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		<title>Lytro&#8217;s Light-Field Camera Gets an iPhone App</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Jun 2013 19:14:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Harry McCracken</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Lytro light-field camera&#8211;which captures information about a scene in 3D, letting you perform tricks like refocusing a picture you&#8217;ve already taken&#8211;is one of the most inventive cameras in the history of cameras. But in one respect, it&#8217;s been rather old-school: It&#8217;s made you upload all your pictures to a Mac or Windows PC via a USB cable before you could share them with the world. That&#8217;s been an act of necessity. Processing a light-field image is so computationally intensive that the camera has to do much of the required crunching on a computer rather than on the camera itself. Starting today, however, the camera-to-computer transfer step is optional. Lytro is releasing an iPhone app that talks to its camera over Wi-Fi, grabs the photos you&#8217;ve shot and then lets you upload them via a cellular or Wi-Fi connection for sharing on Lytro&#8217;s own site, Facebook and Twitter. The company recently demoed the app for me. Waitaminnit&#8211;Wi-Fi? It turns out that every Lytro camera sold to date has been equipped with a Wi-Fi chip, lurking inside the kaleidoscope-like case but not enabled to do anything. A firmware update, also available today, unlocks the Wi-Fi so the camera can communicate with the iPhone app. Once updated, the camera acts as a Wi-Fi hotspot, so you can connect your phone even if you don&#8217;t have a home network or public hotspot handy. In order to make this work, Lytro had to do more than write a phone app. That image post-processing step that a Mac or PC handles with aplomb is still too much to ask of a smartphone processor. So the iPhone app uploads the unprocessed light-field information&#8211;around 5MB of data&#8211;to Lytro&#8217;s servers, where it gets processed in the cloud. The app also joins the animated-GIF bandwagon by letting you save any Lytro picture as a GIF that shows either the refocusing effect or a jiggly perspective shift. Unlike full-blown Lytro living pictures, these ones aren&#8217;t interactive&#8211;they just play in a loop. Here&#8217;s are GIFs of a Lytro photo of the camera and me, taken<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=165057&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Review: Long Live the New MacBook Air</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/06/19/macbook-air-review/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Jun 2013 12:15:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Harry McCracken</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you could name one feature&#8211;and only one feature&#8211;that would make your next computer more useful, what would you choose? Everybody&#8217;s entitled to his or her own opinion, of course. I know what mine would be: much better battery life. The sort of battery life that might let me go out for the day and work as much as I pleased, without even having to hunt for a wall outlet. I&#8217;ve craved that for as long as I&#8217;ve used laptops. It&#8217;s one  reason why I&#8217;ve lately been using my iPad, with its reliable 10 hours on a charge, more than any Mac or Windows PC. It&#8217;s also why I&#8217;ve been salivating over Intel&#8217;s newest processors in ways I can&#8217;t remember salivating over processors in…well, maybe ever. Code-named &#8220;Haswell&#8221; and officially known as the fourth-generation Core processor family, these chips are capable, Intel says, of doubling battery life while retaining strong performance. No previous PC processor line has ever claimed anything like that sort of great leap forward in power efficiency. Haswell is a big, big deal, and it&#8217;s the major reason why Apple&#8217;s newest MacBook Airs are a big deal. Announced during Apple&#8217;s news-packed WWDC 2013 keynote, they&#8217;re the first Apple portables with Intel&#8217;s new processors; among the first from any hardware maker, actually, since Intel only announced Haswell one week before WWDC began. In terms of industrial design and major features, the new Airs, in their aluminum unibody cases, are nearly indistinguishable from their predecessors stretching back to the versions that Apple introduced in October 2010. That&#8217;s not a criticism: The original 13&#8243; and 11&#8243; models set out to be pleasing, general-purpose portable computers that happen to be unusually thin, light and fast, and succeeded so well that they inspired an entire class of Windows notebook, the Ultrabook. The most interesting new Ultrabooks, such as Sony&#8217;s notebook/tablet VAIO Duo hybrid, are hardly MacBook Air knockoffs, but the Airs remain the defining modern lightweight laptops. (The 13&#8243; model weighs in at 2.96 pounds, the 11&#8243; one at 2.38 pounds.) And they run<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=164998&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Apple Unveils New