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YouTube Player API for Android opens for all, brings seamless app integration (video)
Engadget - 23 Dec 2012 02:29
Adding a little dash of YouTube magic to your Android apps should be simple affair right? Well, historically, not entirely. That's all set to change though, now that the long-promised Android YouTube Player API has final...
Xiaomi Phone 2 preps Hong Kong and Taiwan launch, seeks early local testers on Facebook
Engadget - 23 Dec 2012 13:12
We knew Xiaomi's keen to bring its phones into the European market, but before taking that long-haul flight, the Chinese company is going to make a couple of stops in Asia. According to the latest updates on the company'...
Xsens teases wearable 3D body sensors that won't cost, will track an arm and a leg (video)
Engadget - 23 Dec 2012 16:01
When we think of full-body motion capture, we most often associate it with movie-grade equipment that demands a dedicated room, odd-looking suits and a corporate bank account to finance it all. Xsens hints that we may no...
Inhabitat's Week in Green: invisibility cloak, a Hobbit House and a portable washing machine
Engadget - 23 Dec 2012 17:00
Each week our friends at Inhabitat recap the week's most interesting green developments and clean tech news for us -- it's the Week in Green. Christmas is right around the corner, and for all of you procrastinators out t...
LG's 2013 Google TV sets to come in more sizes, fresher designs
Engadget - 23 Dec 2012 23:14
LG only experimented with a Google TV lineup in 2012; for 2013, it's committing to the concept in earnest. The 47- and 55-inch sizes we know today should be joined by 42-, 50- and 60-inch models that cater both to frugal...
Do You Hate-Follow People on Social Media?
Gizmodo - 23 Dec 2012 22:00
Social media is ostensibly all rainbows and butterflies. It's for "making connections" and "friending" people, blah blah blah. But do you ever follow people you really don't like? Do you ever follow people because you do...
BMW's Car Hotspot LTE means Bavarian Motor WiFi
Engadget - 23 Dec 2012 10:26
The dedicated car phone may be a thing of the past, but the in-car hotspot is becoming increasingly common. BMW isn't shy when it comes to in-vehicle tech, so the fact that it's launching its own solution should come as ...
YouTube Took 2 Billion Views Away from Sony, Universal, and Others
Gizmodo - 23 Dec 2012 21:00
While Gangnam style was out racking up a billion views, channels owned by Sony and Universal have moved twice as far in the other direction. YouTube has stripped them of these views alleging a violation of the YouTube te...
This Lucky Kid Has The Coolest Spaceship Bed Ever
Gizmodo - 23 Dec 2012 20:00
If you thought racecar beds were cool, well, you're still right. But they aren't the coolest. That trophy's been taken by this righteous homemade spaceship bed, complete with totally awesome control panel. That is one lu...
FlipSide case for iPhone packs stealthy game controls, plays on solar power (video)
Engadget - 23 Dec 2012 07:41
The perpetual challenge of developing an iPhone-friendly gamepad (or any phone-oriented gamepad) is the bulk, either for a gargantuan case or else a separate controller. If Justice Frangipane's team and iDevices have the...
These Skull-Thumping Headphones Are Literally For the Birds
Gizmodo - 23 Dec 2012 23:00
A lot of us put ear buds in our ears, but that's about as intrusive as mainstream headphone-wearing gets for us humans. This pair of bird headphones is a bit different. Epoxied to this little guy's skull, this set of spe...
Germany plans to clone the perfect Christmas tree, break Charlie Brown's heart
Engadget - 23 Dec 2012 14:19
We've seen Christmas trees built out of spare car parts, discarded SCSI drives, OLED panels, and quadrocopter stacked boxes, but Germany? Their taking the old tannenbaum back to its roots -- and tweaking its genetic code...
Mobile Miscellany: week of December 17th, 2012
Engadget - 23 Dec 2012 04:00
If you didn't get enough mobile news during the week, not to worry, because we've opened the firehose for the truly hardcore. This week, we have a super-sized dose of news for Nokia and Windows Phone users, along with th...
Oh God, Huawei's Monster 6.1 Inch Phablet Spotted In the Wild
Gizmodo - 23 Dec 2012 19:00
If you thought the Galaxy Note II was pushing the envelope on size, you've got another thing coming. A executive from Huawei has been caught on camera showing off the company's upcoming 6.1-inch 1080p Ascend Mate, a trul...
Photos of Sunlight Streaming Over Foggy Mountain Treetops
PetaPixel - 23 Dec 2012 22:50IRL: Western Digital MyBook external hard drives, Doxie Go and Apple's Podcasts App
Engadget - 23 Dec 2012 21:30
Welcome to IRL, an ongoing feature where we talk about the gadgets, apps and toys we're using in real life and take a second look at products that already got the formal review treatment. Merry Almost-Christmas, folks. T...
Holiday gift to stargazers: The Christmas sky
NBC News - 23 Dec 2012 21:27Huawei's 6.1-inch 1080p Ascend Mate flaunted by exec, leaves little surprise for CES
Engadget - 23 Dec 2012 09:26
How big is too big? Well, that's clearly not Huawei's concern, as it's about to introduce a 6.1-inch 1080p Android phone at CES. But even two weeks (before the company's CES press day) is too much for the impatient Richa...
Hacker Leaks 300,000 Version Customer Records and Claims to Have Millions More
Gizmodo - 23 Dec 2012 02:09
Sometimes it seems like no one's keeping your data safe; this is one of those times. A hacker just leaked 300,000 Verizon customer records, and that's only a sample of the 3 million he claims to have gotten in his little...
The Rings on the Planet Go ‘Round and ‘Round…
Universe Today - 23 Dec 2012 23:34
Raw wide-angle Cassini image of Saturn’s rings (NASA/JPL/SSI) Recently I posted an image of two of Saturn’s shepherd moons, Pandora and Prometheus, captured by Cassini in a face-off across the spindly F rin...
The pros and cons of newspaper paywalls: a Twitter debate
GigaOM - 23 Dec 2012 23:21
A comment about a Bloomberg story on the New York Times paywall started a debate about the positive and negative effects of paywalls that included some media industry luminaries such as the former CEO of Dow Jones and th...