Category Archives: Interesting

Things I find Interesting or peak my interest

Myriad’s Remarkz HTML 5 web annotation app hands-on — Engadget

It wasn’t that long ago that Myriad gave us an exclusive sneak peek at its platform agnostic Android app emulator, Alien Dalvik 2.0. While we were there, the company gave us a glimpse of another project, called Remarkz, that piqued … Continue reading

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Our Divided Brains Might Be Making Us Unhappy: A Plea for a More Right-Brained World

Iain McGilchrist, psychiatrist, author, and my new favorite person, tells us that so many of the left versus right brain arguments from the ’60s and ’70s have been disproven—for example that emotion and language are controlled by the left hemisphere … Continue reading

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Microsoft Office team shares vision of the future | TiPb

The Microsoft Office team has put out a video showing a vision of the future where edge-to-edge, interactive, multitouch and gesture-based panels are everywhere. We’ve seen things like this before in movies like Minority Report and Iron Man, and even … Continue reading

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Nokia Kinetic Device offers a new twist on smartphone interaction (hands-on video) | This is my next…

Nokia’s Future Technology booth here at Nokia World 2011 has one undisputed standout demo: the Kinetic Device. So called because of the way users are supposed to interact with it, the Kinetic Device is extremely flexible and responds to being … Continue reading

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Would You Use Dollar Coins if It Saved the Government $5.6 Billion?

The recently-assembled super-committee tasked with saving the US from financial disaster by years end wants to trade dollar bills for dollar…coins? Wait, dont we already have some of those that nobody uses?This controversial plan has been floated before but has … Continue reading

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Dell Latitude ST promo video shows off stylus, docking station — Engadget

Looking forward to Dell’s latest Windows slate? Point your peepers here, the outfit’s Malaysian site just unleashed a promo video showing off the firm’s Latitude ST tablet. The preview confirms that the 10-inch tablet will sport front and rear cameras, … Continue reading

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Oakley Elite Full Metal Jacket Watch – Luxury Swiss Automatic Mens Watch | Oakley Store

From a lineage of design eloquence comes a new timepiece rendered in lightweight titanium. Crafted with rare aesthetics in the art of timekeeping, Full Metal Jacket™ is engineered with a removable module that can be mounted on a pocket watch … Continue reading

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Using the LED flash of the iPhone as an LED indicator | TiPb

Just switch over to iPhone from BlackBerry or Android and wondering how to get an LED notification for new messages? While it’s not quite the same things, with iOS 5 on the iPhone 4S or iPhone 4, you can take … Continue reading

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This Is Apple’s Steve Jobs Tribute

For the past two weeks, Apple has been collecting messages to and about Steve Jobs at rememberingsteve@apple.com. The most moving of those can now be seen on a simple, scrolling page at apple.com/stevejobs. You can still send a message if … Continue reading

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The Best New Features in Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich

Google just unveiled their new Nexus phone, the Galaxy Nexus, along with a preview of Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich, coming to phones next year. Here’s a look at the creamy new update to the Android operating system. Most of … Continue reading

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