Version of OS X, New Computers, iOS 7 and More</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/06/10/apple-unveils-new-version-of-os-x-new-computers-and-ios-7/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Jun 2013 19:53:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug Aamoth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Apple opened up its 2013 Worldwide Developer Conference with a keynote address showcasing updates to the company&#8217;s OS X software, MacBook Air and Mac Pro hardware lines, and finished with a completely overhauled version of iOS, the software that runs on iPhones, iPads and iPod Touch portables. (VIDEO: Let’s Talk About iOS 7, OS X Mavericks and More) Here are the highlights: OS X Mavericks Apple has brought the tradition of naming its computer operating system after cats to an end. From now on, the California-based company will name its software after places in California. The latest version, OS X 10.9 is called Mavericks, named after a surfing area not too far from Apple&#8217;s headquarters. The software won&#8217;t be ready for the public until the fall, but a handful of features were shown off today, including: Finder tabs: Instead of having multiple Finder windows open, you can merge those windows into a single window with multiple tabs. The feature is similar to how certain tabbed Web browsers work. Tags: When saving a document, you can assign certain tags to it (Important, Draft, In Review, etc.) and pull up files that share the same tags. Multiple displays: When using a second display, you can access the menu bar and dock on the extra screen. You can have a full-screen app open on each screen and drag assets between the two. Connecting to an Apple TV box via Airplay will turn the TV set that the box is connected to into a third display as well. Battery life: Mavericks uses power-optimization features such as compressed memory, reduction of CPU utilization and &#8220;App Nap,&#8221; which manages how apps get access to system resources. Safari: The Safari Web browser has been updated with a sidebar containing your bookmarks, Reading List and a section called Shared Links that contains only updates from people you follow on Twitter and LinkedIn that contain links to various Web content. iCloud Keychain: iCloud Keychain securely stores all the passwords you use for different websites on whichever Apple devices you use and automatically<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=164375&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Apple Adds $229 Base-Level iPod Touch to Lineup</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/05/30/apple-adds-229-base-level-ipod-touch-to-lineup/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 May 2013 13:37:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug Aamoth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Apple has quietly added a $229, base-level iPod Touch to its lineup. It shares several of the features found in the fifth-generation 32- and 64-gigabyte models that sell for $299 and $399, respectively, while stripping a couple features out. For starters, the $229 iPod Touch features 16 gigabytes of storage, is available in only one color, and loses both the rear-facing 1080p camera and the iPod Touch loop that&#8217;s used to attach a wrist lanyard. All the other features appear to have stayed the same, however. Most importantly, it&#8217;s got the same four-inch Retina display as the more expensive models and the front-facing 720p camera. Battery life is the same as well. This latest iPod model somewhat fills the price chasm between the $149 iPod Nano and the $249 iPod Classic. It&#8217;d be nice to see a $199 offering in the latest-generation iPod lineup, but those Retina displays ain&#8217;t cheap. Perhaps that&#8217;s where the $199 iPhone 5 is supposed to fit in – assuming you&#8217;re game for a two-year contract and a monthly service plan. 16GB iPod Touch [Apple Store via The Verge]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=163704&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Maybe the Point of Chromebooks Isn&#8217;t Chromebooks</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/05/16/maybe-the-point-of-chromebooks-isnt-chromebooks/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 20:40:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Harry McCracken</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here at Google&#8217;s I/O conference, it&#8217;s safe to say that many attendees entered yesterday morning&#8217;s keynote expecting that it would involve the announcement of at least one or two major new gadgets. It didn&#8217;t, unless you count the pure-Android version of Samsung&#8217;s Galaxy S 4 that Google will begin selling on June 26. And the one gadget which was doled out to attendees, the Chromebook Pixel, wasn&#8217;t an I/O debutante: it was announced back in February. Some of the folks I chatted with after the keynote were disappointed by its lack of gadgetry. I wasn&#8217;t. As my colleague Jared Newman explains, this year&#8217;s keynote was mostly devoted to building out existing Google services and software &#8212; search, Android, Google Maps, Google+ and more &#8212; in ways which aim to make them more useful and appealing. The stuff the company has in store looks meaty and ambitious; add it all up, and it matters more than a new tablet or phone would have. And even though Google didn&#8217;t announce any new Chromebooks, I think I left the keynote with a better understanding of why Google thinks Chromebooks matter. Almost four years after Google unveiled Chrome OS, it&#8217;s had, at most, a modest impact. Chromebooks are hits on Amazon.com and have gained at least some traction at brick-and-mortar stores. There&#8217;s a market for these things, but they&#8217;re not going to drum conventional PCs out of business anytime soon. I wonder if Google might be perfectly fine with the possibility that Chromebooks will wind up occupying a niche rather than changing the world. When the company announced at the keynote that conference attendees were getting Chromebook Pixels, it said that the idea was to encourage development of great apps. But there really aren&#8217;t such things as Chromebook apps &#8212; that&#8217;s the whole point of a Chromebook, which offers a browser as its user interface and the Internet as its back end. If a developer uses a Chromebook to create something cool, it&#8217;ll be a web app &#8212; one which will also work in<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=162924&#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>Barnes &amp; Noble Puts Google&#8217;s Play Store and Apps on the Nook</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/05/03/barnes-noble-puts-google-play-and-google-apps-on-the-nook/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 May 2013 04:00:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Harry McCracken</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The walls around Barnes &#38; Noble&#8216;s Nook walled garden are tumbling down. The company&#8217;s Nook HD and Nook HD+ are credible content-consumption tablets &#8212; remarkably credible, actually, considering that they come from a 127-year-old bookseller. But they sold so poorly over the holiday season that it raised questions about whether B&#38;N would end up being forced to de-emphasize its hardware business in favor of selling content on other platforms. The Nooks use Barnes &#38; Noble&#8217;s own custom version of Android and provide its own stores for books, magazines, newspapers and apps. And therein lies an oft-raised argument against buying a Nook: the Barnes &#38; Noble application store has had only 10,000 pieces of software &#8212; mostly for-pay ones &#8212; vs. the hundreds of thousands of choices in Google&#8217;s Google Play. So with one fell swoop, in the form of a software update being rolled out today, B&#38;N is eliminating that downside. It&#8217;s giving both Nooks the Google Play stores for apps, music, movies and books, plus key Google apps which the tablets have lacked until now: Chrome, Gmail and YouTube. (Google&#8217;s policies for its apps are an all-or-nothing proposition for device makers &#8212; if they want Google Play, they also have to pre-install Google&#8217;s apps.) New Nooks sold at Barnes &#38; Noble&#8217;s bookstores and elsewhere will also carry the updated software. The bottom line: if something&#8217;s available for Android, it&#8217;s now available for Nook, assuming it&#8217;s compatible from a technical standpoint. Among other things, that means you&#8217;ll be able to install Amazon&#8217;s Kindle app on a Nook and read books you&#8217;ve purchased from Amazon. For the first time, the notion of someone with a heavy investment in Kindle books buying a Nook doesn&#8217;t sound completely impractical. Apps you bought from Barnes &#38; Noble will be marked with an &#8220;n&#8221; label (for Nook). And if you&#8217;ve bought Google Play apps for another Android device, they&#8217;ll be downloaded to your Nook at no extra charge. The arrival of the standard Android stores and apps doesn&#8217;t mean that the Nooks are becoming plain-vanilla,<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=161752&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Jawbone&#8217;s Fitness Future: A Platform and an Acquistion</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/04/30/jawbones-fitness-future-a-platform-and-an-acquistion/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Apr 2013 18:30:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Harry McCracken</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When you contemplate gadget maker Jawbone, it&#8217;s been reasonable to think of it as a Bluetooth audio company which has an interesting side business in the form of its Up fitness band. Starting today, however, Jawbone&#8217;s fitness business no longer feels so much like a sideline. The company is announcing that it&#8217;s turning Up into a platform that can talk to third-party apps and devices. And it&#8217;s acquiring BodyMedia, a manufacturer of smart fitness gizmos that&#8217;s been in the game far longer than Jawbone or most other companies in the category. The platform involves a new version