Gadgets
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This Sound ‘Camera’ Lets You See Noise In Real-Time
CAE Systems’ “SOUNDCAM”, currently making its way through a Kickstarter campaign, doesn’t generate images using only noise. What it does do is show you where sound is emanating from via its rear touchscreen and includes distance info and other interesting data.
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This Video Streaming Breakthrough Could Lead To Smart Glasses You Might Actually Want To Wear
One of the many inconveniences that doomed wearable products such as Google Glass and Snap’s Spectacles was the need to charge them every night. Streaming video and data requires a lot of power, and that takes a tremendous toll on a tiny battery. But engineers at the University of Washington say they have found a…
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Apple Finally Talked Me Into Buying An iPad
For the longest time, the iPad was Apple’s big boring thing. It never lived up to its promise to revolutionise media and save magazines. It didn’t really change the way we play mobile games. It certainly didn’t seem like a good investment. For the first eight years of the iPad’s existence, my primary exposure to…
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The Last Of The Iron Lungs
Martha Lillard spends half of every day with her body encapsulated in a half-century old machine that forces her to breathe. Only her head sticks out of the end of the antique iron lung. On the other end, a motorised lever pulls the leather bellows, creating negative pressure that induces her lungs to suck in…