><br /> <br /> <div style="background-color: white; color: #393a3a; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Tahoma, sans-serif; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 16px;"> In the future, we imagine Google Glass will evolve into just a normal pair of glasses. Heck, maybe it will even evolve into a practically indiscernible smart contact lens. In the meantime, though, you'll have to make do either with a weird thing floating over your eye or the Google Glass Titanium, which attaches the weird thing floating over your eye to a normal-looking eyeglass frame.</div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #393a3a; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Tahoma, sans-serif; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 16px;"> The glasses themselves are detachable from the gadget, so you can wear just the glasses, just Google Glass, or both. If you've already bought Glass, you can buy just the frames themselves, which are designed specifically for working hand in hand with the eye-mounted smart gadget.</div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #393a3a; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Tahoma, sans-serif; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 16px;"> Four frame designs are available in Google Glass Titanium, all of which are made from the strong, light and corrosion-resistant metal. Two frames are thick with rectangular and round lenses, respectively, while the other two are thin with either rectangular or rimless bottom lenses. Each one will ship with basic non-prescription lenses, although you can have them outfitted with any replacement lenses just as easily as conventional eyeglass frames. Oh yeah, they also offer three options for sunglasses using polarized impact-resistant lenses from Maui Jim and Zeal Optics.</div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #393a3a; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Tahoma, sans-serif; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 16px;"> Granted, having that floating thing over your eye is still weird, even with a traditional pair of glasses under it. At least, it's better than wearing your regular Raybans along with the Google Glass headband mounted on you head. Sold separately from the wearable gadget, Google Glass Titanium retails for $225.</div> </div>

Google Glass Titanium Prescription Eyeglass Frames Make Wearing Google Glass Just A Tiny Bit Less Weird

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GPOP Google Glass Skins Jazz Up Your Wearable Eye Tech

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <img src="http://netdna.coolthings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/gpop-google-glass-skins-1.jpg" /><br /> <div style="background-color: white; color: #393a3a; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Tahoma, sans-serif; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 16px;"> It's been said many times, many ways: wearing Google Glass over your face just looks plain weird (yes, even with the Google Glass Titanium glasses on). While we're sure society will get accustomed to people with gadgets sitting over their eyes after some time, you'll probably have to live with being that strange person with the weird futuristic thing over his face for at least a couple more years. And since you're going to be treated like a giant nerd anyway, might as well go full nerd and jazz up your Google Glass with these colorful decals from GPOP.</div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #393a3a; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Tahoma, sans-serif; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 16px;"> That's right, somebody's already selling Google Glass Skins for dressing up the pioneering eye-mounted wearable. You can make it look even more futuristic with lighted circuits, artsy it up with colorful shapes or tone it down with a stealth matte black all over among other decorative options. There's even one that makes it look like a speaker and music player combo, which could help make it less intimidating to people who watched too many sci-fi films where villains wore gadgets over their eyes.</div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #393a3a; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 16px;"> <img src="http://netdna.coolthings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/gpop-google-glass-skins-2.jpg" /></div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #393a3a; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Tahoma, sans-serif; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 16px;"> GPOP's Google Glass Skins are, basically, 3M vinyl decals printed with a variety of designs that are then cut into various shapes that fit different areas of the wearable eye tech. Simply slap each one in place and you've got yourself a personalized Google Glass in place of the sterile-looking somewhat-impersonal original. According to the product page, the decals won't leave any residue on your device (it can be removed and reapplied, so long as you don't rip it), apart from being able to conform easily when wrapped around edges, so it's about as easy as it gets.</div> </div>

GPOP Google Glass Skins Jazz Up Your Wearable Eye Tech

It's been said many times, many ways: wearing Google Glass over your face just looks plain weird (yes, even with the Google Glass Tit...

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Dash Smart Headphones Play Your Music While Tracking Your Health And Vitals

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <img src="http://netdna.coolthings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/the-dash-smart-headphones-1.jpg" /><br /> <div style="background-color: white; color: #393a3a; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Tahoma, sans-serif; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 16px;"> Just like everyone reaches a certain age where they think about settling down and having kids, everyone reaches a certain age where they feel like walking around with music blaring on their headphones is just all sorts of unnecessary. If you haven't reached that age yet, you might want to trade in your Fitbit Force for the Dash, the "world's first wireless smart in-ear headphones."</div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #393a3a; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Tahoma, sans-serif; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 16px;"> You can use them much like regular headphones, streaming music from a smartphone over Bluetooth. Doing other headphones one better, however, it comes with 4GB of onboard storage which you can fill up with your music files of choice, eliminating the need for a separate music source.</div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #393a3a; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Tahoma, sans-serif; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 16px;"> The big selling point, of course, is the gaggle of fitness sensors integrated into the Dash. Like regular exercise monitors, it can measure pace, steps, cadence, time, g-force, and distance, all while tracking body vitals (heart rate, oxygen saturation, body temperature, and energy spent) using tiny LEDs that emit low-intensity red and infrared light into the ear capillaries. Don't want to tune out the world with your in-ear headphones while running in the streets? Not a problem -- just turn on the ambient noise feature and it allows ambient sound to pass through, letting you hear chatter from people in the sidewalk and engine noise from cars coming up from behind. It comes with a capacitive touch surface for onboard control.</div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #393a3a; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Tahoma, sans-serif; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 16px;"> The in-ear headphones itself are lightweight (less than 13.8 grams), shock-resistant, and water-resistant up to 1 meter, making for a pretty durable piece of tech to survive the rigors of daily use. They come bearing double-barrier passive noise isolation and a three-point secure fit, with a response bandwidth of 20-20000 Hz, 10mW RMS output, and 16-bit stereo audio. It also comes with an onboard ear bone MEMS mic, allowing for hands-free calls over Bluetooth. Both Android and iOS are compatible.</div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #393a3a; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Tahoma, sans-serif; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 16px;"> Currently, the Dash is an ongoing project on <a href="https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/hellobragi/the-dash-wireless-smart-in-ear-headphones" style="border: none; color: #393a3a; outline: none;">Kickstarter</a>. Available pledges to reserve a unit starts at $199.</div> </div>