of the Up app &#8212; for iOS at first, and, eventually, Android &#8212; which enables two-way communications with other products and services. Up can now exchange data with fitness apps MapMyRun (and other products from MapMyFitness), MyFitnessPal and Runkeeper; Withings&#8217; Internet-connected scale; Wello&#8217;s video-personal trainer service; the IFTTT service for creating custom connections between all sorts of apps; and more. Data about your activity and sleep patterns collected by Up can now be routed into other products and services, and information collected by other products and services can land in Up. (You have control over details such as whether your weight gets shared publicly, and Jawbone says that apps that use the platform must stick to the same privacy policies as Up.) It&#8217;s a promising idea, especially if it&#8217;s widely supported &#8212; for now, Jawbone says that it&#8217;s being picky about which partners it approves, but it hopes to ramp up the quantity of stuff over time. BodyMedia As for BodyMedia, its products, like Up, are wearable fitness devices. But they have surprisingly little in common with Jawbone&#8217;s current gadget, and in some ways they&#8217;re far more sophisticated: they&#8217;re sensor-laden armbands which monitor factors such as skin temperature, and have been certified by the FDA as Class I Medical Devices. For now, the BodyMedia devices will continue on in their existing form, but it&#8217;s not hard to imagine future gizmos that meld BodyMedia&#8217;s advanced technologies with Jawbone&#8217;s slick design. As a user of fitness<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=161387&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How to Block Porn on Your iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/04/30/how-to-block-porn-on-your-iphone-ipad-and-ipod-touch/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Apr 2013 09:45:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Techlicious / Elizabeth Harper</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thinking about letting your child or teen borrow your iPad or giving them your hand me down iPhone? Just like with a PC, your big concern is probably keeping them away from inappropriate content. But an Apple product is a great choice because of their solid parental controls and the company&#8217;s strong stance against pornography—Steve Jobs once suggested that the company had a &#8220;moral responsibility to keep porn off the iPhone.&#8221; We&#8217;ll walk you through where your youngster might be able to find inappropriate content on an Apple iOS device, as well as the tools Apple provides to keep them out of it. Where do I have to watch out for adult content? Apple&#8217;s app store is carefully curated: Apple approves every app that goes live to make sure it meets their standards, and even Playboy Magazine&#8217;s iOS app doesn&#8217;t feature any nudity. Each app also features an age rating prominently displayed under the app name, listing who the app is appropriate for: ages 4+, 9+, 12+, or 17+. Of course your definition of what&#8217;s appropriate may not match Apple&#8217;s, so you&#8217;ll still want to review any apps for content, but this at least gives you a guideline. However, Apple&#8217;s stores for books, music, movies and television are far less policed, offering an open market of commercially available content. You can find anything here that you might find on the shelves of a store, including R-rated movies and songs with mature lyrics. Where you have to be most wary, however, is the Internet. Both the iPhone and iPad have access to the Internet, and a world of content is open from a web browser or YouTube search—not all of it appropriate for young audiences. So what can I do about adult content? iPhone content controls Having a secure password for the iTunes account the iPhone or iPad uses—one your child doesn&#8217;t know and won&#8217;t guess—will prevent them from installing paid apps, purchasing movies or music, or making in-app purchases. However, bear in mind that if you&#8217;ve entered the password to buy something, there&#8217;s a 15 minute window<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=161282&#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>Polaroid&#8217;s SX-70, the Greatest Gadget of All Time, Is 41</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/04/25/polaroids-sx-70-the-greatest-gadget-of-all-time-is-41/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Apr 2013 18:10:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Harry McCracken</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Forty-one years ago today, Polaroid co-founder Edwin Land stood before an audience inside a warehouse in Needham, Massachusetts and announced the SX-70. It was the first instant camera which, with one press of a button, delivered a photo that developed in daylight. Polaroid had been making instant cameras for almost a quarter-century by then, but they were far bulkier and clunkier than the SX-70 and involved a lot of work; everything about the new camera was, indeed, new. Land said that it contained 