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		<title>Google Opens Up About Glass Privacy, Zombification</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/05/17/google-opens-up-about-glass-privacy-zombification/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 17:15:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jared Newman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Until now, Google has stayed eerily quiet on the privacy implications of Google Glass, seemingly content to let the tech world debate the issue among themselves. But during a &#8220;fireside chat&#8221; about Glass at Google&#8217;s I/O conference, Google employees opened up. Their responses represent the company&#8217;s most thorough take yet on the privacy issues surrounding Google Glass. Google Glass, if you&#8217;re unaware, is a pair of mock spectacles with a mounted display, camera, microphone and touch panel. So far, Google has only sent out Glass to a couple thousand developers, along with a few members of the press. And over the last few weeks, there&#8217;s been a lot of discussion about whether society would be better or worse off with head-mounted displays and cameras. Steve Lee, the product director for Google Glass, offered a few responses to the criticisms so far: Google purposely mounted the display for Glass just above the eye, forcing users to look up at the screen. &#8220;Once you&#8217;re around someone with Glass, you&#8217;ll know they&#8217;re paying attention to you because they&#8217;re looking at you,&#8221; Lee said. Later in the session, Lee said the screen&#8217;s high placement makes it hard to look at for long periods of time, encouraging quick sessions instead. That was also by design. &#8220;We don&#8217;t want to create zombies staring up at their display for long periods of time,&#8221; Lee said. Regarding the potential for surreptitious recording, Lee said Glass purposely requires &#8220;social queues&#8221;&#8211;that is, tapping the side of the device, or speaking&#8211;to snap a photo or start taking video. Engineering director Charles Mendis added that &#8220;you kind of notice&#8221; when someone&#8217;s staring at you. &#8220;If you walk into the restroom, even without Glass, and someone&#8217;s just looking at you, I don&#8217;t know about you but I&#8217;d get out of there,&#8221; Mendis said. Lee pointed out that when you use Glass, the display lights up, so other people will always know when Glass is active. Google won&#8217;t allow Glass apps that don&#8217;t light up the screen while the device is in use. Granted, a lot<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=162942&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ongoing Coverage of Google&#8217;s I/O Conference</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/05/14/google-io-coverage/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 19:44:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Harry McCracken</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Wednesday, May 15, Google is kicking off its I/O conference in San Francisco &#8212; the biggest three days of the year when it comes to news about Android, Chrome, Glass, search and other Googley matters. My colleague Jared Newman and I will be there for ongoing coverage, beginning at 12pm ET/9am PT on Wednesday, when the conference begins with a three-hour keynote. Join us then and throughout the week for our take on the show, its announcements and whatever new gadgets debut, all on this page.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=162779&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Real Privacy Implications of Google Glass</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/05/02/the-real-privacy-implications-of-google-glass/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 May 2013 12:25:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jared Newman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over the last few weeks, Google has steadily been building hype around Google Glass. The search giant revealed tech specs, explained how the software works, and has even let some of the tech press get their hands on the &#8220;Explorer Edition&#8221; of the device, an early version that costs a cool $1,500. One thing Google hasn&#8217;t done is talk about the privacy implications of Glass, which has a built-in camera that can sneakily take photos and video at any time. It seems the company would rather let the debate play out on its own. I think this is a mistake on Google&#8217;s part, but I also think much of the fearful prognosticating over Google Glass is misplaced. The real concern with Google Glass and privacy doesn&#8217;t have to do with surveillance or collection of personal data, but with the way it will make us behave in the real world. The Debate Thus Far Google Glass supporters have a few standard lines of defense against privacy critics. They claim that Glass isn&#8217;t much different than a smartphone in terms of capabilities, that people will have common decency about what to record, and that bystanders will learn to recognize when they&#8217;re on camera. Robert Scoble, arguably the biggest Glass advocate outside of Google, tries to swat down privacy complaints in a post on Google+: They think we&#8217;re going to follow them into bathrooms and record &#8220;their junk.