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Last minute tech gifts under $200
1 day ago
by Rubens Saintel
in Apple, Car Tech, Entertainment, Games, Google, Microsoft, Mobile, Sports, Technology
If you have not done your shopping by now it might be a little too late for you. I am here to help you out again. Here are few gifts that will be in stock and easy to get a hands on last minute online and delivered on time for Christmas. That being said you should start getting a list together ASAP!
| Product | Cost | Discrption |
Nimbus
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$130 | Nimbus is a highly customizable 4-dial dashboard that tracks what’s important to you. Personalize each gauge using your mobile device to keep an array of info up-to-date and available at a glance. |
Fitbit Force
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$130 | A powerful Force for everyday fitness, this sleek wristband is with you all the time. Stay motivated to keep moving with real-time stats right on your wrist. Track steps taken, distance traveled, calories burned, stairs climbed and active minutes throughout the day. |
Apple TV
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$99 | Apple TV gives you access to the best 1080p HD content — including blockbuster movies, hit TV shows, live sports, your music, photos, videos, and more — right on your widescreen TV. |
BOSE SOUNDLINK MINI
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$199 | This palm-sized speaker is small enough to fit easily into a bag (only about two by two by seven inches), but packs the kind of sound you’d expect from Bose. |
Mophie Pack for iPhone
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$79-$120 | When your iPhone battery low or dead, you flip a switch on the back of the Mophie to enable recharging. Mophie color-coded the switch so that it shows a small red band when the case is turned off that turns green when turned on |
AUTOMATIC
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$99 | (Review on SaintelDaily.com) The app and product are a new car accessory kit. They connect to your car so that you can understand what is going on with your beloved vehicle. The accessory plugs into your car’s service part. |
ETON BOOST TURBINE
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$59 | Keep your electronics going through the next power outage with the Eton Boost Turbine. |
Slingbox 350
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$179 | Watch and control your entire channel line-up wherever you can connect to the Internet. |
SpareOne Emergency Phone
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$99 | Other features include one-button emergency dialing even without a SIM card, the ability to be geo-located in an emergency, 9 speed dial buttons, and a built-in LED torch light. |
Withings Smart Body Analyzer
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$149 | Tracks weight, body composition, heart rate, and air quality for up to eight people. Sharp, modern design. Clear display. Comprehensive Web, Android, and iOS app interfaces. Automatic wireless syncing. |
EASTERN COLLECTIVE TEXTILE ICABLES
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$29 | These handsome accessories feature a standard USB plug on one end and an Apple lighting or 30-pin connector on the other, with stylish woven designs in between, letting you charge up your iDevices without succumbing to the tangled white cable monster. |
Leap Motion
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$99 | Its Gesture Motion Control for PC or MAC. (Review on SaintelDaily.com) |
Japanese Engineers create the World’s Thinnest Condoms
4 days ago
These condoms are thinner than a human hair. A human hair is 0.06 millimeters. These Japanese condoms are 0.01 millimeters. Sagami launched the polyurethane contraceptives in Tokyo for $12. They came in a box of 5 but as expected they have been selling out.
A Sagami researcher said:
Honestly, I don’t how we can make them thinner than this but as long as there is a need for thinner, we will continue researching 0.009 millimeter and 0.008 millimeter thinness.
Google Glass + Conan O’Brien = Need we say more?
5 days ago
What happens when you give Google Glass to Conan O’Brien’s Team Coco? Laughs, the answer is laughs. Google Glass has great potential but it is not in the hands of the masses and not a lot of apps are out there for it. However, Conan re-imagines Google Glass as the personal assistant you wish you had. Let’s just say funny, sums it up.
Although, if at the end of this you ask yourself thinking this is your life, You might want to think about getting out more.
You might want to think about getting out more. remind you that you’ve got a dinner date with your mom. Catch [Team Coco] 11PM on TBS
Nelson Mandela has died
5 days ago
South Africa’s first black president and anti-apartheid icon Nelson Mandela has died. Mr Mandela, 95, led South Africa’s transition from white-minority rule in the 1990s, after 27 years in prison. He had been receiving intense home-based medical care for a lung infection after three months in hospital.