Dash Smart Headphones Play Your Music While Tracking Your Health And Vitals

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Filip Is A Wearable Phone Watch Designed With Child Safety In Mind

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <img src="http://netdna.coolthings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/filip-tracker-phone-1.jpg" /><br /> <br /> <div style="background-color: white; color: #393a3a; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Tahoma, sans-serif; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 16px;"> Giving your young children a phone can be helpful in many ways.  Not only will it allow you to communicate via calls and SMS, you can also turn on the GPS to track their location in real time.  Provided they don't drop their phones while climbing a Pirate Ship Playhouse or destroy them from doing any of the raucous things little children do, that is.  The Filip offers a less troublesome alternative.</div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #393a3a; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Tahoma, sans-serif; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 16px;"> Made by Filip Technologies, it looks like a regular kiddie watch, complete with an oversized design and a selection of bright colors that should appeal to young boys and girls alike.  Because it's worn right on their arm, there's less chance that they'll leave it somewhere accidentally or lose the phone while running in the yard.  It's tough, too, complete with IP63 water resistance, so it can stand children's rugged play.</div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #393a3a; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Tahoma, sans-serif; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 16px;"> To use, parents install the accompanying app on their iOS or Android phone, link it to their child's Filip (up to five devices can be added), and it's set up.  Similar to GPS phone tracking apps, you can monitor your child's location at anytime, as well as set it to provide alerts when the child steps away from your predefined safe zones.   You can send messages to your child's Filip at any time, as well as talk to them over AT&T's cellular network.  Filip can store up to five numbers, which children can call directly from their wrist.</div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #393a3a; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Tahoma, sans-serif; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 16px;"> The device comes with an emergency button that, when pressed, will send a text message to all of its five stored phone numbers.  It will also start recording ambient sound, then begin calling the stored phone numbers one by one until someone answers, so you can hear exactly what's going on in case the child is in any sort of bad situation.</div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #393a3a; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Tahoma, sans-serif; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 16px;"> Filip is available now, priced at $199, with an accompanying service plan on AT&T for $10 a month.</div> </div>

Filip Is A Wearable Phone Watch Designed With Child Safety In Mind

Giving your young children a phone can be helpful in many ways.  Not only will it allow you to communicate via calls and SMS, you can al...

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Boeing Black: If You Were A Government Spy, This Will Be Your Next Phone

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <img src="http://netdna.coolthings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/boeing-black-1.jpg" /><br /> <div style="background-color: white; color: #393a3a; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Tahoma, sans-serif; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 16px;"> <br /></div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #393a3a; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Tahoma, sans-serif; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 16px;"> If you work within the national defense and security communities, there's good reason to prioritize security features in the smartphone you use.  Chances are, you'll be handling information that's more sensitive than usual -- the last thing you want is to get the location of the secret headquarters where the government is building their army of Gundam-style robot mechs stolen from your SMS inbox.  When you have nefarious characters constantly angling to take information off your phone, regular consumer handsets probably just aren't enough.  You need a smartphone like the Boeing Black.</div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #393a3a; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Tahoma, sans-serif; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 16px;"> Designed from the ground up to protect sensitive data and transmissions, the specialty device puts security at a premium.   Special security features include encrypted data storage, hardware-based crypto engine (for protecting stored and transmitted data), embedded security components, hardware-based software authenticity checks and secure bootup.  A modified version of Android, which gets additional baked-in security components (e.g. configurable security policies), runs the action.</div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #393a3a; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Tahoma, sans-serif; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 16px;"> Actual smartphone specs for the Boeing Black, which include a 4.3-inch display (960 x 540 resolution), a dual-core 1.2GHz processor, and LTE, won't challenge your favorite flagship device anytime soon.  But we doubt that's going to be an issue, considering this is meant to keep your data secure, rather than run GTA San Andreas smoothly.</div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #393a3a; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Tahoma, sans-serif; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 16px;"> The phone comes sporting dual SIM slots, so users can easily switch between personal and government-specific networks.  It also features a hardware expansion port, which can take various accessory devices, such as a biometric sensor, a satellite antenna, and an extra battery.  Oh yeah, when it detects that the phone itself has been compromised, it will self-destruct.  Sadly, it won't go up in smoke Mission Impossible style -- instead, all data and software will be automatically wiped, rendering the device inoperable.</div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #393a3a; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Tahoma, sans-serif; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 16px;"> The Boeing Black will be sold strictly to the aersopace's clients in the defense and security industries.</div> </div>

Boeing Black: If You Were A Government Spy, This Will Be Your Next Phone

If you work within the national defense and security communities, there's good reason to prioritize security features in the smartp...

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