Duet Display has added a feature that I frankly never thought it would get: Windows support! That means you can now use the app and a Lightning cable to use your iPad as a secondary display for your Windows PC or tablet. The app supports devices running either Windows 7 or Windows 8, letting you relish the extravagant advantage of multiple screens on the go even if you’re not cool enough… Read More
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Duet Display Now Lets Your iPad Act As A Second Screen For Windows
Like the noble ant or the sassy-yet-lovable tugboat, Micro Tugs can pull more than their own weight. The robots, which come from Stanford’s Biomimetics and Dextrous Manipulation Lab, use a “controllable adhesive” plate that sticks to surfaces only when shear pressure is applied. In one case a 12 gram robot was able to pull objects 2, 000 times its own weight. Read More
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Micro Tug Robots Can Pull Objects 2,000 Times Their Own Weight
Way back in the year 2011 Phil Dumas’ company UniKey Technologies debuted its product on Shark Tank. It was a lock that used your smartphone as a key. Disruption! At the time smart locks were not really a thing yet UniKey plowed yet as the market exploded with similar products. Now, five years after its primetime debut, UniKey is announcing an oversubscribed Series A to charge forward… Read More
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Smart Lock Pioneer UniKey Raises $10m And Looks Outside The Home For Growth
As the ongoing Meerkatification of humanity proves, the internet (in one form or another) is becoming more and more about video. At peak times, Netflix and YouTube alone account for half of all web traffic. That’s an understandably huge burden for ISPs to carry. But as well as making the pipes bigger, we can also shrink down what goes through them. Read more…
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Why You Should Care About VP9, Google’s Clever Video Codec
On the heels of announcing the Surface 3, Microsoft trotted over to Reddit for its now-traditional AMA dance with the folks. The Surface 3 is a smaller, less expensive iteration of the Surface Pro 3, which was released last year. The Pro 3’s commercial performance has been superior to its predecessors, making its successor all the more interesting as a potential. In the AMA, Microsoft… Read More
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Microsoft Is Saying Exactly “Nothing” About The Surface Pro 4
Apple has a new patent that could result in interesting use cases, including getting navigation directions from a robot scouting ahead, or live route information from your local friend when you’re visiting an unfamiliar city. The new patent (via AppleInsider) describes the sharing of live path tracking between devices, which goes beyond the kind of location sharing in Find My Friends… Read More
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Apple Blazes A Trail With Streaming Route Sharing Patent
Apple has secured a new patent (via AppleInsider) for a special three sensor camera designed for thin, wireless devices like the iPhone. The three sensors would each capture a separate color component, as divided by a special light-splitting cube that would divide up light entering the camera into red, green and blue (or other color set) wavelengths. Why? Better resolution and lower noise… Read More
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Apple Patents A Light-Splitting iPhone Camera Sensor System
The FAA just released a statement indicated that Amazon now has limited permission to test and develop drones in the United States. It’s not a blank check, though. The FAA gave Amazon strict rules and regulations. Read More
Elon Musk has teased something big coming from Tesla this week – an end to ‘range anxiety.’ The Model S (and every other electric vehicle), Tesla’s current flagship, has been known to inspire so-called range anxiety, wherein a driver spends a lot of time worrying about when they’ll next be able to get a full charge, and consequently don’t often drive… Read More
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Elon Musk Says Tesla Model S ‘Range Anxiety’ Will End With A Software Update
Milled aluminum. All-day battery life. Intel Core i5 and i7 processors. A bitchin’ keyboard, and a large, clickable trackpad with excellent multitouch response. If you didn’t know any better, you’d think I was describing a MacBook Air . I’m not—I’m talking HP’s Spectre x360, a gorgeous premium convertible PC that starts at just $900. Read more…
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HP’s Spectre x360 Might Be The Best Transforming Laptop I’ve Ever Seen