The Piro-Piro, a key-less input device for Japanese characters.
Google Japan's April Fools video is pretty great. Check out their new keyless keyboard.
MP3 put out to pasture
It’s the end of an era, sort of: Fraunhofer IIS, the developers of the MP3 audio compression format, announced that they are ceasing their licensing program. In a blog post, spokesman Matthias Rose says that it’s had a good 20-year run and is obsolete. But it’s also true that the decoding patents expired last year, […]
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Three terrible tech trends
Freddy deBoer writes that he’s been telling the same joke for years about Silicon Valley’s only product, which might be universalized as “At last, a way to verb with nouns on the internet!” But the social-media techopoly is stable, now, and so the venture capitalists have moved on to the three terrible trends that will […]
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Five tips to kick your smartphone habit
Alex Wood is an addict but won’t give up his smartphone. But he has five strategies for limiting its control over him: “I used to wake up tired. My body would ache and my head felt sore, like waking up with a hangover. Finally, I took control, like attending an AA class for addicts, I […]
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Know who is coming with this WiFi surveillance camera
The Sinji Panoramic Smart WiFi Camera offers 960p HD real-time streaming and supports up to 128GB of video recording space with a microSD card. Its 165-degree wide angle lens can see everything in a large room, and it will send a notification to your phone every time it picks up new motion. This camera also […]
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This Bluetooth speaker's LED lights dance to the music with you
Most portable Bluetooth speakers don’t do much to stand out beyond coming in different colors or futuristic speaker grille patterns. If you want to liven up your audio setup with something a bit more eye-catching, the Glowbar is wrapped with a dense band of animated LEDs.This speaker’s illuminated body reacts to the rhythm of its […]
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With a personal copy editor named WhiteSmoke Web you may be unstoppable
Proofreading your own writing can be tough. WhiteSmoke is a marked improvement upon the spellchecker bundled with your word processor of choice. It detects complex stylistic errors like monotonous language, inconsistent tense, and punctuation mistakes to ensure that your writing flows naturally with technical accuracy. While it’s definitely a boon to non-native speakers who might […]