&#8221; &#8230; If I wanted to do that I&#8217;d rather use my new Android phone, which has a much better camera and, um, can be more easily aimed without grabbing attention. The microphone on my iPhone is better, too, and video is much sharper and isn&#8217;t quite as wide angle, so I can see more details if I&#8217;m trying to be pervy anyway (which I&#8217;m not). They think I&#8217;m going to walk by them recording everything they are saying. After getting [Glass] that&#8217;s laughable. Scoble claims that the privacy concerns around Glass are overblown, and in a way, he&#8217;s right. The vast majority of people aren&#8217;t<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=161454&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Marshall Monitor Headphones Review: Exemplary Audio from Tiny Cans</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/04/30/marshall-monitor-headphones-review-exemplary-audio-from-tiny-cans/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Apr 2013 18:54:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Peckham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s possible &#8212; heck, even probable &#8212; that you&#8217;ve heard of Britain-based sonic powerhouse Marshall before. After all, the company&#8217;s guitar amps are practically iconic in music-dom. Take its &#8220;Bluesbreaker,&#8221; which you probably haven&#8217;t heard of by name, but you&#8217;ve almost surely heard it &#8212; well, if you&#8217;re familiar with Eric Clapton&#8217;s little 1966 album with the Bluesbreakers, anyway. And don&#8217;t forget the &#8220;Marshall stack,&#8221; the holy-holy for concert rock gods who like to raise up literal walls of overpowering sound composed of Marshall amplifiers. But headphones? That&#8217;s newer territory for the company. Marshall&#8217;s initial stabs at consumer-grade headphones emerged in 2010, the so-called &#8220;Major&#8221; (on-ear) and &#8220;Minor&#8221; (in-ear), neither of which I&#8217;ve had a chance to test, but were well-reviewed just glancing around the interwebs. The company&#8217;s new premium-priced Marshall Monitor headphones drew my attention because I&#8217;m more interested in enthusiast-caliber headphones, and at $200, these things definitely qualify as premium-priced in Marshall&#8217;s modest if expanding lineup. Tiny Cans Out of the Marshall Monitor&#8217;s distinctive cube-like box, you&#8217;ll pull a rough canvas carrying pouch with drawstrings (bearing Marshall&#8217;s logo), a detachable cord (with integrated microphone) that&#8217;s partially coiled like a vintage guitar cable and the collapsible headphones themselves, the cans tucked neatly beneath the headband cushion. From headband to ear cushion bottom, these things are small &#8212; much smaller than you&#8217;d expect a $200 pair of headphones with &#8220;monitor&#8221; in the product name to be. Marshall That&#8217;s part of Marshall&#8217;s marketing pitch: a pair of headphones that &#8220;deliver superior noise isolation without the bulk.&#8221; To accomplish this, the company employs a custom 40mm driver, 42-ohm impedance, 99dB SPL sensitivity, 10Hz-20kHz response and something Marshall&#8217;s dubbed F.T.F, or &#8220;felt treble filter&#8221; &#8212; basically tiny felt pieces tucked into the cans you can remove at leisure if you want a crisper sound in the 1k-20k range. Marshall describes the F.T.F.-in sound as &#8220;warmer, laid back&#8221; versus &#8220;brighter and clearer&#8221; when removed, which as usual depends on the sort of audio you&#8217;re listening to. The ear cushions are secured magnetically, so removing them is<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=161365&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>iFlask Looks Like an iPhone but Its Only App Is Booze</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/04/30/finally-a-flask-disguised-as-an-iphone/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Apr 2013 16:31:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug Aamoth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just in time for Outdoor Drinking Season (capitalized because of its importance), here&#8217;s the iFlask. This $25 iPhone lookalike&#8217;s only app is the ability to make you drunk. Phone calls? Nope. E-mail? Who needs it? Internet? Inner-wet&#8230; with booze. Though not at all the first iPhone-style flask on the market, the iFlask looks to fancy things up a bit: It holds five ounces of your favorite libation, features a polycarbonate and stainless steel frame, and ships with a collapsible funnel. Just as a USB cord transfers songs to your real iPhone, so does the collapsible funnel transfer liquid that will make you sing&#8230; all alone&#8230; at a urinal&#8230; while you&#8217;re at church. You&#8217;re a monster, man. There are kids around! Pony up another $10 for the iFlask Ultimate Kit, and you&#8217;ll get everything listed above, plus an extra collapsible funnel and a collapsible metal shot glass keychain. Your car key and a shot glass &#8212; two items that should always be in close proximity, am I right? (I am not right.) The iFlask is available for preorder, but has no definitive ship date other than &#8220;could be late May.