A wireless startup aims to let you pay for only the services you use — down to the app-by-app level.
Innovation
Some Reservations About Samsung’s 5G Speed ‘Breakthrough’
Like a shop owner anticipating Christmas in July, Samsung Electronics says we’ll hit 5G cellular network speeds by 2020.
FCC Proposes Ridiculously Fast In-Flight Internet Speeds
Who doesn’t want faster, more reliable, less expensive in-flight broadband service?
Finally, a Huggies Device that Lets Babies Tweet When They Pee
This is important: a device that attaches to your baby’s derriere, then relays Twitter-like alerts to your smartphone to let you know when it’s time for a diaper change.
Timelapse: Landsat Satellite Images of Climate Change, via Google Earth
From Las Vegas to Arctic glaciers, navigate through time and space as you explore changes to Earth’s surface over the last three decades.
Where Google Search Is Going
With new interfaces, smarter technology and deeper access to information about its users, Google is about to go places no search engine has ever gone.
Video: Breathalyzer Meets iPhone
The $150 BACtrack Mobile Breathalyzer connects to your iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch and lets you measure your blood alcohol content. But like all good gadgets, it takes things a step further.
3D-Printed Gun Successfully Fired
Forbes‘ Andy Greenberg details the test-firing of a 16-piece plastic gun created with an $8,000 3D printer. All the pieces except for one were printed: “The only non-printed piece is a common hardware store nail used as its firing pin,” writes Greenberg.
Meet The ‘Liberator’: Test-Firing The World’s First Fully 3D-Printed Gun [Forbes]
A Wing and a Tether: Tiny Robotic Insects Now Capable of Controlled Flight
Meet RoboBees, tiny micro-robots with dragonfly-like wings that beat 120 times a second.
Finally, a Digital Camera That Lets You See Like a Bug
What might you do with a camera with hundreds of tiny lenses on a half-sphere, designed to function like a bug’s eye?
Five Noteworthy Startups from TechCrunch Disrupt NY
Here are five startups from TechCrunch’s Disrupt event in New York that you’re going to want to keep your eye on.
Could Nanowire Transistors Rescue Moore’s Law from Obsolescence?
Researchers in France suggest they may have found a way to extend Moore’s Law through the 2020s after all.