20,000 technical breakthroughs; I&#8217;m respectfully skeptical of that figure, but the camera and its film still contained an astonishing number of mechanical, optical and chemical innovations. Just as astonishing, they were all invented by Polaroid engineers, and the company manufactured almost every component of the SX-70 system itself at its Boston-area factories. (The battery inside the film pack was initially outsourced, but when Ray-O-Vac messed it up, Polaroid built its own battery plant.) It&#8217;s as if Apple hadn&#8217;t just designed the iPad&#8217;s case and written its software, but also invented its LCD display and wireless broadband networking. The SX-70 was huge news &#8212; it made the covers of both TIME and LIFE &#8212; but was not an instant hit. Actually, it suffered nagging production problems which resulted in it only reaching the market in a limited fashion in 1972, in a pilot program in Florida; it wasn&#8217;t widely available until the fall of 1973. And then its $180 price &#8212; more than $900 in current dollars &#8212; kept it from being a blockbuster, saleswise. But Polaroid later used the basics of the SX-70 technology in cheaper cameras such as the OneStep, one of the most popular gizmos ever. Two years ago, I bought a vintage SX-70 at a consignment shop and became so entranced by it that I wrote 14,000 words about the camera, Polaroid and Land. In that story, I said that the SX-70 was the greatest gadget ever. After mulling it over, I see no reason to modify that assessment. And for a product that<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=161077&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How to Find Free Kids E-Books</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/04/25/how-to-find-free-kids-e-books/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Apr 2013 14:35:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Techlicious / Suzanne Kantra</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you have a bookworm in your family, e-books can be an expensive habit. Fortunately, there are great places to find free versions of many popular titles. Some are available to keep; others you can borrow. Find free e-books on Amazon There&#8217;s a fairly large collection of public domain and other free works available on Amazon, including The Ugly Duckling, Bobbsey Twins in the Country and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. But finding free titles isn&#8217;t easy, so you&#8217;ll want to head over to a book-finder site like Freebook Sifter, which has more than 600 children&#8217;s e-books cataloged  Titles are broken down by age and type and are listed with the average Amazon rating. FreeReadFeed provides a similar service, with the ability to sort by Children&#8217;s and Teens. Neither site has a complete list, but they&#8217;re both great places to start. If you&#8217;re an Amazon Prime member, you can borrow one book a month for free from Amazon. There are books for young children, like Dora&#8217;s Sleepover and Goodnight, Little Monster, as well as for tweens and teens who are ready for books like the Harry Potter series and The Hunger Games. While not free, those with a new Kindle Fire can subscribe to Amazon&#8217;s Kindle FreeTime Unlimited, which provides access to more than 1,000 books suited to kids ages 3-8. It&#8217;s bargain-priced at $4.99 per month, or $2.99, if you&#8217;re an Amazon Prime member, and includes access to free videos and apps. Get free e-books from Barnes &#38; Noble The easiest way to find free kids books for the Barnes &#38; Noble Nook is to go to the Kids section and search for &#8220;free.&#8221; This will pull up more than 4,000 titles. The selection is heavily weighted to tweens and teens, but there are some titles for younger children, including one of my favorites, The Elephant&#8217;s Child. Check out e-books from the library You can check out e-books from your local library with your library card just like you can physical books. Some libraries offer e-books directly, but most use a service called OverDrive. To find out if your local library participates, just plug in your ZIP code. Even if<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=161055&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Toshiba&#8217;s New KIRAbook Is an Ultra-Ultrabook</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/04/17/toshibas-new-kirabook-is-an-ultra-ultrabook/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Apr 2013 00:03:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Harry McCracken</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the things I like about Intel&#8216;s Ultrabook concept is that it&#8217;s surprisingly elastic. As long as a PC maker builds a laptop that&#8217;s relatively thin, relatively light and relatively fast-booting, it has wiggle room to go off in its own direction. With the KIRAbook, which was announced today &#8212; I got a sneak peek in person last week &#8212; Toshiba has moved aggressively upscale. The company&#8217;s been making Ultrabooks all along, but this is by far its highest-end model to date. Actually, it may be the highest-end