&#8221; iFlask [GoiFlask.com via This Is Why I'm Broke]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=161381&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Finally, a $149 Batman Car Seat with Cup Holders and a Cape</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/04/29/finally-a-149-batman-car-seat-with-cup-holders-and-a-cape/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2013 16:22:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug Aamoth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s a problem every parent – every parent &#8212; has to deal with: Your child loves Batman but hates being stuck in a car seat. What if I told you that for $149, you could eliminate every single challenge associated with parenthood? (Disclosure: I don&#8217;t have kids, but I assume they&#8217;re really easy to raise except for this car seat problem.) The Batman car seat touts a bunch of safety features I don&#8217;t understand&#8230; Harnessed Booster Weight Limit: 22-65 lbs. Booster Car Seat Weight Limit: 30-100 lbs. Extended Use Five-Point Harness Easy to Install LATCH Connectors One Hand Harness Tightener Two-Position Crotch Strap Built In Belt Guides &#8230;followed by a bunch of features I do understand: Two-Position Recline Deep Seat Wraparound Headrest Side Impact Tested High Density EPS Foam Removable and Machine Washable Cover Three-Position Adjustable Headrest Dual Cupholders High Impact Thermoplastic Seat Shell Patent Pending High Position Top Tether System Okay, I admit that I don&#8217;t know what a patent pending high position top tether system is. But in my defense, I was already sold on this item based solely on the two-position recline and the dual cupholders. The wrap-around cape that instantly transforms any toddler into an animal cracker-eating and dual sippy cup-toting superhero is icing on the cake: KidsEmbrace.com The Batman car seat costs $149 and is available at KidsEmbrace.com; no word on an adult version for the living room or den, but this Slanket-style Batman throw blanket with sleeves looks mighty handsome all the same. Batman Toddler Baby Car Seat &#38; Booster [KidsEmbrace.com via Geekologie]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=161257&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Four Great Bluetooth Speakers for Under $100</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/04/29/four-great-bluetooth-speakers-for-under-100/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2013 09:45:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Techlicious / Suzanne Kantra</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Whether I&#8217;m throwing a party, working out, playing with my little ones or plowing through chores, music elevates the experience. But you don&#8217;t have to take my word for it, research has shown that music can help you concentrate, run faster, relieve stress and even positively impact long-term illnesses like heart disease and cancer. So how do you bring more music into your life? An easy solution is to pair a Bluetooth speaker with a smartphone or Bluetooth-enabled music player, like an iPod nano. There are tons of speakers to choose from, so I&#8217;ve weeded through the options and selected four inexpensive models that all sound great and bring a little something different to the table. Clock Radio: Soundfreaq Sound Rise This attractive clock radio features dual alarms, FM Digital radio and the option to wake gently to gradually increasing volume with your alarm of choice—music, radio or buzzer. There&#8217;s a USB power port for recharging your smartphone, a 30-pin Dock connector for iOS devices and, of course, support for Bluetooth audio streaming. Sound is generated by two speakers and a woofer. Price: $99.99 on soundfreaq.com. Water resistant: Hipe Waterproof Wireless Bluetooth Shower Speaker Hang the Hipe Waterproof Wireless Bluetooth Shower Speaker off your shower head or place it poolside. Either way, you&#8217;ll be able to send your tunes from your smartphone from a safe distance via Bluetooth. The durable speaker can&#8217;t be fully submerged, but it is built to withstand powerful jets of water, per its IPX6 protection rating. Both black and white models are available. Price: $69.99 on Amazon. Smartphone/tablet stand: Carbon Audio Zooka Whether you&#8217;re using the Zooka as a standalone speaker or as a handy stand to hold your smartphone or tablet, you won&#8217;t be disappointed in the sound. There are two separate drivers that fire sideways to create an impressive sense of depth, given the Zooka&#8217;s size. There&#8217;s a variety of bright poppy colors—it comes in teal, red, purple, pink, orange, navy, green, gray and black. Price: The Zooka starts at $99.95 on carbonaudioinc.com or $85.60 on Amazon. Stereo-capable: SuperTooth Disco 2 With two drivers and a high-efficiency bass reflex<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=161161&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Leap Motion Delays Ship Date to July 22</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/04/25/leap-motion-delays-ship-date-to-july-22/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Apr 2013 20:36:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jared Newman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Those who pre-ordered Leap Motion&#8217;s 3D motion controller will have to wait a couple months longer to get one. Leap has delayed the ship date for the motion controller until July 22. The company had planned to start shipping on May 19, but says it needs more time to test the software. In addition to the 12,000 app developers who are testing now, Leap plans to involve more people in a broader beta test. &#8220;Given that this is our first product, and we can only launch once, and we really believe in polish, it wouldn&#8217;t be in line with our culture to skip the testing,&#8221; Michael Buckwald, CEO of Leap Motion, said in a press call. Leap Motion is a small device that plugs into a Windows PC or Mac, and detects motion in three dimensions. At $80, it&#8217;s less expensive than Microsoft&#8217;s Kinect, and much more