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    John Biggs
    posted 4 hours ago

    Hackathon Entrant Sirious Margaritas Is A Margarita Maker From The Future

    Backstage With Sirious Margaritas

    As we approach the Technological Singularity it’s important to keep an eye on the harbingers of true superhuman artificial intelligence. While many will point to primitive projects by researchers at MIT and Stanford, I feel the history books will note Sirious Margaritas as the absolute point when man and machine will truly live in symbiosis.

    Sirious Margaritas a highly complex system that allows you to tell Siri to make you margarita. Using an ElectricImp board and a motor, the Sirious Margarita maker can dispense and blend margaritas remotely. → Read More

    Romain Dillet
    posted 9 hours ago

    Amazon Doesn’t Want To Be More Like Apple, It Wants To Be More Like Amazon.com

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    With the introduction of the $499 8.9-inch Kindle HD with LTE, Amazon now has a device with the same price tag as the new iPad. Of course, the devices are very different when it comes to capacity, connectivity and screen size. But the consumers will have no choice but to compare them.

    Yet, contrarily to what many have said, Amazon is not trying to be yet another Apple wannabe. The Kindle announcements were not a signal to Apple. In reality, Amazon is trying to find its own way in the hardware business by staying true to its identity. And it is doing it at full speed. Lab126 is Amazon’s subsidiary responsible for designing hardware products. There are currently 203 job openings on its website. → Read More

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    John Biggs
    posted yesterday

    Amazon Kindle HD Will Allow Users To Opt-Out Of “Special Offers” For $15

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    If you’ve been put off by the (arguably obtrusive) Special Offers on the Kindle Fire HD, Amazon has just announced that they will allow users to pay $15 to opt-out of the ads for the life of the device.

    An Amazon spokesperson wrote:

    We know from our Kindle reader line that customers love our special offers and very few people choose to opt out. We’re happy to offer customers the choice.

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    Chris Hawker, Contributor
    posted yesterday

    Who Moved Apple’s Cheese? The Role Of The Knock-Off Effect In Innovation

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    Chris Hawker, the founder of Trident Design, LLC, has over 20 years of experience developing and commercializing his own and others’ inventions. His most famous product, the PowerSquid, was the subject of a six-part series published in TechCrunch called the Song of the PowerSquid.

    As the president/founder of Trident Design, LLC, I’ve been inventing and commercializing products for 18 years, and all the successful ones get knocked-off. 
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    John Biggs
    September 7th, 2012

    Dyson’s New DC44 Is The Halo Plasma Pistol Of Home Vacuums

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    We’ve covered Dyson fans and vacuums for years now, being constantly amazed at the utility and wild designs that come out of James Dyson’s wee English workshop. He makes things that suck and blow and his latest, the DC44 “digital” vacuum sucks with the best of them.

    The DC44 is a hand-held vacuum that essentially replaces the DC31 and adds a few tricks to the hand-held magic show. The DC44 has a number of attachments, including a long “motorized floor tool” that allows you to extend the handheld’s reach all the way to the floor.
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    Darrell Etherington
    September 7th, 2012

    Next iPhone Will Reportedly Be Compatible With LTE Around The World

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    Apple’s new iPhone, which the company is set to unveil next Wednesday, will have better worldwide support for LTE than the latest iPad, according to a new report from the Wall Street Journal. While the iPad supports LTE spectrum bands used only in the U.S. and Canada, the new iPhone will apparently work with multiple bands, making it compatible with networks in Europe and Asia as well.

    The WSJ’s sources don’t believe that the new iPhone will manage to be compatible with all worldwide LTE networks, however. That’s not surprising, given that there are aas many as 36 LTE bands around the world, many more than there are for 3G, according to International Data Crop. analyst John Byrne speaking to the WSJ. Making a single device that with the radio antennas required to work on a variety of networks is difficult, but Apple has already pulled off a similar feat with the iPhone 4S. → Read More

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    Matt Burns
    September 7th, 2012

    TheRAZRM,Motorola’sCleverAnswerToThe$99iPhone4S

    Motorola unveiled the new RAZR family at a big media gala in early September. The company proudly rolled out the supercharged RAZR HD and RAZR HD MAXX. The $99 RAZR M stole the show. The 4.3-inch RAZR M LTE packs a lot of the same goods as its larger counterparts. For just $99. And the M is available now as the others will be released later this fall. Here’s the thing: this is Motorola’s best answer to the iPhone yet.

    Apple will introduce the new iPhone next week. It will likely sell for the bargain price of $199, pushing the current model, the iPhone 4S, down to just $99. The 4S still has one of the best cameras, and consumers love Apple’s iOS ecosystem. At just $99, the iPhone 4S will dominate most budget Android handsets. That’s why the RAZR M is available now and why it stands a chance. This is a great phone at a great price. → Read More

    Darrell Etherington
    September 7th, 2012

    Kickstarter Hit Instacube Adds Facebook Photo Streaming In Addition To Instagram

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    Current Kickstarter-du-jour Instacube just announced new planned Facebook integration, which will allow it to stream photos from that social network as well as its newly-acquired subsidiary Instagram. The company decided to add Facebook as a stretch goal incentive, and will offer it up when it hits $500,000 in its campaign. Which likely won’t take long, given that it’s at nearly $440,000 as of this writing and still has two weeks to go in its funding campaign.

    Instacube started with a relatively lofty goal for its Android-powered digital photo frame at $250,000, but hit that mark pretty quickly (it took less than a week). Since then, the project’s creators have set two stretch goals including the Facebook one announced today. The first were black and white versions, which were unlocked when the project hit $400,000. Then, earlier this week, Instacube announced a partnership with SmartThings, which will allow the cube to display notifications for things like visitors arriving or leaving the lights on. It’ll also be able to control home automation systems that SmartThings can operating, making it much more than just a pretty face. → Read More

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