Ultrabook anyone&#8217;s made: even its cheapest version is $1599.99, a hefty starting pricetag for any computer, and $700 more than the cheapest MacBook Air. Then again, Toshiba hasn&#8217;t stinted on the specs and industrial design. The KIRAbook&#8217;s most impressive feature is its 13.3&#8243; displasy, with 2560-by-1440 resolution and 221 pixels-per-inch. It&#8217;s in the same league as Apple&#8216;s Retina-display MacBook Pros and Google&#8216;s ChromeBook Pixel; a resolution that high is something new for Ultrabooks and for Windows notebooks in general. Even Apple&#8217;s MacBook Air, from which the KIRAbook, like all Ultrabooks, draws inspiration, doesn&#8217;t have it. Toshiba says that it color-calibrates every KIRAbook by hand before it leaves the factory, then stores those settings at the BIOS level so they can&#8217;t be accidentally erased. One downside to the display, as reported by PCWorld&#8217;s Michael Brown: the system supports video output to an external screen at a relatively low maximum of 1920-by-1080 resolution via HDMI. In person, the KIRAbook doesn&#8217;t look quite as much like a MacBook clone as it does in the photograph above, though it&#8217;s certainly reminiscent of Apple&#8217;s design, down to the wedge shape. It&#8217;s made of AZ91 magnesium, not aluminum (Toshiba says it&#8217;s twice as strong) and at 2.6 pounds, it&#8217;s lighter than the Air. From what I saw, the build quality looked impeccably premium. The trimmings are upscale, too: the machine ships with full versions of Photoshop Elements and Premiere Elements, two years&#8217; worth of Norton security services and a two-year warranty with 24/7 phone support based in<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=160497&#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>An Interview with Computing Pioneer Alan Kay</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/04/02/an-interview-with-computing-pioneer-alan-kay/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Apr 2013 09:45:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Greelish</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Born in 1940, computer scientist Alan Curtis Kay is one of a handful of visionaries most responsible for the concepts which have propelled personal computing forward over the past thirty years &#8212; and surely the most quotable one. He&#8217;s the man who said that &#8220;The best way to predict the future is to invent it&#8221; and that &#8220;Technology is anything that wasn&#8217;t around when you were born&#8221; and that &#8220;If you don&#8217;t fail at least 90 percent of the time, you&#8217;re not aiming high enough.&#8221; And when I first saw Microsoft&#8217;s Surface tablet last June, a Kay maxim helped me understand it: &#8220;People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.&#8221; Viewpoints Research Institute Above all, however, Kay is known for the Dynabook &#8212; his decades-old vision of a portable suite of hardware, software, programming tools and services which would add up to the ultimate creative environment for kids of all ages. Every modern portable computer reflects elements of the Dynabook concept &#8212; the One Laptop Per Child project&#8217;s XO above all others &#8212; and yet none of them have fully realized the concept which Kay was writing about in the early 1970s. Actually, Kay says that some gadgets with superficial Dynabook-like qualities, such as the iPad, have not only failed to realize the Dynabook dream, but have in some senses betrayed it. That&#8217;s one of the points he makes in this interview, conducted by computer historian David Greelish, proprietor of the Classic Computing Blog and organizer of this month&#8217;s Vintage Computer Festival Southeast in Atlanta. (The Festival will feature a pop-up Apple museum featuring Xerox&#8217;s groundbreaking Alto workstation, which Kay worked on, as well as devices which deeply reflected his influence, including the Lisa, the original Macintosh and the Newton.) Kay and Greelish also discuss Kay&#8217;s experiences at some of the big outfits where he&#8217;s worked, including Xerox&#8217;s fabled PARC labs, Apple, Disney and HP. Today, Kay continues his research about children and technology at his own organization, the Viewpoints Research Institute. &#8211;Harry McCracken David Greelish:<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=158951&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Digital Camera Buying Guide</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/03/28/digital-camera-buying-guide/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Mar 2013 09:45:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Techlicious / K.T. Bradford</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every year smartphone cameras get better and better, which makes buying a standalone camera seem like less and less of a necessity, even for people who love taking pictures. Yet even the best camera phones (the HTC Droid DNA, for instance) are still limited in important ways. If you want to take pictures that you can print at large sizes without looking grainy or you