accurate for hand and finger movement. The company will have its own app store for gesture-controlled programs. The company mainly needs to work on polishing the user experience, including the app store and the installation process, Buckwald said. Previously, testers had been focusing on the more technical aspects of the device, such as the quality of gesture recognition. Buckwald admitted that Leap is behind schedule, and while he said that 600,000 units are ready to ship right now, the company didn&#8217;t want to sacrifice testing just to get the product out the door on time. Buckwald said the delay will have no impact on the recently-announced partnership with HP, which will bundle the device with select PCs and eventually integrate the technology with future products. Leap hasn&#8217;t given a new date for retail availability, but Buckwald said it will be &#8220;shortly after&#8221; pre-orders begin to ship.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=161101&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bluetooth Breathalyzer Lets You Share Your Drunkenness with the World</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/04/24/bluetooth-breathalyzer-lets-you-share-your-drunkenness-with-the-world/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Apr 2013 18:40:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug Aamoth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Listen, man. Why can&#8217;t I have myself a drink to unwind myself? Don&#8217;t touch me! I have every right to be here. My taxes pay for this dumpster. I&#8217;m not drunk! You&#8217;re drunk. I&#8217;m not drunk. I&#8217;m not. Watch, I&#8217;ll blow into this thingy. See? Serfectly pober. Oh, wait. Yeah, I&#8217;m in the bag. I pretty much soaked through the bag and into another bag, actually. Has this happened to you? It could, if you&#8217;d just plunk down $150 for the BACtrack Mobile Breathalyzer. It&#8217;s a breathalyzer with a Bluetooth connection, so you can display your level of drunkenness on your cellphone. The fun doesn&#8217;t stop there, though. You can text the results directly to your favorite designated driver, anonymously upload how drunk you are to a world map, or publicly upload how drunk you are not only to the world map but to various social networks as well. It&#8217;s like you&#8217;re having a drinking contest with the whole wide world! If binge drinking needs anything, it&#8217;s gamification, am I right? Seriously, though, this thing straddles the line between being useful (you&#8217;re too drunk to drive!) and being a virtual version of your buddy who wear shorts even in the winter (let&#8217;s do shots, bro!). Assuming you use this to keep yourself alive and out of trouble, the app has a useful-sounding feature that estimates how long it&#8217;ll take you to sober up given your current state of drunkenness. There&#8217;s also a feature that lets you take and share photos of your drinks, which is something you&#8217;re really good at when you&#8217;re drunk. Ooh, whatever&#8217;s in that blurry glass looks good! And your finger looks great half-obscuring the lens, too! The accompanying app only works with Apple products – sorry, Android owners. However, you can check out something like the Breathometer or, if you&#8217;re feeling especially industrious, build your own. BACtrack Mobile Breathalyzer [ThinkGeek via Gizmodo]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=160980&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Three Questions I Hope Google Answers Before Google Glass Is Released</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/04/23/three-questions-i-hope-google-answers-before-google-glass-is-released/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Apr 2013 19:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Peckham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You wanted to know when you could finally lay hands on a pair of Google&#8217;s slender new cyber-glasses, and now we have&#8230;if not a precise release date, at least a more concrete timeframe: early next year, according to Google chairman and former CEO Eric Schmidt. Speaking to BBC News, Schmidt noted the company is now shipping pre-release versions of the glasses to developers (Schmidt added there&#8217;ll be thousands in the wild over the next few months). After developer feedback and some final tweaks, the glasses will go on sale. That&#8217;s a &#8220;year-ish&#8221; away, said Schmidt, indicating early- to mid-2014. That might seem like a while, given prior intimations from the company that we&#8217;d see these things by 2013&#8242;s close, and yet it&#8217;s hard to imagine it being enough time for the company to address some of the critical questions below. Should Google Glass be wearable/usable while operating motorized (or even non-motorized) vehicles? I wondered about this a few weeks ago, asking whether we ought to ban Google Glass while driving (as West Virginia preemptively &#8212; and I argued wrongheadedly &#8212; just did). This is a research question. What research? Exactly. Has anyone studied what happens if people wear interactive glasses while operating a motor (or non-motor, like a bike) vehicle? Not that I&#8217;m aware of. What does it do to reaction times if you tilt your view up slightly (from straight ahead) to scan whatever the glasses are displaying on that tiny, translucent, monocle-like screen? Are there different thresholds of operational safety between cyber-glasses and smartphones? Should Google Glass have an optional &#8220;Driving