Want some more tech to put on your face? Neither full-on goggles like the Oculus Rift nor slender no-AR-yet specs like Google’s Glass , CastAR takes a whole different approach to modified-reality tech by slapping tiny projectors on your face, and The Verge got to take a peek . Read more…
The tech giant is slapped with a class action suit, which alleges it knowingly sold users iPhone 4 smartphones with power buttons that broke shortly after the 1-year warranty expired. [Read more]
Whether you’re a virtuoso musician or the tone-deaf bane of karaoke night, there’s probably been at least one point in your life where you’ve felt almost certain that the little ditty you just randomly hummed could be the song to end all songs. But just as quickly as these blasts of inspiration hit us, they’ll slip away into nothingness no matter how hard we try to grasp on. With ScoreCleaner Notes for iOS, though, you’ll be able to turn your every musical vision into an eternal tune, be it for better or worse. Read more…
Oh original iPhone, we’ll miss you. Roughly six years after its public launch, the original iPhone is about to become obsolete—at least in Apple’s eyes. Apple reportedly sent out internal documentation to its support partners, which was then passed on to 9to5Mac , detailing which of its products would no longer be considered current or recent devices as of June 11, 2013. The list doesn’t just include the original iPhone, though: it also includes a number of older iMacs, MacBook Pros, Xserves, and PowerBooks. According to the document , products that are considered obsolete—or perhaps for a more tasteful term, “vintage”—cannot be repaired or receive replacement parts unless they’re in the state of California, “as required by statute.” Californians can continue to get service and parts for their obsolete items through Apple retail stores, but the rest of us are pretty much out of luck. Apple notes that obsolete or vintage products can’t be serviced as mail-in repairs to AppleCare, either. This is pretty standard procedure for Apple; the other products in the list are about as old as the original iPhone, and some of them are even older (there’s a Mac mini on the list from 2005, and don’t even get us started on PowerBooks). All we know is that if you’re still actively using an original iPhone, you must have an amazing tolerance for outdated software and slow hardware. Good on you, but perhaps it’s time to think about an upgrade. Read 1 remaining paragraphs | Comments
Daniel Ryan describes his music as “a mix of Japanese folk music and glitch hop.” This isn’t normally my sort of thing — I pretty much only listen to music with words — but I played this one three times in a row this morning. There’s a lot of clever stuff going on here that I lack the vocabulary to describe but possess the aesthetic apparatus to appreciate. According to one redditor, the folk song is this track off the Samurai Champloo soundtrack. Nagasaki
The new US$100 bill will go into circulation on October 8, 2013. New security features include a “3-D Security Ribbon” woven into the paper. The image changes from bells to 100s with the viewing angle, and “color-shifting” bell graphic that changes from copper to green, “an effect which makes the bell seem to appear and disappear within the (copper-colored) inkwell.” ” The Redesigned $100 Note ”
The second suspect in the brutal Boston Marathon bombings has been apprehended , after five days of uncertainty and fear. And while all credit for Dzhokar Tsarnaev’s capture goes to the men and women of the many, many agencies that spent the last week tracking him down, technology played as prominent a role as it ever has in a time of national crisis. More »
CISPA, or the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act, or ” the worst privacy disaster our country has ever faced ” has just passed through the House of Representatives with an astounding majority of 288 to 127. More »
The chipmaker says a USB bug in the chipset that accompanies the “Haswell” processor exists and will be fixed. [Read more]
3D printing isn’t all about making guns and toys —some researchers are using it to make real medical advances . Now, a team of researchers from the University of Oxford has managed to create a 3D printer that can produce synthetic tissue using just water and oil. More »
