Smartphone App Wrap: Movies, Twitter, games, and exercise
I am not a single smartphone guy and use every mobile OS so I get the chance to try out lots of applications. We now find hundreds of thousands of apps and it can be difficult finding new ones to try. This is the first installment of a planned weekly…
Robot learns to recognize objects on its own
HERB, a robot butler under development at Carnegie Mellon University, can discover objects by itself. When all the humans went home for the day, a personal-assistant robot under development in a university lab recently built digital images of a pineapple and a bag of bagels that were inadvertently left on…
Acer Iconia A1 tablet to come in WiFi, 3G, and LTE models
Acer plans to launch a new 7.9 inch, low-cost Android tablet in the US this June. The Acer Iconia A1 is about the size of an iPad mini, but the WiFi-only version of this tablet is expected to sell for just over half the price of Apple’s tablet. But it looks…
FCC Plan to Boost Inflight WiFi Takes Off With Turbulence TechNewsWorld
Business travelers know that getting decent WiFi on long flights can be a roll of the broadband dice. The FCC may have an answer with a plan to boost bandwidth for inflight wireless that could mean faster, cheaper service. However, questions about a chip company’s involvement in the original proposal…
Clairton High School team needs funds to go to national robotics competition
The Clairton High School robotics team put in countless hours to design the fighting robots that were crowned the grand champions of the Southwestern Pennsylvania BotsIQ Regional Competition last month at California University of Pennsylvania. Since then, the team has been hard at work again, but this time on two…
iPad 2 could interfere with pacemaker, study shows
A California teen discovered the magnets in iPad 2 tablets and covers are capable of interfering with cardiac rhythm devices, like pacemakers, according to the Heart Rhythm Society. The research, conducted by 14-year-old Gianna Chien of Stockton, Calif , was presented Thursday at Heart Rhythm 2013, the Society’s 34th Annual Scientific “iPad 2s…
FCC proposes boosted in-flight WiFi speed with 14GHz spectrum by 2020
The FCC released a report yesterday detailing plans to free up 500 megahertz of spectrum, in an effort to supercharge our nation’s ground-to-air mobile broadband infrastructure. The proposed spectrum would fall within the 14.0-14.5 GHz band, which is currently utilized for satellite uplinks. The FCC references an earlier Qualcomm proposal, Based…
Amazon smartphone rumored to have 3D capabilities. How have others fared?
The lure of 3D video has drawn many gadget makers. In the post-“Avatar” world, it seemed like a good idea to bring that sort of realism into living rooms and pockets around the world. But, it hasn’t quite managed to catch fire with general consumers. Not that it’s stopped…
Amazon Launches Cloud Drive Photos App for iOS
Heads up, snap-happy iPhone users. If you take a lot of photos on your phone, and they’re starting to take up too much space, then Amazon has a solution for you. The Web giant this week launched its Cloud Drive Photos app for iOS devices. The app, which has been…
Do You Stink? This Robot Will Tell You Mashable
If you’re headed to an important meeting or big date, it’s probably a good idea to make sure you don’t stink. Don’t burden your friends or family members with the heinous job of sniffing your parts, enlist a robot. Japanese company CrazyLabo teamed up with Kitakyushu National College of Technology…
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