Mode&#8221; similar to a smartphone&#8217;s &#8220;Airplane Mode&#8221; that takes certain functions offline? What about augmented reality? Could certain applications make driving with Google Glass safer by enhancing what we&#8217;re seeing out the windshield? And if Google Glass doesn&#8217;t include usage profiles, how responsible should we expect the public to be in autonomously deciding which functions to invoke and which one&#8217;s not to while behind the wheel? It&#8217;s going to be a lot harder to tell what someone&#8217;s doing<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=160813&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Getting Mainstreamier: SkyMall Is Selling a 3D Printer</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/04/22/getting-mainstreamier-skymall-is-selling-a-3d-printer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Apr 2013 18:00:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug Aamoth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If ever you needed a sign that 3D printing has hit the mainstream, look no further than SkyMall. Everyone&#8217;s favorite way to pass the 15 minutes between when you&#8217;re told to turn off your electronic devices and when you&#8217;re allowed to turn them back on, the venerable seat-back catalog is now selling the $1,300 Cube 3D Printer, which is capable of printing out plastic objects up to 5.5 inches in size. According to SkyMall, you can choose from 16 different plastic colors and &#8220;an average smartphone case takes about two hours to print.&#8221; The 3D printer includes a Wi-Fi chip for a cord-free hookup to a PC or Mac, and is perfect for anyone between the ages of eight and 80, says SkyMall. Are you seven years old? Are you 81 years old? Sorry, this item is not for you. Are you the 83-year-old whose award-winning invention beat the high cost of 3D printing? Well, this is awkward but&#8230; no dice. Cube 3D Printer [SkyMall]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=160779&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>This Pen Can Start Fires</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/04/19/this-pen-can-start-fires/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Apr 2013 20:04:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug Aamoth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fire-starting pen, eh? I&#8217;m listening. Normally I wouldn&#8217;t spend $40 on a pen but, hey, you never know when you&#8217;re going to be working on erotic sketches of yourself writing poetry meant for all ages in an unfamiliar part of the woods when the sun sets. Here&#8217;s a little info about $40 Tactical Fire Striker Pen from ThinkGeek: Twist the tip to get the pen part &#8211; that much is standard. But unscrew the clip section of the Tactical Fire Striker Pen and you&#8217;ll reveal the fire striker. Then, just use the ridges on the part you just unscrewed to scrape the fire striker and make sparks. Make sparks in the right place, and you&#8217;ve made fire. Again, yes, it&#8217;s $40. But assuming you never buy matches again, this thing will pay for itself in tens or maybe hundreds of years. And you can use it to write stuff, too. Tactical Fire Striker Pen [ThinkGeek via Gizmodo]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=160702&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Logitech&#8217;s New Harmony Remotes: One&#8217;s a Deluxe Model, and One&#8217;s Your Phone</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/04/17/logitechs-new-harmony-remotes-ones-a-deluxe-model-and-ones-your-phone/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Apr 2013 12:24:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Harry McCracken</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In January, Logitech announced that it&#8217;s trying to sell off its division that makes Harmony universal remotes. But it&#8217;s going out with a bang: the company has announced its highest-end Harmony model to date, plus one aimed at people who don&#8217;t realize that they need a universal remote at all. The top-of-the-line model is the Harmony Ultimate, a $350 unit with a 2.4&#8243; color touchscreen along with tactile buttons for standard actions such as changing channels and adjusting the volume. As with all Harmonies, you set it up by telling it what devices you&#8217;ve got in your living room &#8212; it knows 225,000 of them by name. (This initialization process can now be performed without a PC.) You can set up multiple-device sequences of actions, so that, for instance, one command switches your TV to the right input for your Blu-ray player and starts a movie playing. Logitech Unlike most Harmonies, the Ultimate comes with a little box called the Harmony Hub, which serves as a middleman between the remote and your living-room gear. The Hub communicates with the remote via RF wireless; unlike infrared, it doesn&#8217;t require a clear line of site to work, and can sit inside a closed entertainment center. It talks to most consumer-electronics boxes using infrared, but (in a new feature) can also control the PlayStation 3, Wii and Xbox 360 via Bluetooth. Oh, and the Ultimate can control Philips&#8217; Wi-Fi-enabled Hue lightbulbs, letting you dim the lights when you watch a movie. It&#8217;s the first time that a Harmony remote has dabbled in home automation, although the company says that more such features might be on the way. The Ultimate also lets you download iPhone and Android apps that let your phone serve as a remote with features similar to the Ultimate itself. But