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Apple’s Phil Schiller Explains They Don’t Actually Censor Dictionaries
3:40AM Matt Buchanan | Apparently the “Apple Censors Dictionary” headlines were too toxic to ignore: Phil Schiller himself wrote to Daring Fireball to explain what happened: Basically, it was all a big misunderstanding. Apple wanted Ninjawords to be rated 17+, with the dirty words. More »
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The Stupidest App Store Incident Yet: Apple Censors A Dictionary
12:40AM Matt Buchanan | Honestly, I didn’t think the App Store’s approval policies could get any worse. But Apple continues to amaze in what’s undoubtedly the stupidest incident yet: Even after they gave the Ninjawords dictionary a 17+ rating, they censored it. A dictionary. More »
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LG’s GD910 Watch Phone Hits UK In August
2:59AM Jason Chen | LG’s finally set a date on their GD910 touchscreen watch phone, and it ain’t July, like Akihabara News said. According to T3, it’s in August, and will be exclusive to Orange for a little while. [T3]
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Time-It Watch’s LED Display Curls Around Your Wrist
9:13PM Gizmodo US Edition | This new LED watch curls around your wrist automagically, a bit like those weird snap-on bracelet thingies that were all the rage a while ago. Time-it’s display is suitably LED-geeky, with several different modes, much like the Tokyo Flash or Nooka designs. Strangely it’s got a rechargeable battery, so it has to lie in its “magic case” to wirelessly charge every now and then. Inconvenient, perhaps, since it lasts between a day and two weeks depending on how often you activate the display. More »
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Exmocare BT2 Allows Your Employers To Monitor Your Emotions, Arousal Level
8:00AM Jason Chen | Exmocare’s released emotion-monitoring watches before, but this BT2 model seems to be directed at the service industry, meaning that bosses can use these wristbands to monitor their employee’s emotional states. The control panel (screenshot after the jump) displays a summary of each person’s heart rate, location, body temperature and skin moisture levels reported by an individual’s device. If you thought your boss didn’t know when you were looking at porn while you were supposed to be working, well, think again. And in our case, the watches would probably break from overuse, thanks to our constant state of arousal. [Exmocare via io9] More »
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Don’t Wear a Cellphone Watch Under Any Circumstances
8:00AM Adam Frucci | There ain’t nothing cooler than really intense watches. Take this ridiculous cellphone watch, for example. At over a half an inch thick, it’s certainly large, and it contains way more inside than you’d want in a watch. That includes an unlocked GSM cellphone with a 1.3-touchscreen, a stylus for operating said touchscreen, a 1.3MP digital camera, an MP3 player, 2GB microSD support and Bluetooth. Or, you could just carry around a good cellphone and not weigh one side of your body down with something this ridiculous. It’s your call. [Product Page via Geekalerts] More »
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Watch Designer Creates Elegant Sabar Love Device For ‘Business Time’
7:45AM Jason Chen | Apparently sick of designing watches to tell people what time it is, Michael Young has just created the Sabar, a smooth, black, banana-shaped love machine. One look at it and you’ll know what time it is. Business time. That’s right ladies (and some gentlemen), it’s the perfect time go into business for yourself. Coming and going any time you please has never been easier. [
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Jaeger-LeCoultre Diving Watch Measures Pressure Mechanically, Makes Me Want to Have a Spare $25K
12:30AM Jesus Diaz | Before going to Dubai to cover the Air Show, Addy and I went diving last month in the Indian Ocean, where dive computers are obligatory. I got myself a $400 Suunto Mosquito. It’s a cool little dive computer, rock-solid, with a computer connection to download diving profiles and a great design. But when you compare it to this Jaeger-LeCoultre Master Compressor Diving Pro Geographic, the Mosquito is also a piece of c-r-a-p, CRAP. The Jaeger-LeCoultre is not a computer, but it’s a wonder of mechanical engineering that can measure depths down to 262 feet with a unique membrane-based gauge system. More »
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Twelve 5-9 Q Watch Means Time-Telling has Never Been So Impenetrable
9:57PM Addy Dugdale | Tokyo Flash’s latest addition to its Twelve 5-9 watch range, the Q, is an interesting timepiece. And by interesting, I mean that you probably need a PhD in disco-light time-telling to be able to work out just what it is you’re late for. (May I just add that, by the time you’ve worked out the time, you’re going to be even later than you originally were.) “How-To” masterclass is after the jump. More »
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