want to work in low or harsh lighting situations, you need at least a quality point-and-shoot. On the other end, there are those who are out for great pictures who might want to go further with their photography skills but don’t have the money for a digital SLR. You don’t have to spend your entire savings on a camera to get high quality or the ability to change lenses. In this buying guide we’ll help you understand which options and features are most important for what you want to accomplish and offer suggestions ranging from budget all the way up to high-end models for enthusiasts. Our Picks: Point-and-Shoot &#38; Compact Cameras Prices valid as of 3/24/2013 Budget Cameras: Under $100 Budget point-and-shoots are a step up from smartphone cameras for not a lot of money. However, at this price point don’t expect to find a slew of features or many models that offer manual control. Key features to look for are optical zoom and stabilization, fast shutter speeds, HD video recording and compact bodies. Olympus Editor&#8217;s Choice: Olympus VR-340 A stand out among budget cameras, the MP VR-340 boasts a metal body and a higher optical zoom than most in this price range. It takes reasonably sharp and color-rich images and 720p HD video both up close (with Macro mode) and far away, thanks to the 10x zoom and image stabilization. Intelligent Auto mode offers the best settings for those who don&#8217;t know their ISO from aperture and Program mode gives those who know what they&#8217;re doing deeper control. Once the battery runs down, you can charge it from your computer. The VR-340 is not the fastest<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=159044&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Google&#8217;s Chromebook Pixel: A Very Nice Machine for a Very Small Market</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/02/27/chromebook-pixel-review/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Feb 2013 00:10:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Harry McCracken</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When Google unveiled its new Chromebook Pixel at a San Francisco press event last week, it played up one feature above all others: the Chrome OS laptop&#8217;s 12.85&#8243; screen, which, at 2560-by-1700 pixels with 239 pixels per inch, is one of the most outstandingly crisp displays ever to be put on a computing device. It&#8217;s also a touchscreen, the first ever on a Chromebook. But when chatter about the Pixel commenced on blogs and Twitter, the feature which attracted the most attention wasn&#8217;t the screen. It was the price &#8212; $1299 for the version with Wi-Fi and 32GB of flash storage, and $1449 for one with Wi-Fi, LTE broadband and 64GB of storage. That&#8217;s as much as a MacBook Air or a high-end Windows Ultrabook. For Chromebooks, it&#8217;s uncharted territory: you could buy six Acer C7 Chromebooks for the price of the Wi-Fi Pixel and have a hundred bucks left over. But hold on a moment. This Chromebook has an exceptional screen. It has a beautifully put-together aluminum case, still a rarity on any notebook without an Apple logo. It has a fine backlit keyboard and a great AC adapter. (It&#8217;s pretty much a black knockoff of Apple&#8217;s square power brick with the removable cord, but it&#8217;s much, much slicker than the cheesy adapters which come with even top-of-the-line Windows computers.) It may be the most impressive piece of industrial design that&#8217;s ever run a Google operating system. Google is also throwing in a terabyte of Google Drive online storage for three years, an $1800 value; if by chance you were thinking about paying for the service separately, buying a Chromebook Pixel is like getting a computer for free. The Pixel surely doesn&#8217;t cost a lot because Google is charging too much. It costs a lot because the company pulled out all the stops and made the best Chromebook it possibly could. Which means that the machine is a litmus test of sorts. Pretend, for a moment, that some kind soul has given you $1299 to spend on any portable<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=157078&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Seagate Wireless Plus Review: A Terabyte for Your Tablet</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/02/08/seagate-wireless-plus-review-a-terabyte-for-your-tablet/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Feb 2013 13:15:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Harry McCracken</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I own an iPad with 64GB of storage. Until the recent arrival of the 128GB iPad, mine was the largest-capacity model available &#8212; but it&#8217;s not enough. At the moment, I have less than 6GB of free space; when that dwindles away, I&#8217;m going to be in trouble. That makes me exactly the sort of person Seagate has in mind as a prospective customer for its $199.99 Wireless Plus, the hard-disk kingpin&#8217;s second-generation drive aimed at owners of iPads and other mobile devices. (Its predecessor, which debuted in 2011, was originally known as the Seagate GoFlex Satellite.) The Wireless