if that sounds exciting, you might be better off with the Harmony Smart Control, a $129.99 product based the concept of BYOR &#8212; bring your own remote. That&#8217;s because with it, the app is your primary remote. Logitech Like the Ultimate,<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=160374&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>5 New Things to Know About Google Glass</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/04/16/5-new-things-to-know-about-google-glass/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Apr 2013 21:30:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jared Newman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Google is pulling back the curtain a bit more on Google Glass, the high-tech spectacles with an eye-mounted display for accessing the Internet. We already know about the main features of Google Glass. It can take pictures and video, search the web, access Google Now, conduct a video chat, translate speech, give directions and send messages. Third-party apps will extend Glass&#8217; usefulness. Now, we&#8217;re getting a more complete picture. With the first &#8220;Explorer&#8221; units shipping to early adopters in May, Google has announced tech specs and developer guidelines, and has answered some frequently asked questions about Glass on its website. Here are several new revelations about Google&#8217;s wearable tech: The (Tech) Specs Are Okay On the inside, Google Glass is kind of like a mid-range smartphone. We don&#8217;t know what processor it&#8217;s packing, but it has a 5-megapixel camera, 720p video capture and 16 GB of storage (of which 12 GB is usable). Battery life is billed as a &#8220;full day of typical use,&#8221; or less if you record video or conduct a video chat. The display is &#8220;the equivalent of a 25 inch high definition screen from eight feet away&#8221;&#8211;but mounted on a frame near the user&#8217;s right eye. The most interesting hardware feature in Glass is its bone conduction transducer, which generates sound by vibrating the bones near the ear. It&#8217;s a better choice than earbuds for letting users hear what&#8217;s going on around them. Play Nice, Says Google There&#8217;s been a lot of discussion, and a lot of worries, about the privacy implications of a wearable camera that can surreptitiously take photos and video. In fact, some places have already said they won&#8217;t let you wear Glass, including a bar, casinos and strip clubs. Google is now urging users to be responsible. &#8220;[Y]ou may be in certain places like a doctor’s oﬃce where those around you don’t feel comfortable being photographed or captured on video,&#8221; Google&#8217;s FAQ says. &#8220;Always consider your surroundings &#8211; just like you would with a cell phone. Above all, be considerate.&#8221; CYA: Don&#8217;t<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=160310&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Microsoft Mulls a Smartwatch; Here Are the Company&#8217;s Strengths and Weaknesses</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/04/15/microsoft-mulls-a-smartwatch-here-are-its-strengths-and-weaknesses/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Apr 2013 22:52:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jared Newman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If smartwatches become the next big thing in tech, Microsoft apparently doesn&#8217;t want to be left out. Citing supply-chain executives, the Wall Street Journal reports that Microsoft is working on designs for a touch-enabled watch. Microsoft reportedly asked suppliers in Asia to ship components for a potential device earlier this year. Still, it&#8217;s unclear if Microsoft will actually go ahead with the product. In lieu of any hard details, all we can do is think about the advantages Microsoft would have, and the hurdles it would face, if it wants to bring a smartwatch to market. Here are some strengths that come to mind, based on what we already know about Windows Phone: Modern Style Is Watch-Friendly The tile-based design of Windows Phone and Windows 8 seems tailor-made for a smartwatch. Users could set up a Live Tile or two that would show weather, time or other basic information. More tiles could fill the screen as notifications roll in. Some Third-Party Apps Are Ready Already One of the neatest features of Windows Phone is the way it lets you control third-party apps by voice. For instance, you can ask your tip-calculator app to crunch some numbers, or tell the Toggle app to control various phone settings. These types of commands would translate beautifully to a smartwatch, where touchscreen controls aren&#8217;t as feasible. Neither iOS nor Android support this level of voice commands for third-party apps, so Microsoft is ahead of the pack. No Fragmentation Here Compared with Google&#8217;s Android, Microsoft has tighter control over the software that goes onto Windows Phones. That means the company could guarantee a consistent smartwatch experience, whether your Windows Phone was made by HTC, Samsung or Nokia. You can&#8217;t say the same for Android, especially considering Samsung has plans to build its own smartwatch. Digital-Wallet Building Blocks Although adoption is slow-going, Microsoft&#8217;s Wallet for Windows Phone provides a way to pay with credit or debit by tapping your phone, and to store loyalty cards that can be scanned by bar code. This type of functionality<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=160198&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Logitech