Source: http://www.engadget.com/2011/01/12/active-i-sunglasses-slyly-capture-video-plays-it-back-on-integr/
Continue reading Active-i sunglasses slyly capture video, plays it back on integrated display
Active-i sunglasses slyly capture video, plays it back on integrated display originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 12 Jan 2011 21:19:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Permalink | | Email this ;| CommentsSource: http://www.engadget.com/2011/01/12/kinect-hacked-to-work-with-flash-wiimotes-we-cant-imagine-wha/
Kinect hacked to work with Flash, Wiimotes, we can't imagine what's next (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 12 Jan 2011 20:36:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Permalink
PC World | 
demize2010 (YouTube), CNET | Email this | Comments
Source: http://www.engadget.com/2011/01/13/ocz-quits-dram-business-to-focus-on-super-speedy-ssds/
Continue reading OCZ quits DRAM business to focus on super-speedy SSDs
OCZ quits DRAM business to focus on super-speedy SSDs originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 13 Jan 2011 01:05:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Permalink |PC Perspective | Email this | Comments
Source: http://www.engadget.com/2011/01/12/new-goo-gl-url-shortener-api-lets-third-party-developers-in-on-t/
New Goo.gl URL shortener API lets third party developers in on the outrageous fun that is Google URL shortening originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 12 Jan 2011 23:28:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
PermalinkCNET | Google Code Blog | Email this | Comments
Source: http://www.engadget.com/2011/01/13/sony-outs-clm-v55-video-monitor-for-interchangeable-lens-cameras/
Continue reading Sony outs CLM-V55 video monitor for interchangeable lens cameras
Sony outs CLM-V55 video monitor for interchangeable lens cameras originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 13 Jan 2011 01:33:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Permalink | | Email t his | CommentsSource: http://www.engadget.com/2011/01/13/bridgestone-shows-off-qr-lpd-display-the-future-looks-dim/
Continue reading Bridgestone shows off QR-LPD display, the future looks dim
Bridgestone shows off QR-LPD display, the future looks dim originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 13 Jan 2011 04:33:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Permalink |The Digital Reader | Email this | Comments
Source: http://www.engadget.com/2011/01/13/fujifilms-x100-hybrid-viewfinder-demoed-on-video-gets-us-all-s/
Imagine a retro-styled, Micro Four Thirds-sized compact camera with an optical viewfinder. Now, imagine that same camera having a switch that throws all sorts of useful data into your line of sight. That camera is Fujifilm's Finepix X100, and that viewfinder is real. Back at Photokina, the mockup we ran into didn't have a functioning viewfinder, but with just two months until the $1,000 beaut is released into the wilds of America, it's not too shocking that our brethren over at Engadget Spanish managed to come across a (mostly) functional one at CES last week. Eager to show the world exactly what a hybrid viewfinder looks like when being flipped on and off, they shoved a camera up against the OVF and toggled the new mechanism -- it's downright luscious, and it's waiting for you in the video just past the break.Continue reading Fujifilm's X100 hybrid viewfinder demoed on video, gets us all sorts of excited
Fujifilm's X100 hybrid viewfinder demoed on video, gets us all sorts of excited originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 13 Jan 2011 03:04:00 EDT. Please see our terms! for use of feeds.
Permalink |Engadget Spanish | Email this | Comments
Source: http://www.engadget.com/2011/01/12/dokobots-game-for-ios-brings-together-the-inevitable-robots-and/
Dokobots game for iOS brings together the inevitable: robots and geolocation originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 12 Jan 2011 14:44:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Permalink |Dokobots in iTunes | Email this | Comments
Source: http://techcrunch.com/2011/01/11/formspring-closes-11-5-million-round-launches-respond-button/
Today, the company is announcing a $11.5 million funding round led by Redpoint Ventures (Geoff Yang) with participation from Baseline Ventures (Steve Anderson). This confirms a report from November when GigaOm reported that the site had raised $10 million (obviously they added a bit more to the round since then). In addition to today’s funding, Formspring is also announcing a new feature: the ‘Respond Button’.