Plus is a portable, battery-powered drive with a terabyte of storage (twice that of the Satellite) and built-in wi-fi, which lets it connect with gadgets which don&#8217;t have a USB port, such as the iPad, iPhone and most Android devices. In fact, it can connect to eight devices at a time and can stream HD video to three of them simultaneously. Seagate provided me with a unit for review. At first blush, the Wireless Plus looks like a slightly chunkier fraternal twin of Seagate&#8217;s Backup Plus, the company&#8217;s standard-issue USB drive. The skosh of extra space inside makes room for a battery; Seagate says the drive can power itself for up to ten hours on a charge. It comes with a plug-in USB 3.0 adapter, which you can leave off if you only plan to use the drive in wireless mode &#8212; or you can swap in an optional adapter such as a $100 one for Thunderbolt, the fast connector used by Macs and a smattering of Windows PCs. As with Seagate&#8217;s earlier wireless drive, this one packs its own wi-fi network. You connect to it from your device, and then the device can see the drive. Wait, if you need to use your wi-fi connection to hook up with the Wireless Plus, does that mean you can&#8217;t get online at the same time? Nope &#8212; a new feature lets you tell the drive to connect to another available wi-fi network, then<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=155461&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Apple TV Rumored to Get HBO Go Service</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/02/01/apple-tv-rumored-to-get-hbo-go-service/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Feb 2013 13:46:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug Aamoth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bloomberg is reporting that owners of the $99 Apple TV box might get access to HBO content &#8220;by mid-2013, according to two people familiar with the plans.&#8221; The HBO Go app is available via other hardware devices such as Roku, Xbox 360, Samsung Smart TVs, iPad, iPhone and Android gadgets; just as with the currently-available streaming options for HBO Go, you&#8217;ll have to also subscribe to HBO service through your cable or satellite provider in order to stream HBO Go. Apple TV Said to Start Carrying HBO App Later This Year [Bloomberg]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=155932&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Popular Pebble: Why Your Wrist Is a New Frontier for Apps</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/01/10/popular-pebble-why-your-wrist-is-a-new-frontier-for-apps/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jan 2013 13:00:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug Aamoth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[To say the Pebble smartwatch is a Kickstarter success story would be an understatement almost as big as the disparity between the amount of money the company was trying to raise ($100,000) and the amount of money the company actually raised ($10,266,845). The $150 watch connects to a smartphone via Bluetooth to display and control incoming calls, text messages, e-mail, and music playback. Developers will be able to create apps and custom watch faces that can be loaded onto the Pebble as well, and it&#8217;ll feature integration with task automation website IFTTT. While Pebble isn&#8217;t the first connected smartwatch by any stretch, its use of a low-power, monochrome e-paper screen means it&#8217;ll be able to run for around seven days before needing to be recharged. Smartwatches with commonly-used color LCD screens need to be charged more frequently. At first glance, Pebble&#8217;s screen appears similar to the screens found in e-book readers such as Amazon&#8216;s Kindle, which sacrifice fluidity and complex animation for weeks and weeks of battery life. But at a press conference during the Consumer Electronics Show on Wednesday, Pebble founder Eric Migicovsky told a group of reporters, &#8220;This display is not actually e-ink. It&#8217;s an LCD variant, which means that it still has an amazing refresh rate of 30 frames per second, so we can drive cool animations and user interface elements onto the display.&#8221; Other hardware features include a water-resistant design with a magnetic charging cable that does away with exposed ports, an ambient light sensor, a magnetometer, a vibrating motor and an accelerometer. Pebble&#8217;s relatively robust integration with Android and Apple devices is another selling point. The watch works with Android version 2.3.3 and above, and Apple handsets from the iPhone 3GS to current models. While deep Android integration is more straightforward for connected devices such as the Pebble, doing the same with Apple devices is more challenging. Migicovsky indicated that Pebble would be able to hook more deeply into iOS, but wouldn&#8217;t elaborate, saying, &#8220;We&#8217;ve been sort of dipping and ducking some of the different<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=154660&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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