Builds Its Ultrathin iPad Keyboard into a Case</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/03/26/logitech-builds-its-ultrathin-ipad-keyboard-into-a-case/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Mar 2013 08:00:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Harry McCracken</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Gadgets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tablets]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I couldn&#8217;t live without an iPad Bluetooth keyboard &#8212; but there&#8217;s no one wireless iPad Bluetooth keyboard I can&#8217;t live without. Actually, I like to try as many of them as possible. And it looks like the next one I&#8217;ll be test driving is a new model from Logitech, the Keyboard Folio. The Folio uses a keyboard similar to the one in Logitech&#8217;s Ultrathin Keyboard Cover, but builds it into a case which protects both sides of the tablet. (It&#8217;s a different design than Logitech&#8217;s existing Solar Folio&#8211; a keyboard powered by the sun &#8212; and also presumably avoids one problem I&#8217;ve had with the Ultrathin, which is the tendency of its magnets to refuse to snap snugly enough to the iPad to keep the keyboard from plopping off.) Unfolded, it lets you prop up the iPad at two different viewing angles. Logitech A version of the Keyboard Folio for the full-sized iPad will ship in April for $99.99; a similar one for the iPad Mini (shown at right) will follow in May for $89.99. More thoughts once I&#8217;ve had the opportunity to touch one or both for myself. In case you&#8217;re curious: the iPad keyboard I&#8217;m currently using is Zagg&#8217;s ZAGGkeys PROfolio+. Like Logitech&#8217;s new Folio, it&#8217;s a protective case, and I&#8217;m pretty pleased with it overall. But the build quality seems iffy (the covering of mine is coming off in two spots) and while I like the fact that the keyboard is backlit, I wish it weren&#8217;t so very easy to accidentally switch on the light when I don&#8217;t need it (it&#8217;s done with a key to the immediate right of the space bar). It also has a tendency to collapse when I balance it on my lap at certain angles, something which doesn&#8217;t happen with Logitech&#8217;s Ultrathin. The search for the perfect iPad keyboard goes on.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=158898&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Headphones Control Music with Swipes Instead of Buttons</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/03/12/headphones-control-music-with-swipes-instead-of-buttons/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Mar 2013 13:10:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug Aamoth</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Gadgets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bluetooth]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bluetooth headphones]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hammacher Schlemmer is selling a pair of $150 Bluetooth headphones that connect wirelessly to your smartphone, tablet or Bluetooth-equipped music player and let you control music playback and volume by swiping your finger along one of the earpieces. Swipe up or down to increase or decrease the volume; swipe left or right to jump between tracks. The headphones also sport a built-in microphone for hands-free calls and battery life is promised to be up to 10 hours of listening from a one-hour charge. At $150, they&#8217;re not exactly cheap, and it&#8217;d be interesting to know whether the price reflects sound quality, touch technology or (hopefully) both. The Finger Swipe Headphones [Hammacher Schlemmer]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=157967&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>NUIA EyeCharm Promises Eye Tracking on the Cheap</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/03/11/nuia-eyecharm-promises-eye-tracking-on-the-cheap/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Mar 2013 19:35:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jared Newman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Eye tracking is one of the coolest emerging technologies I&#8217;ve seen in years, but it&#8217;s still much too expensive to go mainstream. Now, Germany-based 4tiitoo is trying to change that with the NUIA EyeCharm, a $60 eye-tracking attachment for Microsoft&#8217;s Kinect motion controller. The product seeks $100,000 in funding from Kickstarter, and is currently about 16 percent toward its goal. On its Kickstarter page, 4tiitoo says the attachment adds &#8220;optics and special infrared illumination&#8221; to the Kinect&#8217;s existing camera and microphone array. &#8220;By illuminating your face with invisible infrared light, analyzing the natural movements of your eyes and adding some physics and mathematics, it is then possible to calculate the area you are looking at,&#8221; the company says. The hardware is only part of the solution, though. The EyeCharm also ships with a suite of apps built by 4tiitoo, along with a software development kit so programmers can build their own eye-controlled apps and extensions. The really good news here is that 4tiitoo says it&#8217;s working with two other eye-tracking companies, Tobii and SMI, so apps developed for EyeCharm will work with other major sensors on the market. (One of my big concerns with the upcoming boom in PC motion controllers is that there&#8217;s no good standard that works across all devices, so the app situation will be a bit of a Wild West at first.) The