HiStory
1918 Born in the Eastern Cape
1943 Joined African National Congress
1956 Charged with high treason, but charges dropped after a four-year trial
1962 Arrested, convicted of incitement and leaving country without a passport, sentenced to five years in prison
1964 Charged with sabotage, sentenced to life
1990 Freed from prison
1993 Wins Nobel Peace Prize
1994 Elected first black president
1999 Steps down as leader
2001 Diagnosed with prostate cancer
2004 Retires from public life
2005 Announces his son has died of an HIV/Aids-related illness
Jay-Z ends the debate, list his albums in order
6 days ago
Jay-Z gave a gift to his fans this week. He ranked his albums in the order he feels they should be in. He also gives his 2 cents as to why they are in that order. I think this only feeds the debate. There is no way that In my Life time V.1 is better than Blueprint 2. One wonders how many classics Biggie would have if he was still around.
1. Reasonable Doubt (Classic)
2. The Blueprint (Classic)
3. The Black Album (Classic)
4. Vol. 2 (Classic)
5. American Gangster (4 1/2, cohesive)
6. Magna Carta (Fuckwit, Tom Ford, Oceans, Beach, On the Run, Grail)
7. Vol. 1 (Sunshine kills this album…fuck… Streets, Where I’m from, You Must Love Me…)
8. BP3 (Sorry critics, it’s good. Empire (Gave Frank a run for his money))
9. Dynasty (Intro alone…)
10. Vol. 3 (Pimp C verse alone… oh, So Ghetto)
11. BP2 (Too many songs. Fucking Guru and Hip Hop, ha)
12. Kingdom Come (First game back, don’t shoot me)
A Tribute to Paul Walker
6 days ago
Walker died after the red 2005 Porsche Carrera GT. A friend was the driver. Roger Rodas was the owner of a car-customization shop Always Evolving. The driver was Officials say speed was a factor in Walker’s accident. Walker died from “combined effects of traumatic and thermal injuries,” meaning he survived the initial crash but died after the car was engulfed in flames. Universal encourages fans to donate to Walker’s charity Reach Out Worldwide in lieu of flowers and gifts.
Universal Pictures announced filming for Fast & Furious 7, which was slated to arrive in theaters in July, has been put on hold indefinitely.
“Right now, all of us at Universal are dedicated to providing support to Paul’s immediate family and our extended Fast & Furious family of cast, crew and filmmakers. At this time we feel it is our responsibility to shut down production on Fast & Furious 7 for a period of time so we can assess all options available to move forward with the franchise. We are committed to keeping Fast & Furious fans informed, and we will provide further information to them when we have it. Until then, we know they join us in mourning the passing of our dear friend Paul Walker.”
Private Photo Clouding Badge
3 weeks ago
by Rubens Saintel
in App Review, Cloud Service, Facebook, Google+, Instagram, Mobile, News, Review, Social Network, Technology, Twitter, Twitter, Vine
Private Photo Clouding Badge
Private Photo Clouding Badge is a small electronic device linked to an online service that allows you to find photos of you that have been posted online, and then cloud or delete them. It was designed with privacy protection in mind. It’s like having your own EMP at all times but that only works on cameras.
Have you ever been surfing the web and ran into a picture of you that you did not take? Or been on Facebook and noticed you have been tagged in a picture without your permission? You feel your privacy has been invaded. Hopefully you won’t become a meme. You know, where people’s faces get placed with other silly pictures or words. Now a days smartphones are great digital cameras. What is worse they all have always on internet. With just one press your picture could be in the wild. What if there was a way to stop that? Will there soon could be. Private Photo Clouding Badge protect you by using two components: a badge and a website. The badge has two modes: active and inactive. When you want to prevent pictures from being taken, wear the badge on your collar and switch it to active mode. It will use an electronic signal to interfere with the camera and make the photos cloudy.
