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Google Glass app will find friends based on what clothes they’re wearing
Who cares about real-time data feeds, video and photo sharing, translation, weather, or reality technology? Not Duke University, where an app being developed for Google Glass, called InSight, will help you find friends in a crowd based on what clothes they’re wearing. The app would require friends to submit a general photo of themselves, and Google Glass would interpret the image as a spatiogram — identifying the colors, textures and patterns with which they’ve equipped themselves — then you’d find your friend.
Talk about having a computer strapped to your head — it’s a full-on tactical system.
Via: New Scientist, Duke University (PDF)
The Facebook Newsfeed was introduced in 2006 and hasn’t changed so much then, but in 2013, it was really time for a change. Enter the new Newsfeed UX, complete with larger, wider, crisper views of everything Facebook. In retrospect, Mark Zuckerberg says it’s like, “a newspaper.” Everything from apps, games, links, photos, albums, music, posts, and sharing have all been curved around the new design, so for example, a song being shared is a simple pop-up, while a photo is now a large, blown-out image in the middle of the Newsfeed (make sure you’re photos are worthy). There’s also lots of “chrome”, which consists of many attractive icons, navigation bars, scrolling, and speed, all of which is a unified experience on tablets, smartphones, and desktops. Announcement video after the break.
The HTC One X is now part of the Android 4.1 Jelly Bean crop of refreshed and Google Now-enabled devices. Users on AT&T can start downloading the update today, which brings along not only the new firmware, but several fixes as well. Happy? You should be. Details at the source link.
The Samsung Galaxy range and in particular the S3 have become renowned for their feats of innovation and portable power but being a market leader isn’t simply about purveying only the most ground breaking range of products. Samsung also cater perfectly for the mid-range market with the new Samsung Galaxy SIII Mini set to take all plaudits in the market just outside of ‘superphone’
No matter how big Microsoft really, is offering the browser choice screen on new computers in Europe was a move that required swallowing lots of pride, nearly 20 years ago. In the screen, you get an option other than the default Internet Explorer as to what kind of browser you want — Firefox, Chrome, Safari, or Opera. However, the European Commission is fining Microsoft, yet again, for non-compliance on MSFT’s part for not including the screen in Windows 7 SP1.
Android is slowly becoming more and more unified in the features offered in smartphones and software versions available. Finally, Android 2.3 Gingerbread has been overtaken in market share by Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich and Android 4.1/4.2 Jelly Bean, collectively being 45.1 percent over Gingebread’s 44.2 percent. Specifically, Android 4.1 and 4.2 which represent Google Now have a 16.5% share – there’s still a long way to go.
Ferrari has made its first (awesome) hybrid: the LaFerrari boasts a mighty 789HP V12 engine mated with 160HP of electric power, the 949HP combination of which takes the supercar to 62MPH in just under 3 seconds — that’s serious stuff right there.
This trailer is full of Tony Stark getting his butt handed to him, handing it back, and the world falling apart and seeing new technology, all tat the same time. It’s awesome. All the while, Iron Man 3′s main villain the Mandarin, is taunting the genius Tony Stark at every turn.
A memory glitch forced the Mars Curiosity Rover to halt its expedition of Mars and enter safe mode on a backup computer, causing gasps and “oh nos” everywhere. Don’t worry, NASA is reporting that they’ve successfully brought the Curiosity rover out of safe mode and filling out the needed tests to make sure the system can withstand all the perils that come form traveling on Mars. Once that’s over with, the Curiosity rover will continue its adventure in the next few days.
A reliable Twitter account for leaks, @evleaks, has posted what is a proposed design of the Galaxy S IV set to be announced on March 14th at a press event in NYC (which I’ll be attending). What’s more interesting are the purported specs: a crsip and clear Super AMOLED Full HD screen of unknown size, 16GB/32GB/64GB storage options with 2GB of RAM, a 13MP camera and Android 4.2 as the operating system. While the design is mostly not what we’d come to expect, the specs seem pretty realistic — we’ll know for sure on the 14th, of course.