usefulness of eye tracking can be tough to understand without actually trying it. But when it works well, eye tracking can be much faster and more intuitive than a mouse or trackpad for navigating around a computer, and on a desktop or laptop, it&#8217;s more practical than touch. In demos I&#8217;ve tried from Tobii, I easily selected items on the screen by looking at them while pressing a keyboard button, and scrolled through websites automatically as my eyes read down the page. As impressed as I&#8217;ve been with Tobii&#8217;s technology, it&#8217;s not ready for the mass market yet. The company&#8217;s first commercial product, the Rex, costs about $1,000, and will ship in very small volumes later<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=157931&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Leap Motion Pushes Ship Date to May 13, Announces App Store</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/02/27/leap-motion-pushes-ship-date-to-may-13-announces-app-store/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Feb 2013 14:15:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jared Newman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Leap Motion, a small device that adds 3D motion control to laptops and desktops, will start shipping on May 13 to those who pre-ordered. That&#8217;s a little bit later than the Q1 release date that Leap had previously announced. Michael Buckwald, CEO of Leap Motion, said in an interview that the company needed the extra time to scale up its manufacturing, get units to developers and give them time to build apps for the motion controller. &#8220;It&#8217;s a situation where we want to make sure that we live up to everyone&#8217;s hopes and dreams about the device, and I think in this case it&#8217;s the right call,&#8221; Buckwald said. Online orders will ship in the order that they&#8217;ve been received. You can still order a Leap online, but the price is now $80, up from its early pre-order price of $70. Best Buy, which has also promised to sell Leap in its retail stores, will begin stocking the device on May 19. Leap got a decent amount of buzz last May, when it announced itself as being 200 times more accurate than any other motion controller on the market. The device&#8211;roughly the size of two fingers held together&#8211;sits on a desk, and creates an area of eight cubic feet to detect hands and fingers. It runs on Windows 7 and 8, and Mac OS X 10.7 and 10.8. Leap Motion I briefly tried the Leap at CES in January, and found that it was accurate enough to detect tiny movements in my fingers. But at the time, Leap didn&#8217;t have many apps that it was ready to show. Along with today&#8217;s shipping news, the company announced its own app store, called Airspace, with apps from Autodesk, Corel and The Weather Channel, among others. Games will include Cut the Rope from Zeptolab, Dischord from DoubleFine and Wreck-It Ralph: Sugar Rush Speedway from Disney. Leap doesn&#8217;t consider its app store to be a big money-maker, and in fact the company has no problem with developers taking their Leap-supported apps elsewhere. That&#8217;ll be<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=157289&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>OptiShot Golf Simulator Review: Play Indoors with Your Own Clubs All Winter Long</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Feb 2013 13:00:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug Aamoth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It snowed in Boston this past weekend – a lot. We got more snow than we&#8217;ve seen in years, said the weather people. They were grinning as they said it. All of them. They&#8217;re sadistic. I was too busy playing the Plantation Course at Kapalua to notice or care how much it was snowing in Boston, though. I hit a few good drives and my approach shots were pretty stellar, but my long irons and my putter got the best of me: I shot a 97. I wasn&#8217;t actually in Hawaii but by the end of the round, I was sweating as if Maui&#8217;s silky-warm air had found its way into my every pore. I was in my living room swinging my own golf clubs, hitting a foam practice ball off a high-tech mat connected to my computer. Dancin&#8217; Dogg&#8217;s $400 OptiShot Infrared Golf Simulator is priced just high enough that you expect it to be more than a gimmicky motion controller, but low enough that it&#8217;s easy to make your peace with its shortcomings. The system is made of a 14-inch-long by 10-inch-wide platform of artificial turf containing a tee area flanked by a row of infrared sensors on either end. The platform connects to your PC with a 10-foot USB cable and measures your club head speed, face angle and swing path in real time. You can hit the included foam practice balls, real golf balls or nothing at all. All the compute-y stuff makes the platform about an inch and a quarter thick, so you&#8217;ll want to stand on something close to that thickness to compensate. Dancin&#8217; Dogg sells optional mats, but they&#8217;re almost comically expensive – I stood on a thick rug and positioned the platform next to it on the hardwood floor, which worked fine. In my testing, I found hitting the foam balls to be far more enjoyable than swinging at nothing, as the trajectory and pop of the foam balls helps your brain register whether you&#8217;ve hit a shot squarely or not. I<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=156531&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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