When you set the badge to inactive mode. Anyone can take pictures of you and whats more; the badge will code the photo. This code overrides the camera (or other device). The code is cannot be modified or removed even when the photo is edited in software. You can use the Private Photo Clouding Badge website to look up where your picture was taken. If you want you can delete it or add a raindrop filter to obscure your image and protect your privacy direct from the website. This would work after the fact that it is in the wild. The design of the future service was done by TDLAB. The designers are Choe Jeong-Gyu, Jo Ara, Lee Jae Hyuck, Moon Ji Sung. We can not wait for this little baby to come to market.
What’s new in iOS 7.1 beta
3 weeks ago
What’s new in iOS 7.1 beta
Look below:
- instead of saying ‘No Missed Notifications,’ it now just says ‘No Notifications’ when NC is cleared.
- new Yahoo logo is now present in NC, as well as Weather app
- seems to be a number of bug fixes related to stability/performance
- new ‘HDR Auto’ feature in the Camera app
- new ‘Upload Burst Photos’ option in Settings app (Photos & Camera tab)
- new ‘Use Dark Keyboard’ option in Settings app (Accessibility tab)
- new ‘Darken Colors’ option, under Increase Contrast (Accessibility tab)
- enable or disable bold text without restarting the device
- new dialogue when restarting iPhone 5s reads “Touch ID requires your passcode when iPhone restarts“
PlayStation 4: What it can & can’t do
3 weeks ago
Sony Playstation 4 comes out soon. Some of you are still holding out for the Xbox One but here is what to look forward with the PS4. All PlayStation 4 games will have to be installed not the PS4. So after putting that came in, go get some popcorn. They say that gameplay can proceed during installation but that is not the case for all games. Discs will always be required to play so don’t go thinking you can install the game and hand it to a friend. This time around a subscription is needed for multiplayer.
At this time the PS4 does not support external storage via USB hard drives or memory sticks. What that means is unlike the PS3, you need to manage your drive space if you start to get a lot of games for the PS4. That said you can always swap out the PlayStation 4′s internal 500 GB hard drive for increased storage capacity. At only $400, the PS4 is $100 cheaper than a Xbox One. However, every Xbox One is packaged with the new Kinect. In comparison the PlayStation Camera sold separately for $60. The camera is needed if you want voice control features.
I do not know what Sony was thinking when it opted out of giving the PlayStation 4 DLNA support. I mean Sony is more a content company than Microsoft. Why would you limit your game system from talking to your other products to get content? Sony also got rid of support for dynamic themes and .mp3 playback. That’s right no MP3 for you. Sony quickly pulled a trick out of Microsoft’s playbook and flip flopped to change that. They will be adding back MP3 support in a future update. Until that time your media fix will have to be handled by Sony’s Music Unlimited and Video Unlimited services plus Netflix of course. It may sound like I am knocking the PS4 but I am acutely looking forward to this system. It should be interesting to see what a system focused on just games does in the market and to the industry.
1 in 5 Stars have Habitable Earth-Size Planets
1 month ago
by Rubens Saintel
in NASA
The truth is out there or I wan to believe are staples in the search for life outside of Earth thanks to the X-Files. Molder always wanted to find out what was out there. Looks like the odds were in his favor all along. A new study from the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences journal claims that one in five Sun-like stars has an Earth-size planet in the habitable zone. The closest Earth like planet that can hold life is only 12 light years away. What’s more if the 1 and 5 match is right, that means there are about 20 billion Earth-size planets in the Milky Way.
Geoff Marcy, a Berkeley astronomer and co-author of the research paper said “
Obviously, these findings are pretty exciting for planet hunters. “Earth-sized planets having the temperature of a cup of tea are common around sunlike stars. This represents one great leap toward the possibility of life, including intelligent life, in the universe.”
Before you get all paranoid about the incoming invasion, remember that ”Earth-size” does not mean it’s “Earth-like.”
Lead author of the study Erik Petigura who is a Berkeley grad student said “When you look up at the stars in the night sky, how many of them have a planet like the Earth?” “We’re able to start answering this question.”