The feature lets publishers integrate some Q&A functionality into their own sites. Hit one of these ‘Respond’ buttons, which generally appear next to Twitter and Facebook ‘Like’ widgets on publisher sites, and a window will pop up prompting you to answer a question related to the article (the question could be vague like “What do you think”, or it can be more specific). Once the user submits the form, their answer appears on their Formspring profile along with a link to the publisher site. This doesn’t seem to have the same viral potential as, say, a tweet, though you can tweet out your response automatically.
One thing I don’t really like: there’s apparently no way to see all of the responses that other users have submitted using the Respond button (i.e. you can’t see everyone’s reaction to a given article). I’m also not sure why users wouldn’t rather leave their comment on the article and also syndicate that to their Formspring profile, as opposed to putting it on their Formspring profile alone.
Formspring’s traffic has dipped since last spring, but it seems to have stabilized at around 22 million uniques per month, which still puts it as the 157th biggest site in the US according to Quantcast. The site is also about to hit a big milestone: users have submitted 2 billion responses (and the site sees 10 million per day).
Source: http://techcrunch.com/2011/01/12/covertix-raises-1-million-helps-companies-secure-sensitive-data/
Covertix, an Israeli startup that provides enterprise-grade solutions for protecting and monitoring sensitive corporate data, has raised $1 million in early-stage funding. The round was led by Kima Ventures, the investment firm founded by well-known European entrepreneurs Jeremie Berrebi and Xavier Niel. Covertix says the capital will be used to try and gain market share across the European market, expand sales and marketing activities and product development.
Source: http://techcrunch.com/2011/01/12/android-translations/
The latest version of Google Translate for Android comes with a few updates to celebrate the one-year anniversary. Most of these are to the user interface. But there’s also one new feature they’re previewing in alpha mode. And it’s awesome: Conversation Mode.
Essentially, this allows you to speak in one language into your phone and the app will read it out loud translated into the language of the person you’re speaking with. That person can then respond and it will translate it back into your language. Yes, amazing.
Google actually demoed this on stage at a conference in Berlin back in September of last year. There, after a few minor hiccups, an English to German conversation was had pretty quickly. At the time, they noted that hopefully it would be available to consumers in a few months. And now here it is — with some limitations.
First of all, Google is quick to note that this is very much an alpha feature. In other words, expect a lot of hiccups. They note that background noise, thick accents, and quick speech can all trip up the app. Further, it only works for English and Spanish currently. But I don’t care — this is still amazing. And you know they’ll improve it rapidly.
Google also notes that the overall app is now seeing daily usage from more than 150 countries around the world. Currently, it supports 53 languages for text input and 15 for voice input (though that’s different from this conversation mode). They also say that the majority of usage comes outside the U.S. right now, which probably shouldn’t be too surprising given what it does.
Again, this feature is Android-only for now in alpha. And it should be available shortly in the latest Google Translate app update.
We’ve written about Mixpanel, an analytics-focused startup whose backers include Y Combinator, Michael Birch, and Max Levchin. The startup, which currently tracks over 1 billion actions per month, allows developers to track a variety of user actions, including the number of pages a user has viewed, iPhone app analytics, interactions on Facebook apps and email analytics. Today, the company is announcing a UI makeover, and revealing that data volume is growing by 40 percent each month.
Mixpanel is tracking how many comments, subscribers, likes, shares, and page views users are getting. And Mixpanel places all of this data on an easy-to-read dashboard for users to check and monitor. Mixpanel has also added the ability for users to create custom email digests of data, that will send daily or hourly emails to users to track certain analytics.
Another feature MixPanel will soon be adding is the ability to bookmark certain sites that will allow users to track visitor retention by source (i.e. what percentage of visitors are coming from Twitter). This data will also be added to email digests.
In the future, co-founder Suhail Doshi says that mobile analytics will be upgraded to target iPhone and Android devices. And Mixpanel will soon be releasing version 2.0 of its analytics platform.
Posts
